Test Drive: Eve of Destruction is Still a Great Racing Game (Driven to Destruction)
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- I miss summer, and what better way to remind myself of summer than to play one of my favorite demolition derby games, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction! (or Driven to Destruction if you're in Europe!)
All footage captured from a real PS2.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Overview and career mode
2:33 Different racing and demolition modes
5:24 The cars, their physics, balancing your money
7:57 Action mode
8:20 What I didn't like
9:39 Closing thoughts, end of video question, outro - Hry
Criminally underrated game
Facts. I hope if they make a Wreckfest sequel, it's more like this game. In terms of story progression and the at track experience.
A remaster of this would be amazing. Still waiting for bugbear to update wreckfest again. It’s been a while haha
@@Danny-Elk I still play wreckfest almost every night, it's such a good game.
Well said. So underrated
With a great soundtrack
Idc what anybody says. This game is the best demolition game ever made. Every few years I come back to this game. It holds up so well
It really does, it's a blast.
Great to see this underrated gem getting some attention!
Sure FlatOut and Wreckfest are technically more impressive but for a more authentic feeling for American-based demolition derbies, Driven to Destruction is top-notch, especially with the unlockable cutscenes of the *real* thing. Plus the numerous different types of racing that more racing games should do- trailer-racing, chaotic flag-pole racing, I love all that!
Likewise here in England, visiting oval tracks to watch Banger Racing (basically our version of Demolition Derby) is an absolute blast. 💥
Hello from America! This game feels VERY authentic to the at-track experience. I'm so stoked for my local track to open back up!
This game made my childhood, I have so many memories with my dad being in stitches from laughing cause of the exploding chicken mode. The soundtrack also just so so good.
Facts!
$642 and billy ray drove straight into the wall
This game had such a cool vibe and soundtrack. Becoming a local celebrity is such an interesting take compared to the usual become the best touring car driver ever, or become the best street racer. Soundtrack was class too
This game truly gives you a feeling of what it's like to go down to the local track and l truly think I wouldn't be a race car driver without this game.
That's amazing! Where do you race?
when i was growing up my dad did racing in the style of this game and has an entire balcony in his garage full of trophies from 40+ years of racing, this game was my entire childhood and i’ve never seen anyone ever talk about it, thank you.
That's really friggin cool man, I'd love to see photos of your dad's trophies and cars sometime.
YES finally a CZcamsr from 2015+ talking about this,New sub 😁
Hello and welcome!
My favorite racing series from that era will always be Midnight Club 3 Remix. I don't know how many times I've replayed and beaten it, but it just does something for me that I absolutely love. NFS Underground 2 is another shout, though MC3 is still king for me.
This game is the best $5 I ever spent on Amazon back in 2011-2012, to this day my best friend and I play the hell out of battle mode every time he's home from the Army
Awesome!
you mean the one with the chicken bomb launcher? my god that mode was hillarious and super tense at the same time, there was nothing worse than beeing at 1 HP and hearing the fucking chicken detonation in your back xd, i also played the heck out of that mode with a friend. i wish someday someona will make a mod for sharing online emulators and get to play it agin with my friend u.u
@@josue1996jcSteam remote play together will mostly do what you want. However the remote player will be at a disadvantage. I have done it before in l4d2.
As well as parsec, sunshine/moonlight may also work
it's so crazy to me that this is the only racing game from this era to have a thursday song on the soundtrack
Great band.
This needs a remake ASAP. Many people say Wreckfest, but it still doesn't hit the spot. What's missing is all the great game modes and the announcer screaming at the top of his lungs during events with the crown reacting in the background.
As unfortunate as the genre is, many familiar and unfamiliar with the derby racing genre often lambast having used car for such races as "American imperialism" or "Western wasteful culture" and as such, not many game developers would attempt banger racing for an already small audience. Coming from a nation doesn't even have F1, it's painful to see the most gamers know are that goddamn Need for Speed and at most, BurnOut or Forza.
What nation are you from? I've never heard these complaints before. Granted, I'm American and these sorts of derbies and races are extremely common all over the country. @thientuongnguyen2564
@@NoMooreMercyTV Such complaints can be found on other derby videos circulating on CZcams, ranging from "why has no one died" to typical mocking Westerners. The usual schtick from ignorant foreigners.
As for where I hail, it's a little country that "fought" the US from 1965 to 1973.
