More TOCA 3 details

By Ellie Gibson Published 15 July, 2005

Plus shots and release date.

Codemasters has revealed more of what we can expect from next year's TOCA Race Driver 3 for PC, PS2 and Xbox, and released some brand new screenshots into the bargain.

TOCA 3 "will get any racing gamer hot under the helmet," apparently, with more than 100 individual championships spread over 35 different racing disciplines. That's "more than any other racing game has ever offered," don't you know.

"Forget modded cars, forget streetcars," says Codies, and we're happy to oblige having had to review SRS last week. "Just jump straight into some of the world's most exciting real competition cars, both modern and historic."

There's certainly plenty of 'em, from the modern day BMW Williams F1 Team car to Damon Hills' famous FW18. Not to mention Nelson Piquet's FW11b, the Lotus 49 and 1930s legend the Mercededs-Benz W25 Silver Arrow.

If you prefer your cars US made you can take the Dodge Charger for a spin, or go for a bit of open-wheel endurance with the IndyCar Series vehicles.

Then there's Germany's DTM and Australia's V8 Supercars series, or how about the 4x4 Monster Series trucks with their 4WD steering, low-end torque and stupidly enormous wheels. If that all sounds a bit excessive, why not take the smaller scale Baja Beetles off road and watch the dust fly.

Technical racers will be keen to get behind the wheel of the F3, Formula BMW and the Formula Palmer Audi, complete with a turbo boost function to deliver an extra 50 bph to the engine. A little tactical thinking is required, however - the boost only lasts for eight seconds, and you can only use it eight times during a race.

There's a host of career disciplines to choose from, namely GT, Off Road, Touring Cars, Historic, Open Wheel, Rally and Oval. You can take cars out of their traditional contexts to see how they fare on other tracks - race a V8 round the Nurburgring, for example, or give the TVR a spin on the Shanghai International Circuit.

TOCA Race Driver 3 will be racing onto the shelves next February. Vrrooom.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • mad_caddy #1 7 years ago

    I'm already sold on this one!

  • Eighthours #2 7 years ago

    The same question as usual: Why do Codemasters still call this TOCA when they don't have the British Touring Cars license? And why don't they get the license, since there are no other touring car videogames that I know of?

    It just seems such a bizarre situation.

  • Feanor #3 7 years ago

    They don't have the license? That's really weird...

  • mad_caddy #4 7 years ago

    wouldn't the BTCC license be pretty much pointless with the new BTCC line up, the independant cars and the privateer thing and the lack of manufacturers? I think it's all a bit complicated and the variety of cars in the BTCC would make for pretty boring racing.

  • RFT #5 7 years ago

    Just popping in from the codies forum to explain the ToCA thing...

    "ToCA" and "BTCC" aren't quite the same thing, they're subtly different entities.

    We have the license for the ToCA name for use on games for a long period. we signed this in 1999, I think.

    Part of that deal is an option to use the BTCC championship in the game, at an extra fee per game. for RD2 and RD3 we've decided to spend the licensing budget on other stuff. It's always in the running for each new game though.

  • Hench #6 7 years ago

    That damage looks excellent. Plus all those cars and tracks. Cool.

  • davyuk #7 7 years ago

    One of my favoured racing series. Looking forward to it.

    Is that really Rich Tysoe popping in? These people should get out more :)

  • captain-future #8 7 years ago

    TOCA / DTM Race Driver was one of the most suprising racing games to me. Great idea with the story mode, cool graphics and challanging.

    yet what did Codemaster think with their "cheats-to-pay-for"?

  • MrGrumpy.au #9 7 years ago

    I'm so glad they've finally decided to remove the [car ab] can only race on [track xyz] limits, it was so annoying having to use a bug in the games online/syslink menu system to race (for example) the Trucks/Formula Fords around Bathurst/Oran Park.

    Can't wait for V8 Supercars 3 looks great, pity about the Feb release though.
    Edited by 2 at 16/07/05 @ 05:34

  • kgthatsme #10 7 years ago

    Struth