Motorstorm anyone?

[Bodhesatva]

the savage said:
It doesn't bring any new concepts into play, none at all. What it does do however, is revolutionize those concepts. It makes everything feel new and refreshed. It gives new life to age old concepts if you will.

It does indeed appear that you may not even have played this game. I say this because you mentioned "special bonus". There is none of that rubbish in this game. It is a hybrid of simulation and arcade gameplay. A perfect fusion of the two indeed.

And in reply to your first question, I have played a game such as that. In fact the first one that comes to mind is the mario-kart iteration that appeared on the 64. And let me tell you, the two games share almost nothing in common. The fact that you bring mario-kart up in an attempt to discredit motorstorm shows just how ignorant you actually are.

It reminds me of Blizzard games, in that the game isn't especially innovative, but an extremely effective and entertaining application of the current model (although perhaps not to such an extremely polished and brilliant an extent. And don't take that as an insult: saying "it's not quite as good as Blizzard" is still a great compliment).