Test Drive III: The Passion

[slask25]

Heh, here is the reason us Amiga folks laughed at pc games of this era.

[ratix98]

@slask25 D:

[Moh1Z]

WTF? You're driving thru cars and wreaking all kinds of havoc! As I remember this game, you got busted just from looking at cops the wrong way.

[doubletap85]

I looooved this game. Brings back memories.

[gofast7907]

this is probably the best driving physics out there.

[NickolaiVolkov]

watch?v=W6c_gpNlTt0 @ :36 was my thought after the first turn to the left on the first level. :)

[ivanvalerian]

Man... I prefer TD2. TD3 seems so odd.

[darkpoetinc81]

hey you can run over COWS in this game!!!! don't diss it lol jk

[dronespace]

It's a great shame this game has a critical problem of being too fast on pretty much all machines, it's basically impossible to play because your car zooms off so fast and crashes within a second.

Otherwise I could have really enjoyed exploring the levels, and it was ahead of its time with the screen wipers

[STVboiii]

amazing grafik :D

[Nulz0r]

looks better than nfs :D

[nobodysnailmachine]

Nostalgie



[tod4y]

This one of the radio musics made me go faster.

[Utangel17]

mhmm amazing soundtrack..

[Repne64Bit]

This game supports Directx 11 ? )))

[NedN00b]

3D technology and hardware were in the extreme early stages. In many ways, I actually prefer the predecessor. It looked a bit nicer, in my opinion, except for the cars. If only they could have used more views for the traffic cars. On the other hand, the game would have taken up more space that way.

The cool thing about TD3 was the replays, and being able to view the replays from multiple angles. I wish they had put a bit more effort into the sound. I know a Soundblaster could have done better

[filth69ify1]

i prefer better gameplay over graphics anyday, 80's and 90's videogames will always reign supreme over today's videogames in my book and seriously, it's sad that all people care about is graphics these days. would you like to play a game where you can't enjoy anything at all besides the graphics? i know i definitely would not.

[pointman127]

Terrible graphics. In my opinion graphics are superior today as compared to this.

[ratix98]

dashboard, roads and scenery are not bad. the polygon cars are. certain games compared with today still hold up pretty damn well in my book.

[mandyvideo1]

@pointman127 What a dumb comment! of course the graphics are better today as are Cars and House and all technology! this was good for the 80's.

[kungfumaniac96]

@pointman127 thats like saying the sky is blue wtf?

[pointman127]

@kungfumaniac96 It was a joke...

[nooblet911]

lol no shit sherlock that graphics are superior today compared to this. could you be more of a captain obvious?

[pointman127]

@nooblet911 I thought it was pretty obvious that my comment was a joke.

[nooblet911]

I didn't really notice it.

[pointman127]

@nooblet911 Who in their right mind would honestly compare todays graphics with the ones of the 80s and make a serious statement on how graphics are better today??

[nooblet911]

idk, I've seen ppl say all sorts of stupid things here on youtube.

[pointman127]

@nooblet911 Yeah I guess

[MrJebaloteime]

@pointman127

Noooo. Really??? C'mon, you CAN'T be serious? I know you're joking.

[LeondP]

@pointman127 of course it is. but back in the 90s this game was just awesome.

[rockfistus]

@pointman127 The blocky graphics are badass! I miss that look old 3d games had

[rockfistus]

And damn that dude is rocking the game hard! Reminds me of a few nights leaving the bar

[cirilobeto]

@pointman127 well duh!

[pointman127]

@cirilobeto You agree?

[Moh1Z]

@pointman127 In your opinion, is that right? :D I don't think there's any person on the planet Earth that could argue about 80s' graphics being better than those of today's CGI, but the main point about games is not realism. Games are about having fun :P I for one remember lots of fun times with my relatives and friends trying to get as fas as we could...

[pointman127]

@Moh1Z Haha, yeah yeah, my comment was not DEAD serious. But true, some old games are more fun than the newer ones, still I doubt many old games can really be more fun than say Battlefield 3.

[vmystikilv]

EGA



[Novacoma]

of course if id bothered reading the comments i'd have realised people were saying just that a few comments down. i did not however know you could force the game to slow down to accomodate your pc speed. Anyway, now i'm off to watching videos of the first test drive...this one i played too but only in CGA. And yeah like someone said this crackin' tune should have been in TDU 1 and 2.... maybe covered by some modern band. With lyrics. I can't even tell if i'm being ironic or not anymore.

