Classic Game Room - TEST DRIVE LE MANS review for Sega Dreamcast
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Classic Game Room reviews TEST DRIVE: LE MANS for the Sega Dreamcast video game console. The little DC may never get the respect that it deserves, but Sega's last foray into the video game system hardware competition yielded some amazing games. Gamers around the world know the date 9-9-99 because... well, it's a secret. You got to be in the know to get it! SEGA! This is the first Dreamcast game that CGR has reviewed since 2000. Test Drive Le Mans is an auto racing game that was released in November of 2000, right about the same time that the Playstation 2 PS2 was released in North America. This driving game is tons of fun and allows you to race a variety of cars on famous tracks around the world like Suzuka and Bugatti. Is it as good as Forza 2 and Gran Turismo 5? You can race throughout the night in heated competition against 23 other competitors in their souped up high end race cars. This is more of a good arcade racer more than it is a driving simulator, but the handling, graphics and sound are still good. Especially considering that it came out in 2000 even before Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. The gameplay is rock solid and the footage should show that off. You can play 2-player against a friend in cars from Audi, Nissan, Toyota and more. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The reviews on the HD series are reviewing PS3, PS2, Genesis, NES, Atari and Xbox 360. XBLA. videos review reviews show wii trailer ps2 ps3 xbox 360 wii remake upcoming 
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This was my absolute favorite racing game on Dreamcast! The 24hr race was amazing!!
Crazy as it sounds, Test Drive Le Mans is developed by the same team that gave us the Back to the Future games on the NES... let that sink in!
Akseli Janhunen me too
love ur reviews
They really grew up as developers
I Wonder where they are now.
So?? Not everything Beam Software made was bad
Love your videos please review this game
Dreamcast was ahead of its time, such a underrated and awesome console.
My Dreamcast still works fine today as in 2000. I also have this game and still play it. Great fun and challenging especially with harder settings.
i remember the bitter forum wars, comparing this to ps2 and gran turismo "it's got ansiotropic filtering!" "but the environment mapping isn't realtime!" ugh, it's a fun game, that's that mattered
Glad I stumbled upon this video - I had heard of Test Drive Le Mans for Dreamcast but had never played it. This looks almost identical to Le Mans 24 Hours on PS2, which is still one of my absolute favorite racing games of all time.
it was my favorite driving game for dreamcast
still playing it from time to time:)
It absolutely *must* be played with a VGA box to experience its 480p greatness (which was outstanding at the time it was released almost a decade ago). The controls, environments, and lighting effects are totally top-notch. Car models are a little low on poly counts at times compared to more modern racers, but subtle details (like the glowing red brakes which was unique at the time) make up for it.
Seriously, the Dreamcast is such a rock solid system, I found my old one in the storage space at my house after 10 years of collecting dust and plugged it in and it worked instantly with no problem. Dreamcast is my favorite system!
The game is so epic, that he made a 13 min plus video review.👍
I play my DC more than my modern systems. I’m going to have to pick this game up, looks amazing!
PS..,you don't win a harem for winning the full 24 hr race, funny comment, you unlock the best car in the game. Save every 22 laps, change tires & refuel needed.
DREAMCAST...still one of the greatest systems ever made
Jokes aside, you don't win a harem for winning the 24 hr race, you unlock the final car. A second Toyota GT One. Different livery, that is color scheme. The GT Ones are the fastest card in the game. BTW, the only Japanese company to win at Le Mans was Mazda in 1991, with the awesome rotary engine 787b. They banned rotary engines the very next year. When the Mazda engineers examined the engine after the race, amazingly they said she could have immediately run another 24 hrs. Ban that dang car!
...can't have that that! Listen to her on RUclips...incredible sound.
The game also includes Nissan's GT One racer.
The graphics in Test Drive Le Mans bested Gran Turismo & GT2 released on the PSX. It wasn't until Gran Turismo 3 that they beat this games graphics finally.
You should check Tokyo highway Challenge 2 on dreamcast.
