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Car racing games have always been my favourite, and this little master piece from Codemaster didnot disappoint me at all, especially regarding the quality of either the cars and tracks.
Races --------
Races on this game mainly comprise either :-
Fully Championship - All Toca Cars are available to race
Support Car Championship - Only two cars available as others are locked until you get a certain amount of points.A good idea except I cannot win with either the Fiesta or Formula Ford and therefore still waiting for a drive in the Lister!!!
Other games include:- Challenge race, Single race, Time trial, a Network game or a Test Track.
Cars - Championship ----------------------------
Ford Mondeo - My favourite car by far as its the easiest to handle is the Mondeo (If only they drove as exciting as this in really life!!). Its a smooth drive, that takes corners at speed well and for me its
the machine I can win the most with.
Honda Accord - This car sounds by far the most sporty and therefore to me the most sexiest. If you accelerate too fast when you are leaving a corner you will find the backend wobbles so it becomes very hard to keep it going in a straight line, unless you come of the accelerator and let the car regain control.
Audi A4 - This car has a very light rear end, therefore if you go a little too fast into a corner your rear end will slide out rather nicely, unless your going too fast and you will take off!!!.Overall I find this car difficult to control when corning as it doesnot respond very well.
Vauxhall Vectra - The Vectra is a very boring car in reality and so to in this game. Dont get me wrong its nice enough to drive and handles well. However it is not going to set your heart racing or win any races.
Other cars in this series include Volvo S40, Nissan Primera, Peugeot 406, and Renault Laguna.
Cars - Support Car Championship --------------------------------------------
Ford Fiesta - Also like the real car, too much over steer, and very light with lots of body roll make it difficult to control when throwing it hard into a corner. This car is very basic just like a real Fiesta....or otherwords totally rubbish. I havenot manged to go around the track without coming off, never mind win it!!!
Van Diemen Formula Ford - This is an animal like no other animal. It doesnot matter how much I try to master this "go cart" I cannot. Its perhaps because I treat it like a car when driving that I do so much damage.You cannot accelerate when touching a corner otherwise the rear wheels spin you off the track. Its hard to control even when you going in a straight line if your accelerating hard.
This are the other two cars you can race until you win a race with one, when you can unlock the following vehicles depending on the amount of points. Locked vehicles are Lister Storm (wow), AC Superblower, Grinnall Scorpion, TVR Speed 12, and the Jaguar XJ220. At least Codemaster have been responsible, you dont want a novice like me in control of Lister Storm when I have problems controlling a Fiesta!!!!
Tracks ---------
The following British tracks are included on this game:- Thruxton, Silverstone, Donnington, Brands Hatch, Oulton park, Croft, Snetterton and Knockhill. Graphics of the realistic tracks is first class, however at the start of the race when theres 10 cars shown on the track, my computer does have problems and the graphics do start to jumpand slow down, but only at this point.
On the game you can replay the action, and actually save them so you can brag to your mates with prrof of how good you really are.With the replay mode you can fast forward, rewind, change the car your looking at, as weel as change the camera angle and location.
Im not sure about the minimum requirements for this game as I lost the box , but on my computer which is a Cyrix MII 300 with 64MB and an ATI Expert 98 graphic card, everything normally works very nicely. I was happy with installation of this game and it does come with a built in uninstaller.
Im not sure what the selling price of the game is but I paid £32.99 and Im happy that I got value for money. And I still enjoy playing on it 6 months later, even when writing this opinion I spend more time playing on it.
Bazza1603
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Good op bazza. I've been wondering whether to buy it or not. I love the Gran Turismo series, and wouldn't mind having a go with Toca as well. Now whether to buy it cleaply second hand for the Playstation, or full price for the PC... choices choices. ;-) - Mike
Michael-S 16.04.2001 19:26
Thanks for this. I might try. Take care, Michael.
igloofun 16.04.2001 15:49
Nice opinion. The Volvo S40 has to be my favorite... I used to play it all the time, then along came Midtown Madness & I got a force feedback steering wheel which TOCA didn't seem to like. Still a great game though. I hear that a new TOCA game is being made... but not by codemasters. Cheers Graham
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