Small correction, there is a Mustang game aswell made by Eutechnyx as some of you pointed out in the comments 👍 - I've covered NFS Porsche Unleashed in my Rise of NFS video so that's why it's not here
I have most games here and some others not here. Lamborghini American Challenge (originally released as Crazy Cars III) is a 1992 racing video game developed and published by Titus France for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Super NES, Amiga CD32, and Game Boy. This game is expensive AF tho
If you ever want to torture yourself and make a part 2, the Ford Racing series has three more entries, each significantly worse than 2 & 3 - Ford Street Racing, Ford Racing Off Road (which also features a couple of Land Rovers) and the already mentioned Mustang game. To pad it out, there's also a PS1 game promoting the Boxster called Porsche Challenge, a N64 Lamborghini game, a PS2 port of the famous arcade racer F355 Challenge, Test Drive Ferrari which has some fantastic cars and the awful Shift 2 physics and finally a pair of Volvo games, the SimBin thingy Volvo The Game which is a proper sim with only 2 tracks and an OG Xbox release Drive For Life: Volvo, which I remember disliking even as a big Volvo fan. Oh and how dare you miss the legend that is Yaris :D
You definitely will not see only manufacturer only racing games which very unique, knowing some underrated vehicles from that manufacturer, aesthetic environment tracks, and ofc all of those wacky gameplay mode and stuff to making race interesting Knowing Lotus, Alfa, Corvette and Golf is such a new knowledge for me, what an amazing experience~
I had Automobili Lamborghini (N64), Ferrari F355 (Dreamcast), and NFS Porsche Unleashed. Porsche Unleashed and the Viper Racing demo were the only manufacturer racers I had any fun with.
19:41 funnily enough, there actually is a game focused entitely on Mustangs, its called Ford Mustang: The Lengend Lives. I remember playing it a lot growing up and really enjoying it, and it actually has a very good variety of special edition Mustangs (up to 2005).
Second this. Have it for Xbox. Had it for PS2 growing up but lost it; then saw the game at a thrift store for like three bucks and had an Xbox 360 to play it on.
Heres a little fun fact about FR3: The tracks actually had a lot of interesting parts added to them in the early stages of developement of the game. You can still see how the beta tracks looked in the old IGN videos that are still up on their channel. The downgrade of these tracks happen most likely of a rushed release.
Fun fact: Lotus Challenge's soundtrack features music from Hybrid. The same Hybrid who went on to compose music for Driveclub, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and lent a hand in providing a few pieces for the soundtrack of Fast Five.
I absolutely loved Ford Racing 2 and 3. Not just cause my family is a ford family, but because of the enclusion of certain cars i didn't see in many other games, Such as the Ford EX Concept buggy, RS2000, and SVT Cobra R
12:36 - The BMW M3 Challenge was made by Blimey! Games, which would become Slightly Mad Studios and proceed to do NFS Shift and Project Cars. It's also the same studio behind sim-racing classics such as GTR and GTR2, hence why BMW M3 Challenge is on the ISImotor engine as well.
Fun Fact: the M3 Challenge is basically GT-R game with BMW M3 E92 and Nürburgring only. That's because 10Tacle was associated with GT-R games (developed by SimBin).
As someone who was a heavy holden fan here in aus but never getting a holden only game, seeing there was a ford street racing version with a BA falcon in it was pretty cool. Always like when aus gets some representation in racing games
I see there's very little info provided on Ferrari the Race Experience. It's a game that was originally called Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli, developed by Eutechnyxx and was for PS3, PS2, DS and Wii. While I was unable to play the PS3 version, I know that Bruno Senna was tapped as the driver consultant and the entire package was designed as a more serious sim like GranTurismo. I played the Wii version and it's an impressive sim racer on the platform (where there's a sore lack of any) with a proper wheel. The DS version was a decent package in and of itself but also included crash happy AI and extreme difficulty spikes down at the end. A "Deluxe" version was released on Wii which included DLC cars that were sold on PS3. Ferrari Race Experience is a "final" release of sorts on PS3 and Wii (Europe only) that rounded out the package with new additional cars (Ferrari FXX, included). The game(s) also included a very, very robust livery editor and I honestly think the game is really for serious simcade racers.
I never knew there were this much manufacturer games out there other than Porsche Unleashed, quite a surprise to see so many of them. The Chrysler one is the best imo lol. I really liked some of the diversity these games brought to the table, not just in terms of gameplay but the environments as well. Some of these were really aesthetically pleasing to me. I like seeing racing games with places that blows things out of proportion, like the volcano race track in Ford Racing 2. This was a lovely video to watch through, always learning something new here on this channel.
Out Run. The 1st racing game to have an official car on it was Out Run. And by official I really mean it. Not "we use this car that looks...so we don't pay licenses" but a real official car on it: the Ferrari Testarossa.
Have you seen the "Ford Simulator" games? They were promotional games by Ford in the 80's and early 90's. The first came out in 1987, the same year as Test Drive 1. I don't know which one was first. Then there's the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge games on Various 80's platforms.
I've been working on modding Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo and its derivatives (Evolution GT & SuperBikes Riding Challenge), so far I've found cut camera modes that can be restored and have adjusted some of the career events to make them a bit more fluid.