@@drunkensailor112 meh, this game looks better, has a huge polygon count AND effects better than many PS2 games imo
@@drunkensailor112 Yeah, I always thought the Tokyo Xtreme Racer games were the pinnacle of Dreamcast racers.
@@spooky_electric they looked the best and played the best. Part 2 is my favorite racing game of all time
@@drunkensailor112 They really need to bring that series back, especially now that arcade racers are so few and far between. Imagine driving tuned up JDMs on the Tokyo Highway on a PS5!
woow much better than the psx version
Because this is a completely different game. This is competitor with the PS2 port
I remember racing the full 24 hours. Set up my steering wheel and pedals and started racing a little after 4 in the afternoon. Only stopped for a pee or munchies break when I pulled into the pits. Drove through the night, the dreamcast internal clock making the sun rise at pretty much the same as outside. Crossed the line some time after 5.30 the following afternoon. Awesome! These days I get tired just trying to plug my games console in.
I too love the latest Forzas and Gran Turismos on my next-gens,
but I always come back to Test Drive LeMans on the Dreamcast.
It's one solid racer. They did everything right, from the feel to the look of the game.
Thank you Bruno Bonnell.
I just recently bought a Dreamcast this spring. This was one of my first games I purchased for it. It is fantastic.
The Seaman torture scene will always be one of the greatest CGR moments.
Nice to have you back, Classic Game Room, and yes what an awesome game Test Drive Le Mans is. What a fantastic review! Miss the game so much and just waiting to buy it again (Sadly it is a little bit more difficult to get in Europe and a little bit more expensive...) You have inspired me to put it right back on my 'Most Wanted games' list. Thanks:-)
I can remember me and my dad playd this game like crazy I always cried when he did not plays the game when he was tired when I was like 4 or 5 years old 😂
eat your cereal and play dreamcast
Fantastic review. I bought this game back in 2002 for cheap not expecting anything special but it blew me away, it really is a special kind of game but hard to pinpoint why; it just does everything so well and so effortlessly. I think I may head off an play it again now thanks to this video, thanks man =)
I played this game a ton and loved it, as well as Test Drive V Rally. Both awesome games for their time. The DC controller was excellent for driving games. RIP Dreamcast, you were great but unappreciated.
I played this game a bunch back when it was new. Enjoyed the CGRHD review! As the review mentions, TDLM does have awesome attention to detail. Back then, it was amazing to see all the cars, the photo-real look, the weather and nightfall, and even the tire marks are retained from prior laps.
I didn't get mine for $2.50, but considering inflation and product scarcity $7.70 ain't that bad. Plus, I think I actually enjoyed driving Le Mans in this that i did with GRID or Gran Turismo, and that's saying something.
If you like this type of Endurance racing, then watch this years 24 hours of Le Mans on June 11-12 live on the internet: eurosport, Justin TV etc, or on your local sports channel
Bring back Classic Game Room !
Just a quick update Mark, me and my mom just sent in an order for one of the VGA boxes I mentioned before. Can't wait to play Dreamcast in S-video, it's a little blurry now, especially after playing 360 and even Gamecube earlier today. Even then if I have friends over using the TV, now I can hook my DC up to my monitor (19inch widescreen) and my 2.1 speaker set, for a even better experience. Please keep up the reviews Mark, and sorry, I still have not watched your other documentaries.
This is still a good looking game, considering its age! I wish I had played it back when it came out. I always heard good things about it.
This was my first Racing game, I spent so much time playing this back in the day.
Loved this game back in the day.
This game came out when I was 10. Never played it until 20 years later, at 30. It truly is an amazing racing game. The graphics hold up pretty well on the Redream DC emulator. HD resolution and the ability to use a PlayStation or Xbox controller does it justice. I'm so glad I found this game. It's great.
lol you can even see the brake discs getting overheated pause ad 11:54 very cool detail
One of my favourite racers ever, I played the crap out of it. Even did the full 24 hour race, those were the days.
This was uploaded on my birthday!
Amazing game, and still my favourite cgr into music
I love this game. It introduced me in the world of sportscars racing.
Best review of Test Drive Le Mans.
Variable weather, sunrise, sunset at Le Sarthe., replays, attention to detail.
