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IGN España said "Cars 3: Driven to Win is a fun game to play with our children, using a Mario Kart style control, but simplifying it rightly. A good number of hours of play to unlock all its contents make the purchase worthwhile if you have children fans of the Pixar film." [11]
The game features over 125 licensed sports cars and motorcycles and the terrain is modeled after the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu that features over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of roads and highways. [1] It was soon followed by its sequel, Test Drive Unlimited 2 in 2011. A third game and soft reboot, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, was released in 2024.
The series consists of three video games, one spin-off, and one reboot. [1] In Japan, the series has been published by KID, [2] Success, [3] and Cyberfront. [4] In North America, the second game was localized and published by Hirameki International; [5] this is the only game in the series to have been released in English.
Infinity Plus Two, previously Infinite Interactive, is a video game developer with headquarters in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. [1] The company was founded by Steve Fawkner in 1989. After a long alliance with SSG , resulting in the development of the Warlords series of games, Steve moved on to make Infinite totally independent in 2003. [ 2 ]
IGN's Craig Harris praised the Game Boy Color port's top down view and the controls and concluded: "I'm actually quite surprised at how well Driver turned out for the Game Boy Color. I was expecting a Point-A-to-B game like Grand Theft Auto and got a whole lot more. The missions have different elements to give the basic formula a bit more variety.
Computer Gaming World praised the game's realism and controls, stating that it "offers more interesting cars than any competing driving software". [2] Power Unlimited gave the game a score of 90% commenting: "Car & Driver was one of the best racing games of its time. Cars and backgrounds looked fantastic and a very high speed could be achieved.
It featured a storyline inspired by 1960s/70s car chase movies such as Bullitt (1968) and The Driver (1978) and based in four real-life cities; Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. It was the best selling game of the Driver series and an evolution of the freedom to explore a city as brought forth in the early Grand Theft Auto games.
In August, the game's release date was postponed to the first quarter of 2002. [6] On September 11, 2001, Infogrames announced that the game would be titled Test Drive Underground, with a planned release in March 2002 for the PlayStation 2. [7] However, the title soon reverted to its original name, and the planned release was missed again.