Great video! There was another Ferrari game called Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, developed by Slightly Mad Studios, so I think it was a bit better, but I haven't played it as my laptop wouldn't be powerfull enough to run it at the time. Also, there was Volvo The Game, which I never played myself for the same reason, but if I remember correctly it was some kind of a weird game focused on safe driving (for obvious resons). Although I'm a fan of Volvo cars and their brend philosophy, I still think it's weird to try and make a game about safe driving. I think reviews at the time reflected that. In any case, as I said, great video and a lot of effort went into making it. Thank you!
I am surprised you didn't talk about the other Ferrari-focused games, Ferrari F355 Challenge and Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, mainly because both games introduced the concept of fake billboard ads in licensed-car racing games, something that the developer of the latter game, the now-defunct Slightly Mad Studios, carried over to their next game, Project CARS, and an concept that would end up being in Gran Turismo Sport & 7, as well as the new Forza Motorsport game.
This doesn't technically count but in Australia, the TOCA Race Driver trilogy on PS2 was known as the V8 Supercars Race Driver games. Replacing the extensive lineup of cars with just Ford Falcons and HSVs. Also in Australia, Beetle Adventure Racing on the Nintendo 64 was known as HSV Adventure Racing, which was the same game but with HSV cars made for the Australian market. So yeah, Australian manufacturer racing games were basically leeching off of other racing games, but it was at least something back when we still had Australian manufactured vehicles. Those were definitely better days.
Ford, hands down, has the most of these manufacturer racing games. Apart from the well-known Ford Racing 1-3, there are also Ford Mustang Racing game, Ford Racing Offroad, Ford Street Racing, and even an Arcade Cabinet game too. Too bad they didn't have anything new since 2008
This reminded me of a game made after an advert for Citroen C4. You have one track, and you switch between a car form and a robot form. I remembered it was short, but quite enjoyable.
8:00 I got strong Evolution GT vibes there. It has been released 2 years later than the Alfa game and was made by the same developer. Also had RPG elements and the intimidation feature and the slow down on the grass was even stronger. Basically the same game with a light reskin, more cars and some added features. A liked it a much back then!
Although they were never released in the West, there were two all-Nissan titles made by EA in the mid 1990s called "Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' GT-R" for the Saturn and "Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial" for PS1. Both were basically the original "The Need For Speed" (which was titled "Over Drivin'" In Japan) with all of the default playable cars replaced with various classic and modern (at the time) Nissans.
I was just watching the video as always but when i saw the BMW M3 challenge i just stopped the video, went on the web and installed it myself, i knew i wasn't tripping when i first saw it, it brought me back to my childhood because i remember everything about the game to an exact, from the Nurburgring, the handling model and everything. Also the game has damage model, you just have to enable it with F5, it's more of a soft body type of dsmage rather than every piece of body in particular.
I had a lot of fun with Jeep Thrills on the Wii. It didn't make me want a Jeep, but the off road racing was pretty decent for a Wii game. Project Cars -Pagani Edition is a pretty interesting free demo of Project Cars 1 that only includes Paganis. While not exactly cars, Milestone also made DUCATI - 90th Anniversary in 2016, the same year their annual MotoGP game was Valentino Rossi The Game.
There was a 4th game in the Ford franchise: Ford Street Racing, which was a first manufacturer racing game for me. You should definitely try it, it didn't have any interesting tracks but it has really interesting mechanic where you start a race with two or three cars in your team, and you have to switch between them mid race (generally because the AI driving for your team suck, and you must save their position to acquire the points so you could win the race), and then there's drafting and drifting utilizing all cars in your team.
Damn. This cideo inadvertently made me miss Blockbuster. I played Ford vs Chevy and made my parents rent it twice to finish it lol. Also, I can't believe how many of these I played as a kid. Ford Racing 3. Ford vs Chevy. Some other Ford Street Racing. Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano, as it was known where I'm from. And there was one on the PS1, it was a Ford truck racing game, where you could build your own tracks.
Some advice about pronunciation…. Eutechnyx is You-Tech-Nix (I know people that worked there, and I was offered a job there once). It was studio based in Newcastle U.K. which specialised in racing games. Esprit has a silent T So Ess-Spree Chevrolet also has a silent T
I've played the World Racing, and Ford Racing 2 before~ and an older Lotus only game on the MegaDrive so I've been pretty lucky with the one brand games I've played, liked all of em.
Thanks to this video, I'm gonna enjoy Lotus Challenge. I knew about the games existence thatnks to IGCD but I didn't think it had such variety of content. Nice job Dove!
There was a GBA Porsche game which due to a glitch with (I think) the Moby Dick, where if you set it to manual transmission, it doesnt have a top speed.
I loved Lotus Challenge when I was a kid and for a low budget racer, it was impressive for its time. Despite its age, the game is still a fun arcade racer with simcadey aspects and a big selection of licensed Lotus cars to drive (in addition to Proton, which was owned by Lotus at the time). The soundtrack by Hybrid (known for composing the score for Driveclub) was great too, though it can be a bit repetitive since there's only five licensed songs in the game.
About Chrysler Classic Racing, the reason why the starter cars costs in the $3000 range is because they were the base price of their irl counterparts during the 50's. By taking the inflation into account, a $3250 1954 Plymouth Belvedere would costs $35584,72 in 2023. Which means these prices are very exact.
