Racing games are well known for their impressive, fast paced and addictive soundtracks and even better when available as free iPhone 3G or 3Gs games.  iPhone Racing games are popular these days and here are the best of them that was chosen for their fun, challenging and high octane game play.  Other than that, these iPhone 3G games has to be great-looking graphics and smart controls paired with multiple cars and championships that gives a racing game plenty of replay value. While NASCAR and Formula 1 are just fine if you like being confined to reality, video racing games allow us professional drivers wannabe to live recklessly – without all the danger. Get behind the wheels of these titles and you’ll be hitting hairpin turns at 100mph. Just don’t forget your virtual set belt.  Here are the run down of the top 10 best iPhone 3G games.

1. Asphalt 4: Elite Racing – Use the accelerometer for easy steering as you zip through the streets of Los Angeles, New York, or Shanghai in anything from a Bugatti Veryon to a Mini Cooper. Take out your opponents with a swift bump in the rear, or side swipe. You’ll see the takedown mechanic return in this fast paced race that you loved from other Asphalt series. You can even race against your friends with the Wi-Fi multiplayer feature. This cutting edge game even allows you to drift, making this one of the best iPhone games out there.

2. Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D- Practically every gamer is aware of what Crash Bandicoot is. This low-speed cart race has lots of cute cartoon weapons that help you navigate your way around the track three times as you try to keep your number one spot. Just a tip of the screen and you can accelerate easily. Drop missiles on your opponents, blow them from here to kingdom come with TNT, or oil up the track and watch them slip and slide.  Collect letters to spell out CRASH and you can unlock more levels and characters.

3. Cro-Mag Rally- You’ll find this game is very similar to Crash and the Mario Kart series, which probably explains why players love it so. However, you’ll find much more detailed tracks, great frame rate, and smoother colors. The game contains at least nine levels, taking you from ancient Viking scenery to underwater Atlantis. You’ll even come to love the ever so ugly cave men.

4. Fast & Furious follows the plot of the movie, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Set in Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, the game features seven different race events, including a special tunnel jam that is critical to the film story. There are 36 cars in the game, many based on rides from the flick. The game makes use of the “pink slip” system from I-play’s previous Fast and Furious game, too, so winning races actually means something. If you put your car on the line and lose, your garage feels a little bit emptier. Sob, sob.

5. Fastlane Street Racing – By far apple enthusiasts rate Fastlane as the best looking, and best playing game in the iPhone app store. It combines what’s best from Asphalt and GTS World Racing and puts it into one game. It allows the user to do everything both games do and more. Fastlane has the best graphics, eight punishing city routes, two high speed tracks, six challenge tracks to make your hairs stand on end, and five different game modes. View your games with the save and replay mode. It’s a game that really does require skill, and if you haven’t mastered the art of drifting in any of the other games listed above, you won’t find Fastlane easy to maneuver. Gamers say it has a very realistic feel making it one of the best iPhone games available in the Apple App Store.

6. Real Racing is by Firemint. This new racing game is looking to add even more content to the racing genre for the iPhone and does this wonderfully. The game features five different game modes to play through with everything from a well-thought out career mode to a local multiplayer mode where players can race against each other. The game is one of the best racing games I have ever seen on the iPhone. The graphics, audio and presentation of the game easily challenge the top racing games for the device currently on the market. The game tries to closely emulate the feel of the cars and different surface traction and really feels amazing while you are playing it. Players can tweak their settings to fit their driving style.  Do note that this is an excellent game for the iPhone and even though it is priced at a higher point, it is miles ahead of most of the racing games that are out there, check it out. It is definitely worth your money and if you have friends with iPod Touches or iPhones, it will make this game even better.

