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"The OFFICIAL TOCA Race Driver post."

I know you love my OFFICIAL posts. So here is my most anticipated game ever! Woooo!

PSW Review-

Good points-

Tons of great cars
Tons of great tracks
Highly entertaining racing
Many hours entertainment
Superb crashes and damage
Fast, detailed, and smooth graphics
Great sound
Huge lifespan

Bad points-

Graphics sometimes unattractive
Trracks not tottaly precise.

PSW- 9/10

Well i had a lengthy session on it at EB on Wednesday and I must say I wasnt really impressed. I dont know if it was a demo or not-but I wa splaying it in a career mode with all the cut scenes and tournaments on place.Anyway, I didnt like the handling-its kinda unresponsive and sluggish. I liked Toca 2 a lot but this didnt feel like a driving game should, like Wookie said. Ok, I was in a crowded place and the controller wasnt all that but I still think this could have been made into a better game.

I think cut-scenes interfered slightly too much and whereas you can skip them, they could have done without a cutscene before almost each race. Graphics really dont look very good and it has some slowdown. I admit, I didnt spend THAT long with it to get to know it well, but I kinda got the feeling Codies done something wrong with this and Toca 3. I thought that after Toca 2, something changed in the game engine that made it slightly less appealing to play

Sdrawkcab wrote:
> Eruza wrote:
>
> i dont think it feels arcadey it feels harder to control/master so
> its
> more of a challenge which is goood in a game...
>
> is this compared to gran turismo?

hmmm yea...:)

Eruza wrote:

> i dont think it feels arcadey it feels harder to control/master so its
> more of a challenge which is goood in a game...

is this compared to gran turismo?

Sdrawkcab wrote:
> are you able to make a setting which is similar to gran turismo, and
> therefore less arcadey handling?

i dont think it feels arcadey it feels harder to control/master so its more of a challenge which is goood in a game...

and

im awaiting it as my GAD but on the demo i have won the ToCA by miles but i really suck at the V8 Super aussie cars...anyone won that race here?

are you able to make a setting which is similar to gran turismo, and therefore less arcadey handling?

Sdrawkcab wrote:
> i know the one i played was a demo, of a
> previous game, but usually sequls have similar handling. does anyone
> know if Race Driver will be like this?

Yes, same handling, BUT, you can adjust your settings before racing in the full-game to give you a completely different handling. I remember in TOCA 2 Touring Cars that the biggest difference you could get was by adjusting the brakes and the downforce, and I had 3 setups for the Renault Laguna depending on which course I was racing, all 3 made the car handle completely differently.

The trick is just to find the settings that you're most comfortable with, the same goes for most racing games.

Quack wrote:
> i was one of the few people that didnt even play a toca game on the
> ps1. however one ps1 magazine i got had a playable demo of world
> touring cars which was supposedly the best toca, which i dug out
> yesterday to see what it played like. the handling felt a bit rubbish
> however compared to, say, any of the gran turismos. there was never
> any need to brake or when u did brake, it stopped the car almost
> unrealistically fast. i know the one i played was a demo, of a
> previous game, but usually sequls have similar handling. does anyone
> know if Race Driver will be like this?

can someone please answer this? please?

my copy turned up this morning, but I won't be home until 7pm, aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh

will i recieve it on the day of its relese???

i chose it for my gad too..

(my first and probably only YAY!):D