@@DoVe_7 it's probably for the better anyways, it was made by Eutechnyx so you can probably already guess how mediocre that game is after playing SRS and Ford vs Chevy
MB World Racing... I still play it today. Wasn't able to finish it in the original XBOX but thanks to Dolphin Emulator, I can finish this game. Loved this game and based on your review, it's spot-on. The map diversity (Test Center, Japan, Australia, Mexico, The City (probably NYC or SF), Nevada, The Alps), the cars. It's one of those games, really. Also, Area 51. If you raced often in Nevada map, you would see details like a signpost saying you're entering Area 51.
nice vid mate! also, there exist 2 japanese racing sims about toyota and nissan called The Real Car Simulator R, it has pretty weird physics and it has the almost entire catalog of nissan and toyota including JGTC and some wierd concept/tuning car.
i got Ford Racing 2 on the PS2 when i was a kid and i was so confused as to why the disc was blue 😂 i thought it was like some kind of special game, turns out its just a Compact Disc and not a DVD
You missing: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge fom early 90s. The Ford Simulator from 87 (just like Test Drive). Jaguar XJ220 from 92. And Turbo Esprit from 86, year before Test Drive. It was developed with Lotus.
I really enjoyed this video! Definitely one of my favourites of yours. These big long projects are probably a pain to work on but it really paid off! I would personally love to see a part two with some of the other games that didn't make it someday. Love seeing some shine given to these forgotten (mostly) budget games. The quality varies quite a bit from title to title, which just makes it that much more interesting. Only game I've played from this selection is Ford Racing 3 but it looks like I might need to try Ford Racing 2 sometime. Keep up the good work!
I've played Viper Racing (my buddy brought it in for us to play one day at daycare, never realized it was a legit Sierra driving sim), Ford Racing 2 (the very first game I got with my PS2), Corvette (got another copy for Christmas one year when I already had a copy), and an earlier version of that Ferrari game called Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli on both Wii and DS. I played the hell out of the DS version of Ferrari Challenge, including the card game.
The two manufacturer games I loved weren't even car games. I don't recall what the Suzuki bike game was called, but I remember it being much more fun than Tourist Trophy. And of course the Ducati 90th Anniversary game, Milestone Srl really gave the Ducati fans something awesome. Road bikes from decades past up to Dovisioso's Desmodeici GP15 monster. With a nice showroom mode to properly inspect the bikes you may only dream of riding.
Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing. Yeah, it was quite fun, but though I remember enjoying it, I don't really remember the game itself too well. As to the Ducati game, it's nice for the showroom mode, but as a game it's only a castrated Ride 2. There was another one-maker non-car game, one with just Yamaha... snowmobiles.
I really love the premise of manufacturer racing games and I would love to see more games like these in the future even though its highly unlikely. Bummer that you didn't include NFS Porsche Unleashed in it which is imo the most underrated NFS game ever and a worthy inclusion aswell
Ford Racing 2 and 3 were both developed in the U.K. by Razorworks, a studio of Empire Interactive. They were NOT developed by Gotham Games. I worked on both of these games as a car modeller, and personally rendered and designed the box art. We worked really hard on the handling and physics - benchmarking Gran Turismo, and I think we did a decent job given the size of our team and the time frame.
there's also Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends.... which is pretty much NFS Shift with Ferraris... and you should have at least mentioned NFS Porsche Unleashed, easily the best of these manufacturer games
A quick word about GTI Racing, I noticed a lot of similarities with a different game, created by the same company Xpand Rally Xtreme. They were both released in 2006 so perhaps they were being developed alongside each other and so the ideas from Xpand Rally Xtreme were used to create GTI Racing.
I played that BMW M3 challenge a lot before getting my own PC and starting with rfactor. Also the Alfa game looks interesting (Alfa Romeo 155 v6 is always cool). I also used to play a cut down NFS4 BMW challenge kind of thing. Basically NFS4 but with only BMW M models.
Great research job on theses titles! Dont know if its your cup of tea, but 16bit era also had a ton of Manufacturer Racing titles that can be used as subject for a part 2 of this video: Starting of with Sega's Outrun, which is basically a Ferrari game and probably the first that popularized the idea of car brands in games back in arcades in 86', going all the way to iterations on the 6th~7th gen of consoles with Outrun 2/06', e remake of the original arcade featuring various Ferrari's models, keeping it techinally a manufacturer's game. And it goes on as well for another brands: Lamborghinni's had its pretty good title on the SNES (Lamb. American Challenge, made by Titus - the same from the infamous Superman 64), Lotus Turbo Challenge trilogy and Jaguar XJ220 on retro PCs, Toyota Celica Rally games, etc. Not to mention bike manufacturarers, which is an entire universe on its own, too. ;)
Where can I find the imported tracks from Mercedes Benz World Racing for Assetto Corsa? Loved the maps from the game so reliving my childhood on AC would be grea!!
giving ford racing 3 a 7/10 rating seems about fair, compared to the 8/10 rating for Ford racing 2 FR2 is more challenge oriented rather than cup oriented and it has imo less but better tracks than FR3 FR2 and FR3 were my childhood so I'm honestly glad to see you rank them the way you did and I learned about some games I never knew existed Kudos, dove
I used to play S.C.A.R. (Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo) I still have the game somewhere. I Used to love it (Perhaps national pride? lol I am Italian). S.C.A.R. is pretty much a Alfa Romeo only prequel of Evolution GT. Same developer and mechanics. Both lovely and quirky games. I'm pretty sure you know it already, but if not you should yeet an eye at Evolution GT. All races are one make, everybody using the same car and you develop the pilot.
