''TOCA World Touring Cars'' is a 2000

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developed by

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and published by

for PlayStation and

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. It is the third game in the ''TOCA'' series. ''TOCA World Touring Cars'' features various Touring Car championships from around the world, but despite carrying the TOCA name, a fully licensed British Touring Car Championship (TOCA) series was not included. This upset a lot of fans of the series, but success continued. The gameplay overall became more "Arcade" and the replacement of qualifying laps with random grid positions together with the omission of penalties for bad driving made the game much more playable for the casual gamer. Curiously, unlike the first two titles in the ''TOCA'' series, ''World Touring Cars'' was not released in a Microsoft Windows version. For the North American market, the game was released as ''Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing'', with the cover art featuring

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drivers Jason Jarrett and

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Reception

The game received "favourable" reviews according to the

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. In Japan, where the PlayStation version was ported and published by

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under the name on 9 November 2000, ''

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'' gave it a score of 27 out of 40. The PS version was a bestseller in the UK, replacing '' WWF SmackDown!''. In the media, once again the franchise was compared to the '' Gran Turismo'' series and ''TOCA'' was warmly received by much of the specialist press, most notably scoring 10 out of 10 in ''

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''. The detailed and smooth graphics were of particular praise, and it had "an ideal mix of driving, crashing and career progression". The same console version was a runner-up for ''

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''s annual "Best Driving Game" award among

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s, losing to ''

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''.

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