I still play this game constantly, it's one of my all-time favorite racing games. It's a shame that we haven't since then seen a game with as much variety in racing styles as this game had.

@120skyscraper

Жыл бұрын

I play this game all the time as well its the only ps2 game i still regularly play the closest modern title ive found has been project cars 2

@maybenot6075

11 ай бұрын

@@120skyscraper same here, if skipped the ps3 as their majority arcade! Iv got the handling set to simulation and it's so so good compared with alot of modern stuff, tyres pop if you dont come in to change them & you can feel the tyre wear gradually as they wear out its awesome

I grew up playing Toca. This was the best racing game ever! I would love to play it again. Nostalgia ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

i just randomly search up this game because i suddenly remembered that i used to play this back when we only had a crappy laptop. this game ran so well while having quite decent graphics despite its light load. glad to see it still having a fan base up to this day!

This is the game of my childhood. I remember the day i got it for my birthday and the late nights i spent with my best friend playing this game, especially in splitscreen mode. It brings back many good memories and moments. Back then, this game was a big deal with his physics, graphics, various vehicles, and tracks. In short, it's a game that market my growing up! Nice Video!

Absolutely loved this gem of a game!

As an Australian, my main focus was on the V8 Supercars. And with it being officially licensed, I loved having all the cars and tracks from the then current season. You could set up a full season with practice, qualifying and then full length races. So for me, everything else in the game was a bonus, and the main focus, the V8 series, was heaps of fun. I still play it all the time.

This and Gran Turismo 4 were my jams from 2004-2010. So many hours played.

This is te best Codemasters Game and nothing can change it

my love for this game is still exist.

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

♥

good review! The major difference with ANY modern game is the UX design of its interface. It is simple, you don't need to catch the mouse and try to point an option that has a tiny font. Everything is commanded by keyboard's arrow keys, enter and escape. This make not relevant things much more faster to pass through and go to real action faster. The online mode is really really fun and fast to connect and play. As a simcade, you must drive perfect, because any mistake makes others behind to reach you easily. Races start immediately, the gaming dynamic is really enjoyable. The tracks are a lot and equal to the real life ones. It's not an impossible game, 100% of its career mode can be completed. There is a discord community and a couple of modders. There are nowadays a bunch of nice pleople playing online and having fun, and some of them are really good! it is like going to play to your neighborhood basketball court :)

My first driving game was Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II. Showing my age 😂Toca was amazing at the time, spent so much time playing that game. Like u mentioned the variety of cars and tracks felt unlimited. Great vid as always, take care 👍

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David, appreciate the comment! I have to say I’ve never played that personally, but it’s never too late 😎

100% finished Love it It’s my number one video game Congratulations to the creators that has done such incredible job well done 👌🏻

@TraxionGG

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

eeeeee, excited to see your thoughts on Grid! I replayed it as well earlier this year and thought it held up very well. With a few mods to improve graphics and the AI somewhat, I think it was even a small improvement.

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait! I will probably play the vanilla version, although if that strange brown filter I seem to remember begins to get annoying we might look into getting rid of it 😂. Will be interesting to hear your thoughts on the game as I go through it, see how similar or different our experiences are.

I still have this game on ps2. It's the best racing game on ps2 I've ever played.

I've been looking the last few days for a mid 2000s "gran turismo but on pc" and I think with toca race driver I found it

So many aussie tracks, these days we are lucky to even get 1, i played this online until gamespy got shutdown

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Quite a few people have mentioned the online play to me, it’s the one part of the game I never managed to get working. Sounds like it was a lot of fun at the time!

best karting in any game. really, really great racing game with a ton of content - even monster trucks 😎

@TraxionGG

10 ай бұрын

It really is brilliant!

