World Driver Championship
Editorial Review
World Driver: Championship balances possibly the best graphics ever seen in an auto racing game for the Nintendo 64 with some of the toughest gameplay in its genre. This is a game for the committed auto racing video game enthusiast, requiring enormous concentration, keenness, and lots of patience. In other words, those with a small attention span or a tendency to get frustrated may want to steer clear.
Four traditional modes of play are offered: quick race, training, championship, and two-player. In championship mode, players join a team, choose one of the initially few available cars, and then compete in 10 track events. Status in the top of the pack earns career points, opening new events and allowing players to upgrade cars and even switch to more experienced teams.
This is one tough game, focusing on realism from nearly every aspect. The first few accessible cars are very hard to handle, and one spinout or crash can end all chances of finishing out of last place. Very frustrating, but also very compelling, as practice finds one learning subtleties that soon find racers bumper-to-bumper with the lead pack. The cars handle quite accurately and, with practice, skidding perfectly into turns around city blocks becomes an art form.
The graphics reign supreme, leaving players stunned even before they learn the letterboxed, high-resolution mode. One downside is that with so much realism in the game, bumping off parapet without incurring car hurt is not quite right. We’d like to see a simulation option that fully takes advantage of the even greater realism this game’s powerful engine could offer. –Eric Twelker
Pros:
- Challenging gameplay keeps getting better–for those with patience
- Superior graphics
- In-depth championship mode
- Nice replay feature with multiple camera angles
Cons:
- Massive learning curve; hard to progress
- Car hurt nonexistent and collisions too arcade-like
- The track sure is a lonely place when you’re well behind the pack
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The creators of this game wasted splendid graphics on a game with not enough depth. The only time I had fun playing this is when I paused it and took a nap and had a dream about Pamela Anderson. There weren’t any guns and the game was way to hard.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is the best racing game on the N64 platform. The physics are brilliant. (Which I cannot say about Gran Turismo) The only conundrum I had is doing six 5 lap races for one cup is too long and you can’t split the races up. Oh and the graphics are extremely excellent especially considering it does not use the expansion pack.
Rating: 4 / 5
I really didn’t like this game. The steering stinks, The levels stink, and The cars are cool but are pretty slow.
Rating: 1 / 5
First you need a memory pack or you have to start from scratch each time. There is no hurt, but the cars feature a heavy sliding feel that the real street based GT cars of the mid 90’s must have had. The tracks are all of the made up racing in the streets variety, as opposed to real racetracks, but the cars are based on real racers. If you in fact follow GT racing all your favorites form the mid 90’s are here. Porsches are Rages and Vipers are Venom’s, but if you know what a Lister Storm is, then you’ll figure it out. At the lower levels there is a Steed that bears a strong resemblance to a Salean Mustang with a team owner that is not to far from a surfer dude version of Tim Allen. Nationalities are all incorrect though; the Lotus clones are Italian for crying out loud.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a splendid game. i got it today. It has surperiorgraphics. It handles like a real car. It lets you do all the work, not like all those sissy racing sports meeting with graphics that suck and make the game simple which makes it very dull,this game is so addictive, it should be illegale. Buy it!
Rating: 5 / 5