TOCA World Touring Cars

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TOCA World Touring Cars
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PlayStation box art
Developer(s) Codemasters
Publisher(s) Codemasters
Designer(s) Christopher Whiteside
David Osbourn
Hal Sandbach
Richard Healy
Platforms PlayStation
Game Boy Advance
Release date(s) PlayStation
EU 20000825August 25, 2000
NA 20001002October 2, 2000
JP 20001109November 9, 2000
Game Boy Advance
    Genre(s) Racing
    Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

    TOCA World Touring Cars (Called Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing in the USA and WTC: World Touring Car Championship in Japan) is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters, and released for PlayStation in 2000, and for Game Boy Advance only in Europe in 2003. It is part of the TOCA Touring Car series.

    It features various Touring Car championships from around the world, but despite carrying the TOCA name, a fully licensed British Touring Car Championship (ToCa) series was not included. This upset a lot of fans of the series, but success continued. The gameplay overall became more "Arcade" and the replacement of qualifying laps with random grid positions together with the omission of penalties for bad driving made the game much more playable for the casual gamer. Curiously, unlike the first two titles in the TOCA series, World Touring Cars was not released in a Microsoft Windows version.

    Reception

    Reception
    Aggregate scores
    Aggregator Score
    GameRankings 84.53%[1]
    Metacritic 80/100[2]
    Review scores
    Publication Score
    Edge 8/10[3]
    EGM 8.67/10[4]
    Game Informer 7.75/10[5]
    GamePro 3.5/5 stars[6]
    GameSpot 8.9/10[7]
    IGN 8.3/10[8]
    OPM (US) 4/5 stars[9]
    OPM (UK) 10/10[10]
    Award
    Publication Award
    OPM (UK) Star Player

    The game was met with positive reception upon release; it currently has a score of 85% and 80 out of 100 for the PlayStation version according to GameRankings and Metacritic.[1][2]

    The PSX version was a bestseller in the UK,[11] replacing WWF SmackDown! In the media, 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 out of 10 in Official UK PlayStation Magazine.[10] The detailed and smooth graphics were of particular praise, and it had "an ideal mix of driving, crashing and career progression".[12] The final issue A-Z described it thus: "Non-stop racing excitement with weeks of tough championship winning. 10/10" (Official UK PlayStation Magazine March 2004, issue 108).

    References

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