Used to love Toca 3. Especially the Aussie, DTM and British Touring Cars modes. Id watch the replays aswell it looked great!

i remembered playing karts and trucks in a game, i also remembred dodgy dave! i knew it was this game, downloading it now for a nostalgia shot

This game is hard as fck

Great review. Totally agree with everything you said. I dug it out last night for a bit of nostalgia. I've been to many race meetings around the world and I've never seen women dressed like that en masse 😂

I played this game religiously til like 5 years ago when i got ps4. Absolute classic. The ai wasnt great, but i loved it compared to gt4 lol. At least the drivers could keep up, until you took the lead, then it was like they gave up. Gt4 was fun for hotlaps, but the racing was nonexistent. I played toca to race. And it was fun. You just gotta learn the ais quirks and tendencies, its kinda just like real life where some drivers are maniacs and others arent lol. I always raced v8 supercars full seasons (always trying to get a stone bros 1-2 lol) and the international v8s 5 laps w/ pits. Or id do world/national gt seasons in the tvr. Usually like 5-10 laps with pitstops. The vette was a good car too. Just watch out for the holden/pontiac thing when you lap him lol idk what that car was ever doing haha. Palmer audis and the little jaguar lmps were really fun. Stock car/trucks and indycar were actually really fun at indy. Set the ai on 120 (i always had it up), 2-3 laps, start last and see if you can do it lol gotta draft and pass everyone just right to pull it off. Had some absolutely epic wins doing that i still have a few replays saved lol. And the wrecks were pretty lifelike for the time and lord knows i had some wild ones like when my damn teammate marcos ambrose taking me out at phillip island really bad 😂 i still remember screaming his name at the tv as he started to spin me and then i got destroyed by the pack following us 🤣🤣🤣

This was actually the game on which I learn different tracks. Including the good, small British tracks like Snetterton, Donington Park, Cadwell, and so on (!)

This game was ahead of its time. I found out too late :(

There's one detail that always bothered me about this game: The AI cannot wreck their cars. You can lose a wheel but they cannot. That's just so unfair.

This is the best Codemasters game and one of my favorite racing games of all time. Gameplay feels like a perfect balance beetween arcade and simcade. The raceevents feel like a real motorsport event and not like a netflix show. ( Even with good old Ricky) And lot´s of real Racing cars, championschips and tracks ( I don´t like "fake" championchips like in the recent Grid games or fake cities tracks) Oh and i like graphics ( PC) from this era. I don´t know why but they have a special look i miss today. can´t describe it right.

I really like this game i played it whit my father when i was little and i really enjoy the engine sounds of the game

My cousin and I used to crash into each other to see the damage

I've actually returned to this game in 2019 for another reason: I wanted to finally beat it. And despite the last step of career mode was way too difficult I managed to do so by achieving couple of wins by having 10 seconds faster pit stops by just splashing a litre of fuel.

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome to hear! Well done on winning that final tier, it sounds like you did it the only way possible 😁 I gave it a good go in the last episode of my play through series.

@ahojjajsemmichal4876

2 жыл бұрын

@@TraxionGG Thanks! I saw that video yesterday. You did really great with some of the point scores and overall with handling the car. If you would try it again and grind the qualifying laps, I bet you could win it as well!

this is hands down the best all-around racing sim of all time. when i think of codemasters, THIS is what i think of. it was so cool that they included ALL forms of racing. they didnt get high and mighty or elitist- but they really showed that it takes real skill to be fast in many different genres- which holds true in the real world like when you watch a seasoned F1 driver have a hard time being competitive in an indycar. or watching an oval champion be slow in an open wheeler. my next goal is to get TOCA RD3 working on the steam deck!

Awesome video! Loved Toca 1,2 and 3 back in the day. Recently downloaded 1 and 2 again and been having blast playing them. They're also compatible with Openspy (Gamespy replacement) so multiplayer works as well :D

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Toca needs a sequel!

@StoneColdza

2 жыл бұрын

@@TraxionGG Absolutely, couldn't agree more. It was a great series back in the day.

2024 and I'm still playing TOCA 3 on my laptop! Superb racing Game

I personally still play this game with fov fixes and a vulkan translator for my rig. Its honestly pretty fun, Flawed but fun. I enjoy modern racing games but recently my interest has fallen off a cliff. I liked Grid Legends and the new GT but I kinda stopped playing them for whatever reason. I still find a reason to play the older Codemaster games.

