For rail games, 3D glasses is perfect. It's actually tough to play full-on FPS' or games that are not on rails or track with the immersion of 3D mainly because of the control scheme. Moving your character's position in 3D space, while looking in another gets really disorienting.
My ex-employer was working on some 3D glasses projects and I was able to playtest a few of them. There was a ski game that was similar to SSX, very tough to master due to the aforementioned issue with disorientation. Another was a Racing type game, which worked out really well with the glasses, and the last was a helicopter simulator (complete with Collective, Cyclic and Antitorque controls) that also worked out really well, though mainly because helicopters don't move too quickly in full 3D space so it was easy for your brain to adjust on-the-fly to the direction/orientation changes.
But a game on rails is definitely the best usage, mainly because you don't have to control your orientation/positioning, it's just look in the direction you want while riding a "rollercoaster".
Battle Pod looks like it's pretty much a rail game, but with a bit of drift while you're aiming.