Awesome racing game. As good as Gran Turismo 3.
Excellent review. That Dreamcast you showed looked brand new! I have 2 Dreamcast and one of them is starting to turn brown lol. I always really liked this game. And looking back on it I miss playing it. I love the sexy Sega graphics and game play.
Mark, my man, I really miss your game reviews!
Come back to RUclips!
Good review, just picked this up at Goodwill. Totally worth it.
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i have played this game plenty of hours with the mad cats dreamcast wheel. good times. :)
I recently been more involved in video cable quality. I'm still using Composite for my Dreamcast, and I want to upgrade so badly. I'm honestly considering telling my mom "screw possibly getting Rock Band, get me a VGA/S-video box for Dreamcast off Ebay.
Thanks for gettin' back to me on that Mark,
and as always, tell Dave we miss him.
Is there anyway you could record his voice like the interview, and add it to a game review that he's familiar with? It was great to hear his input again.
Just found this for a dollar the other day, really glad I picked it up. :)
I bought a second hand Dreamcast yesterday and played some Japanese shoot m ups. This system has many great games. This one looks awesome, incredible they could make it back in those days
Imagine driving late at night and catching CGR on the radio.
when did you buy for $2.50? dc stuff hard to find anywhere
Le Mans 24 Hours (Ultimate Endurance Challenge) as we know it in the UK was one racer that was way, way a head of it's time. The technical wizardry that was put into this has not change much with the evolution we see from driving games of today. Awesome game, very nice if you can display it via the VGA adapter! :)
Still have this great game.
It doesn's say on the box but
Test Drive Le Mans is VGA cable
compatible. I bought PGR4 after
this as racing in variable weather
is more realistic even in an arcade
racer.
Cool review and very funny. The game looks nice too. You can actually do a entire 24hrs race, that has to be an intense endurance test! Oh you do get to save your game at pit stops haha I thought you had to do it straight.
Really really nice lightning!
I like pushing cars off to the edge so that they spin out of control
Reminds me of Sports Car GT. I'll have to pick it up sometime.
I bought a game last week as well, Giga Wing 2, for the second time at a retro/modern game store. I sold it to them for cash one day when I was broke and just recently had a serious yearning to have it back, so I got it!
Well it's not so much that I want the cable itself. Because later on if I get a new TV, with VGA ports (highest I have is Component currently) then I'll be able to upgrade to VGA. In the case that you're unsure what I'm talkin' about. The box has all 3 types of compatible video outputs on one box. You just have to attach all of the additional cables yourself.(Typical standard 2-male end cables.)
Awesome racing game. Huge. Plenty of tracks. Great graphics & REPLAYS!...for the time.
Still holds up.
Susuka, Donington...Le Sarte! The full 24 hours of Le Mans!!!
Race the full 24 hours, race it in 6 hrs, 1 hr, or down to 10 min, 3 laps.
Sunrise, sunset...full 24 hr experience,
Ah, my first and favorite Dreamcast Game.
I found a shop selling Dreamcast games for the princely sum of 50p. They had N64 and Sega Saturn titles going for the same price. Score!
Incredible game, took me about 10 races to get used to the handling, but once you do it is awesome.
Sadly it's true, the other day I was in my kitchen, a good 20 feet or so away from my Dreamcast, down a hallway into a room, and I could hear my Dreamcast loading.
I must go to a game store that still supports the Dreamcast, there's only one store around that I know of that does, and I have yet to go to it.
I was curious Mark, what kind of video/audio connection are you using for you Dreamcast? Standard composite, S-video or VGA?
Gonna go play some now..prolly time trial =)
Bought the PS2 version of this a few days ago for 4 bucks...So much fun..actually enjoying it way more than my copy's of GT4 or Toca Race Driver 3.
this game does look really well!! and glad i own it!!
The dreamcast's graphics are about the same as the ps2's
Skip the 10 minute Le Mans Race! Hell, just do the 24 hour one! That would be awesome. Awesome review, Mark!
I LOVE this channel
i had Dreamcast and i played this game to the death.awesome game great graphics for the year it got out.
