Two officially licensed motorsport games due within weeks of each other? And both look good? This is a rare treat!

First up will be F1 2010 from Codemasters. After last year’s F1 2009 on Wii and PSP – which was pretty bloody lovely – it’s the turn of the big boys – PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC – this year.

To be specific, 24th September – just a fortnight away. As such, reviews have started to roll in, with 9/10 from Official PlayStation Magazine and 90% from GamesMaster getting the game’s critical reception off to a storming start. It sounds like it won’t be quite as accessible as the Wii game, but the depth and detail sounds impressive.

There’s a huge mass of videos around to get your juices flowing. Like a nice HD effort with plenty of action courtesy of Eurogamer; or developer diaries featuring Anthony Davidson – who has also been raving about the game on Twitter – amongst others, on the Codemasters YouTube channel. If that’s not enough for you, then how about Adrian Sutil not really knowing what to say to Eurogamer at the recent gamescom expo in Germany? Perfect!

That will be followed, on 8th October, by the first WRC game in some years, in the form of the snappily titled WRC FIA World Rally Championship, again for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

The companies behind it – Black Bean Games and Milestone – are racing specialists: they’ve looked after the World Superbike game for a few years now, and an FIM Motocross World Championship game is in the works too. Suffice it to say, Eurogamer liked what they saw earlier this year.

It doesn’t look as nice as F1 2010, but that’s to be expected from the no doubt lesser budget. There’s a recent trailer on YouTube, but it’s more awkward drivers you’re after, isn’t it? Please step forward, Petter Solberg.

Moving briefly into next year, if I may, there’s also DiRT 3 on the way from Codemasters. It looks like the Colin McRae name has now been dropped, and probably rightly so. There’s a slick teaser trailer kicking around, featuring the game’s new pin up, Ken Block. Or his Ford Fiesta, anyway. But if you can spot his face through the window and helmet, then do let me know, and I shall stand corrected.

I’ll probably let the lot of them pass me by for the time being, though: I’ve got too many under-played (and unplayed) games to start stacking more up. So I’ll stick to F1 2009 for now, and I quite fancy going back to 2002, and Colin McRae Rally 3 on Xbox. I think I’ve got a promo copy of 2004′s WRC 3 for PlayStation 2 somewhere too. I have digging around to do!