Weird to see no Outrun, as the series is one of the best franchises not only in racing but in video game history, and exclusively featured Ferraris. The original also predates Test Drive, making Outrun the actual first game to feature a real licensed car.
Props for including some really obscure titles there, particularly the Lamborghini game which I believe took over a decade for the "full" game ISO to be fully dumped/shared. There are a few others such as Noble Racing on PS2, which was pretty bad but did include the M14 prototype, also NFS (4) Porsche Unleashed/Challenge which you mentioned but didn't cover, plus there was a Test Drive Ferrari game that was released a few years after that System 3 game which was kinda fun, though had a bit of a wonky difficulty curve.
beetle adventure racing is one of my favorite n64 games like ever, such a childhood classic! i’ll always remember playing it a TON as a little kid, it’s one of the reasons i’ve loved cars until now
The instrument from the Corvette game is different depending on which view you use. The chase cam gives you the heads up display from the C6, and seems like the hood cam gives you the speedometer from the C2.
Of all these games I've mainly played Ford Racing 2 which I really liked. It's worth noting that the Ferrari game was also available on the NDS and it was surprisingly good despite the hardware limitations.
19:40 Actually, Ford DID make a game about Mustangs! I had it on PS2, and it was crisp It was called Mustang: The Legend Lives. And they did the progression in a far less boring fashion.
Amazing video, i have to try some of these games. There are 2 other Ford Racing besides the trilogy, Ford Street Racing and Ford Off Road Racing, but they are pretty bad, it's a good thing you skipped them.
Small correction, there is a Mustang game aswell made by Eutechnyx as some of you pointed out in the comments 👍
- I've covered NFS Porsche Unleashed in my Rise of NFS video so that's why it's not here
And Test Drive Ferrari Challange
There's also a game full of Volkswagens called Beetle Buggin' or Beetle Crazy Cup.
I have most games here and some others not here.
Lamborghini American Challenge (originally released as Crazy Cars III) is a 1992 racing video game developed and published by Titus France for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Super NES, Amiga CD32, and Game Boy.
This game is expensive AF tho
If you ever want to torture yourself and make a part 2, the Ford Racing series has three more entries, each significantly worse than 2 & 3 - Ford Street Racing, Ford Racing Off Road (which also features a couple of Land Rovers) and the already mentioned Mustang game.
To pad it out, there's also a PS1 game promoting the Boxster called Porsche Challenge, a N64 Lamborghini game, a PS2 port of the famous arcade racer F355 Challenge, Test Drive Ferrari which has some fantastic cars and the awful Shift 2 physics and finally a pair of Volvo games, the SimBin thingy Volvo The Game which is a proper sim with only 2 tracks and an OG Xbox release Drive For Life: Volvo, which I remember disliking even as a big Volvo fan.
Oh and how dare you miss the legend that is Yaris :D
@@mdp26 There's also a PC version of the first Ford Racing which is a different beast to the PS1 version.
Deep down we all know manufacter games have peaked with Gran Turismo 4 Mazda MX-5 edition
Nah its gotta be yaris for the Xbox 360
Neither, its that one Audi minigame inside Playstation Home
Don't forget Gran Turismo 4 Toyota Prius edition
Gran Turismo Concept - Copen Special Edition
Gran Turismo Ford Fiesta edition
You definitely will not see only manufacturer only racing games which very unique, knowing some underrated vehicles from that manufacturer, aesthetic environment tracks, and ofc all of those wacky gameplay mode and stuff to making race interesting
Knowing Lotus, Alfa, Corvette and Golf is such a new knowledge for me, what an amazing experience~
I had Automobili Lamborghini (N64), Ferrari F355 (Dreamcast), and NFS Porsche Unleashed. Porsche Unleashed and the Viper Racing demo were the only manufacturer racers I had any fun with.
19:41 funnily enough, there actually is a game focused entitely on Mustangs, its called Ford Mustang: The Lengend Lives. I remember playing it a lot growing up and really enjoying it, and it actually has a very good variety of special edition Mustangs (up to 2005).
Still have it
Second this. Have it for Xbox. Had it for PS2 growing up but lost it; then saw the game at a thrift store for like three bucks and had an Xbox 360 to play it on.
Heres a little fun fact about FR3:
The tracks actually had a lot of interesting parts added to them in the early stages of developement of the game.
You can still see how the beta tracks looked in the old IGN videos that are still up on their channel.
The downgrade of these tracks happen most likely of a rushed release.
Fun fact: Lotus Challenge's soundtrack features music from Hybrid. The same Hybrid who went on to compose music for Driveclub, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and lent a hand in providing a few pieces for the soundtrack of Fast Five.
Also for SSX1
Interesting!