Best! Racing! Game! Ever! Made! Race Driver 3 I adore you 😍🤩

Despite its problems I still feel TOCA 3 is worth playing in 2021, not with a wheel, but with a controller, and pro handling off. The game is so much more enjoyable and consistent if played this way. The "simulation" aspect of the game is a total mess, but the "start last and overtake everyone in 3 laps" is still very enjoyable and fun. It's sad this series have come to an end already but i'm super excited to see you wiping the floor with Ravenwest on Racedriver GRID(or the other way around haha).

@vinnielion7029

2 жыл бұрын

agreed, this game on a controller is really fun(except for the 90's williams, that still garbage)

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

I have to say, having recorded some of those extra gameplay clips for this video with a controller, I think it feels really good! This was even with simulation mode on. Would be interesting to see how Laptimes would compare between wheel and controller, both on pro simulation mode…. Especially in the cars that felt awful! 😂

@faydulaksono

2 жыл бұрын

how about with keyboard? still fun?

@Brenooliveira8989

2 жыл бұрын

@@faydulaksono Yes. I've finished this game last year on keyboard and it was amazing. Some events are pretty difficult but overall it's still great!

@yannicwehner8299

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just replaying this and don't agree. Although the game also is very playable with a controller, I used one for the first few races before setting up my wheel, it's even more enjoyable with one. I also don't like the non pro driving model because even in "pro" mode the game still feels very forgiving in comparison to other games. That said it definitely doesn't feel to casual, at least with the "pro" handling model enabled.

I am hoping for a next TOCA game to come somewhere in the future :)

@nou9091

Жыл бұрын

most likely not

@musondajoshua1370

Жыл бұрын

It now goes under the title of Race Driver Grid since 2005

Loved this game.

Ahh grid some of the best drifting feels in gaming around the docks lost many hours there, I cant wait 👍

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

I’m really looking forward to it. I played this game a heck of a lot when I was younger, but my memory of it is fairly fuzzy. I’m sure it will all come flooding back pretty quickly 😁

As a guy who likes to relax with a gamepad but also get some realistic racing, i have a hard time finding a better game yet! (or even just as good) - Any racing game that has come out since then is either pain with a gamepad or pure arcade! Also, dear god, please remake viper racing! :)

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

You aren’t the only person to mention how good it is on a controller, and I actually discovered this to a small degree when recording some of these gameplay clips! It actually felt very natural, better than expected 😮

@anvb5a1

2 жыл бұрын

@@TraxionGG I just acquired the 2019 grid, it's also pretty cool with a controller if you let yourself use some abs and other helps... But still, regarding physics, there was something magical about Toca and games of that era, you feel the weight of the cars, while still having a somewhat arcady handling of the cars, giving the whole a very punchy feel! Today's video game physics get so realistic that it's awesome for pro sim hardware setups but has no room for gamepads. On the other hand, the arcade titles are wayyyy too much on the extreme opposite side of this now, i mean the rubber-banding and cinematic aspect of some NFS games absolutely disgusted me! ... You are like 12 seconds ahead of some guy and then boom, at a particular spot, impressive cinematic catch up and he's on your toes with half a mile remaining to the finish line, ridiculous, made no sense! But i still enjoy some pure arcade titles that are now so old but still awesome like PS3 ridge racer 7.... I'd give hundreds of euros for a brand new PC oldschool ridge racer!

Last time I went back to the old ToCA racers I found Race Driver 2 much more fun. Why? Two reasons one, the physics are much, much better, especially on prosim. 3 has this weird steering laziness/filtering that makes it good for digital inputs but kinda crap for anything analog. 2 doesn't have any of this. In fact, RD2 was IMO the best in the series to play on a FFB wheel. (until 2019) Two, the AI. In 3 the AI will almost never give you room and their cars don't move a lot meaning most contact ends up with you spun. In 2 this is not an issue, AND the AI actually races you and leaves racing room.

Amazingly that replay issue existed in the OG Toca 2 as well! (not Race driver!) The replay bar used to turn pink and purple instead of green (almost like it was warning that the replay file was corrupted)

I am playing this game pc and the you're right the Williams Grand Prix is a pain in the a*s

Imo the 2nd best racing game behind only Burnout 3.