7. Moto Chaser is an arcade-style motorcycle racing game.  Steering is accomplished by tilting your iPhone from left to right. Gas and the “punch” action are controlled by buttons on-screen.  The idea behind Moto Chaser is simple. Just like the arcade games it emulates, the goal is to finish each race to unlock new levels. You get more points for things such as speed boosts, time, and place.  When the game is loaded, you’re presented with the option to choose a character and a map to start from. Within settings you can adjust sound, music, and game difficulty. “Arcade style” steering can also be disabled, which I found to work better.  The models and landscape are quite jagged, although it all looks great once you get going. Gameplay itself can be quite difficult at first. It will take some time to get used to this iPhone game. Pausing is and isn’t supported. While you can sleep your phone to pause, you can’t do anything but quit to the home screen once the race has started.  Additionally, if you do exit to the home screen in the middle of a game, your progress isn’t saved.

8. 2XL Supercross that delivers Offroad Motorcycle Racing.  The game offers a truly remarkable package from the creative team who also developed Motocross Madness, ATV Offroad Fury, and MX Unleashed for other platforms. This iPhone game offers a laundry list of features such as tracks designed by Motocross champion Stephane Roncada, 3 modes of play: Time Trials, Practice and Racing, 4 camera views, 12 different tracks, and 15 different bikes with 15 different skins.  There is also secret jump combinations.  When playing the actual game, the first thing that you notice is the high production quality of the entire game. 2XL Games offers a number of calibration options as well as 8 different control schemes. This includes accelerometer, slider or joypad steering as well as left/right handed combinations.  This iPhone 3G game comes with 12 tracks (many locked) that can be played in Practice, Time Trial or Race modes. Locked tracks can be unlocked when placing 1st or 2nd in a race. Whips and backflips can be performed and a reference to “secret jump combinations” is mentioned in the app store description.

9. PHAZE – First impression of Phaze are that it feels like a mix of Wipeout and F-Zero X that, while a fun play, doesn’t quite live up to either in comparing track complexity, control feel (though Phaze does have adjustable sensitivity), and overall presentation — though besting SCE Studio’s award winning racing series is a tall order, indeed. It’s probably the most compelling game of the sort in the App Store and fans of the genre should find it a welcome addition to the platform’s librar Grab your G-suit and helmet, select your ship and get set for some maximum velocity race action with Phaze.

Navigate the twists and turns of 16 futuristic locations as you race your opponents in high tech race craft.  This iPhone 3G games allows you to aim for the boost pads to achieve warp speed, pick up weapons to blast your opponents and collect power boosts and defensive shields along the way!  Sharpen your reflexes, practice your race skills, and improve your laptimes in Single Race mode and then step up to complete all 16 races to win Championship mode! Choose from 3 craft to begin, and unlock faster, more sophisticated machinery when you reach the required goals.

10. Need for Speed Undercover - no iPhone games collection are complete without this title. You are an undercover cop that must slip into the underground racing scene of the Tri-City Bay Area and break up a smuggling ring. In order to advance up the ranks of the underworld, you must win a series of events across the three neighborhoods. The events span straight-up races, cop chases, escape runs, and vehicle deliveries. The variety of events, each with different metrics for winning that truly affect how you race, are a very welcome touch. Although the events repeat themselves across the 24 stages, they are nicely spaced so you never do the same thing over and over again unless you purposefully replay prior events.Need for Speed Undercover controls fairly well with its combination of tilt and touch. As your car auto-accelerates, you steer with tilt. You need a few practice runs to get the sensitivities of the game down because there is no way to recalibrate the controls to your liking though.  This iPhone Games allows you to hit the nitrous with swipe one finger up. I liked this more than an on-screen button, as it reduces the on-screen clutter. To engage the speedbreaker, you pull your finger down the screen. This slows the game into bullet time, giving you a few seconds to think fast while the world around you slows down.   As you win races, you earn cash for upgrading your cars in categories like top speed and handling — or for buying entirely new ones. Adding upgrades to your cars really makes a difference, which is good to see.  The new cars you buy are based on real world rides and look remarkably like their steel-and-glass counterparts.  None of them take any actual damage, though.  You can ram an oncoming truck at 100MPH and just bounce off it, losing only speed.  Not even a little bit of crumpled hood.  The AI of the other racers, particularly the cops, is pretty unforgiving and could prove quite a bit of challenge.

Well, that is folks.  The checker flags is waving and the podium is ready.  Signing off now.  If you find another iPhone 3G games that tops any of this, feel free to comments and share.

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