This Game Had an Incredible Car List - Total Immersion Racing 

Do you remember Total Immersion Racing? If so, which was your favourite car? Let us know in the comments below!

this game is responsible for my love of multiclass endurance racing

I'd kill for a modern game like this

All my childhood on PC. This game is literally the reason on how i got introduced to endurance racing and how i got introduced to the BMW M3 E46 for the first time. Yeah when you ask me about BM the first one i've got in mind is this one not even the Rockport Most Wanted Icon. Not to mention my other discoveries such as the Lister Storm, Panoz Esperante, BMW V12 LMR, Bentley Speed 8, Sintura,..... Only the real ones know this game is a f*cking GEM ;)

this game looked so good in my head. i used to play this so much during my childhood. it had really challenging tracks but the sheer joy of winning was worth it

this was my childhood and my first exposure to car racing, man am i glad to live these days

Man, seeing the Panoz brought me way too much nostalgia

The fantasy tracks in this game were godlike, really fun to drive around.

Just from a nostalgia viewpoint this is one of my favourite games of all time. Thank you so much for giving me more insight on the cars that made my childhood! The Audi R8 is my favourite out of the bunch, it is just so powerful on the straights and just tricky enough in the corners to give the most satisfying driving experience. On another note: I can‘t believe I made it into the video. :D

Played this game a lot on split screen with my dad it still looks very good for it's years

As many people I've got this game in a Nesquick cereal box. All those cars will forever be stuck in my head. That's why a few days I've bought from a newspaper stand a scale model of the Bentley Speed 8, (There is a collection of legendary 24h of Le Mans cars that you can find at newspaper stands) remembering the good old days when I wanted to unlock this car in Total Immersion Racing

Holy moly, those retro feels - loved this game back in the day, and the Vemac, what a machine!

My favorite racing game of all time

Minato City is the best street circuit ever, I wanted it so much to be real :( I hope someday someone smarter than I would port it to AC or any other current sim. TiR had some top notch fictional tracks, a lot of flow and interesting corners. Talheimring mickey mouse ears or Springfield triple chicane come to mind, but Minato on a McLaren was a religious experience

I liked the race engineer feature; it was unique and helpful.

I miss watching gt racing in the 90s.

I'm playing this game soo much as a kid argh good times

Other than Freelancer, I like to believe that TIR gave me my fondest experiences in gaming, back when it was all relatively new to us and everything seemed to have mattered a whole lot more. My best friend is also a devout TIR fanatic and we occasionally clash in the seemingly ancient artifact of gaming called.. hot seat lmao, why was this abandoned in newer games? Anyway, it was usually him in Quaife and me in BMW, him in Sintura and me in Panoz and him in Bentley and me in the Audi R8. We are extremely close in terms of skill, but I'd have to give him the edge because on one hand, he has been driving for 12 years now, and on the other, he plays without abs or traction control and my busted hand (I'm a chef for.. too long) is simply not responsive enough to deal with the extra inputs necessary to keep the ride on track. Anyway, during 2004-2005 when I finally convinced him to play, we spent sooo much time centering our activities around it. Lunch at me, then going for a walk talking, TIR at him, then meeting friends, trying to apply peer pressure and indoctrination to get them hooked on this game, some more TIR, even more TIR, sleep, wake up already behind the wheel on the track.. we cruised through the challenge series but as teens who never really had any prior experience with games, it seemed, well, to put it bluntly, challenging. Our first hurdle was the 10 laps around silvertone in the German Cup, Audi vs BMW. Took a few tries, but that challenge alone made us despise hockenheim, simply because of how simple it was.. then I unlocked the BMW, and then he unlocked the Sintura which, to this day, is probably his absolute most favourite car in existence. A lil side note, we had an inside joke because we are hungarians, and we pronounce sintura as "szintura" which is a play on the "szint ura" which in hungarian roughly means the "lord of the level". Essentially, because of how great the handling was, we could steamroll the rest of the challenges with it, and earned its rightful place as the lord of this level.. so much so, that sometimes we could catch the lone BMW LMR with it on amateur difficulty lol This continued until the dreaded 25 laps around minato city.. if you know, you know that the game doesn't allow you to play this track up until this point in the challenge, so on one hand it was a pleasant surprise that it had more tracks for us, but it was also a dreadful feeling because.. man, 25 laps on a track that almost takes 2 minutes to complete against cars we just learned to drive against mclaren enemies that seemed almost impossible to beat.. yeah, the biggest challenge was the mclaren series for a while, they just accelerated faster, had higher top speed and cornered like hell while we were sliding around like we were ice skating. Took a couple of tries, failed miserably with every car excpet the sintura.. We didn't want to take it because we at that point felt like the game built the cars up slowly to make it necessary to beat the next challenge, and as we went down the rank of mclaren, listen, vemac.. it just seemed to reaffirm our suspcisions, until I took the Panoz for a drive. It became instantly clear that handling and acceleration was kind on every track other than hock, so my attempt was the closest we could get to winning, but still only placed second, after gruelling 50 minutes.. fed up, wanted to quit and do something else, but he was adamant that he can do it in a sintura because he analyzed the track and my gameplay during the meantime. We had this dynamic that one of us drove, and the other tried to keep focus on unnecessary info that could still help, like who is behind us, time gap, sector times, how faster/slower we were, etc. Long story short, he did bit it, and to make it even sweeter, it happened on the final lap on the final chicane because he took a risk by breaking early, and had a flawless sense of when he needed to accelerate to beat the mclaren on literally the last meter with a time difference of 8 milliseconds.. Words can not describe the joy we felt in that moment, felt like a second birthday (when those still mattered) or new years eve when everyone was celebrating for some reason. Unlocking the pro class was something else man, I was eyeing that V12 LMR for months up to this point and finally being able to drive it and so much faster than what we were used to felt sublime! Pro series went relatively easily, screwed up a few times, lost by a few points, but it never took the steam out of us to keep pushing and pushing until it was time for the Audi R8 competition.. man, those opponents were merciless, we could keep the pace with them in even the bmw in normal settings, but couldnt beat them in an equal car? Audi felt faster, more responsive and quicker than anything else, but for some reason we just couldnt beat them.. At that time I was already modding freelancer so I had some grasp on how games worked, and my idea of the game simply increasing the AI driver's skill was spot on, they just simply had stats that the normal car couldn't achieve with default setups and... the auto brake enabled LMAO We played that game for so, so long that we took auto brake as a genre staple because.. why bother concentrating on the breaking instead of accelerating and turning? We had a completely different sense of the genre as a whole simply because it was the default option.. turned it off and took a looong time and too many attempts learning how to break manually while also focusing on everything else. I know I'm talking (yapping) about a game all this time, but I just started my driver's license at almost 28 and lemme tell you, while intuitive, sitting behind a wheel and actually doing things does seem intimidating for a first timer, especially in tandem with so many other things as well.. so it wasn't far from the truth, but it still hurts lmao Anyway, days/weeks passed by, and one day I received an SMS.. that he managed to not only beat the audi challenge, but there WAS A NEW CAR WE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE? This was during the time when calls and sms were expensive and almost last resort emergency options for us at least, so an SMS itself had some weight to it.. I was baffled, I didn't believe him because the Audi opponents were that much stronger, but really, disabling the auto break gave him that much of an advantage? It made sense, but I thought that the developers carefully adjusted the auto break so you can corner properl- aaand no, it was well within the safe zones, and we could take half the break distance on average that resulted in much better average times across the board. Another long story short, we celebrated once again and immediately started working on getting the Pilbeam.. which went relatively smoothly in less than 10 attempts, it was hard because they seemed to have retained that Audi AI bs that made them that much faster than us, but we had early breaking and sliding to our advantage.. then came the Lister Storm LMP. Marvelous car, simply beautiful.. even worse hell to unlock it because the AI was rubberbanding that much harder.

