Test Drive 6 is an awful video game, but I love it anyway. Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=11357908 Footage used from around YT: • Test Drive 6
Test Drive 6 might not be a good game but I won't forget that intro with Fear Factory's cover of Gary Numan's Cars. Basically one of the best video game intro music in my opinion.
I remember being like 14 and going in to a mom and pop game shop after I got a Dreamcast and asking for TD6. The guy who ran the place suggested TXR instead saying it was much better/more popular and I went "yeah but TD6 has Cars by Fear Factory on it". I'll never forget the look he gave me as he went "....you wanna buy a crappy racing game for a song?"
Honestly I don’t feel test drive 6 isn’t all that bad I’ve played some absolute awful games, I grew up playing it still play it to this day among others and the more you upgrade your vehicle and fiddled with the adjusters for brakes and stuff the handling got a lot better. PC version was the best!
I totally agree. Terrible handling/physics, eye-melting graphics, courses that make no sense... but a rocking soundtrack? Somehow this game will always have a place in my heart.
Especially all of them in TEST DRIVE 6 in terms of soundtracks. The AI in TEST DRIVE 6 is very fast and has absurd amount of rubberbanding regardless of difficulty. Even with GT ONE, i ended up dead last on Hong Kong P2P track.
In my view, one also has to take Demolition Racer into account when discussing Test Drive 6. If you'd play a video of both games' PS1 versions side by side, you can see in part why Test Drive 6 controls the way it did: The ultra-grippy tires, the constant crashing, the parallel parking AI, the undetailed cars: It all makes sense for a stupid and stupidly-fast destruction racer; and that's exactly what Demolition Racer is. Hell, even most of the artists of the soundtrack are the same, and so is the "accept" sound in the menus. But alas, that's what you have to expect if any studio was forced to release two games _two months_ apart from another (Demolition Racer released on August 31, TD6 on October 31 1999)
At least after all this we got TDU series, both 1 and 2 being quite good. EDIT: Also TDU 1 being on PSP... some things that we achieved are simply amazing.
But they were developed by a bunch of French people instead, the ones who made V-Rally before. By the way, V-Rally games were really competently made, there aren't any glaring issues with them and the underlying tech was really good.
@@HoLDoN4Sec The Crew. I can't. The Crew 1 was a slog with a horrible progression and some issues, but it was promising. The Crew 2 just seemed like it was doing something right for a change, but... what the hell is this zoomed out first person camera? Why can't i fix it? Why could i put it where i bloody want it in TDU2, but not here? Why was it OK out of the box in TC1 but completely screws up in TC2? I don't need to see the steering wheel. I need the first person camera, it makes me feel connected to the weight of the car. I can't be looking at the road through a narrow fucking slit. Also after playing for 20 minutes: why is there snow in Miami? Is this a misplaced ecological statement? Also the side activities in TC2... where? Sorry.
Dude, you triggered me when you said, "Don Mattrick." I didnt know I have PTSD from that man lmao Probably because how he handled xbox one and ruined the launch.
Man, let me tell you: I love this game, and I can’t explain why - like you go through in this video. When I was a kid, in the early 2000s, my first console was the PSone. And my first three racing games were NASCAR 2000, Need for Speed: High Stakes and Test Drive 6. Eventually all the games stopped working because I didn’t know how to properly take care of them back them. 10 years after my Test Drive 6 stopped working, I bought a new one (PSone version again) - that was last year. And let me tell you: Not at any moment I was disappointed. It was great just as I remembered. It’s cool to finally see someone else that appreciates this game.
Oh man I love Test Drive 6. After playing (and sucking at) Gran Turismo as a little kid, TD6 was a blast to play. I also have very fond memories of the PS2 street racing Test Drive. I mostly played racing games as a kid so it's cool to see a channel focused on them. Subbed
Honestly there are a lot of games I loved as a kid that got bad reviews. There's a massive disconnect with reviewers sometimes compared to the actual gamers. Especially if you like niche genres such as racing games and jrpgs.
Dude, don't let the nostalgia glasses fool you. I grew up with this game, loved it back then, but a few months ago I played it again and I realized how truly awful that thing is.