I absolutely loved Ford Racing 2 and 3. Not just cause my family is a ford family, but because of the enclusion of certain cars i didn't see in many other games, Such as the Ford EX Concept buggy, RS2000, and SVT Cobra R
12:36 - The BMW M3 Challenge was made by Blimey! Games, which would become Slightly Mad Studios and proceed to do NFS Shift and Project Cars.
It's also the same studio behind sim-racing classics such as GTR and GTR2, hence why BMW M3 Challenge is on the ISImotor engine as well.
20:22 Ford did make a mustang only game. It's called "Ford mustang the legend lives". And it suffers from every single problem as Corvette.
Except more models and interesting concepts. Granted it is a little stale
I have it for PS2, it's not great.
Awkward to hear that I own a game that doesn't exist.
(It might aswell not exist really)
@@CursedLink666 I have it for the OG Xbox. Remember getting it when I was 5. I'm a little bias cause Mustangs are my favorite Car
Fun Fact: the M3 Challenge is basically GT-R game with BMW M3 E92 and Nürburgring only. That's because 10Tacle was associated with GT-R games (developed by SimBin).
As someone who was a heavy holden fan here in aus but never getting a holden only game, seeing there was a ford street racing version with a BA falcon in it was pretty cool. Always like when aus gets some representation in racing games
I had a shock when Gran Turismo 4 had the VY SS and Monaro CV8, as well as the BA GT and F6 Typhoon
@@MuscleCarLover i beat all the non racing car endurance races with a commodore in that game just to lay down some aussie muscle justice lol
@@bappos_on_cracko4394 Haha, nice!
The Australian release of that Beetle Adventure Racing game had Holdens instead.
@@nathanstroud2223 Wait, what? Is there a video of it? That sounds hilarious
31:27 And that was Sixes and Sevens by Mondo Cozmo!
There was a Lamborghini game on N64, and older Lotus Challenge games on Commodore Amiga (Jaguar XJ220 game was on that computer as well)
I see there's very little info provided on Ferrari the Race Experience. It's a game that was originally called Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli, developed by Eutechnyxx and was for PS3, PS2, DS and Wii. While I was unable to play the PS3 version, I know that Bruno Senna was tapped as the driver consultant and the entire package was designed as a more serious sim like GranTurismo. I played the Wii version and it's an impressive sim racer on the platform (where there's a sore lack of any) with a proper wheel. The DS version was a decent package in and of itself but also included crash happy AI and extreme difficulty spikes down at the end. A "Deluxe" version was released on Wii which included DLC cars that were sold on PS3. Ferrari Race Experience is a "final" release of sorts on PS3 and Wii (Europe only) that rounded out the package with new additional cars (Ferrari FXX, included). The game(s) also included a very, very robust livery editor and I honestly think the game is really for serious simcade racers.
Played it for PS2, loved it
I never knew there were this much manufacturer games out there other than Porsche Unleashed, quite a surprise to see so many of them. The Chrysler one is the best imo lol.
I really liked some of the diversity these games brought to the table, not just in terms of gameplay but the environments as well. Some of these were really aesthetically pleasing to me. I like seeing racing games with places that blows things out of proportion, like the volcano race track in Ford Racing 2. This was a lovely video to watch through, always learning something new here on this channel.
Out Run. The 1st racing game to have an official car on it was Out Run. And by official I really mean it. Not "we use this car that looks...so we don't pay licenses" but a real official car on it: the Ferrari Testarossa.
Have you seen the "Ford Simulator" games? They were promotional games by Ford in the 80's and early 90's. The first came out in 1987, the same year as Test Drive 1. I don't know which one was first. Then there's the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge games on Various 80's platforms.
I've been working on modding Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo and its derivatives (Evolution GT & SuperBikes Riding Challenge), so far I've found cut camera modes that can be restored and have adjusted some of the career events to make them a bit more fluid.
Great video!
There was another Ferrari game called Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, developed by Slightly Mad Studios, so I think it was a bit better, but I haven't played it as my laptop wouldn't be powerfull enough to run it at the time.
Also, there was Volvo The Game, which I never played myself for the same reason, but if I remember correctly it was some kind of a weird game focused on safe driving (for obvious resons). Although I'm a fan of Volvo cars and their brend philosophy, I still think it's weird to try and make a game about safe driving. I think reviews at the time reflected that.
In any case, as I said, great video and a lot of effort went into making it. Thank you!
I am surprised you didn't talk about the other Ferrari-focused games, Ferrari F355 Challenge and Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, mainly because both games introduced the concept of fake billboard ads in licensed-car racing games, something that the developer of the latter game, the now-defunct Slightly Mad Studios, carried over to their next game, Project CARS, and an concept that would end up being in Gran Turismo Sport & 7, as well as the new Forza Motorsport game.
I remember getting Ford Racing 2 from a cereal box as a gift and enjoyed the hell out of it as kid
For me, the best manufacturer racing games is the later Outrun series and their Ferrari license.
This doesn't technically count but in Australia, the TOCA Race Driver trilogy on PS2 was known as the V8 Supercars Race Driver games. Replacing the extensive lineup of cars with just Ford Falcons and HSVs. Also in Australia, Beetle Adventure Racing on the Nintendo 64 was known as HSV Adventure Racing, which was the same game but with HSV cars made for the Australian market. So yeah, Australian manufacturer racing games were basically leeching off of other racing games, but it was at least something back when we still had Australian manufactured vehicles. Those were definitely better days.