I recently got an old Xbox and have been buying and playing all these old games I remember when I was a kid. I need this game for the collection!!! NHL Hitz 2003 is another crazy underrated game!
Holy shit, NHL Hitz 2003 mentioned!!! I loved that game SO MUCH, I had it on the Gamecube. The minigames were EPIC.
@@NoMooreMercyTV hell yeah man that games time less from fun ass franchise to mini games, different player models, all the stat tracking the game does it’s amazing. Literally been playing it now more then I was a kid lol pry have 100+hrs at least by now! Pry in my top 5 favorite games ever.
I would consider this a hidden gem. Its so hard to find in the wild and didnt really hear many people talk about it when it was out. Awesome soundtracks where all over the place in the 2000s. We just dont get great soundtracks anymore.
My friends and I LOVED this game! We'd talk about it all the time haha, but as an adult I realized most people missed it. Atari was killing it back then, they maybe didn't have the biggest budget games, but they were fun enough with replayability.
*just found this game at my local thrift & dude wtf this game is solid af !!*
That's a great find then!
No way! Me too lol. 30usd which is an amazing deal. I like to take the starter pinto and send it through that dirt road in free roam. I also have the nova, gremlin, and z31 300zx
@@aidenhowe4815 *got it resurfaced at my retro store in town. dude this game is too fun, im glad you found it bro, i had to grab thunder 04 & dirt to daytona aswell at the retro spot aswell. Love ps2 era racing games*
Suicide Race was my favorite mode, also any car game that has a decent cockpit camera already has my respect.
Love me a good cockpit camera
I very very rarely comment anything on YT, but this time I have to make an exception. Your video is just brilliant! The aspects you discuss, the arguments that you use, the wording choice you make and many others, just show that you're great in what you're doing. Thank you for this awesome video and I wish you the best luck and most success in your life in general!
Wow, thank you for the amazing show of support! Comments like this inspire me to keep making videos, so thank you again and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing game with and amazing soundtrack
My favorite game from that era is burnout 3 takedown, i have many great memories of it
Absolute classic.
honestly one of my favourite games ever and the hard mode once you had completed it was great with the cars under steering and over steering alot more like thay would in real life 👍
The handling model is excellent!
This game had a battle mode in multi-player that let toy shoot rockets from your grill
When you mentioned taking more damage in the front I remembered playing as a kid and figuring it out once I got slammed by the ai and died super quick. I never thought to use the back as a weapon though lol
Hahaha yeahhhhh, seeing demo derbies irl it clicked for me pretty fast
Great video! This is my favorite i think, i did not have thst many games but i played the living hell out of this when i was younger!
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of my all time favourite games. So many memories...
This game badly needs a new gen with double the cars in the races and events. Easily the best racing game EVER.
Yes!!!
Great vid, loved the game as a kid, it's worth going back to the PS1 games like demolition racer and destruction derby 2, so good
I have Demolition Derby 64, it's pretty neat! I've never played those that you mentioned, might have to check those out at some point too. Thanks for watching!
Went to college in Mankato and work down the road from Dundas. can confirm, this game is an accurate depiction of MN/the Midwest
This game man! This the GT series, Midnight Club, Tokyo Extreme racer’s series along with burnout were my top racing games from this era.
I've never played Tokyo extreme racer! Recommend?
@@NoMooreMercyTV definitely! Then play Night-Runners Prologue after 😎
@@NoMooreMercyTV TXR2, TXR3 was the best and TXRDrift
@@NoMooreMercyTV import tuner challenge on the 360 was the final entry to the series you can try to emulate as well. Hope you enjoy it!
Hey guys, thanks for watching!
My favorite racing game from that era is probably Burnout Revenge. I loved how it added the shunt mechanic, it totally changed the pace and amount of chaos on screen vs Burnout 3.
Burnout is such a great series too. I watched a video recently about them and it made me realize I can play revenge on my Xbox one since it was released on 360. If you have one it’s the best and smoothest way to play revenge other than emulator
grew up playing this game, still come back to the soundtrack every once and a while. I get what you mean with it being repetitive but damn is it nostalgic, great video!
Thank you!
That's something I miss in modern games, too many games are set in cities and I'm from a rural area, I like seeing rural areas and small towns in games, as that is way more relatable than a big city.
Yep! Same here, I grew up on a horse farm across from a dairy farm. Much more relatable seeing games like this.
