TOCA Race Driver

TOCA is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters, initially focusing specifically on Touring car racing but more recently expanding to cover a wide variety of motorsport. more...

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

TOCA Touring Car Championship

The first game of the series was released for the PC and PlayStation platforms in late 1997 in Europe, and in summer 1998 in the United States. Featuring all the licensed cars and tracks from the 1997 British Touring Car Championship, the game was critically acclaimed by the European games press - especially on console where it was widely considered the best in its genre until the release of Gran Turismo several months later.

TOCA 2 Touring Cars

The success of the first TOCA game saw a sequel arrive a year later in 1998. Whilst mainly an annual franchise update of cars and tracks, the game did add more detailed graphics, physics, multiplayer modes and other minor features. The level of car damage possible during a race was also enhanced, which was a significant selling point compared with the likes of Gran Turismo.

TOCA 2 is also notable for being one of only two Playstation One games (the other being Wipeout 3: Special Editon) to feature a four-player mode using the Playstation's link cable and split-screen at the same time. I.e., four players compete against each other simultaneously using two PlayStation consoles, with two players per console and two television screens.

TOCA World Touring Cars

As the title suggests, the third game in the series (released in 2000) made a significant advance in featuring various Touring Car championships from around the world instead of just the BTCC as before. Once again the franchise was compared to the Gran Turismo series, and once again TOCA was warmly received by much of the specialist press, most notably scoring 10/10 in the UK edition of Official PlayStation Magazine.

TOCA Race Driver

The series moved onto Playstation 2 in August 2002, with the release of TOCA Race Driver. The game took a new direction, since the main game mode featured a plot (leading to the game being labelled as a "Car-PG") where the user took on the role of a fictional race driver called Ryan McKane, trying to make a name for himself in a multitude of car championships, all the while under the shadow of his more successful older brother and haunted by the death of his father on the racetrack (as witnessed by Ryan as a child).

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