TOCA Race Driver
Codemasters · released 2002 · discussed in 548 posts, 2000-2011 · overall tone negative
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Timeline
- 2001-07-27 Codemasters announced TOCA Race Driver for PC and PS2. post thread
- 2002-05-02 A TOCA Race Driver demo circulated on magazine discs; Codemasters said it was unofficial early code. post post
- 2002-10-27 Codemasters confirmed that the PC version of V8 Supercar Race Driver was delayed to February 2003. post
- 2003-03-28 Codemasters released TOCA Race Driver for PC in the UK and followed it with a steering patch. post post
Key threads
- Who will not buy TOCA Race Driver? 2003-03-31 · 59 postsTodd Walker asked who would not buy TOCA Race Driver after the demo, and many regulars said they would not because of its physics and handling. redTed and Aidee defended it as a fun racing game and called the critics bigots, while Jan Verschueren and others replied that Codemasters marketed it as a realistic simulation.
- Codemasters announces TOCA Race Driver 2001-07-27 · 33 postsHaqsau pointed to Codemasters' announcement of TOCA Race Driver as an alternative if World Sports Cars failed to appear. Some judged it arcade-like from its PS2 version and screenshots, while others urged waiting for a demo. Posters noted the PS2 version of WSC was being made by Razorworks separately from the West brothers' PC version.
- Codemasters disowns Pro Race Driver demo; controller calibration 2002-05-03 · 29 postsCodemasters said the Pro Race Driver demo was an old, unofficial build that should not have been released, which Douglas Ellison doubted, while others blamed magazine lead times. Posters listed what they expected from the final game and praised Papyrus's controller configuration, though some reported occasionally lost calibrations in Papy sims. A side exchange concerned Ed Solheim's use of a spammer's domain as his posting address.
- Codemasters touring car game track list mocked 2002-02-06 · 26 postsRich#8 posted a news item about Codemasters' upcoming touring car game and its large track list. Posters mocked apparent errors such as Zandvoort listed under Germany and Monza under France, while Joe Marques noted the mistakes came from the news site, not Codemasters' own press release. ymenard warned that "Nurburgring (Long)" meant the GP circuit, not the Nordschleife.
- TOCA Pro Race Driver demo panned for poor performance 2002-05-01 · 22 postsJay J called the magazine-disc demo of Codemasters' Pro Race Driver a joke because of poor physics and frame rates. Others suggested that it defaulted to a very high resolution, that frame-rate problems make physics impossible to judge, and that it was an early build rushed out for a magazine deadline. Some, including Douglas Ellison, found it ran smoothly and showed potential.
- Codemasters' Race Driver demo on a magazine cover disc 2002-04-29 · 21 postsA demo of Codemasters' TOCA Race Driver appeared on Computer Gaming World's June cover disc, and readers asked for it to be shared. Doug Hook tried it and liked the graphics and physics, but found that controllers had to be reconfigured each time. The thread drifted into NHL playoff banter.
Busiest threads
- Who will not buy TOCA Race Driver? (19 posts about it)
- TOCA Pro Race Driver demo panned for poor performance (12 posts about it)
- Toca race driver Poll (hopefully Codemasters reads this) (11 posts about it)
- TOCA Race Driver demo at BHmotorsports (11 posts about it)
- Toca Race Driver Patch (10 posts about it)
- Codemasters announces TOCA Race Driver (9 posts about it)
- Toca Racedriver new demo impressions (8 posts about it)
- Choosing a PS2 racing game (6 posts about it)
- Pro race Driver by Codemasters (6 posts about it)
- TOCA Race Driver full details (6 posts about it)
- TOCA3 pc locking up? (5 posts about it)
- TOCA RD3--Where the hell is the disc code? (5 posts about it)
- TOCA Race Driver (5 posts about it)
- Toca Race Driver New Demo - Link Here (5 posts about it)
- TOCA Race Driver? (5 posts about it)
Sentiment by year
Each post that discussed the sim was rated from −2 (very negative) to +2 (very positive).
| Year | Posts | Positive | Negative | Tone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | mixed (+0.00) |
| 2001 | 24 | 8 | 3 | positive (+0.21) |
| 2002 | 169 | 33 | 48 | mixed (-0.15) |
| 2003 | 197 | 35 | 107 | very negative (-0.64) |
| 2004 | 83 | 20 | 24 | mixed (-0.02) |
| 2005 | 12 | 2 | 3 | mixed (+0.00) |
| 2006 | 49 | 12 | 18 | mixed (-0.14) |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 | 0 | very positive (+0.60) |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 1 | negative (-0.33) |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 0 | mixed (+0.00) |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | very negative (-1.00) |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 0 | mixed (+0.00) |
Who talked about it most
Haqsau · 23 Jay J · 17 Andi Cole · 17 Jeff Reid · 12 Aidee · 11 Douglas Ellison · 10 Joe Marques · 10 Jan Verschueren · 9 redTed · 9 Steve Simpson · 8 jason moyer · 8 Damien Smith · 7 Mike Beauchamp · 7 Andre Warringa · 6 R.Denessen · 6 John Bodin · 6 Steve Smith · 6 jbodin · 5 BRH · 5 Richard · 5
