Hello my Pain Elementals, MrJohn is gonna review Test Drive 6, is it as bad as people say? Well let's find out in this review

I feel that people have lost an appreciation for the true arcade style of racing games from the 90s era. People have come to expect realism and predictability from racing games, and they criticize it for having "poor" controls otherwise. Racing games like any game each have a learning curve, and it can be rewarding to master a game's unique driving system. Test Drive 6 compared to GT 2 is apples to oranges. It's not meant to be the same, but unfortunately most games since GT are judged by sim standards.

The only game where you can drive two Venturis that's not Gran Turismo 2

Personally, I'd say TD6 is a guilty pleasure of mine. Ridiculous physics and hideous car models are the perfect recipe for an average racer.

Everytime I think of Test Drive 5 & 6, I remember a great soundtrack, but terrible controls.

As a child who played without any context of gaming, I have to insist it was flawless.

Here in My car

When I was 8 ~10 years old I played this a lot and loved this game.

And I played it so much that I got good on it, then recently discovered that a lot of people consider the game bad, but I love the vibe of it.

the car models, songs, tracks lol

This game was the bomb on PC, the consoles weren't too bad, but nothing compares to the computer version.

Dad bought this game for us back in the day. I played it on “Dreamcast” my brother and I truly enjoyed TD6.

To me back then this was peak entertainment and I was in elementary school, till this day those soundtracks don’t leave my head. Pure good nostalgia!

If you say Test Drive 6 is better than The Last of Us part 2, this game should be a winner of Game Of The Year 2020 back then.

I forgot to mention in the other comment. People complaining about the twitchy handling of TD6 need to learn to tap the direction instead of holding it. This is something that's not exclusive to this series as even F-Zero requires tapping/flicking to do minimal turning or even in simcades like Forza Horizon if you're tuning your car with a heavy front downforce bias against a low rear downforce (basically trying to pull off twitchy rally handling setups).

Also, Midnight Club games and their predecessor, Midtown Madness games were twitchy arcade racers where you'd avoid excessive turning by either tapping the directional button or flicking the analog stick instead of holding it in place.

And honestly the best way I manage to defend the game and the physics, is when I mention how the entire game clicks with the soundtrack. I will actually start a bar fight with someone who doesn't think the game is enjoyable after doing a quick run of Rome in a Viper or Barracuda to the sound of the overprocessed breakbeats in Leave You Far Behind, especially considering the mood setting of the Rome loading screen where the song already begins with the overdriven bass and the acid synth.

The game's races legit feel like were build around the songs cause at a normal racing pace it seems the course layout goes from high speed to technical at just the right parts of the songs and you never seem to be able to have a different song play in the same race; if you play Hong Kong forward, you will always get Qburns's He's a Skull, in the raceway, it's always Cars, Rome forward? Leave You Far Behind

EDIT: And I KEEP forgetting stuff. You didn't mention the Dreamcast version is the superior console version due to having all of the PC's advantages, including locked 60FPS. That's a good option for those not wanting to bother installing the PC version if they prefer running the game through Flycast

The soundtrack and the craziness was amazing i loved it

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Wait, is that Ford GT40? Oh no.....

Well, PC version was really awful. PS1 looks better.

I was today-years-old when I learned I was missing out on a car by being American...

I played the PC and PS1 versions

Good review.

And yeah. Even Phoenix Games creatures are better, than TLoA2)))

You confessed being from Portugal. I'm sold and subbed. Also based for talking about one of my childhood games.