Ducati World Racing Challenge

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Ducati World Racing Challenge
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Developer(s) Attention to Detail
Publisher(s) Acclaim Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: January 2, 2001 [1]
  • EU: February 9, 2001
Windows
  • NA: February 9, 2001
  • EU: February 16, 2001
Dreamcast
  • NA: February 13, 2001
  • EU: March 9, 2001
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Ducati World Racing Challenge, known in Europe as Ducati World, is a racing game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Acclaim Entertainment for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Dreamcast in 2001.

Contents

Development

The game was announced in June 2000. [2]

Reception

The PlayStation and PC versions received "mixed or average reviews", while the Dreamcast version received "unfavorable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] [4] [5] BBC Sport gave the PC version a favorable review, a few weeks before its release date. [20]

Notes

  1. ↑ In Electronic Gaming Monthly 's review of the PlayStation version, two critics gave it each a score of 5/10, and the other gave it 6/10.

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References

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