Test Drive 6 ( Russian Test Drive 6 ) is a video game of the Test Drive series in the arcade racing genre, published by Infogrames and Cryo Interactive in 1999 .
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 Cover of the North American edition of the game | |
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| Part of a series | Test drive |
| Release dates | October 31, 1999
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| Genres | arcade racing |
| Age ratings | ELSPA: 3+ ESRB : E -Everyone OFLC (A) : G8 + USK : 6 |
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| Platforms | PlayStation , Dreamcast , Windows , Game Boy Color |
| Game modes | single-user , multi-user |
| Carriers | CD , GD , cartridge |
| Control | gamepad , steering wheel , keyboard , mouse , buttons |
Like the previous parts of the series, Test Drive 6 focuses on street racing. The game features several modes, each with its own characteristics. The player can choose from dozens of cars from world famous manufacturers, as well as tracks, each of which is based on real cities and countries. The innovation is a career mode in which you need to go through tournaments and earn money to buy and improve cars.
Unlike the previous parts of the series, the game was developed for four platforms at once: Pitbull Syndicate was responsible for the version for PlayStation , Dreamcast and personal computers running Windows , and Xantera for the version for Game Boy Color . Test Drive 6 received mixed, mostly negative reviews from the gaming press. The main object of criticism was the secondary gameplay, as well as simplified management. To the advantages of Test Drive 6, observers attributed a variety of tracks and sound.
Content
- 1 Gameplay
- 2 Development and release of the game
- 3 Ratings and opinions
- 4 notes
Gameplay
Test Drive 6 is an arcade racing game made in three-dimensional graphics .
The player is offered the opportunity to practice, in which a variety of tracks and cars are available. The tracks in the game are based on real world cities. Cars are licensed models from world famous manufacturers. In career mode, the player must go through racing competitions and earn money to buy new cars and their tuning . In races there are control points, when passing through which increases the time for passing the competition. Police patrols are moving around the streets, which start the chase if you exceed the speed. If the police car is in front of the player and the player stops, this leads to detention. If the player does not have time to pass through the control points before the end of time, then the race will have to start again. There is also the opportunity to play for the police, delaying the riders [1] .
Game development and release
Test Drive 6 is a continuation of Test Drive 5 and takes its basics: street racing with the police in real cities and countries. Nevertheless, the new part was developed immediately for four gaming platforms: the Pitbull Syndicate studio was responsible for the version on the PlayStation , Dreamcast and PC, which created the two previous games in the series, and for the simplified version for the Game Boy Color portable console with isometric graphics and the absence of control points in racing - Xantera, which later created several parts of Test Drive for this platform [2] . The developers said they wanted to use the full power of the PlayStation console in a new game, improving the graphics: Test Drive 6 implemented a game engine from the previous part of the series with more realistic lighting and pedestrians on the sidewalk [3] . The game itself was planned to be released during the winter holidays.
The release of Test Drive 6 took place in the fall of 1999 in the United States, and in the spring and summer of next year the game was released in Europe.
Ratings and Opinions
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| Dreamcast | GBC | PC | PS | |
| Gameranks | 50.94% [4] | 59% [5] | 49.37% [6] | 69.09% [7] |
| Mobyrank | 44/100 [8] | 56/100 [9] | 53/100 [8] | 61/100 [8] |
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| Edition | Rating | |||
| Dreamcast | GBC | PC | PS | |
| Allgame | [10] | [eleven] | [12] | [13] |
| Egm | 3.66 / 10 [15] | 5.75 / 10 [14] | ||
| Game informer | 7.5 / 10 [14] | |||
| Gamepro | [fourteen] | |||
| Gamespot | 4.6 / 10 [18] | 4.7 / 10 [16] | 5.2 / 10 [17] | |
| Gamepy | 4/10 [15] | |||
| IGN | 3.4 / 10 [21] | 5/10 [2] | 6.5 / 10 [19] | 6.5 / 10 [20] |
| Nintendo power | 5.9 / 10 [22] | |||
| OPM | 3,5 / 5 [14] | |||
| PC Gamer (US) | 11/100 [23] | |||
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| Absolute games | 75% [1] | |||
Test Drive 6 received mixed, mostly negative reviews from critics. On the GameRankings website , the version for the PlayStation has an average rating of 69.09% [7] , for Game Boy Color - 59% [5] , for Dreamcast - 50.94% [4] and for PC - 49.37% [6] .
A reviewer of the Russian site Absolute Games reacted more positively to the game, evaluating the PC version at 75%, although it criticized the secondary gameplay [1] . Also, Ted Smith ( AllGame ) generally positively commented on this version, rating it as three and a half stars out of five possible [12] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Grigoriev, Alexander. Test Drive 6 - review and review of the game (English) . Absolute Games (December 18, 1999). Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Harris, Craig. Test Drive 6 Reviewed on GBC IGN (November 30, 1999). Date of treatment February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Test Drive 6 Preview . GameSpot (June 27, 1999). Date of treatment February 26, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 (Dreamcast) Test Drive 6 . GameRankings Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 (Game Boy Color) Test Drive 6 . GameRankings Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 (PC) Test Drive 6 . GameRankings Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 (PlayStation) Test Drive 6 . GameRankings Date of treatment May 22, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Test Drive 6 . MobyGames Date of treatment February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Test Drive 6 for Game Boy Color . MobyGames Date of treatment February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Licata, Jonathan. Test Drive 6 . Review ( inaccessible link) . AllGame . Date of treatment March 9, 2018. Archived November 15, 2014.
- ↑ Cook, Brad. Test Drive 6 . Review ( inaccessible link) . AllGame . Date of treatment March 9, 2018. Archived November 15, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Smith, Ted. Test Drive 6 . Review ( inaccessible link) . AllGame . Date of treatment March 9, 2018. Archived November 15, 2014.
- ↑ Kanarick, Mark. Test Drive 6 . Review ( inaccessible link) . AllGame . Date of treatment March 9, 2018. Archived November 15, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 (PlayStation) Test Drive 6 . Reviews . GameRankings Date of appeal April 29, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 (Dreamcast) Test Drive 6 . Reviews . GameRankings Date of appeal April 29, 2018.
- ↑ Test Drive 6 Review . GameSpot (December 7, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ Lopez, Miguel. Test Drive 6 Review GameSpot (December 1, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ Lopez, Miguel. Test Drive 6 Review GameSpot (December 28, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ Devidas, Arun. Test Drive 6 Reviewed on PC . IGN (December 14, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ Zdyrko, David. Test Drive 6 Reviewed on PS . IGN (November 22, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ White, Matt. Test Drive 6 Reviewed on DC . IGN (December 21, 1999). Date of treatment April 28, 2018.
- ↑ (Game Boy Color) Test Drive 6 . Reviews . GameRankings Date of appeal April 29, 2018.
- ↑ (PC) Test Drive 6 . Reviews . GameRankings Date of appeal April 29, 2018.