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If you ever played test
drive 4 thinking how on earth you were supposed to handle the car you will
have been pleasantly surprised by test drive 5. If you then thought, well,
if 5 was an improvement on 4 then 6 must be fantastic, this is
unfortunately not always the case. When you run test drive 6
for the first time you are faced with the daunting task of setting the
graphics mode up, this part can put some users completely off playing a
game, the fact that there is no ‘quick set-up’.
The mandatory test drive
video at the beginning is however quite good, it is a rehashed version of
Gary Newman’s ‘cars’. Both the music and video are excellent. The setting of the main
graphics resolution and detail is quite simple provided that you follow
the instructions closely!
Once you have done that
and also set-up the sound and game options you are ready to play, that’s
unless you have got so bored that you’ve taken the game back to the shop
to swap it for Need for Speed III.
When you eventually get to
choosing a play mode you have of course got the choice to have a practice
first, it will allow you to take any car around any track of the game.
When you get into the
practice mode you will notice (if you have a decent graphics card) that,
to give credit where credit is due, the graphics are absolutely stunning,
everything is perfectly rendered and the lighting effects are also superb.
The cars however (with the exception of the dodge viper) are not really
very realistic, they don’t look like their real world counterparts, the
engines sounds are not the most realistic either, the game designers have
even managed to make the Lotus Elise look like some sort of seventies
throwback!
Controlling the car via
the keyboard is probably the best way to play the game as setting up a
steering wheel makes the cars handling extremely twitchy, there is now way
to tell the game that you are using an analogue steering wheel.
Despite all of these flaws
that the games’ designers have somehow managed to overlook it is a great
game to play, you have the options to play either over a single race, a
tournament, a cop chase or various challenges, each race you take allows
you to gain extra credits towards buying better cars.
Conclusion
Superb graphics, poor
handling, poor realism, good playability, you’d probably be better off
saving yourself a few quid and buying test drive 5.
AL-
Rivals: Need for Speed series,
Star Rating: HHIII
Producer: Cryo Interactive
Required Spec:
Windows 95/98/ME
Pentium P233, PII300
(recommended)
32mb RAM, 64mb
(recommended)
Soundcard
4Mb Direct 3D Graphics
Card
4x CD-ROM
250mb Hard Drive space
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