@NoMooreMercyTV rural areas and small towns are the perfect setting for a racing game...Dirt to Daytona made by the same dev team had a similar feel in the dirt and modified series.
Best Soundtrack and the chicken fight mode ❤️ or 1 Bus vs 12 cars. And soccer... I want this in the ps Classics catalogue
Hopefully, with Atari's new management, they can make something happen!
What's my favourite racing game of this era? My favourite racing game ever has always been driven to destruction (test drive eve of Destruction as it's known in other parts of the world) while other racing games would punish me and cause me to fall behind if I crash, in this game I can muscle my way through into the lead. I played this game right up until my second hand disc suicided probably over 10 years ago and to this day it still ticks me off. A while ago I found and listened to the soundtrack which gave me so much nostalgia for the game it's by far my favourite video game soundtrack too. Even watching this video hit me with that same nostalgia.
Glad you liked the video!
I loved to play Eve of Destruction on my PS2 during this era. Most Wanted was also a favorite, but the Burnout series were peak racing fun for me at the time. Burnout Revenge was my favorite but perhaps because I only played the demo from Takedown on my NFSU disk. Maybe if I had it, Takedown would be my favorite.
Great video! I hope you get more viewers and subscribers!
Thank you for the positive words friend! Funny enough, Burnout Revenge is also my favorite Burnout game. I was shocked how good it looks on the 360! I may have to do a video on that sometime, or maybe the entire series. Thanks for watching. :)
i used to play this on my ps2 so long ago and it was so fun, this is so nostalgic
omg man thank for making this vid, i payed the shit out of this game, even as a venezuelan young boy who didnt know shit about that culture, the music was the thing that catch me up, since i was already a fan of hoobastank, sum 41 and white zombie so i was having a BLAST with the soundtrack ( i even have to thank the game to introduce to Trhice, boomblefoot and thrusday).
sadly at the time i dindt really speak english, so i had to play it with a translated dictionary on my hand u.u
You're welcome! I'm glad that this game gave you a glimpse into that culture here in the states, it really does do a good job of translating it into a game. Thanks for watching!
This needs to be remastered
Childhood game, so many memories
First one that i've played too
I loved that game so much
Criminally underrated game indeed
The Soundtrack is astonishing
10:07 definitely burnout 3 takedown and test drive cause I played these 2 the most. Do you plan making a video about burnout 3?
I do! I'd love to do an entire video on the Burnout series at some point.
Fantastic video, I don't understand how it has so few views, you deserve a huge amount of views.
I'm so happy to see everyone saying what I wanted to say - UNDERRATED GAME!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the kind words!
I love the soundtrack to this game. Not too few not too many. Hate it when a game has so many songs and then I end up not liking over half of them with no way of selecting what I do and don't want to hear. Also nothing comapres to shooting explolding chickens at each other in split screen mode. Wish Wreckfest had that.
Woooo my childhood
Ooo 7 months ago nice to see new content on this game... and yes it is the best haha
Thanks for watching!
This game was awesome i remeber grinding races to buy the bulldog car
I played this game with a friend in split screen, and its probably the most fun I had in a long time. The varied gamemodes, and the overall atmosphere is exactly what something like Wreckfest desperately needs. You can tell devs had a ton of passion making this game.
I'm hoping Wreckfest 2 focuses more on the at-track experience, because I felt that the campaign was severely lacking compared to this game's.
Still the best destruction derby game out there today
Top tier for sure.
My favorite detail of this game was the loading screen, as I live in the area on the map they show. As a kid I thought that was so cool
That's still pretty cool!
I have been dreaming of this game sequel
I just completed the career mode properly for the first time (I used to only play with cheats). Was great, got a little repetitive towards the end but I miss simple games like this.
I really do too, bigtime.
This game tbh, you missed the exploding chickens 😀
I missed a few things 😅, but the game still rules even without them!
My favourites from that era are Flatout 2, NFS Underground 1 and NFS Most Wanted
Flatout 2 rules
A childhood favorite of mine. I wasted so much time doing custom spray paint on my car. Great video, keep it up! +1 sub.
Thanks for watching and subbing! Yeah, I wish the paint booth was more robust like it is in their NASCAR games, but the fact that it's there at all is cool.
Time well spent imo
This was my favorite game from back then, We loved EoD. My fam & I played this with a multi-tap on a ps2 and had a blast every single time we put that disc in!