At 10:07 is that a young James Vowles?

8:43 I love the fact that as you can see the Racing for Holland Dome used each of its black and white chequers of its livery to represent a different sponsor with the team not having a major title sponsor but many smaller ones funding it.

This game is definitely hidden gem, also great video !

This is a blast from the past

Great game, still have my PS2 copy from back in the day. Hockenheimring through the forest was a favourite.

Lol Martin Haven saying "it's the Sintura!" was a surprise haha

what a game, a got this game because was included in a cereal lol And now I love endurance racing!

The car I raced the most with was probably the Vemac, it was just perfect to drive, it had the best cornering and I could easily win many full grid races with it, finishing in front of the PRO class cars. I optimised the car myself, and I still have my old save in case anyone wants the tune I made :)

I had this game on playstation as a kid! Absolutely loved it, it had some really interesting features that I've not really seen attempted before or since and was probably my first entry into multiclass GT racing, proper nostalgia fest this vid! :)

the brandnew le mans ultimate should have a career mode like this game.

Wow didnt knew this existed,its so ahead of its time for pc racing career games...im gonna check it out

awesome vid ! great history lesson

Still love this game

This was sensational!

Where did you download it

Favorite car of each class would be Noble in GT, Panoz in GTS and Dome in Pro.

Best game I ever got off grandma's eBay with my birthday money ever. Got it used in. I think. 2005. Maybe. Hard to remember.

where can i get the game?

MY FAV CAR PANOZ 😂🎉

How i can download it ? i miss play this like akid :C

Is it possible to play it on Windows 10? Is it abandonware by any chance? I've been wondering if you can make it work on modern systems and newer wheels like G29

Yo, where can I download this game, anyone can tell me plz 😭😭 I played this game around 2009! Bring back my memories... And I still can't found the proper way I download it

12:52 angular design that made the fortune of Porsche with the 919 and of Cadillac with their DPi.VR. I personally dislike it(cries in RT24P) but it works.

Hi guys. Does anyone know how can i get this game ? I tried multiple sites, but just cant find something that works. Thank you

The only reason I chose bmw m3 GT cars always because I also played nfs games

Can it played with a wheel?

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FFS - WHAT PLATFORM ARE YOU REVIEWING? COME ON - BASIC STUFF

Looks HORRIBLE LOL