The highways of New York City are teeming with illegal rush-hour grave-racers.

Bad racers end up scraped off the side of skyscrapers while good ones build reputations that some would literally kill for.

It's a contest of minds where confidence, control and a taste for razor's-edge maneuvers separate the original gangsters of the skies from the wannabes and has-been.

[1] IGN said: "Beam Breakers does manage to create and admirably deliver an enormous, believable, and simply awesome sense of scale and liveliness.

"[7] However, GameSpot said, "Beam Breakers starts off with a solid concept, but it doesn't quite deliver on it.