You unlocked a core memory with the Ford racing games, I forgot I even played them until I saw the art style and the volcano
me too
Surprised F355 Challenge isn't here, that one is a classic.
Ford, hands down, has the most of these manufacturer racing games. Apart from the well-known Ford Racing 1-3, there are also Ford Mustang Racing game, Ford Racing Offroad, Ford Street Racing, and even an Arcade Cabinet game too. Too bad they didn't have anything new since 2008
This reminded me of a game made after an advert for Citroen C4. You have one track, and you switch between a car form and a robot form. I remembered it was short, but quite enjoyable.
8:00 I got strong Evolution GT vibes there. It has been released 2 years later than the Alfa game and was made by the same developer. Also had RPG elements and the intimidation feature and the slow down on the grass was even stronger. Basically the same game with a light reskin, more cars and some added features. A liked it a much back then!
Although they were never released in the West, there were two all-Nissan titles made by EA in the mid 1990s called "Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' GT-R" for the Saturn and "Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial" for PS1. Both were basically the original "The Need For Speed" (which was titled "Over Drivin'" In Japan) with all of the default playable cars replaced with various classic and modern (at the time) Nissans.
I've covered them in my Rise of NFS vid
I was just watching the video as always but when i saw the BMW M3 challenge i just stopped the video, went on the web and installed it myself, i knew i wasn't tripping when i first saw it, it brought me back to my childhood because i remember everything about the game to an exact, from the Nurburgring, the handling model and everything. Also the game has damage model, you just have to enable it with F5, it's more of a soft body type of dsmage rather than every piece of body in particular.
I had a lot of fun with Jeep Thrills on the Wii. It didn't make me want a Jeep, but the off road racing was pretty decent for a Wii game.
Project Cars -Pagani Edition is a pretty interesting free demo of Project Cars 1 that only includes Paganis.
While not exactly cars, Milestone also made DUCATI - 90th Anniversary in 2016, the same year their annual MotoGP game was Valentino Rossi The Game.
There was a 4th game in the Ford franchise: Ford Street Racing, which was a first manufacturer racing game for me. You should definitely try it, it didn't have any interesting tracks but it has really interesting mechanic where you start a race with two or three cars in your team, and you have to switch between them mid race (generally because the AI driving for your team suck, and you must save their position to acquire the points so you could win the race), and then there's drafting and drifting utilizing all cars in your team.
Ferrari F355 Challenge and Test Drive : Ferrari racing legends are a couple more worth checking out
41:30 pretty interesting that Merc lets the game damage their cars, maybe to show off their levels of safety.
Damn. This cideo inadvertently made me miss Blockbuster. I played Ford vs Chevy and made my parents rent it twice to finish it lol. Also, I can't believe how many of these I played as a kid. Ford Racing 3. Ford vs Chevy. Some other Ford Street Racing. Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano, as it was known where I'm from. And there was one on the PS1, it was a Ford truck racing game, where you could build your own tracks.
Some advice about pronunciation….
Eutechnyx is You-Tech-Nix (I know people that worked there, and I was offered a job there once). It was studio based in Newcastle U.K. which specialised in racing games.
Esprit has a silent T
So Ess-Spree
Chevrolet also has a silent T
I had one of the Ford Racing games on the PS2, such a classic.
Was not expecting Scott the Woz at 24:23.
There's also Ferrari: trofeo Pirelli Challenge, and Lance Stroll's dad is in it
I've played the World Racing, and Ford Racing 2 before~ and an older Lotus only game on the MegaDrive so I've been pretty lucky with the one brand games I've played, liked all of em.
Thanks to this video, I'm gonna enjoy Lotus Challenge. I knew about the games existence thatnks to IGCD but I didn't think it had such variety of content. Nice job Dove!
That Chrysler "prison song" sounds like straight outta Silent Hill lol
There was a GBA Porsche game which due to a glitch with (I think) the Moby Dick, where if you set it to manual transmission, it doesnt have a top speed.
The amount of work you must have put into this video is mind boggling!
An absolutely amazing video to watch. Also, M3 / 10 was just perfect.
Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends should have a review, i personally really enjoy this game.
There's also a "Porsche challenge" game for ps1, but I don't remember if it was any good, as I was a kid when I played it last
I looooooved Ford Racing 2 when I was a kid! Glad to see you enjoy it in current year
Outrun 2006 has all Ferrari cars and is also a really good game
I loved Lotus Challenge when I was a kid and for a low budget racer, it was impressive for its time. Despite its age, the game is still a fun arcade racer with simcadey aspects and a big selection of licensed Lotus cars to drive (in addition to Proton, which was owned by Lotus at the time). The soundtrack by Hybrid (known for composing the score for Driveclub) was great too, though it can be a bit repetitive since there's only five licensed songs in the game.
Hybrid fkn pwn
About Chrysler Classic Racing, the reason why the starter cars costs in the $3000 range is because they were the base price of their irl counterparts during the 50's.
