TOCA: race driver 3

[aircruiser]

It's official! My friend was playing it and I picked up a controller and it's freaking awesome!! I'm gonna buy it. My first new video game in two years! Anyways, I have a steering wheel and pedals setup and I love the inside camera view where you feel like you're in the car. Just wondering if anyone else has it. I have TOCA 2, finished it, but now to move on. Also, do the monster trucks have monster truk sounding engines? Something that annoyed me is the monster trucks ain't very real. No rear steer and only one shock per wheel. :( Oh well.

[Benny]

Sounds fun for only $40

[Johnny J]

I thought you hated video games Grant, yet you seem to have a full setup....

[aircruiser]

I'm not a fan johnny, but I play them now and then. The steering wheel and pedals is from back in the day when I was obsessed.

[TheJANG]

Old thread but I recently started playing this game for PS2. I went through the annoyingly long process (over the course of several evenings) of fiddling every single tuning option on a street car independently to see how realistic the changes would be. It's pretty good everywhere except with adding rear toe-in, where late-turn rear-induced oversteer isn't reduced the way I'd expect it to be; you just gain more straight line stability.

Fun game and definitely acts more like a simulator than an arcade game (Gran Turismo & Forza fitting into the latter category). It's already helping me get my 1:1 scale driving back in shape :)

[guitardrumr123]

Try Forza JANG, that game is easilyone of if not the most realistic racing game I've ever played. Full tuning options, from trans gearing and center differential settings (for AWD cars), right down to braking force and distribution.

[TheJANG]

TOCA has downforce distribution, per-gear transmission ratios, sway bar settings, tire compound, tire profile front/rear, brake bias, ride height f/r, damping f/r, spring rate f/r, toe angle f/r, camber f/r, as well as staged upgrades to components from oil cooler to ECU, brake hoses to shifter/linkages, wheels to roll cage. Have you seen it? I've tried Forza a few times and just didn't find the driving realism to be up to par with what Codemasters tends to deliver (the Colin McRae Rally series remains legendary to me as well -- still need to go back to that at some point).

[rtsbasic]

Jang, have you tried www.liveforspeed.net (http://www.liveforspeed.net) ? Once you try that you can't call any other game realistic while sounding serious :) You feel much more connected with the car than Toca, any vehicle setup changes you make have the exact result you would expect, and its primarily online play with servers that are always busy. It has all the setup options you describe and more, such as bump rebound rate, diff type (VSO/clutch pack/locked/open), specific gear ratio's down to x.xxx, and tools so while racing you can see how the tyres are loaded to better optimize the camber etc, you can even genereate heatspots/flatspots on the tyre if you lock up harshly.

[guitardrumr123]

TOCA has downforce distribution, per-gear transmission ratios, sway bar settings, tire compound, tire profile front/rear, brake bias, ride height f/r, damping f/r, spring rate f/r, toe angle f/r, camber f/r, as well as staged upgrades to components from oil cooler to ECU, brake hoses to shifter/linkages, wheels to roll cage. Have you seen it? I've tried Forza a few times and just didn't find the driving realism to be up to par with what Codemasters tends to deliver (the Colin McRae Rally series remains legendary to me as well -- still need to go back to that at some point).

Really...I need to find me a copy of this game then. I still love Forza though, and I enjoy racing online.

[guitardrumr123]

TOCA has downforce distribution, per-gear transmission ratios, sway bar settings, tire compound, tire profile front/rear, brake bias, ride height f/r, damping f/r, spring rate f/r, toe angle f/r, camber f/r, as well as staged upgrades to components from oil cooler to ECU, brake hoses to shifter/linkages, wheels to roll cage. Have you seen it? I've tried Forza a few times and just didn't find the driving realism to be up to par with what Codemasters tends to deliver (the Colin McRae Rally series remains legendary to me as well -- still need to go back to that at some point).

I'm going to concede the point, and the match win, to JANG here...

Haven't played Race Driver 3 yet, since Gamestop screwed up and gave me the RD:2 disc, but having played RD:2 I can already see that 3 will be a much more realistic experience.

[TeamXtremeRc]

I like GT4 & TT I still wonder about GT5