History GameBreaker / Racing

* Speaking of Sonic, ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]]'' has console mods, specifically ones like [[TierInducedScrappy Shadow]]'s. These racers end up having their speed and boosts ramped up to ridiculous levels, and on somewhat straight tracks, their horrible handling is trivialized. However, [[TheHero Sonic]]'s Acceleration mod is just ridiculous. The acceleration isn't as high as other racers' mods, but it is enough to put him miles ahead of the competition in mere seconds thanks to his car's speed being higher than 3/4 of the roster. But the true Game Breaking side is the fact that his handling is ridiculously high and thus allows him to speed around the 90-degree turns of [[ThatOneLevel Burning Depths]] or [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Chilly Castle]] with no difficulty. [[SerialEscalation BUT, it doesn't end there.]] Thanks to what could be a {{Good Bad Bug|s}}, '''HIS BOOST STAT IS A LIE. MEANING HE CAN DRIFT OUT OF TURNS PERFECTLY.''' While it still is below average, thanks to the bug, he can accelerate and boost quick enough to trivialize it. There is a reason why many players online RageQuit after racing Sonic, as his mods provide him the best coverage in the game.
** And then there's [[SuperMode Console Mod]] Tails, who boasts the same bug as Sonic, only applied to handling. Instead of being level 3 in terms of drift, he is actually around level 4 and a half, placing him on the level of [[VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia Vyse]], Shadow, and even [[OriginalGeneration AGES]] in terms of tiers thanks to his surprising speed, great boost, and decent acceleration. With this bug, a player on the [=PlayStation=] Vita release got a TOP TEN SCORE in Time Attack at Seasonal Shrines thanks to Tails', a normally [[TierInducedScrappy low tier]] character, bug.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: [=ProStreet=]'' is a game featuring mostly regular tuners and hobby race cars, like the Escort Cosworth and Dodge Charger. Then came the ''[=McLaren=] F1'' [=DLC=].
** The [=McLaren=] F1's first appearance in ''II'' was a huge game breaker as well, in addition to being the fastest production car at the time, it also had the highest stats in all other attributes. And it was available from the beginning.
** In ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' [[Creator/CriterionGames 2012]], the Everyday car class contains the Audi A1 Clubsport quattro, a pocket rocket with 496bhp and a 0-100km/h time of 3.7s.
** ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted 2005]]'' had the Lamborghini Gallardo. When fully upgraded, it pretty much wrecks the competition with excellent handling, acceleration and top speed, making it useful for both street races (especially Speedtrap races) ''and'' pursuits. Ming, #6 on the Blacklist, has a Gallardo with nearly maxed out performance, so obtaining it via pinkslip gives the player an advantage over the other racers without having to shell out a fortune to buy a Gallardo at a car shop and modifying it.
** ''Carbon'' also had the Nissan 240SX (but only in the Collector's Edition). Although an extremely difficult Challenge Series mission is requires to unlock the car, it is worth the effort. It is a Tier 1 Tuner with the highest stats of any Tier 1 vehicle. It is also the cheapest car in the game at a price of $20,000 (The Mazda RX-8 was at a price of $25,000). When fully upgraded, it can keep up with many Tier 3 vehicles, including Lamborghinis, Corvettes, and GT-Rs. The 240SX was, however, nerfed in later games.
** The [[Creator/EAGothenburg Ghost Games]] ''NFS'' trilogy of games (''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed2015 2015]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'') has one thing in common between all of them: the most dominant car being the 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8. Due to having the lightest chassis in the game, it had basically peerless handling and could handily beat every other car in the game in almost any track; its dominance was briefly contested in ''Payback'' with the arrival of the Koenigsegg Regera (which was the best car in the game for speed-centric tracks) and the Volkswagen Beetle (which could give the RSR a hard time on any track but was offset by its high skill gate), but ''Heat'' nerfed both of those competitors while ''buffing'' the RSR even more, to the point multiplayer was utterly ''infested'' with them until the arrival of the [=McLaren F1=] - which became its closest competitor. Its dominance finally appears to have come to an end in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound'', where the handling changes made mid and rear-engine cars like the RSR more difficult to drive.

** The Creator/EAGothenburg ''NFS'' trilogy (''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed2015 2015]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'') had one thing in common between all three games: the most dominant car being the 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.8. Due to having the lightest chassis in the game, it had basically peerless handling and could handily beat every other car in the game in almost any track; its dominance was briefly contested in ''Payback'' with the arrival of the Koenigsegg Regera (which was the best car in the game for speed-centric tracks) and the Volkswagen Beetle (which could give the RSR a hard time on any track but was offset by its high skill gate), but ''Heat'' nerfed both of those competitors while ''buffing'' the RSR even more, to the point multiplayer was utterly ''infested'' with them until the arrival of the [=McLaren F1=] - which became its closest competitor. Its dominance has probably come to an end in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound'', where the handling changes made mid and rear-engine cars like the RSR more difficult to drive.

** In terms of vehicles, the Carson GT Nighthawk is much-maligned for a reason: not only it is as fast as the Krieger Racing WTR[[note]]Which, to make things clear, is an {{Expy}} of a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne car and is the final car unlocked in the vanilla game[[/note]], it has a maxed out Strength rating, meaning it hits as hard as if not ''harder'' than resident {{Mighty Glacier}}s like the Carson Inferno Van and Hunter Takedown [=4x4=]; it is so powerful any and all head-on collisions online involving this car count as a Takedown for the Nighthawk driver. This is further compounded by the fact it has the fastest acceleration and most balanced handling out of any car in the game, making it a menace even in tighter tracks. Then again, what did you expect from a car that is basically a homage to [[Series/KnightRider KITT]]?