Codemasters is on a roll, yesterday they sent Cannon Fodder to PSP and today they announced TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, a new game in the motorsport series, coming to PSP in the winter of 2006.
Set to launch exclusively in PAL territories, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge is being designed from the ground up for PSP gaming with an emphasis on burst play and will deliver all the motorsport excitement the series is known for.
TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge will roar in with a cavalcade of officially licensed racecars, world-famous tracks and a new, progressive central game mode – the World Challenge. As the piston-pumping heart of the game, the World Challenge will see players competing through a series of international championship tiers, each packed with skill tests, specialised events and championships that span different racing styles.
In addition to the World Challenge, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge will come loaded with additional play modes including: Free Race and Time Trial. There’s also wireless WLAN multiplayer action play for up to a staggering 12 players simultaneously and further multiplayer action via Game Share, enabling up to four players to enjoy fantastic WLAN racing from just one UMD.
Each World Challenge tier is designed to enhance and expand your race driving skills and experience. First, a series of tests and events will build your racing prowess in areas such as damage control, using the racing line, manoeuvring, timely pit stops and braking accuracy. Now you’re ready for the main event: the tier’s specialist Championship season with a series of closely-fought multiple car races on different circuits. Come first overall in the championship and you’ll move up to compete in the next tier of the World Challenge.
Throughout TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge, you’ll be racing the world as each tier has its own international location and theme: from the British GP, to the heavyweight touring cars of Australia’s V8 Supercars and Germany’s DTM events, through to American Race series across the USA and then to a global Masters championship tier where you’ll compete against the best of the best.
Of course, with all this competitive racing, TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge features spectacular collisions thanks to its realistic damage system: sparks fly when you bottom out, smoke billows from tyres, doors flap, windscreens shatter, wings get ripped off, spoilers break and fly from the car and bodywork realistically deforms with every impact.
TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge is the evolution of the series on PSP and successor to the PSP game TOCA Race Driver 2 (September 2005), rather than a handheld adaptation of TOCA Race Driver 3 on PlayStation 2 (February 2006).