10 Exact Moments Sh*t Got Real In Great Video Games

10. Need For Speed Carbon - Canyon Drift

As the name might suggest, Need For Speed doesn't take things slow, and during the Canyon Drift race, the speed of the entire game seems to triple compared with the rest of the game. You hurl downhill, sliding, revving, blurring, managing the power bar and you might experience tunnel vision as the rest of the world melts away.

Elsewhere in the title, you engage in street races and cop chases but nowhere else will you get the same sense of unrelenting momentum as you do here, stringing drifts together to keep your score ascending while the track's completion percentage ticks upwards in the top right-hand corner

When your bumper scrapes and sparks against steel barriers and rocks are especially tense moments as they don't guarantee your streak will break but will force you to recalibrate your position in the blink of an eye. And if that eye isn't on the road, then it's lights out for all involved.