Touted as "the best car simulator of 2014" by the developers, Extreme Car Driving Simulator is a venerable mobile classic that's been much improved over the years. You can unlock your favorite cars and drive around a small city to your heart's content, going off killer jumps, drifting around corners, and completing missions.

First released in 2014, Extreme Car Driving Simulator has acquired many fans over the years. This classic game has been the subject of many improvements, adding cars, modes, graphics, login rewards, and more. This means that even if you've played this game before, it might be worth checking it out again to see all the new additions.

The fundamental idea behind Extreme Car Driving Simulator is driving. The game is all about getting into a cool car and zooming around the small world at breakneck speed. You can barrel down a runway in front of a plane, go around loops, jump into a lake, or drift down city streets to your heart's content. 

Unfortunately, the physics in Extreme Car Driving Simulator are still a bit of a mess. The game works mostly okay as long as you drive slowly in a straight line. The problem only starts when you attempt the sort of extreme car driving you might think a game called Extreme Car Driving Simulator would welcome. Going quickly off of jumps, slamming into walls at high speeds, and interacting with planes and other objects on the map can often have unexpected (and hilarious) effects.

The good news is that this isn't the sort of game where these glitches are a bad thing. Instead, it's a poorly constructed sandbox where poor construction is part of the charm. Rather than getting a realistic Gran Turismo-like experience, you get a zany, cartoonish world where your car can drive across water, glitch out of the map, and even fly. With the right mindset, exploring this world can be incredibly fun.

The graphics on Extreme Car Driving Simulator are an interesting example of how tech has scaled over the past several years. In many ways, the game resembles a game from the PlayStation 1 era. Everything except your car has incredibly flat backgrounds, blocky textures (when the textures aren't solid colors), and terrible lighting. On the other hand, the cars you drive have high-definition 3D models, detailed textures, and are lit with a fancy reflection engine that looks quite good. The game's terrible lighting engine works against it pretty hard in this respect, as you'll often be in an area lit with omnidirectional light and nothing interesting to reflect, but the cars themselves do look quite good in the right circumstances on a modern device.

There are a handful of collectibles and directed modes that you can enjoy while playing Extreme Car Driving simulator. These will give you things to do and can help stretch your playtime out, but they're definitely not the selling point of the game. Instead, you'll probably have more fun just roaming around and doing crazy stunts, trying to bug out the game's physics, and otherwise ignoring these directed modes. If you want to unlock cars or you're competing with your friends to set records on these modes, you might want to grind out some rewards, but otherwise, you probably don't want to get hung up on collecting coins or doing missions.