Reviews for Pro Race Driver for Xbox

Pro Race Driver for Xbox

Strengths: Licensed cars, tracks and road race championships, state-of-the-art physics engine, customizable cars, visible damage affects vehicle handling

Weakness: Perhaps a bit too real, minor graphics and physics issues, can become frustrating just like real life

Despite the rather generic title, Pro Race Driver actually features 42 licensed touring and race cars (Mercedes CLK, Alfa Romeo GTV, Viper GTS, etc.), 38 licensed international road courses (Bathurst, Hockenheim, Silverstone, etc.) and 13 licensed global championships (Germany DTM, Australia V8 Supercars, British Touring Car Championship, etc.). Its advertising suggests that the car physics engine was tested by professional drivers for realism, and its customizable car setup is supposed to provide a true-to-life driving and performance experience. Damage received during a race is created using the crash test industry's FEM system and affects your car's handling and drivability. What does all of this mean?

Pro Race Driver provides perhaps the best road race simulation game currently available on Xbox. Xbox has a number of decent arcade racing titles, but none of these have the combination of licensed cars, tracks and championships packaged together with a realistic physics engine and damage modelling. If you're interested in a Gran Tourismo caliber racing simulation, Pro Race Drive is probably the closest you'll get to it on Xbox until Forza Motorsports comes out.

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Pro Race Driver

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