Nine mini-games you've never seen
Games within games: dumbassed, unappreciated or just plain obscure
TOCA Race Driver 3 (PS2/Xbox/PC, 2006)
There’s a bundle of stuff to unlock in Codemaster’s multi-discipline race extravaganza, but if you want to access it out of the box, you’re going to have to pay for the cheat codes via the Codies website. Boo. Damned microtransactions.
It’s hardly a chore to play through TOCA 3, though, especially not when rewards such as its Slot Car Mode are on offer. It’s basically Scalectrix, placing four grooves on the track that each car is locked into. You can zoom like a maniac, but corners can send you flying and flipping like a little plastic toy. Here’s some footage of four people playing it over Live:
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