Honestly the career mode in this game makes a ton of other racing games pale in comparison, that feeling of progression, free roaming your home town and even the announcer are all things that I wish other companies would take note of. If they managed this in a sequel to wreckfest that would be amazing!
I'm reaaaaaally hoping Wreckfest 2 is more like this game, career-mode wise anyway. I felt it was really lacking in the first game, very barebones.
@@NoMooreMercyTV I know right! It's missing some of that magic during the races while the destruction is amazing, I surely miss getting called out for "banging into a wall like an idiot!" 😆
Or when you win and you hear your chosen name get shouted through the speakers!! 🏁 I hope they can try and bring some of that feel to a sequel as well.
I've lost countless hours playing this gem on ps2. Such a fun game event to this day
Absolutely. I still pop it in every few months.
The thing that stuck out to me about this game that really no other racing game does now is the free roam in career mode. Being able to just drive to the garage and race other competitors is so interesting to me and I wish you could do in wreckfest. All in all great game and Dirt to Daytona was my absolute favorite game at this time
I know FH does free roam but it’s not as realistic. You damage your car in free roam in EOD and it stays that way until you fix it yourself.
Dirt to Daytona is a classic, I'd love to take a look at that one again sometime.
We need it back!!!!
My favorite racing game (also my favorite videogame of all-time) is Burnout 3…and that’s just based off the soundtrack alone 😅
Phenomenal game, stick around, I might have something planned for you 😉
@@NoMooreMercyTV will do!
9:57 it doesn’t stand up to wreckfest it stands above it, wreckfest was amazing imo but something about that 2004 feel to TDEOD is so much better than newer games
If we could get the atmosphere, story mode and gameplay modes from this game and combine it with Wreckfest's soft body physics and visuals, I'd be set.
I thought Wreckfest was the pinnacle but this looks great--- and easily surpasses WF for night mode. Amazingly, WF has STILL never developed night time lighting!?!
You know, you're right! I can't believe I've never noticed the lack of nighttime in wreckfest. Wow what a miss
I really want this game
Go get it! It's cheap!
Soooo needs a remaster
Bus, bus was always the option
Bus is always the option.
damn you didnt even get into the multiplayer. with three other siblings most of the time playing the game was in multiplayer firing explosive chickens at eachother
You're right, I didn't include multiplayer when I probably should have.
@@NoMooreMercyTV tbh all the multiplayer mode added was the battle mode that had you firing explosive chickens.
But the game was great fun in multiplayer, it used to be a thing my family did all the time when i was younger
the things i would do to have this game remastered. me and my dad used to play this all the time on the ps2 and is part of the reason i am moving to a small
rural town.
Rural towns have their pros and cons, but local motorsports have to top the list of pros!
My favorite is test drive, eve of destruction
Classic.
Its called Driven to destruction in my country and im playing it right now
What do you think?
Flatout 2 has always stuck with me and i get massive vibes from eod. Favorite game from this era is ug 1 or eod.
I never owned the FlatOut games on PS2, I'll be honest. I only had the demos but I played that disc to death haha. Thanks for watching!
The Gran Turismo of demolition derby games
I hope one day the remaster of this game gets released for Switch, PS5 and XboxSeriesX/S and if it does ever happen it will be the best day I’ll ever have
Wedding day? i sleep.
Test Drive Remaster? real shit.
😂
the physics and the game mode of this game were amazing wreckfest is nothing in comparison
i wish i still had my playthrough up, this was one of the more fun PS2 games, repetitive, but fun.
Yeah, very repetitive but had some cool stuff going for it for sure.
They need to remaster this for PlayStation I miss this game so much and trying to buy one for my old console people are asking for way to much as well as midnight club 3 🙏🏽
I bought my copy for $35 on Xbox, pretty wild how this game held it's value!
Only problem low on cash. Stuck on track with bad cars...
You'll get there! Keep the faith haha
Tempted to try and find an original Xbox again to replay this. My childhood 🥹🥹🥹
You should!!! It's excellent!
the PAL version of this game is just called Driven to destruction
Yup! I included that in the title and the video, I didn't forget about you guys 🤣
defiantly the best the only modern demo derby game that comes close is wreckfest
Absolutely
Remaster this game!!!
