The secret game modes YOU invented

Power Ramping

Racing simulations are, for the most part, utterly sober experiences. Until, that is, you let the fan community at them. The Project Gotham Racing series, in particular, has seen a loose band of gamers surround a damage-model glitch called power-ramping or super-jumping, or anything else combining a superlative and some sort of 'leap'. While perhaps not as huge a movement as rocket jumping or stunting, power-ramping still gets its fair share ofYouTube coverage.

The trick appears to play on PGR's collision simulator having a spazz when two cars collide at just the right angle, sending one vehicle so highit can clear bridgesabove the course. And it doesn't even seemto require a head-on hit, either. But the regularity of it occurring means it's not surprising to see a line of friends motoring alongin formation leaps. Silly sky-high crashes also cause fun times in GTR2, but we especially like the less-common but brilliant moments of collision-wrongery thatsometimes croppedup in the original Driver.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.