Amazing game. I remeber playing for hours the 2 players split screen mode with my brother. also... 11:37 typo on Vitor Meira's name

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

You are appreciated!

Best racing Game ever created so sad that there is nothing like it anymore too ahead of it's time

Online play still possible in 2022 with OpenSpy servers patch 🙃

Would love to see this remastered but it would never happen sadly

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, would be epic!

GRID legends I think was pretty good, but it’s still not TOCA 3

Main menu is familiar since

Before ac and project cars 2 really this was the only thing i can think of that had somewhat of realistic handling and different cars + tracks, truly a game of its time,id prefer project cars 2 now but still its a great game for the time, nothing from codies is perfect but it is what it is

I’m surprised that Dover is in this game. It’s a great track (I would know if you couldn’t already tell) but didn’t think it would stand out to codemasters back then

Nice video. 👌 Still have this game on PS2 and love to play it. But one question, where the hell you get that game on PC? 😄

@TraxionGG

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! So I still had it leftover in my steam library from years ago, luckily for me that means I can play it anytime. Sad for everyone else though 😢

Having played both the PS2 and the PC version, I can tell you the PC version's handling is way worse than the PS2. The AI being unable to take some corners and the random understeering for no reason? It doesn't exist in the PS2 version. The graphics take a hit obviously, but the physics are way way better!

Does anyone here have the game saves for this game that not only has everything unlocked, but all the bonus championships as well, including the secret Honda championships? A majority of the game saves that I found didn't have the bonus championships unlocked.

I have this on PC, i don`t think i will ever be able to play it because, of the security on the disk, windows XP only unfortunately

@TraxionGG

Жыл бұрын

Are you unable to install it at all, or simply unable to launch it? I sometimes have to play around with launch compatibility modes, but I guess you have to have it installed properly to do this 🙁 Best of luck getting it working, hopefully someone in the comments has the answer!

@Stickleback

Жыл бұрын

@@TraxionGG unable to install it, maybe oneday i`l build a pc with xp to run old games, i might be back oneday with some good news! thanks for the reply, take it easy! on the corners😂✌

The main problem with this game is that a lot of cars are buggy. Some turning by themself, one cant take slow turns like in spa (i used the handbrake everytime to make it turn), the nascar can only take corners 2 times slower than the AI... Also, the game is impossible to complete, since a F1 race towards the end at silverstone is impossible to pass, because the tyres are demolished in a few corners by usure, so the car cant turn anymore lol. People who say they finished the game, I dont believe you. This game is way too buggy and the story mode has no scenario and lack a lot of cutscenes compare to the 1 & 2.

how did you get this game to work

How and where can I download this game on my PC? I suddenly got hit with some nostalgia and really wanna play this…

Play GRID2019 it uses same physics as f1 and rally2.0 it’s good use controller and set liniarity to 9 and sensitivity to 3 and it feels sim you can prob do similar thing with wheel to add weight

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Would be interesting to try sometime!

How does one get this game to run on PC natively, not on a PS2 emulator.

man your only 23 i thought you where my age for sure i just turn 40

Do you have the link of this game for pc?

Win 10 x64 possible?

@TraxionGG

2 жыл бұрын

Should be if you have a copy of the game!

I tried to play this game on PC but it ended to crash my pc

@TraxionGG

Ай бұрын

That's such a shame!

@manu974bis

Ай бұрын

@@TraxionGG there is a directory that isn't supported with newest OS 🫣

Bro I just want to know if you can skip practice do I really have to drive for 5 minutes in practice I'm an old-school gamer but I don't have time for this anymore

@TraxionGG

10 ай бұрын

You can skip practice

This games drm has just fucked my pc. I wanted to give this game another go but sadly im.now trying to fix my pc. Before you buy this game look up starforce. The games drm. It has caused issues with windows 10 before apprently. Im supprised no ones mentioned this here

@aroszmith

2 жыл бұрын

To avoid this, must use a crack for modern machines

These amazing games but no new v8 supercars games. We wanted games this not grid

Better than forza motorsport