By taking the inflation into account, a $3250 1954 Plymouth Belvedere would costs $35584,72 in 2023.
Which means these prices are very exact.
One of the best ferrari only games were Outrun and F355 challenge on the dreamcast
This video just missing Ferrari F355 Challenge. Both are playable on arcade cabinet, PS2, and Sega Dreamcast.
also, there totally is a game just about Ford Mustangs. it's called Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives
oh you are right I missed that
@@DoVe_7 it's probably for the better anyways, it was made by Eutechnyx so you can probably already guess how mediocre that game is after playing SRS and Ford vs Chevy
@@TheRageLivesOn What game didn't they make at this point haha
MB World Racing... I still play it today. Wasn't able to finish it in the original XBOX but thanks to Dolphin Emulator, I can finish this game. Loved this game and based on your review, it's spot-on. The map diversity (Test Center, Japan, Australia, Mexico, The City (probably NYC or SF), Nevada, The Alps), the cars. It's one of those games, really.
Also, Area 51. If you raced often in Nevada map, you would see details like a signpost saying you're entering Area 51.
nice vid mate! also, there exist 2 japanese racing sims about toyota and nissan called The Real Car Simulator R, it has pretty weird physics and it has the almost entire catalog of nissan and toyota including JGTC and some wierd concept/tuning car.
Cool!
i got Ford Racing 2 on the PS2 when i was a kid and i was so confused as to why the disc was blue 😂 i thought it was like some kind of special game, turns out its just a Compact Disc and not a DVD
Dove would probably like Ducati World (PSX). Decent Game.
I had a game for the Wii as a kid called Jeep Thrills. It's just a mention mostly because you can play as a Jeep Liberty, a garbage car.
It's not about the destination, it's about the dancing shoes we earned along the way.
You missing: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge fom early 90s. The Ford Simulator from 87 (just like Test Drive). Jaguar XJ220 from 92. And Turbo Esprit from 86, year before Test Drive. It was developed with Lotus.
There was also that one game called Yaris, and Asphalt Audi RS6. Try them out
I really enjoyed this video! Definitely one of my favourites of yours.
These big long projects are probably a pain to work on but it really paid off! I would personally love to see a part two with some of the other games that didn't make it someday. Love seeing some shine given to these forgotten (mostly) budget games. The quality varies quite a bit from title to title, which just makes it that much more interesting.
Only game I've played from this selection is Ford Racing 3 but it looks like I might need to try Ford Racing 2 sometime.
Keep up the good work!
Real talk, that first lotus game? Having a game or gamemode where you work as a stunt driver nowadays would be awesome...
I've played Viper Racing (my buddy brought it in for us to play one day at daycare, never realized it was a legit Sierra driving sim), Ford Racing 2 (the very first game I got with my PS2), Corvette (got another copy for Christmas one year when I already had a copy), and an earlier version of that Ferrari game called Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli on both Wii and DS. I played the hell out of the DS version of Ferrari Challenge, including the card game.
Speaking of American, there is one of these games focusing mostly on the Jeep brand, it's called Jeep Thrills.
Yea I was thinkin of that originally but replaced that with the Hummer game
I legit forgot about the Alfa Romeo game, despite playing it when I was young. You just unlocked an old memory of mine
Ford vs Chevy needs a sequel where Dodge kicks down the door and turns it into a triple threat.
GM vs Ford vs Stellantis doesn't sound like a great title though 😂
The two manufacturer games I loved weren't even car games. I don't recall what the Suzuki bike game was called, but I remember it being much more fun than Tourist Trophy. And of course the Ducati 90th Anniversary game, Milestone Srl really gave the Ducati fans something awesome. Road bikes from decades past up to Dovisioso's Desmodeici GP15 monster. With a nice showroom mode to properly inspect the bikes you may only dream of riding.
Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing. Yeah, it was quite fun, but though I remember enjoying it, I don't really remember the game itself too well. As to the Ducati game, it's nice for the showroom mode, but as a game it's only a castrated Ride 2. There was another one-maker non-car game, one with just Yamaha... snowmobiles.
I love how he says ferrari and Lamborghini with an Italian accent😃
I really love the premise of manufacturer racing games and I would love to see more games like these in the future even though its highly unlikely.
Bummer that you didn't include NFS Porsche Unleashed in it which is imo the most underrated NFS game ever and a worthy inclusion aswell
Porsche unleashed I covered in my Rise of NFS Video both PS1 and PC versions
The Lamborghini game being unreleased physically hurts me, where else do you get to drive a Silhouette
"Video games cut car sales!"
-Toyota Exec, 2010s
Initial D: 💀
Fast and Furious: 💀
Need For Speed 2000 - 2010: 💀
Ford Racing 2 and 3 were both developed in the U.K. by Razorworks, a studio of Empire Interactive. They were NOT developed by Gotham Games. I worked on both of these games as a car modeller, and personally rendered and designed the box art. We worked really hard on the handling and physics - benchmarking Gran Turismo, and I think we did a decent job given the size of our team and the time frame.
I also was in charge of choosing all the cars, from Fords history- and I’m quite proud of finding cars that fans really loved.
Both games were really enjoyable and it was fun to drive concepts and muscle cars I haven't heard of before 👍
could You tell us a little more about the development of these games? The fanbase would be more than excited to hear about the history.