@@luisvila918 Can say the same lol. For example I always adored how 007 Nightfire's and NFS Hot Pursuit 2's PC versions played and I would play the same demos over and over again when I was a kid... until I learned that their PS2 versions were another world and were the much better experiences after I grew up. Same goes for almost every Sonic game I played. Nostalgia is such a dangerous weapon.
@@BerkayKocOfficial yo, i still play EA Seattle's NFS:HP2 pc version and i don't think it's bad. yes, it has less content than PS2 version and yeah, it's worse in terms of graphics and general enjoyment but i don't think it's a bad game. it's one of the few ones that i enjoyed playing both as a kid and today. it's worse, but it isn't bad. speaking of meh games that you loved as a kid - i remember playing the shit out of colin mcrae rally 3. only when i grew up i realised it isn't that popular in the franchise and, frankly, it's a mediocre game :^^^) still, japan stages in a xsara kit car, that's something magical in my memory.
God hand in PS2 is one of them. Best to play if you like anime kind of JoJo's bizzare adventure and fist of northstar. It was made by clover studio which sadly killed by Capcom. Clover Studio rises back from ashes as Platinumgames that made Bayonetta and Nier Automata
That feeling of "the game is terrible, but I can't hate it, I love it" is the same I got right now with NFS Undercover. It's my childhood racing game and since I'm currently replaying it I noticed how infuriating some of the problems are.
@@anthonyrobaky6436 Likewise used to play the demo a lot - I think what drew me to it was that it gave a taste of things to come even though it failed to accomplish them - which allowed you to forgive some of the issues until better games came along that actually accomplished what it tried to do and more.
Cannot believe that I **ONLY** just found your channel through a video that is basically my own personal thoughts about TD6. You basically hit ALL of the points of why I still come back and love this game, and other 'questionable' PC racers such as Hot Wired, 1NSANE, and Street Legal Racing. The soundtrack truly kept me there, as well as cars that I am still obsessed with in real life like the Plymouth Prowler, Caterham Super 7 and Shelby Cobra. From how you're describing TD6 as a 'speedrunning' game got me interested-enough in it that way to possibly try that out in the future. Cheers mate. Lake Tahoe Circuit can die in a fire, though.
I am seen this video about 10 times and I still don't understand how you don't have more subscribers. There is quite a deficit of people talking about these kinds of games, and I need you to do it more. Obviously a video of the 2002 Test Drive would be kind of cool, but you do you man. I'm just happy to see whatever videos you put out. :)
You know, as janky as this game can be at times, I'll forever love it. Especially since it's very important to me because it's what got me into cars with the Viper being the main catalyst for it.
Aaaahhh, this game kicks so much ass, that intro was epic, still slightly prefer TD5 because it had a slightly better soundtrack, but aside from that I love both games.
That was an excellent review Kacey and I hold similar feelings to this game. I originally rented it from blockbuster when I was little and enjoyed the heck out of it. The car selection was incredible to 5 year old me, but I still could never quite beat it. Coming back to it now, I realized that this game was havily flawed. The car models are poorly proportioned and modelled and the physics are just ridiculous. With that said, I still just find enjoyment in the game due to its character. Also, that comment about L.A. Rush, that's new to me. I honestly didn't know that LA Rush was an actual part of the Rush serious. I just figured it was it's own thing.
Man I loved this game so much as a kid on the ps1. I was hooked and the soundtrack was on my mind rent free. I still have fond memories of it and all the fun I had fooling around with the civilian cars. I never went back to it being older precisely because of the looks. I felt like I've been blinded by nostalgia all along. I should give it a try anyways. Good video!
TD6 was an influential game in my youth as not only the cars, but the music helped to shape my budding personality. From there I became a fan of both Industrial Metal (seen in game as KMFDM and Fear Factory) and a car nut. To this, I have been into cars ever since and have seen Fear Factory a few times, even once where my friends played with them as the local support show (and I got to meet the bad). Glad to see others who do hold this title dear to their hearts.
