[Gironika]

the first Driver comes to mind ……
you are basically locked in a car park until you have cleared a few challenges to prove that you are worthy of being a Driver.

Someone involved in that game stayed around until the new Wipeout (PS3) was released back then, and I got to talk to him by chance during gamescom; he told me that they were caught off guard by that and that it was a bad design decision they made there. Then he went on to obliterate the wipeout-fanatic friend of mine.
Good times!
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