Chapter 4. Vehicles

Vehicles can play a pivotal role in games. Racing games obviously make heavy use of them, such as the popular Gran Turismo series, which provides hundreds of cars to choose from! Other games may use vehicles as the player's primary mode of transportation within the game's world, such as in the aptly named Grand Theft Auto series. In general, even if it's not a racing game but features some form of civilization, you can bet vehicles will need to be made.

Understanding Vehicles

A game doesn't have to focus on driving to need vehicles. Even a game like Activision's GUN, set in the 1880s in America's Old West, had carriages and wagons populating the world. If a game features a city environment, even if the player never actually gets ...

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