TOCA Race Driver 3

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TOCA Race Driver 3 is the third title of TOCA racing video game series, developed and published by Codemasters. TOCA Race Driver 3 was released in Britain and in the USA on February 24, 2006. The game feature several fully licenced championships, including the DTM series and V8 Supercar championship.

TOCA Race Driver 3

Developer(s)	Codemasters
Publisher(s)	Codemasters
Release date(s)	February 24, 2006 (UK), (US)
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer, online multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E) PEGI: 12+
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC

1 Overview
2 TOCA Series
3 Tracks
4 Cars
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Overview

The game's single player mode is split into 2 different modes, "World Tour" and "Pro-Career". "World Tour" is where the player progresses through 32 tiers of different disciplines, the player is coached by a man called "Rick" via the game's cut-scenes (the cut-scenes can be viewed again via the "Extras" menu). While "Pro-Career" mode is more detailed, with over 150 cups to win. There is also an online mode for various platforms in which you can race a number (the actual number of people you can race depends on the platform used) of other online players to win points. It is also possible to unlock series with the online mode of the game.

[edit] TOCA Series

Full article: TOCA Touring Car series

Since the series began in 1997 with TOCA Touring Car Championship, the franchise has been released on PC, Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Microsoft Xbox, with particular success in Europe and Australia where the motorsports featured are most popular. Since TOCA Race Driver, the fourth title in the series, each new game is released under different titles in different regions, such as Pro Race Driver in the US, DTM Race Driver in Germany, and V8 Supercars in Australia.

[edit] Tracks

Full article: Circuits in TOCA Race Driver 3

TOCA Race Driver 3 features a whole host of circuits from across the globe. Including circuits from Germany, England, America and Australia. Including several circuits on the Formula One calendar.

Some of the popular circuits among some players include Bathurst and Laguna Seca, both being very challenging and exciting race tracks. As well as a few classics, such as Silverstone and Castle Combe, both being built in the immediate post-WWII period. There are also oval tracks to choose from, with Indianapolis being the most famous of the group.

[edit] Cars

The game feature a whole host of cars, most notably the Williams F1 car from the 2005 season (Williams FW27), as well the full DTM, V8 Supercars and IRL grid from their respective 2005 seasons. However, despite the fact that the game doesn't offer fully licensed teams in all of their competitions, the game does have licensed cars throughout nearly every championship, with cars such as the Subaru Impreza, from the 4WD GT Championship and the Honda NSX, from the Japanese Works Car Cup.

Some of the cars in the game are imitations of some Formula One teams cars during that season, such as Team Solar's car in the Formula 3 championship looking like Renault F1's 2005 car and Osbourne Clark's Palmer Audi car looks like BAR's 2005 car.

[edit] Trivia

There was a glitch on the Xbox version that forced some competitors to be stuck with a score of -1. Codemasters are to compensate them with a free copy of Colin McRae: DIRT.