This year gamers have been treated to arguably the best games line up ever and while fans of any genre will be drooling at this years fall line up, driving fans have already had a fair few quality games in the form of Forza Motorsport 2, Motorstorm, DiRT and recently in the likes of Stuntman Ignition and Flatout Ultimate Carnage. Despite these quality games there are still the likes of Project Gotham 4, Pro Street and Burnout Paradise still yet to come.

But with the big games being brought to us by Microsoft Game Studios what does this do to there own third party games. Take DiRT for example, a well refined game in every area boasting some of the most incredible graphics seen on the Xbox 360 but after Project and Forza will DiRT still be remembered. Is Microsoft overshadowing there own third party support.

With third party support meaning less and less, you can see why Microsoft take the focus away. So far Forza has been the stand out hit as far as racing games have gone. Really thats not a bad thing but when a game like DiRT doesn’t stand out, considering how much I enjoyed that game, it’s a bit worrying.

Is it a case of first partys putting more time into the final product and advertisement than a third party? or is it just that we have over-indulged in to many quality games? Either way as Peter Moore recently said its better to have a holiday period overcrowed than nothing coming out at all. Which is a fair point but its not nice to see brilliant games not get appreciated to the level they deserve

What do you guys think?