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The least realistic things video games think cars can do

Plus more from Outside Xbox.

How difficult can it be for a game to get right the hundreds of delicately interconnected mechanical components of a motor vehicle? Super difficult, it turns out, with impossible physics, dramatised drifting and other mechanical weirdness all on the rap sheet.

We're not so tedious that we want all games to conform to simulation standards, but the bizarre stuff that videogames think cars get up to is amazing all the same. Let resident car-liker Mike explain why.

Cover image for YouTube video7 Times Cars Don't Work That Way, You Guys

Now, you're a busy person. It's easy to lose track of current affairs until one day you look out of the window and see surveillance drones, futuristic stormtroopers and giant propaganda screens. If you start to suspect the place in which you live is an evil dystopia, don't worry. We're here to help.

Cover image for YouTube video8 Signs You're Living in an Evil Dystopia

Finally this week, Show of the Week gets to grips with Dishonored: Definitive Edition, the spruced-up version of the excellent supernatural stealth assassination game from Arkane Studios, coming soon for Xbox One and PS4.

Definitive Edition gets you better graphics and all the DLC bundled in with the original game, so those plague victims are going to look worse than ever. Speaking of horrifying illnesses, the show also inspects five game diseases as gross as Dishonored's rat plague. From a safe distance, obviously. Don't want to catch anything.

Cover image for YouTube videoShow of the Week: Dishonored Definitive Edition and 5 Game Diseases as Gross as Rat Plague

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