Codemasters’ 2½ million selling PlayStation motor sport series goes global with TOCA World Touring Cars.

High-speed hedonists’ dreams come true with the latest in Codemasters’ 2½ million best-selling TOCA series with TOCA World Touring Cars, an all-new game driven by an amazing game engine, exclusively on PlayStation.

TOCA World Touring Cars is the only PlayStation motor sport simulation to deliver intense, close contact racing, on real tracks and in real cars from around the world. TOCA World Touring Cars creates the thrills with an original impact physics damage system and car-handling engine that knocks your socks off.

“TOCA World Touring Cars is outstanding,” says Richard Darling, Codemasters’ founder and Game Design Director, “It’s an incredible achievement by the development team and I honestly feel it’s the greatest – and definitely most exciting – racing game created for the current PlayStation system.”

Critical reaction to the game has already been phenomenal with perfect 10 out of 10 scores in both Official PlayStation Magazine and PlayStation Power magazines and a 96% review from PlayStation Max. 

In TOCA World Touring Cars Codemasters takes players beyond the UK-only races of the British Touring Car Championship of the first two TOCA games, this time the internationally famous circuits are host to motor racing’s most aggressive races on a global stage. 

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With wholly accurate recreation of 23 of the world’s most famous and challenging race circuits, gamers race at key venues across five continents: Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Japan.

TOCA World Touring Cars’ unique “momentum prediction engine” provides the best car handling yet seen on any PlayStation game. Players really experience the white-knuckle feel of driving any of over 40 real cars from around the world, with all the speed, jostling for position, intelligent over-taking, scrapes, wheel locking and individual driver personalities. 

Visually TOCA World Touring Cars is a realistic motor sport sim, however gameplay offers arcade-like excitement and exhilaration for the player, embracing the high-speed aggressive 14-car races of the sport. Being a competitive racing sport, there’s plenty of potential car damage to contend with and TOCA World Touring Cars features a powerful new dynamic polygon deformation damage system, making a collision an even more nerve-wracking incident.

The damage system is based on real-life impact physics and, by emulating the crumple zones found on an actual car, applies simulated damage effect to the graphic models of the in-game cars. To ensure authentic representation, each polygon that forms part of the overall car graphic can be deformed independently. 

TOCA World Touring Cars’ race options include the all-new Career game and a new Tournament mode. In the Career game, players complete through national, international and world championships whilst the Tournament mode enables players to create their own mini-championship by choosing their own tracks and cars to race against. Other race styles – single race, time trial and multi-player – are also featured. Spectators can experience the action along with players with reactive replay cameras, which offer 360-degree time slicing.

With sound recorded at an industry standard sound analysing laboratory to ensure players feel like they’re next to the real thing, an challenging intercontinental variety of locations, competitive gameplay and a revitalised and dynamic feel, TOCA World Touring Cars is now available on PlayStation.

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| Notes to Editors:
Established in 1986, Codemasters is a leading developer and publisher of best-selling interactive entertainment products for a global audience on current and future gaming platforms and channels. This has been quite a year for Codemasters. The company is the winner of Queen’s Award For Enterprise in the Innovation category and was featured in the Sunday Times’ Fast Track taking the number two position for the highest annual profit growth at 118.97%. Furthermore, the Central Region’s Entrepreneur of The Year 2000 awards saw David Darling, Founder and Chief Executive of Codemasters, scoop both the “Overall Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Young Entrepreneur Of The Year” awards. Codemasters’ genre-leading brands include Colin McRae Rally, Touring Cars, Micro Machines/Maniacs, and LMA Manager. With an annual turnover in excess of $100 million, the company is headquartered in Southam, Warwickshire, UK where it employs over 400 staff, and maintains European operations in Germany, France, Spain, Benelux and plans to set up operations in Scandinavia. The company entered the US publishing market in 1999 and has an online gaming US-based development facility in Oakhurst, CA. More information about the company and its products is available online at www.codemasters.com.