Hi there. We have another anniversary double-bill for you today. First, there’s a retrospective look at TOCA Touring Car Championship, released in 1997 and first covered here in 2004. Followed by a review of the comparatively modern Race Driver: GRID from 2008. We try not to over-promise here, but there are tentative-to-firm plans for more […]
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Gaming’s slower cars: a brief history, part 3
Hello. You can forget your Ferraris and Porsches (Ferrarae? Porsche-e?) – we’re celebrating the Volvos, Nissans and Mazdas of the racing game world with our look back at some of the slower cars on offer over the years. Sometimes they’re simply more fun to drive than your Mr-Smug-Show-Off-Lamborghini and sometimes they, er, aren’t. Ford […]
Gaming’s slower cars: a brief history, part 2
Hi there. We’re moving into part two of our look back at gaming’s less impressive automobiles. Here’s part one, in case you missed it. Proton Wira – Network Q RAC Rally Championship (Europress, 1996) Without stepping into review territory, it’s hard to credit that this game was once considered ‘da bomb’, if you forgive […]
When I played…multiplayer games
This is the second piece of a series of articles I’m doing about some of the games I covered for FFG in our earliest days. It’s a way of looking back at those games, at the site, and at my own gaming history, as part of the site’s 15-year anniversary. The first piece, and a […]
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Hello there. After some time away, we’re back with a new review, just in time for Easter. And what better way to mark the occasion than with the mid-point of a series of car racing games? So let’s hear it for TOCA Race Driver 2. As we’ve a few days off, there might be more […]
I live my life a quarter mile at a time
Hello. Well, I guess that was January. I figured we’d have no problem getting a second update in before next month, but having done a bit of work on this one I got a bit lazy. No matter, we made it (just about) – here’s a review of TOCA Race Driver.