Everyone has heard of Cruis'n World, GTA3 or other popular racing titles (don't mind if I miss a few I don't play them that much, here's why.) Well, they're all like 1: pick a sporty car. 2: pick a sporty track. 3: Play and race the guts off and go super-speed maxing out your car and racing.

I wish there could be a realistic car game (notice i didn't use "racing") where you choose a job (don't actually work it) and buy a car you know, and just drive around a city or country or whatever you want to do. It would be more fun with a realistic wheel where you actually have to turn it some to turn (like in rela life) and you have to be aware of police if you see them, and watch out for stop signs and traffic lights. You could get arrested for drunk driving or something, and it would go on your record.

The whole idea would be to promote better drivers. Not that it would surely help everyone who plays it to be better in real life, but it sure does a lot more than racing games where sometimes accidents are encouraged. Even though a company might not make money off of it, the government would sure like it to have better, safer drivers on the road.

I'm going to assume here that you meant GT3, and not GTA3. I don't think a game like that would sell, but you never know.

Yes I meant GT3 sorry but like I said, the government might make it or take part in it for the reasons above.

I'm pretty sure it would sell although it would probably need to be tied in with learning to drive as a way to vaguely get used to driving before actually starting to learn. Although then you really need a proper steering wheel with peddles which would make it pretty expensive.

Well, in Carmageddon there is not "just racing the track", your car can get wrecked and you have to repair it, you need to be aware of the police, you can drive wherever you want to, even inside the buildings... but I do not believe it will teach people how to drive, I think it is even banned in some countries. ;)

Well if it is banned in somecountires, I don't think it will help like a driver's ed. much. You never know what kind of cheap computer games could have been made, so there might be one out there.

I doubt anyone would use Carmageddon to learn to drive... Something like Midtown Madness would be better.

Well, in Carmageddon there is not "just racing the track", your car can get wrecked and you have to repair it, you need to be aware of the police, you can drive wherever you want to, even inside the buildings... but I do not believe it will teach people how to drive, I think it is even banned in some countries. ;)

A few years ago when there was discussions about violent games influencing kids, they always used pics from Carmageddon.

Now a days GTA3 has taken over that job tough.

Burnout 3 is gonna rock!

I remember burnout or burnout 2 had very good traction am i right? and what's the 3rd one gonna be like?

I wish there could be a realistic car game (notice i didn't use "racing") where you choose a job (don't actually work it) and buy a car you know, and just drive around a city or country or whatever you want to do. It would be more fun with a realistic wheel where you actually have to turn it some to turn (like in rela life) and you have to be aware of police if you see them, and watch out for stop signs and traffic lights.

You can do something similar on the Midtown Madness games (in cruise mode), but it isn't programmed to drive normally (the police still chase you).

The drawback of Midtown Madness was that the traffic lights always go red at the wrong times so that if you want to drive normally you would have to constantly wait for the lights to change and then there is the problem of AI cars randomly crashing.

Yea that could be a problem causing drivers not to drive if the stop lights turn red whenever you get near them...

A realistic car game... Try Gta San Andreas. It has a huge map with 3 cities
Los snatos in reality Los Angels
Las Ventura in reality Las Vegas and
San fierro in reality San Francisco

yea but u kill people and that stuff too..

The government might not sponser it but insurance companies certainly would.
BTW, I like your idea.

:D Yea it's a pretty good idea. Could be given out like a game disc kinda like Mavis Beacon typing things. I mean it would be like for educational purposes but kids like teenagers not wanting to get in acidents would maybe use it if they don't want to get in an accident.