chinny22 wrote on 2025-10-05, 09:30:

...the game's not that good. The box says "Race around Bathurst, Adelaide, Queensland, Melbourne and other international tracks […]
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...the game's not that good.
The box says "Race around Bathurst, Adelaide, Queensland, Melbourne and other international tracks.
Those first 4 tracks are the only Australian tracks so about half the championship tracks are missing.
And the international tracks? Famous ones such as Le-Mans or Nürburgring? Nope 4 Swedish tracks, why Swedish?
Because V8 Challenge is actually a reworked copy of "Swedish Touring Car Championship 2"

The game is also missing a lot of the teams but does have a few of the big ones including the Holden Factory Team which were the championship winners at the time.
So you have the number 1 team and the number 1 track, We could have made do.

Sadly the cars handle terribly and is unforgiving, even taking it easy you end up spinning alot. In the end we went back to Need for Speed 3,4, Even Porsche was more forgiving!

Interesting read! So EA took their existing Swedish game, replaced some of the tracks with Australian and shipped it? Why not replace all of them? Was it possible they had a license for just certain tracks but not for all of them, or was it simply a case of time constraints?

dr_st wrote on 2025-10-05, 20:23:

Interesting read! So EA took their existing Swedish game, replaced some of the tracks with Australian and shipped it? Why not replace all of them? Was it possible they had a license for just certain tracks but not for all of them, or was it simply a case of time constraints?

I suspect it was due to licensing more then time but that's just a guess on my part.
I may have to try the Swedish game as it apparently did quite well.
Maybe it's me but the handling in this game is terrible!