This blog entry is about "World Driver Championship" and how I feel about it as a whole.
World Driver Championship at a Glance
^ from: taringa.net (it was the best I could find) - World Driver Championship, perhaps the most beautiful racing game on the Nintendo 64.
World Driver Championship is about full-speed racing on mostly city streets with GT2-spec cars. GT2 is defined as a class of cars that are modified for racing, but not extremely modified to where they bear no resemblance whatsoever to their road-going counterparts. Up to eight cars can race at once on each track. You begin racing on a few different courses at a time. With progress through the tournaments, you can race the more powerful and faster cars. You can also race on some of the tougher courses with progress. Your racing adventures take you to places such as Hawaii, Rome, Sydney, Kyoto, Las Vegas, the Black Forest, and more. This game was created and developed by Boss and published by Midway in 1999.
With progress in WDC, you can step up to the GT1-spec cars. They are obviously more powerful and faster than the GT2-spec cars. So be sure to keep playing to race these exceptionally more powerful cars in the game.
That's really it to the basics of this game.
Video Preview.
To help you learn more about this game, here is a YouTube videos to give you a preview of what to expect for this game:^ World Driver Championship (Actual N64 Capture) - High Resolution Mode.
Maybe the most enticing element of this game was the enhancement in graphics by going with a widescreen format. It comes at the expense of, however, a letterbox screen.
World Driver Championship: Final Thoughts
This was a game I remembered renting long ago. It was a great racing experience, but not really enough to make me want to consider getting it. The sounds may be weak for a system like this, but it is still very manageable. The music is mostly generic rock music. It can be terrible at times. As for the graphics, there's no way you can deny this is a gorgeous game (even for the N64). The amount of challenge in this game is very acceptable. It is an intense experience. All the tracks are in lovely detail as well as with how the cars all look. It's a beautiful game.
The sad thing for Nintendo is that there has never been any kind of realistic racing game that has been greatly successful. The reason why you should care about "World Driver Championship" is because it is one of the best racing games for the Nintendo 64 not named Mario Kart 64. I mentioned that "World Driver Championship" is the Nintendo 64's Gran Turismo. Only difference is that you are not collecting and tuning cars, and this game isn't exactly a hardcore sim even for its time. This is not one of the best experiences for N64 racing, but it is one not to overlook. I could do without a lot of the music in this game. Yet still, a great job of this game was done by Boss.
An Offer...
If you enjoyed this review and if you have a Nintendo 64, I encourage you to buy this game if you want to get this game. Buy from Amazon:Thank you for reading! Take care and be well.
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