Test Drive 4X4

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Test Drive 4X4
Test Drive Off-Road 2
Test Drive Off-Road 2 cover.jpg
North American cover art for PlayStation
Developer(s) Accolade
Pitbull Syndicate
Publisher(s) Accolade
Producer(s) Monte Singman(Executive Producer)
Allen Edwards
Programmer(s) Derrick Yim
Owen Flatley
Darrell Dennies
Gary Strawn
Series Test Drive
Platform(s) PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: 23 October 1998 [1]
  • EU: 1999
  • JP: 8 April 1999
Windows
  • NA: 11 November 1998 [2]
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Test Drive 4X4 (known as Test Drive Off-Road 2 in North America) is a racing video game co-developed by Accolade's internal development team and Pitbull Syndicate, and published by Accolade for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows.

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Development

The game was announced in late 1997. [3] Test Drive 4x4 uses the Test Drive 4 engine and includes licensed off-road vehicles. [4] Accolade spent $3 million on a television advertising campaign for Test Drive 5 and Test Drive Off-Road 2. [5]

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [6] [7] In Japan, where the PlayStation version was ported and published by Capcom on 8 April 1999, Famitsu gave it a score of 25 out of 40. [13]

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