Hearing DAF's Sato Sato in the background around the 17 minute mark made me so happy beyond words, idk if anyone else pointed that out. Great video ! Test Drive 5 and 6 may be somewhat broken games but are for sure enjoyable and the soundtracks are by far some of the best ive heard in any game of the late 90s (second only to maybe Wipeout 2097 or Ghost in the Shell ps1)
finally heard the Gearwhore songs from TD6 in proper quality tonight and WOW yeah these games were next-level in their music curation. someone at Pitbull had good taste.
i grew up playing test drive 4, 5 & 6 on the ps1 [1994] and for it's time at my age it was everything you could ask for as a kid. what intrigued me the most growing up and still does to this day is the music choices given on the games, more so test drive 6. [ which some of them i really enjoy ] the others still give me weird creepy feelings that is odly relaxing & nostalgic.. then there are a couple that are just weird weird. i don't mean this in a hateful way, it just has me thinking to a point that a dev or some devs were pushing their emotions & aura onto the music. so when you're listening to the music it makes you feel some type of way as if they did idk.
I still have a love for test drive 5 and it's grungey rock soundtrack and weird menus and loading screens with car photography that every muscle car boomer would love.
And if it wasn't obvious, I wrote this before watching the video. Glad to see 6 still had all the things I liked about 5 lol. I also have the loading screens still in my brai
TEST DRIVE 6 despite being a very hard game due to its severe rubberbanding AI, the game still very memorable especially the intro theme, CARS from Fear Factory.
Test Drive 6 was my dad's favorite game on PSX, and TD6 was the game that made me fall in love with the Dodge Viper, my favorite car to this day. It's a shame that Accolade / Infogrames / Atari never gave the franchise much care, putting the name Test Drive in games that had nothing in common (Le Mans, V-Rally, Eve of Destruction, Ferrari Racing Legends) just to sell more. Test Drive Unlimited 3 was recently announced, but I have no hope that it will be any good. The game is being developed by Kylotonn, the developer of Flatout 4, V-Rally 4 and WRC, and none of these games are good.
A PS1 demo for Test Drive 5 not only introduced me to my lifetime idol car, the 2nd gen Viper GTS, but got me hooked on this franchise...even if it only lasted for 2 games. I loved the hell out of Test Drive 5 and 6, and I played both rather vicariously on both PS1 and PC; console at my dad's place, computer at home with my mom. I probably haven't touched either game in probably 2 decades now, literally, but the pleasure and pain of playing them are still well-known to me, and I logged maaaaaany hours as a kid with nothing else to do, and somehow managed to work around the jank of it all to still enjoy the fun. I still actively listen to the game's soundtrack to this day, however, though I find it funny that with my real life drive time with NFS and GTA music, I haven't rolled to TD music, yet. I think sometime soon, I should play it again one more time, maybe TD6...maybe.
Finally someone else who can appreciate Test Drive 6 like I did, a hilarious piece of crap. I loved it and Test Drive 5, I was fortunate that my dad liked racers and we had TD5, TD6, TDOR2,TDOR3, NFS3 and NFS4 by 2000-2001. I never had the graphical issues you described until I played on modern machines. I wish these games had a better following, I'd love to find people to play online. Great Video.
Dude I love Test Drive 6 so much! It was my first ever legit race game. I had the ps1 version so it had unique engine sounds for each car, police chase felt cool because I wasn't the one who was being chased and that soundtrack and as you said the loading screen. Just good old days man
I put more time into Test Drive 5 than probably any other PS1 game. I didn't pick up TD6 until years later (after I had a PS2) and I was like "WTF? Shouldn't this be better that TD5? It's so much worse!"
I've had similar observations about the game, even back in 1999. High Stakes, which is my favorite entry of Need for Speed blew it completely out of the water. But even then I've come back to it from time to time. Probably because soundtrack totally burned in my head to this very day.
The terrible bouncy physics when you crash into opponents or another car and the games' soundtrack are the most memorable things in Test Drive 5 and 6 to me back in the ol' days of PS1. As a kid, I had a lot of fun when you slowly push the traffic cars on the road to high speed they start to wobble and soon their engine start to smoke, killing their vehicle. I could be remembering it wrong, but it was fun.
Test Drive Offroad 3 has more personal meaning to me, but hell yeah 5 and 6 were also childhood staples for me. Still have my discs, still play them from time to time. I acknowledged they weren't objectively good games years ago but some of the cars, songs, and imagery from those series are gonna stick with me for the rest of my life. Jesus christ though the Audi TT though... who looked at that and thought that was ok
Yeah the Audi TT takes the price of the worst looking car in the game. It's hilarious how the headlights and rear lights looked like jpg rectangles just slapped on the car 😂
I only got to play it on the first desktop pc I played on, an ME one. I never got it to run properly on XP and 7 later. How hard was to get the PC version to run properly? I really want to try it out again after your video.
