If most of your time behind the wheel is spent commuting, hauling groceries, or shuttling a bunch of freeloading kids around,Toco Race Driver 3 for Macs can help you recapture the thrill of the open road.
It seems like every kind of racing is here-off-roading, oval racing, rally racing, open-wheel, and lots more-and the game features both modern machines and classics, like 1970s muscle cars. But you don't need to be a gearhead to have fun. We found ToCA pretty easy to pick up and play (opting for an automatic transmission over manual helps a ton), and the difficulty ramps up gradually as you unlock more races. The cars handle realistically, and you can incur damage from bumping your opponents or going off the track, although in this game you're actually trying to keep the car in one piece.
Toco Race Driver 3 can be played online. ToCA uses GameRanger and supports playing against Mac users only, although you can race against 12 players.
Steam has slashed 75% off of several Codemasters' racing titles including GRID, FUEL, DiRT, DiRT 2 and ToCA Race Driver 3 along with a bundle containing all five titles as part of its weekend deal promotion.
Appletell: "Racing games have gotten hard-I mean really hard-and ToCA Race Driver 3 is apparently so hard that the first Appletell reviewer who had this game couldn't quite get the hang of it, and had to turn it back over to me. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. ToCA 3 was the first racing game he'd tried out in a while, and he just wasn't prepared for the level of detail and control provided these days. I've got more experience with modern racing games, so I came prepared, and ToCA 3 still managed to impress."
TRD3 is well worth its price. It adds a large amount to its predecessor and is an excellent racing game by all accounts. The price tag suffers a little when compared to the alternatives, though. When the PC version can be bought for $20 and the PS2 version can be bought for $40, it stings to see Feral selling the Mac version for $50. However, if you don't have the other systems it's well worth it.
