Toca Race Driver 3 Demo
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.It is the sixth game in the TOCA series. Eye of the beholder movie. Take TOCA for a Test Drive. Dec 20, 2006. PC 2006 Year in Review. TOCA Race Driver 3 Crosses into Stores. Feb 24, 2006. TOCA Race Driver 3. Feb 21, 2006. Burning Rubber.
The point is, the cars all handle differently, but they handle well. They control accurately to the type of car you've chosen. The Civic does not feel accurate and certainly displays no body roll, realistic traction feel or accurate engine noise.
As unrealistic as NFSMW is, it runs rings around the car feel in this game.The graphics are very poor, no pixel shading, unrealistic looking reflections and Aliasing everywhere. Looks like the same as the previous games engine. Minimal environment modelling and poor lighting. Think a poorer version of GTR and you'll get an idea.Poor quality menus just add to the low quality feel of the game.Only those keen to waste bandwith or hardcore sim fans should bother with this one. I'd seriously recommend GTR over this game, and those fans of Race Driver2 should look elsewhere. I think it does have Starfarce.
RD2 has it for the full game at least.I downloaded the demo a while back, and its certaintly no where near as impressive as the fake photoshopped screenshots lead you to believe. It doesnt look much different than RD2, perhaps a bit crisper and slightly more detailed cars. Contract killer zombies 2 character. I loved RD2's graphics, sharp and clean and get an excellent framerate. I love the details like the sunglare and glow from cars in the sunlight, and the road textures when the sun shines down on the street. But RD3 has little improvement which is fine for me as unlike Most Wanted, RD2/3 run excellent on my rig. But for those with more muscle in their rigs should have much better graphics options, like those seen in the shots.The menu is typical shit from Codemasters. Console inpsired, yet doesnt work with my 360 gamepad (afaik).
The goddamn demo doesnt even remember my gamepad settings, and I need to remap them each time. Lame.The controls are great from a gamepad standpoint, the handling in the Civic is crap though. I've never driven one so I cant vouch for its realism, but it does seem sluggish and heavy.
The engine sounds seem slightly more hifi and detailed, and RD2 had pretty nice engine sounds (for the most part, some sounded like scratching records). I really like race sims with ACCURATE engine sounds. Most of the sounds in RD2 were recycled and pitchshifted for different cars. It'd be nice if RD3 had more realistic sounds. The FordGT doesnt really sound anything like RD2's version imo.I do look forward to the variety of races in Toca3, like the ATV races.
That looks like fun. One thing I disliked about Toca2 was that laps were limited to 2-5 rounds until the near end when they increase to 6-9 laps in the Masters Grand Prix.
Theres no option to increase laps in the championship unlike the Free race mode where you can tune and tweak (albeit simply) your cars. And I HATED being back or in the middle of the grid, no option for qualifying in the championship.I'll probly get RD3 anyway as I really liked RD2. If its more of the same I'll be happy with it. But I dont see how Codemasters have the nerve to post prerendered screenshots of RD3 and misleading customers to think the game will actually look that way based on the demo.
Thats just wrong.