{"id":47,"date":"2004-10-17T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-24T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:17:02","slug":"toca-race-driver-2-and-ign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/10\/17\/toca-race-driver-2-and-ign\/","title":{"rendered":"ToCA Race Driver 2 and IGN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was debating ordering ToCA Race Driver 2 for the PS2 since I have always been a big fan of the series and Codemasters.  So this afternoon I started clicking on various reviews and eventually arrived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ps2.ign.com\/articles\/556\/556539p1.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/ps2.ign.com\/articles\/556\/556539p1.html', 'IGN ToCA Race Driver 2 review');\" target=new>IGN ToCA Race Driver 2 review<\/a>.  After seeing several references to the Xbox, and a specific one to Xbox Live, I remember why I started reviewing games in the first place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This will, undeniably, force Xbox Live players to use a much more finesse and less brute force as they plow throw the twisty turns of ToCA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand if a mega site does not want to completely review a cross-platform game.  I can live with that.  I can even live with a ton of copy\/past for a review.  Just give us readers a little heads-up and let us know the games are basically the same, so the original review is serving as the review for the ported releases.<\/p>\n<p>If they pointed out the differences between the Xbox and PS2 then I missed it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t let the silly name convention fool you; it\u2019s the true sequel to last year\u2019s outing and with a few months between the Xbox release and the PS2 release there are a few small additions as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other than mention of the new Catalunya track, I see little else to let us know the differences between the Xbox and PS2 version.  For those of us with multiple platforms (as if I have an Xbox) it would be nice to know what sort of updates (if any) were provided for the PS2 version.<\/p>\n<p>Mega sites may provide a ton of reviews, but they still suck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was debating ordering ToCA Race Driver 2 for the PS2 since I have always been a big fan of the series and Codemasters. So this afternoon I started clicking on various reviews and eventually arrived at the IGN ToCA Race Driver 2 review. After seeing several references to the Xbox, and a specific one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/10\/17\/toca-race-driver-2-and-ign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ToCA Race Driver 2 and IGN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,32,43],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps2","tag-racing","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}