Porsche Challenge

Players choose one of a selection of Porsche Boxsters before a race. Each car has a different driver and each driver has a different personality. The drivers can comment on how other drivers drive and their relationship with the other drivers can affect this as well. Usually they say how bad the other drivers are and how they are better.

There are three types of races for each track:

Development on Porsche Challenge began in 1995 at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Sony made a license agreement with Porsche, who allowed the game designers to work with its employees in order to accurately model the Boxster's appearance and performance. Each of the six drivers were individually motion captured to create their own distinctive animations.

As is common in the racing genre, Porsche Challenge was programmed with a "catch-up AI", which causes AI-controlled cars to drive faster and more skillfully when a player car is ahead of them than when they are in the lead.

Porsche Challenge received an average score of 73% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 12 reviews. In August 1998, the game earned a "Platinum" award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Though most critics concluded that Porsche Challenge is a competent title which falls far short of greatness, otherwise reactions to the game varied widely and sometimes contradicted each other. For example, while Next Generation, Game Revolution, and Dean Hager of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the car's handling as indistinguishable from driving a real Porsche boxster, GamePro, Glenn Rubenstein of GameSpot, and Hager's co-reviewer Kraig Kujawa all contended that the realism of the handling makes the racing frustrating and less enjoyable. Where Hager found the characters "goofy" and opined that they should have been gotten rid of, and GamePro said that the selection of characters has no impact on the gameplay, Next Generation, one of the few publications to give Porsche Challenge a positive recommendation, asserted that "The presence of six different drivers, each with a unique driving style, takes care of the problem of having just one kind of car."