[Novacoma]

I remember this game very well. Well ok i didn't remember it quite THAT well cause even though i knew a game from 1990 couldn't have been looking and playing that good, it's still worse than what i remember. All i know is when I eventually got a better computer, the frame rate on this was so unbeliveable high it was like playing in fast forward cause when they made the game they didnt think of limiting frame rate since they never thought anyone would own such a thing as a 486 33mhz pc...

[igivupssr]

horrable game

[ratix98]

@igivupssr it could be better if there was more to the game then the initial 6 levels or so

[jakesthesex]

why isnt this song on the new game!

[ADEC00L]

atleast the window wipers work, they dont work on test drive unlimited

[kapsi]

Pre-GTA.

[samortails]

for its time, the large world was awesome.

[nelizmastr]

I played test drive 5 a lot. great game.

[RaptorZX3]

this game was ahead of its time, really, only with the weather and wipers, and the lightings and animated 3D objects such as the lighthouse, and i think the police's lights during the night on the landscape. i was amazed by this game at the time!

[RobertaIBetti]

3:51 - It seems right & obvious to me that sometimes physical laws can be shredded into pieces.

[drkman3368]

Man this takes me back to the old days.. I hated hitting cows lol

I was so horrible at this version td3 .. td2 the dual i rocked.

[L1011Widebody]

Only the most realistic car simulations let you achieve MONSTER AIR

[MYLITTLEPWNY97]

@dicemouse XD



[wxscooter]

I had this game on a 486 DX66 machine. It ran so fast that I could barely play it at all. My reflexes were just not good enough. (sigh)....Brings back some memories though...

[ratix98]

@wxscooter i know exactly what you mean man, try playin it on a 200mhz computer. in fact i have an upload of the game with it running super fast

[DeLorean4]

@ratix98 The same thing happens to me whenever I play Sega Rally Championship on a modern PC or even a 266 Mhz Dell Laptop. It goes ridiculously fast for a second or two, then at normal speed for a fraction of a second, and WOHH! we're way too fast again.

[LaManchaNoctambula]

@wxscooter Same here, on a 486 DX 100MHz... was still fun tho

[fabriciozu]

@wxscooter The first time I saw this game was on my aunt's 386, don't remember exactly the year, I guess it was 1993. When I saw the Diablo picture in full color in the intro I was shocked. The game was awesome, but it didn't run as fast and smooth like in the video, so it was easier to play. Also, the entire sound was from the PC speaker! lol

[kapsi]

@wxscooter Didn't you have a turbo button?

[wxscooter]

@kapsi LOL! Yes, even at 33 MHz, it was way too fast.  Funny to think of that as 'fast' nowadays...

[kapsi]

@wxscooter no no, the turbo button was to slow down the computer, to AT (286) speed .

[frigginjoe]

@wxscooter I had a Tandy 1000 EX. In a 286/386 world it was very rare to have a game that runs playably. This one sure didn't lol.

[NedN00b]

@wxscooter My computer was one I had built myself, so there was a turbo button that I could use to clock it down. Most motherboards, at that time, still had a jumper for the turbo switch. It made it barely managable, but not as impossible as full speed. It helped to uncenter the wheel.

[Karabin1000]

year the game?

[Taurusaud]

i remember it snowing in the 5th level, and the ground turned white... wonder why it didnt happen here..

[ratix98]

@Taurusaud its because of the tga/ega mode i was in 16 colors didn't show much. hence why also the dashboard looks odd to some people.

[pingy86119pivoter]

@ratix98 don't talk about it... 16 color display is good too!

[clarksonfan92]

at 00:48 why does the police ask you a question, if you gives different answer does it changes the game play???

[ratix98]

@clarksonfan92 it was the games copy protection. if you got the answer wrong you are only allowed 2 mins of gameplay

[clarksonfan92]

@ratix98

yeah I put an random answer every time and it always said right! 

[ratix98]

@clarksonfan92 then the games copy protection is defeated. did you want to see what it says if you are wrong? or is my word good enough?

[clarksonfan92]

@ratix98

ok , if you key in the wrong answer , what will the police said? BTW, I'm using DOSbox to play this thanks a lot!

[ratix98]

@clarksonfan92 he just says "Wrong answer" and allows you to do 2mins of gameplay

[memblers]

I remember finding some chickens somewhere in this game (around one of the barns probably). After running them over and backing up, I saw that they were dead - flipped upside down with their feet sticking up.

