Over 80 different layouts across 37 real world circuits, as well as 13 pretty awesome fictional layouts. We have road cars, touring cars, GT cars, muscle cars, historic cars, single seaters, track-day cars, stock cars, rally cars, historic rally cars, rallycross, historic rallycross, buggies, oval trucks, circuit trucks, monster trucks, sprint cars, go karts, quad bikes… and Lawnmowers? I’ve already explained just how many different championships there are in this game, but the thing that impresses me most about the content is the variety of styles. However, if I can consciously make the separation between nostalgic sympathy and objective truth, I can at least have a go at answering the question ‘how well does TOCA Race Driver 3 hold up 15 years after its release?’Īlso, as an adult, do I still view the game in the same light as I did as an eight year old boy? Wait, this game was a 12+ game, wasn’t it… Lets just go with 12 then… Content
I knew it would be rose-tinted spectacles and all that, and there was no real way of avoiding this.
In Japan, where the ersion got a port on January 24, 2008, Famitsu gave it a score of all four sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.Of course, going into this series I was well aware of the impact nostalgia would have on my experience. The game received "generally favorable reviews" on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. The Formula Williams FW27 is the featured car of the Formula 1 series in the game. The game features many real-life competitions, including British GT, DTM, IRL and V8 Supercars, as well as a Vintage series, other GT series, and Rally. A more through tuning setup for a race car was allowable more so then in a driving simulator like Gran Turismo 4, since TOCA Race Driver 3 was a racing simulator. Custom tuning of suspension components for handling and gear ratios, and including braking ratio front to rear. The game received good reviews, frequently being compared favorably to Gran Turismo 4 and Forza Motorsport, in the aspects of cars on track, collision and wear damage. For more informations join ToCA Online Racing Discord Group. Online Racing is still possible in 2020 using the OpenSpy Servers. But the Tunngle Network was shut down on 30 April 2018 due to pending requirements of the new European General Data Protection Regulation. When Gamespy closed in 2014 Online Multiplayer was subsequently made possible using the Free Tunngle Network.
For the PC up to 12 players could race together with the built-in Gamespy Server or by using a LAN. It is the only racing simulator for PlayStation 2 with an online racing mode. Online play allows 12 and 8 players on PlayStation 2 and Xbox, respectively.
Open wheel, GT, Oval racing, Rallying and Off-road racing were all featured, and can be raced in either a detailed Pro Career mode or an open-ended World Tour. They take place largely in the UK and Germany, though many more tracks are unlocked by winning cups in Pro Career, or by setting a lap time record on a course within Pro Career mode. Also it has Bonus Championships in different disciplines. It includes 120 Championships and 35 types of racing through the Championship in World Tour, Pro Career, and Free Race. This is the last in the series to have TOCA in its title as following on from this TOCA was dropped in favour of just Race Driver. The game features several fully licensed championships, including the DTM series and V8 Supercar championship.
TOCA Race Driver 3 (DTM Race Driver 3 in Germany, V8 Supercars 3 in Australia, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge in the PlayStation Portable version and Race Driver: Create & Race in the Nintendo DS version) is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and OS X.