Regarding the triggers not working on the Xbox controller, it’s a longish story, but basically only newer games (ones that use XInput) can deal with the triggers individually. The controllers provide a backward-compatibility layer for older games, in the form of DirectInput support, but that maps both triggers to one axis. So if you have 100% right trigger and 50% left trigger… the game thinks you have 50% right trigger. You can get software that fixes this, one I used in the past was Pinnacle Game Profiler, or there are other options (one I came across while searching was called X2DCLI. Haven’t tried it, don’t know how well it works.) Hopefully this helps you enjoy the game a little more!
That is what i feel for The Run on the Wii. One of my first games, super janky but somehow i was too naive to notice the bad things and ultimately had a good time with it. Still playing afer all those years and i will forever remember it
This game got it right on the TRACKS and the CARS they chose for it. The sprint races like London or New York really do look amazing and fun for the time and were super long. As far as cars go, it featured both classic and modern sports cars and super exclusive one-offs like the Jaguar XK-180 which is like a super cool concept car never featured in any other game, ever. Pair that with a soundtrack made by Eve 6, Cirrus and Fear Factory and it's nothing but a fantastic afternoon in my eyes
I have been played this game a lot as a young 6-10 years old kid. I liked how cars were "flying" when crashed. It has a cool intro which I always liked to watch and great music. Now as a an adult I really admit handling and graffic is bad, but the nostalgia is stronger than all these imperfections.
Oh man, you gotta do Test Drive 2002 on the Xbox and Ps2. Such an infuriating game. Love it none the less. Same reason why you love this one. It was almost like they were competing with NFSHP2 at the time.
This, Destruction Derby 2 and Raw, Demolition Racer and Test Drive Off Road 3 were antidotes to all the other "sterile" car games. Crashes, traffic, drifting, crazy tracks, rolling over...they really felt next gen at the time. TD6 was a love/hate affair in particular...not a beauty (quite bugged too) but one of a kind. That Rome track was awesome...
omg TD6 was the *very* first game I had played when I first got a pc at 7 years of age. Have never seen this game ever since. this brings back so many memories
That was always my gripe with Test Drive 4 and 5. The cars drove like they were on ice and would spin out at nothing. But I chalked it up to them trying to make the games somewhat realistic because, unless you're driving an F1 car with downforce, no car sticks to the road like glue at 100 miles per hour. But even still the games were more difficult than they needed to be. And as you said, they would always find ways to fuck you. No matter how well you played. I didn't even waste time with 6. And from th reviews I found, Im glad I didnt.
One of the first games I've ever played in my life. I remember it was pretty difficult to drive muscle cars (I was around 5 years old). Especially I disliked that level in Egypt or something, because it was very curvy. Even though usually I remember those childhood games as something much prettier than they actually are, this one has never looked great, even for a child lmao P.S. and damn that pitbull logo in the beginning was scary as crap
Yeah me and my friends in Brasil loved it too. But we came playing TD4 and 5. I even finished TD1 on monocrome PC XT around 1991. It was visible lack of dedication into this version.
I just decided to watch this again and I can agree. I haven’t played any Test Drive games that don’t end in Unlimited or Unlimited 2, but I see where you’re coming from. Anyway, what game is that at about 12:00? Looks kinda interesting.
I recently played TD6 for the first time after watching your video, it was in a PS1 emulator since that seemed to be the best looking and less problematic version. I totally agree that despite its flaws, this game has its moments, I really couldn't dislike it after all. It's not NFS: HS, but TD6 is somewhat good on its own.
This game is such incredible trash. When it's going right it feels like a dream, red lining and sliding around corners narrowly avoiding traffic, living on a knife's edge. But 80% of the time it's just crashing into everything that they bothered giving colision detection. At least it's not as unforgiving to crash as Test Drive 4
I grew up 1 game earlier on TD5. I find the Viper model shown here to be extremely bothersome. It's hard to look at. I remember seeing screenshots of it long ago. But what I did NOT see was that-... "thing" that they called an R34. Mercy.
