

Other games let you be the car, in much the same way that some first-person shooters let you play as a disembodied gun. Here the screen's lined by the helmet's lining, and the camera will actively tilt towards corner apexes.

It's a first-person perspective that does more than put you in the driving seat it provides a genuine driver's eye view. Such thrills are aided by the added layer of immersion lent by the addition of the helmet cam, a small but welcome revolution within the racing genre. During the all-new night races tracks such as Spa Francorchamps are as packed full of scares as Dead Space's Ishimura Pouhon, a fast left kink that can be taken flat by the very brave, is as frightening as the most savage of necromorphs when it leaps out of the dark at the last possible moment.
