2000 · Papaya Studio · Racing

Top Gear: Dare Devil

PlayStation exclusive

Top Gear: Dare Devil is a game for the Sony PlayStation 2 that involves driving around the cities of Rome, London, Tokyo, and San Francisco.

Released: 11 December 2000
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Genres: Racing
Developers: Papaya Studio
Publishers: Kemco
Series: Top Gear
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action
Country: United States
Age ratings: PEGI 3 ESRB E

About

Top Gear: Dare Devil is a racing video game for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Papaya Studio and published by Kemco in 2000.

Media

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Gameplay

This game consists of single-player and multiplayer. In single-player, the player drives around one of four cities, Rome, London, Tokyo and San Francisco - collecting Dare Devil Coins. If all Coins in a level are collected, the player unlocks a secret car. What also can be collected are keys and wrenches that open up bonus missions. After winning a bonus mission, the player can unlock a paint job for the car used.

The player can also free roam around cities under a 5 minute timer.

Reception

Top Gear: Dare Devil received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Ryan Davis of GameSpot was critical to the game's physics engine, lack of gameplay variations, and frame rate issues. IGN also gave low marks and considered more as a rental game, a sentiment in which NextGen's David Chen also agreed. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40. Four-Eyed Dragon of GamePro said that the game with its problematic physics and gameplay will provide the players an "unforgiving" headache.