The Karussell at Nordschleife in 30 different racing games (Forza, Gran Turismo and many more)

The Nordschleife circuit at Nürburgring in Germany is one of the most iconic and infamous race tracks in the world and possibly the most unusual one of its many corners is the "Karussell". Here you can see this corner taken in 30 different racing games, using a GT car from BMW in most of them. Enjoy the show!

Timeline:
0:00 Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox, 2003)
0:17 Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, 2004)
0:32 Enthusia (PS2, 2005)
0:50 Forza Motorsport 1 (Xbox, 2005)
1:06 Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360, 2005)
1:20 Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360, 2007)
1:35 iRacing (PC, 2008)
1:50 GTR Evolution (PC, 2008)
2:05 Need for Speed Shift (PC, 2009)
2:22 Gran Turismo (PSP, 2009)
2:38 Forza Motorsport 3 (Xbox 360, 2009)
2:54 Gran Turismo 5 (PS3, 2010)
3:10 Need for Speed Shift 2 (PC, 2011)
3:27 Forza Motorsport 4 (Xbox 360, 2011)
3:45 Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends (PC, 2012)
4:04 RaceRoom (PC, 2013)
4:21 Forza Motorsport 5 (Xbox One, 2013)
4:38 Gran Turismo 6 (PS3, 2013)
4:54 Assetto Corsa (PC, 2014)
5:12 Project Cars (PC, 2015)
5:29 Forza Motorsport 6 (Xbox One, 2015)
5:45 Ride 2 (PC, 2016)
6:03 Project Cars 2 (PC, 2017)
6:19 Forza Motorsport 7 (Xbox One, 2017)
6:37 Gran Turismo Sport (PS4, 2017)
6:54 Assetto Corsa Competizione (PC, 2019)
7:09 Automobilista 2 (PC, 2020)
7:24 Project Cars 3 (PC, 2020)
7:39 Gran Turismo 7 (PS5, 2022)
7:56 Forza Motorsport 8 (Xbox Series, 2023)
8:12 Blooper

I have found roughly 40 different racing games that officially include the Nordschleife circuit and I am showing off 30 of them in this video. I put a lot of time and effort into the video and I even spent some money to buy additional games and DLCs for it, so that I could push the number of games all the way up to 30. I am very happy with how the video turned out and I hope you guys will find it interesting as well.

Thanks to Paul from the PS1 Racing Challenge for recording iRacing for me. Check out some of his own content here:
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Forza Motorsport has included Nordschleife since the very first game, making it one of only 3 tracks that have been in every FM game so far (until Road Atlanta makes a return in FM8).

In Gran Turismo the track first appeared in GT4 und has been in every game since then.

Sim racing games like iRacing or rFactor 2 usually include the track as well, although it is often part of a paid DLC.

It's also featured in all Project Cars and NFS Shift games. Shift 1 was actually the first game in which I ever encountered the track myself, as it's the oldest game in the video that I already played when it first came out.

The PGR series mostly features city tracks but it also includes Nordschleife in PGR 2, 3 and 4. I actually did a playthrough of PGR 2 just to unlock the track there for this video.

The track can also be found in some bike racing games like Tourist Trophy and Ride 2, 3, 4 and 5. I bought and played Ride 2 for the first time ever for this video.

What are your thoughts on the Nordschleife circuit and the Karussell corner in particular? Have you played any of these 30 games yourself? Which rendition of the track do you like the most? Feel free to share your thoughts and anecdotes about the track in the comments.

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Note: As usual I am showing exactly the games that I intend to show and no games were missed or forgotten. If a game with Nordschleife is not shown in the video, then it's simply not one of the games that I selected for it, for example because I don't own it or for some other reason. Don't ask me about any game that is not shown in the video and don't tell me that another game also has the track. Assume that I already know that. Keep the comments focused on the 30 games that are shown in the video because those are the games that are meant to be the topic here.

(The reason why I emphasize this is because for some reason whenever I make a video with many different games I always get a lot of comments about games that are not in the video, which is very weird to me and not welcome or appreciated at all. If I show off certain games in a particular video, then I obviously want the comments to also focus on those games and not on other games that could have been shown. I am intentionally showing the games that I am showing. It's not a mistake and it doesn't mean that I missed, forgot or don't know about others.)