[ratix98]

@memblers and your steering was shot as well after the running over of the chickens :D

by any chance is this the same memblers that does NES music covers? cuz if it is... you are awesome. if its a team still you are awesome!

[cooks357]

And you thought you needed a 4x4 to go off roading!

[TheMaDDeSTMaN]

@ratix98 Hahaha yes, I'm well aware of it's age, but even when it was new it wasn't the best game, heck TD and TD2 were MUCH better. TD3 just seemed like it was rushed out, I mean the way the car doesn't seem to have the correct inertia, the way you can drive pretty much where ever you like, the shoddy collision detection - it just wasn't any good as a simulation, nor was it particularly fun to play. My opinion of course, others may think differently.

[TheMaDDeSTMaN]

Oh wow, I had this one years and years ago, and I vaguely remembered that I didn't really think it was great. Now I'm reminded of why. I don't know how they could sell a piece of garbage like this and still sleep at night.

[ratix98]

@TheMaDDeSTMaN cuz its a game from 1990?

[SakoTGrimes]

HAHAHAHA! I remember back in 1991 I would play this on my grandma's computer and brag to my friends about how "realistic" it was. Oh, that sound is awful.

[MrBrander]

I remember there also was a snow map... But I could be wrong too and my game just broken. But I really remember white stuff raining to my windscreen instead of that grey rain.

[moonshock]

Gee I wish I could just press F6 whenever I get lost on the road. lol

I played this game back in '90 and loved it. Favorite car was the Mythos. Two million dollar price tag on that one.  Makes you wanna just go out and crash into station wagons and little blue cars. :)

Thanks for posting!

[ratix98]

jesus this vid has not aged well...

[doubletap85]

I still have the wheel for this game.

[glsjunior]

I remember when they first started doing pixel graphics. Remember Stun runner?

[djrive]

I've never played the 3rd one, has somegood graphics for its time.

[SharpAngus]

I loved that the game was so much easier in low detail because you didn't have to worry about trees

[spyro303]

Man I love the track selection music! I played the heck out of the demo but never bought this game. The great physics engine made it fun to jump off of hills and stuff.

[linkinparkteen]

3:16 , what almost no game has that it should, wind shield wipers. Every game were you can go to cock pit view should have wipers. this did. but almost all the other WAY MORE MODERN racing games don't.

[httpht]

jeeeh! It's a great game....old school :P

[ErzengelRafael]

Damn... THose were the times *weep*

[cybernaab]

lol anyone remember STUNTS?

[ratix98]

i got that vid too.

[cybernaab]

oke great :P loved that game

[Justadude234]

I like how you sometimes crash and sometimes clip through the cars. My grandpa had this on his computer when I was about 5 years old lol brings back memories

[flexyco]

One of the first 3D racing games, actually very good for the time... Using a 2D sprite overlay for a 3D engine (the dash) wasn't very easy then. Even has a good physics engine, nice weather and soundblaster support. Check that 3D rear-view mirror! That was a revolution in 1990. Hated Accolade for not releasing this on the Amiga.

[superallye]

Everything you said I agree xept for the physics engine :P. TD2's cars were more realistic in feel in that they feel heavier than TD3's cars. ;)

[fpm1979]

Man, this game is rubbish! I was a big fan of Test drive I on the C64 when I was a 12 year old kid.

[ratix98]

dude anything on the c64 was better when it came to early pc games

[Novetrix]

Man... I remember the crappy copyright protection systems on these old games -_-;; I was young and... Careless, so most of my old games, I don't have ANY of the devices anymore for my Amiga.

Bad memories.

[ratix98]

dude i hear you on that one... i was BIG on computers when i was small protected games really blew chunks. I thank god for neverloc software.

[blackdogone]

This was the first game I played after getting my Sound Blaster 2.0 compatible sound card for xmas back in 1993. (I guess its name was Sound Galaxy.)

[ratix98]

i had 8-bit soundblaster when i was young it was awesome. thanks to dosbox i can play the game with any sound choice. (which is why it was set to tandy specs)never play the game with mt-32 it doesn't sound cool and hip :P

[ratix98]

i think i still had it set to tandy specs last time i played it... which is odd cuz SB was enabled. i didn't really see much a diff 16 colors looks ok to me.

[pdennis93]

ack... why did you have it set in 16 color EGA?