TOCA Race Driver 3 Xbox screens

[Akeldama]

In this latest game in the franchise you'll be able to burst tires and drive on your rims among other damage effects. The car bodywork will damage incrementally and deform around crumple zones.

Sounds good, but one thing I do remember from TOCA RD2 was that the game cheated, with AI cars often coming out crashes unharmed while the player's car was wrecked. I hope this won't be the case in RD3.

Take a look at the latest screens at Boomtown (http://xbox.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=9252).

[A-Team]

I believe these were multi-platform shots (PC/PS2/Xbox), not just Xbox shots.

The damage system is looking good, but I wouldn't say it's "100x" better like the press release says it is.

[Akeldama]

They didn't look good enough for PC and were too good for PS2, so I took a wild stab at them being Xbox. They were only 640x480 anyway.

Anyway good news, Codemasters have just told us that they are "happy to report that the damage physics is being extended to the AI cars in TOCA 3 - so who comes off worse from crash could go either way this time around (which should fool those pesky drivers who use AI cars as shields on the tighter corners!)."