What are the best battle racing games?

As each lap is run the levels in game will transition and change, which makes learning and adapting to the tracks something each player needs to consider.

Vehicles change shape at various points in the race with each variant of the vehicle behaving slightly differently offering more variety in each race.

The game has bright levels with colorful visual effects that can sometimes get in the way of actually driving.

It's possible to thoroughly damage and destroy each vehicle in the game. And the game highly encourages such behaviour with one of the more commonly achieved winning conditions being to destroy the competition.

As of February 14th 2015 the public beta has been released for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. This includes all cars, levels and multiplayer, the full game.

The game is currently in pre-alpha development stage and as such is poorly optimized, buggy and unstable.

3 gameplay modes are available for the game: Power Race. A mode where power-ups are added to a typical multi-lap race. Survival. A mode where the last place player is removed from the race each time a countdown timer reaches zero. Power-ups are still involved. Speed Race. A mode without

SkyDrift is a racing combat game with a focus on combat, ala Mario Kart. The combat works quite well with powerups and weapons scattered around each track. No powerups feel to overpowered but definitely add quite an exciting element to each race.

The gameplay can get somewhat repetitive due to a limited selection of maps.