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"Toca Race Driver - First Impressions"

I got it this morning, loaded it up etc.

Chose to go straight into career. Saw that disturbing video of the crash. I only got offered one test Drive at the start but thankfully it was at an easy Brands Hatch course. Well, beat the test drive time by 18 seconds. Started up the race, and oh my God. Every car is faster than me. One little skid and you go down to last place with no chance of getting anywhere near the points. Really annoyed, so spend the entire second race driving around the track in reverse crashing into the cars and making them all boogered. Eventually retire after my car can only go in a straight line at 18 mph. Play through Silverstone, start 3rd so decide to play sensibly. The sun is so bright I can't see the track and within 12 seconds I'm 14th with all the other cars at the other side of the track. Really utterly annoyed so i decide to go on a violent rampage in this race. This results in me being 6th at the end of he first lap with little cars in sight behind or in front of me. At last a point. By the end of the 3rd lap I'm 1st. I finish in this position but realise that the bloody game hadn't told me it was a mandatory pit stop race and I come 14th again. Put everything into the last 2 races and coe 7th then 14th. Finish 13th overall in the championship. Break down and cry.

At this point in time I hate the game.

I just started a new championship thing with Alfa Romeo in an all Alfa season. It's good now as all cars are even yet the top 5 still seem to get miles ahead of everyone else. I'm on the third race of that now, I finished 5th and 6th and it's getting much more enjoyable.

View: Starts rubbish, but picks up later.

Score so far: 6/10 - A bit too tough and frustrating to be truly enjoyable.

View: Starts crap, but

to the person who was complaining about the damage it would really suck if you simply scratched your car and suddenly you had to retire. That would make the game harder than it already is! I reckon the programmers could have put the damage that realistic but then it would just get annoyingh because you would never finish a race, plus it would be boring without a huge pile-up of cars.

Yes but as it stands crashing has no more effect than it does in GT3. You can still use walls and opponents as cornering aids. There's no challenge in that! The one way damage did affect my races was when the bonnet was obscuring my view around Bathurst - I won't deny that made it more difficult.

Not reall.y Try getting your car upside down and you'll see how badly it effects your race.

can the boot of the car come off?? though ive only got the demo still!*

*hurry up SR!

It can all come off. Not all at once, your engine stops working way before it all comes off.

I broke my gears so it stayed in 1st gear! I think this was a glitch but the top of my mini wa torn off so it had no roof. I got flipped up and hit the top of the a bridge and it came off, is that supposed to happen?

You can't get Minis can you?

I still ahven't finished first in a race yet, and I've been trying for ages.

It's almost as annoying as Stuntman.

I mean the demo by the way.

You unlock the Mini by winning one of the spot challenges.