🔥Nice roundup. My favourite will always be Lotus, and it's so nice to see that it still holds up well all these years later.
there's also Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends.... which is pretty much NFS Shift with Ferraris... and you should have at least mentioned NFS Porsche Unleashed, easily the best of these manufacturer games
A quick word about GTI Racing, I noticed a lot of similarities with a different game, created by the same company Xpand Rally Xtreme. They were both released in 2006 so perhaps they were being developed alongside each other and so the ideas from Xpand Rally Xtreme were used to create GTI Racing.
So glad this video was made, recently found my ford racing 2 game and I wanted someone to talk about it
I played that BMW M3 challenge a lot before getting my own PC and starting with rfactor. Also the Alfa game looks interesting (Alfa Romeo 155 v6 is always cool). I also used to play a cut down NFS4 BMW challenge kind of thing. Basically NFS4 but with only BMW M models.
Great research job on theses titles!
Dont know if its your cup of tea, but 16bit era also had a ton of Manufacturer Racing titles that can be used as subject for a part 2 of this video: Starting of with Sega's Outrun, which is basically a Ferrari game and probably the first that popularized the idea of car brands in games back in arcades in 86', going all the way to iterations on the 6th~7th gen of consoles with Outrun 2/06', e remake of the original arcade featuring various Ferrari's models, keeping it techinally a manufacturer's game.
And it goes on as well for another brands: Lamborghinni's had its pretty good title on the SNES (Lamb. American Challenge, made by Titus - the same from the infamous Superman 64), Lotus Turbo Challenge trilogy and Jaguar XJ220 on retro PCs, Toyota Celica Rally games, etc.
Not to mention bike manufacturarers, which is an entire universe on its own, too. ;)
Tell us about the bike games! I sas Suzuki and Ducati
Believe it or not ford vs Chevy is one of only a few game series that has the fourth generation camaro, impala and Monte Carlo
This video got me thinking... Since Pontiac and Opel are the only licensed cars in Wheelman, does it count as Manufacturer Game?
Where can I find the imported tracks from Mercedes Benz World Racing for Assetto Corsa? Loved the maps from the game so reliving my childhood on AC would be grea!!
Race department is a site with tons of A.C mods. You have to register to download tracks etc, but well worth it. It's all free of course.
giving ford racing 3 a 7/10 rating seems about fair, compared to the 8/10 rating for Ford racing 2
FR2 is more challenge oriented rather than cup oriented and it has imo less but better tracks than FR3
FR2 and FR3 were my childhood so I'm honestly glad to see you rank them the way you did
and I learned about some games I never knew existed
Kudos, dove
19:37 Chevrolet Camaro: Am I a joke to you?
I love the use of Grids music, its so cool seeing and hearing songs from my childhood games in so many youtube videos now that I look for it
I love how you pronounce the brand names. And i love the bmV m3 challange
my favorite one brand racing game must be NFS porsche, the game that got me into cars
I used to play S.C.A.R. (Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo) I still have the game somewhere. I Used to love it (Perhaps national pride? lol I am Italian). S.C.A.R. is pretty much a Alfa Romeo only prequel of Evolution GT. Same developer and mechanics. Both lovely and quirky games.
I'm pretty sure you know it already, but if not you should yeet an eye at Evolution GT. All races are one make, everybody using the same car and you develop the pilot.
Weird to see no Outrun, as the series is one of the best franchises not only in racing but in video game history, and exclusively featured Ferraris. The original also predates Test Drive, making Outrun the actual first game to feature a real licensed car.
Props for including some really obscure titles there, particularly the Lamborghini game which I believe took over a decade for the "full" game ISO to be fully dumped/shared. There are a few others such as Noble Racing on PS2, which was pretty bad but did include the M14 prototype, also NFS (4) Porsche Unleashed/Challenge which you mentioned but didn't cover, plus there was a Test Drive Ferrari game that was released a few years after that System 3 game which was kinda fun, though had a bit of a wonky difficulty curve.
beetle adventure racing is one of my favorite n64 games like ever, such a childhood classic! i’ll always remember playing it a TON as a little kid, it’s one of the reasons i’ve loved cars until now
Thoroughly enjoyed the vid and also the streams for these games :) Tnx for a banger vid and keep it up Dove!
The instrument from the Corvette game is different depending on which view you use. The chase cam gives you the heads up display from the C6, and seems like the hood cam gives you the speedometer from the C2.
I knew about basically none of these games. The one I know, is not included, which is Camaro wild ride for the Nintendo 3DS
damn alfa romeo wont let me touch grass
Of all these games I've mainly played Ford Racing 2 which I really liked.
It's worth noting that the Ferrari game was also available on the NDS and it was surprisingly good despite the hardware limitations.
Ford Racing 1 was my first racing game, and it started an addiction that I continue to feed this day.
19:40
Actually, Ford DID make a game about Mustangs! I had it on PS2, and it was crisp
It was called Mustang: The Legend Lives. And they did the progression in a far less boring fashion.
Amazing video, i have to try some of these games. There are 2 other Ford Racing besides the trilogy, Ford Street Racing and Ford Off Road Racing, but they are pretty bad, it's a good thing you skipped them.