Looks really awesome, and I've heard good things about it, but my disc replay doesn't have alot of dreamcast games for me :/
God I loved this game! I think I will break out the DC and play again this weekend. BTW if you turn off the driving assists a lot of the arcadiness goes away...
9/9/9 is soon here again. Can't believe it's been 10 years since that day.
And another 10 years has passed since this comment. Woah..
I have been borrowing Black (PS2) from my brother-in-law for a while now. The game is pretty challenging at times, but definetly awesome. It doesn't need a lot of multiplayer modes, and online play to be awesome. Also, the graphics look great for a PS2 game, one of the only games that I would demand playing in component mode on a PS2. See if you can find it.
look at that sense of speed....what the new generation racers only dream about. this game really made you drift off into a racing mindset. top 5 racing games of all time here.
@die996: remember the dreamcast was meant to COMBAT the PSx/1 NOT PS2. At it's time it was the leading pioneer console in gfx
i must has a special dreamcast then. mine is real quiet. it has a 0 for revision 0 on the bottom though and has the heat pipes. guess they changes a few things between versions.
pretty cool. I miss a old ps1 game I had, le mans 24 hours, it was very cool.
I had a lot of fun playing test drive for ps1( I dont remember if it was test drive, but I do think it was) and I had lots of fun playing it, altought it was really unrealistic .
You need to review Burning Rubber on the Amstrad.
1:09 Nice reusing of footage from the old CGR. Not complaining, just pointing it out. I consider it a nod to all us CGR fans who can make that connection.
I want this game
The game was really good.One of my favourite ones on DC.
The connector pins (Don't know if thats the real word lol) needs readjusting every few months, an easy thing to fix, I just open the machine and wiggle a bit with it, otherwise it will just be restarting my games :p.
I have no idea what the problem can be for yours though.
This game was my number 1 racing game back in the days! It was so much better than anything else at the time, even better than Gran Turismo imo. What an amazing game!
I can't tell everyone how highly recommended this game is. This was my favorite Dreamcast racer, and was among the greatest racers on any console - ever. I'm a big fan of the Gran Turismo series (haven't had a chance to play Forza 2 yet, since I only recently picked up a 360), but I'd stack this up against any racer to date.
I think an update in GT5 made it so you can save during the 24 hour race.
By the way there is a PS2 Version of the Game with a visible pit crew and Everything. But you cant drive the closed prototypes in the ps2 Version in the Le Mans mode
looks very good for this old game :D
I loved this game on the DC. PLayed it to death.
Wow an actual 24 hour race, not a sped up "24 hours" like GRID's and it has save points via pitstops while racing. That's a feature Gran Turismo and Forza should copy.
Despite most of America not caring for Le Mans, there are American car companies that do join it like Chevrolet. Btw, if you pronounce "Le Mans" the way you do while in Europe they would either correct or laugh at you.
thats like le mans 24 hours on PS2 EPICCC
wen i borrowed my friends dreamcast i borrowed this it was pretty cool looking
These graphics are amazing! Why did Sega have to stop making consoles? Imagine how good the graphics could have been if they kept making consoles.
WOW, I can't believe a dreamcast is doing this
@M1XART yeah plus dreamcast was done smart following closely to the sega naomi, plus using a system developers could actually code lol... the DC, one of the greatest inventions man has made.
Look at the graphics, this game looks fucking gorgeous
Looks like a good racer at a very cheap price. Def. picking this one up.
I have that one on PC. :D
Titled "Le Mans 24 Hours".
It looks like an XBox game, one of the reasons for that is that towards the end of the Dreamcast's life developers had really got to grips with the hardware, the last generation of DC games, of which this is one, really pushed texture detail (the PS2 never surpassed the DC in that field) and polygon use.
Look at games like this, Skies of Arcadia. and Shenmue II and you get a sense of the potential that was squandered when the Dreamcast was discontinued.
this graphics are insane for a DC game. It looks almost like an XBOX game. VGA 480p 30 fps and high polygon count. Still looks gorgeous for me!
Where did you get this game factory sealed for $2.50!?