Top Gear: Dare Devil

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Top Gear: Dare Devil
Top Gear Dare Devil cover.jpg
North American cover art
Developer(s) Papaya Studio
Publisher(s) Kemco
Series Top Gear
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release
  • NA: December 19, 2000 [1]
  • JP: January 18, 2001
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Top Gear: Dare Devil is a racing video game for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Papaya Studio and published by Kemco in 2000.

Contents

Gameplay

This game consists of single-player and multiplayer. In single-player, the player drives around one of four cities, Rome, London, Tokyo and San Francisco - collecting Dare Devil Coins. If all Coins in a level are collected, the player unlocks a secret car. What also can be collected are keys and wrenches that open up bonus missions. After winning a bonus mission, the player can unlock a paint job for the car used.

The player can also free roam around cities.

There are twelve cars players can drive; names in brackets are those they resemble.

  1. The Pod (BMW Isetta)
  2. The Geeze (Fiat 500)
  3. P-Nut (Austin Mini)
  4. Froggy (Citroen 2CV)
  5. Super Genius (Smart Fourtwo)
  6. Turtle (VW New Beetle)
  7. Ricochet (Audi TT)
  8. Fang (Toyota MRS)
  9. Road Shark (Honda S2000)
  10. Portabello (Lotus Elise)
  11. Street Eagle (RUF CTR2)
  12. Black Widow (Plymouth Prowler)

Reception

Top Gear: Dare Devil received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] Ryan Davis of GameSpot was critical to game's physics engine, lack of gameplay variations, and frame rate issues. [8] IGN also gave low marks and considered more as a rental game, [1] a sentiment in which NextGen 's David Chen also agreed. [9] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40. [5] Four-Eyed Dragon of GamePro said that the game with its problematic physics and gameplay will provide the players an "unforgiving" headache. [12] [lower-alpha 2]

Notes

  1. ↑ In Electronic Gaming Monthly 's viewpoint of the game, two critics gave it each a score of 6.5/10, and the other gave it 6/10.
  2. ↑ GamePro gave the game 5/5 for graphics, two 3/5 scores for sound and control, and 2.5/5 for fun factor.

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