Sin's a super unknown French band. Apart from "V-rally 2", they've been featured on "NFS underground 2" as well, with their 'Hard EBM" song. They released two albuns, "Noisy pipes, lovely noises" on the early 2000s and "Errare digital est" on 2004. They're also insanely good from a broader perspective, not just from a unknown band one.

Love your choice of games for this series lately :)

Peugeot 405 Turbo 16? I'm in! Love the graphics from that era... Why today racing games don't run at 60FPS anymore??? *Test Drive: Le Mans* is probably the finest racing game ever made on dreamcast, running at 480P and 16:9 ratio, look pretty damn good even today. MSR and Ferrari F355 Challenge are great too.

I happened to find this video and realized that I had this game in my collection! I started playing it and it's quite fun!!

i started playing dreamcast again and oh how good the system still is so many awesome games for the system.

Great review! I have little to no interest in racing games, but your passion for game design, your calm voice, and detailed analysis of each game's highs and lows make your videos very entertaining. Keep it up!

I remember to spend hours playing this game! I've got nothing more to do in the game so I always made my own track a hill that I could reach the max speed in each car, and I love the cockpit view. And love the soundtrack too. There's a music in this game that actually is in a movie of Jason Statham.

I somewhat missed this review, I think it's quite fair, thanks :) Regarding the AI, no it was not hardcoded, it does use real time decision to decide what to do... but some of these elements are the navigation help that as you mentioned are quite flawed and don't detect bumps, and at some point the cars were trying to avoid each other but I believe that was causing even more problems so the code may have been tweaked down. The tracks were not auto-generated, but there was basically only one track designer, it was his first project, and we could say that Infogrames QA was basically only checking for bugs, there was no real quality testing for the playability, and when the dev team has been playing the same tracks again and again for months, they get expert at it and don't realize how terrible some places are.

I overlooked the V-Rally 2 for the Dreamcast several times while looking for new titles for my collection. Now think it actually looks cool, especially with this track editor. I bet split screen is funny with those silly looking flipping cars. This video was helpful! Thanks! I am waiting form more Sega Dreamcast games!

Good review with great technical details on the game; the 16:9 mode certainly is a great bonus. I always thought it looked muddy, back in the day when I had a Dreamcast. Framerate is pretty smooth though. But not a very exciting game IMO. Great stuff with the carpet monster joke haha! 😂

Great review , top notch tbh

Test Drive V Rally its a best racing game more funny for you realistic form to drive and the landscapes include the best rally cars models and variables forecasts.

Never big on Rally type games but I DO enjoy the Arcade type versions.

I played this game last year to completion and I agree with all the flaws you mentioned. Those damn bumps that flips the cars are horrendous! I didn't use the track editor on the game as I just like to play the normal courses but now that you mentioned it on the video it does looks like the developers used the track editor to make the built in tracks and just didn't test them out thoroughly thus making the bumps and some corner-cuts more car flippable. Also the cars felt like they are made of paper. There are some other good points to the game that were not mentioned, like in Championship mode you get proper rally mechanics, time to repair and car setups that do have an impact. On the tough asphalt snow course in Arcade i was able to beat it using super low suspension, quick gears, asphalt tires, over-steer and almost no breaks. Also it has 4 player multiplayer options and its fun to race and try to flip your opponent! Overall it is a good Rally game and dare I say better than Sega Rally Championship 2on the Dreamcast.

Great review as always dawg! This game reminds me a bit of a game called MX Rider released on PS2 back in 2001. You should defiantly check that game out when you get the chance.

The best rally games Ive played were neo drift out, sega rally and rallysport challenge for the original xbox.

From what I remember in a magazine interview with the developers back in the day, the tracks were created from a selection of 'blocks' of different track types which they then stitched together to suit. The track design put me off the game back in the day and I sold the game shortly after buying it (the original Sega Rally on Saturn spoiled me!)

WOAH , TRACK EDITOR !!! I WANT THAT GAME !!!

i need 2 pick diz game up! btw when are u gunna do a "Is Rush 2049 Still Good"? i really like ur style of reviews and vids so i'm curious :)

Nice review! I have to admit I laughed at your pronunciation of Peugeot lol

I love this game. Just picked it up 2 months ago since I wanted a 60 fps rally racing game on the DC. Excellent title.

If I'm not mistaken, Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on the PS1 had the same damage system.

I never got into the V-Rally games, and I think you hit the nail on the head. I could never put my finger on it, but the cars really do feel light, and the courses are pretty lackluster.

The graphics could make this game pass as an early/launch PS2 title! Never thought I'd say that about a Dreamcast game! I might have to pick this up!

This game looks fun as hell

Loved V-Rally 2 on PS1 but then when i got the DC version it just didnt feel as good & it didnt hold my attention very long at all. Cant remember why, could have been the controller not being very suitable for it, i remember it being absolutely useless with the DC official wheel (or i was just useless with it). I still have it so maybe will have to dust it off & try it again sometime.

Infogrames know how to make good dreamcast racers. Maybe review Test Drive Le Mans (Le Mans 24 Hours) which has 2 different developers and 2 different versions.

plz do is sega rally revo underrated

O mais legal desse jogo é fazer sua própria pista, com relevo e tudo mais

Is this game better than Sega rally 2..???

2, 3, 4 Player Mode sold, separately. (Not really.)

It is a very good game. ALthough the car flips over way too easy and the controls are just OK..If these two things would have been tweaked it would have been a 9 out 10. Because of these two things it gets a 7 in my book.

I have test drive unlimited demo on my Xbox

I am not as impressed with it graphically personally. I think a better comparison would be with the same game on PS1 rather than the 1st game.

RIP Eden Studios!!!!!!!!

The Control is not so great, when you try to turn the car will not always turn and if you slide off the track it's hard to get back on. I can't figure out the track editor it's not easy to intuitive to use. The second Track in Arcade Level2 is too damn hard and you can't tell where the sides of the road are in some areas causing you to run of the road because you don't know which way to turn to follow the track. The Graphics are great. It is easier than Sega Rally 2 Championship , which is much harder to win a 10 Year Rally or Arcade Tournament even on Easy at least for me it is for me, I can never complete Arcade or 10 Championship even on Easy but in V-Rally I could at least complete Level 1 Arcade and was able to finish V-Rally Trophy mode mode in third place but have not tried championship yet. One annoying thing about it is you can't exit and save in the middle of a arcade race at the end of each course to resume later, you have to race all tracks in one sitting.

Just Incase you do more videos and it comes up, the celica is pronounced Sill-leek-uh. Dumb I know, but care names and pronunciations are

Eden Games using procedurally generated stuff even all the way back here... makes sense in a game as huge as Test Drive Unlimited, but on a game like this it's just lazy.

Why do you speak in verse so often?

i could never play this game so hard to control the car

hand to hand Colin Mcrae Rally Championship 2005 to Xbox and Ps2 together Dreamcast Test Drive V Rally