Used to play red rover and figure of 8 races so much when I was younger on a box television.. I need to find a way to play this game again, or can you only play it through ps2?
It's playable on PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 via backwards compatibility and on PC with emulators.
8:31 if your playing the Og Xbox version which supports Custom Soundtracks like Burnout
I got this game when it was new for my refurbished xbox I bought from Gamestop in 2004-ish. I feel this game allowed the player to customize their car and make it more personal than wreckfest, I also didnt enjoy wreckfest as much. It was almost as if the simplicity of the graphics and concept of the game were enough, and wreckfest cranks that up to 11 and kinda ruins it. Not saying its a bad game, it just wont find the same people being nostalgic about it in 20 years.
of course, some of this might be my nestalgia glasses fogging up my vision.
Wreckfest for me is a really fun online game, buts it's singleplayer content is lacking big-time. Eve of Destruction is still the best single player demo derby game out there.
its a shame the soundtrack isn't available on cds or streaming platforms. I've got a lot of good memories playing this game. Launching off the map playing chicken with my brother was one of my favorites. To answer your last question, my favorite racing game is probably Flatout 2. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a very close second.
The entire soundtrack isn't available, but individual songs are! I listen to a few of them here and there. I keep hearing good things about Most Wanted, maybe I'll cover it soon.
there was another ps2 game racing derby but i don't remember the name it had cars with turbo
Was it FlatOut?
My favorite gamemode in this was Battle. Sad that you can't shoot chicken missiles at people in racing games anymore.
Underrated, I should've covered it in the video but I did not.
This is the only game I joy on my og xbox 🤗
Really? There's so many great games on the Xbox!
Well, I guess Forza Motorsport is okay, the graphics are impressive on that, but for some reason I don't enjoy many games, except one of them being TD: EOD
Wreckfest should take the game modes from this and add DLC they would make millions
I'm hoping Wreckfest 2 is basically this game's modes and campaign but with Wreckfest's visuals and soft body physics. I'd buy that day one.
I've never seen it called that I have a copy but it's called driven to destruction.
Are you from Europe by chance? It was called Driven to Destruction in Europe.
@@NoMooreMercyTV New Zealand
@@jacobhaussmann90 you have the PAL/European version of the game then with the PEGI rating.
This is my favorite racing game from that area and that’s saying a lot being a 40 year old gamer. There is some things that wreck fest are missing like chain racing and trailer. For the most part in my opinion wreck fest definitely took a page from Eve witch says a lot for wreck fest. I ask racers in wreck fest if they’ve played Eve. 8 put of 10 have. Regardless Eve holds its place in gaming.
Absolutely, it still holds up today.
I really loved this game when I was a kid, but to be honest I don't know if I'm the only one who noticed that in the previous version (of this game) the pilots had a different suit, like this: Jeans, white shirt and black and red helmet. Personally, I liked this more than the final version. They could very well be kept, I guess.
Best driving game from that time is of course DRIV3R.
That game is sooooo jank, but I love it. I pre-ordered it and everything, the trailers had me hooked.
am not sure if it was
Destruction Derby Arena probably not
I let my cousing borrow the game and never seen it back I keept dragon ball shin budokai 2 for the psp.
I need to look it up what other racing derby games with turbo cars the ps2 had
I miss this game. Wreckfest isnt as fun because the cars crumple like pop cans and the driver looks like a twisted up tube of toothpaste this game was more realistic.
i like cars they're cute
Is this game backwards compatible on xbox series x by any chance?
Sadly it is not.
How does wreckfest compare
Wreckfest is more modern, with crazier track layouts, wayyyy better crash physics and tbh I find the driving physics to be better. Online multiplayer is really nice too. Test Drive still has it beat when it comes to making it feel like an at-the-track experience, I found the career mode in general to be much better in Test Drive.
This, was actually my favorite Racing game, followed by test drive evolution where it's an open world.
Is evolution that good? I've never played the test drive games outside of this one.
@NoMooreMercyTV they were great for what it was, at the time you didn't have great graffics but games like test drive or "Driver parallel lines" were great games
Driver Parallel Lines slapped, I wanna make a video on the other driver games at some point. I already made one on san francisco.
Can this game be played on xbox one?
It cannot, sadly. Xbox and Xbox 360 only.
Im 50th so far😂
The Games Driving Is Too Slow
What game is fast enough for you?
@@NoMooreMercyTV Crash Nitro Kart