aka: 4D Driving, 4D Sports Driving
Moby ID: 329
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- Released
- October 1990 on DOS
- Credits
- 13 people
- Releases by Date (by platform)
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- 1990 (DOS)
- 1992 (Amiga)
- 1993 (FM Towns)
- 1993 (PC-98)
- Publishers
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- Brøderbund Software, Inc.
- Mindscape International Ltd.
- Electronic Arts Victor, Inc.
- Novitas GmbH
- Developers
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- Distinctive Software, Inc.
- Moby Score
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7.7
#4,749 of 25.3K - Critics
- 76% (26)
- Players
- (131)
- Review Ranking
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- #228 on DOS
- #521 on Amiga
- Collected By
- 125 players
- Genre
- Racing / Driving
- Perspective
- 1st-person
Behind view - Gameplay
- Tricks / stunts
- Interface
- Direct control
- Vehicular
- Automobile
Track racing
DOS Specs
- Business Model
- Commercial
- Media Type
- 3.5" Floppy Disk, 5.25" Floppy Disk
- Input Devices Supported/Optional
- Keyboard, Mouse [ view all 16 specs ]
Description official descriptions
Stunts (4D Sports Driving outside of US) is a 3D car racing simulation that puts emphasis on racing on stunt tracks. The game contains a variety of cars, courses and opponents to choose from (who represent a difficulty level). The game provides unusual stunt objects including loops, corkscrews and jumps. Race tracks contain three types of surfaces: paved road, gravel road and ice. Each of them offer different grip and traction. There is also grass and water that surround roads. The former slows down the car and the latter is lethal and the car instantly crashes. It is possible to watch races in instant replay from different camera angles. A track editor is included as well.
Spellings
- 4Dドライビング - Japanese spelling
Groups +
- Automobile: Audi Quattro
- Automobile: Chevrolet Corvette
- Automobile: Honda NSX
- Automobile: Lamborghini Countach
- Automobile: Lamborghini LM002
- Automobile: Lancia Delta
- Automobile: Porsche 911
- Automobile: Porsche 962
- Distinctive Software 4D series
- Gameplay feature: Recordable replays
- Games that include map/level editor
- Games with manual lookup copy protection
- Genre: Stunt racing
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Promos
Credits (DOS version)
13 People
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 76% (based on 26 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 131 ratings with 12 reviews)
4D Sports Driving
The Good
Ah, the MIDI music. What compelled games designers in the early 1990s to emulate heavy metal guitar solos, with a medium - the ADLIB sound card - which was so utterly unsuited to the task? And yet the music was extremely entertaining, and I can hum it even today, and that encapsulates 4D Sports Driving's appeal. It had grand ambitions, it was for the most part competently put together, but it had lots of quirks and was above all entertaining. It's interesting to compare it with one of the modern 'Gran Turismo' games, as well, because there are lots of similarities (although, as far as I am aware, only the Honda NSX appears in both games).
In a nutshell, it was the arcade's 'Hard Drivin'' on the PC, but with a track editor. And lots of bugs, most of which sent you flying into the air and/or along the ground at supersonic speed. With a few creative friends you could create huge novelty levels which took ages to explore, and the polygonal graphics were fast and smooth on a bog-standard 386. Nowadays the options menus are themselves little history lessons, with CGA, Hercules, MT-32 and other odd terminology which the kids of today will never need to know about, bless them. I saw a boxed PC copy in a second-hand shop a few days ago; it was £1.50.
The Bad
It's hard to poke fun at it; rather like 'Serious Sam' it's clearly not meant to be evaluated with the same rigour as, say, yer average Noam Chomsky pamphlet. At the time I loved the game wholeheartedly, even its flaws. Still, it won't be long before the Porsche/March Indycar is the only car you ever drive, and you might have trouble getting the game to work on XP.
The Bottom Line
There was a '4D Sports Boxing', donchano? It was rubbish.
DOS · by Ashley Pomeroy (225) · 2005
Coming from the creators of the "Test Drive" catastrophe: A FABULOUS GAME!!
The Good
OK, so the cars were only 3, but it's just too much fun to play this game, the blowing up cars, the falling bridges, it's just great, and considering that "TD II: The Duel" was released at about the same time, the graphics were a total surprise from the developing companies (Accolade, Distinctive Software), great game.
The Bad
Well, there were like THREE CARS in a game considered almost revolutionary for the time!!!! Nothing else though...
The Bottom Line
Great game that can be considered "fun", it's really nothing except addictive and fun, and the graphics were okay!
8.5/10
DOS · by Jim Fun (206) · 2002
Just Ok
The Good
It was a neat idea.
Instead of a racing on a race track, race on a stunt track.
The Bad
I'm not too much of a racing fan, but I've seen better.
The Bottom Line
No real reason to play this one, with so many other better racing games out there.
DOS · by Yeah Right (50) · 2000
[ View all 12 player reviews ]
Trivia
Okay, try this in real life:Drive real fast down a long, straight road, then do a huge jump, get airborne, and then (while in the air) slam on the brakes to slow down in time to make it around that nasty corner. Is it going to work? Nope, but it works in Stunts! ;-)Of course, this just makes the game more fun! :-)
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Related Sites +
- IGCD Internet Game Cars Database
Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games. - Luke's 4D Sports Homepage
From the author: "I set up this site because a like the game and I wanted to provide the fans of 4D Sports Driving with a place to share their knowledge, thoughts, and achievements.Later I found out that there already is quite a bunch of websites doing exactly that but well, here's another one. " It's actually a very comprehensive site. - Stunts 1.1 and 4D Sports Driving - A Comparison of Driving Speed
Alan Robinson's excellent comparison between all four versions of the game. - Stunts Racetracks and Links
A site with custom tracks for Stunts, and lots of links to Stunts web pages. - The Stunts Webring
A web ring for the Stunts game - links galore. - The Swedish Stunts Team
Swedish site dedicated to Stunts. - ZakStunts v8.0b
Fansite with an active community, competition events every months, new tracks, tips & tricks, new cars, replay uploads, rankings. statistics and other information on the game
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Andy Voss.
Amiga added by Martin Smith. FM Towns, PC-98 added by Terok Nor.
Additional contributors: Trixter, Macintrash, Brolin Empey, marquisor, Victor Vance, Infernos.
Game added October 26, 1999. Last modified September 20, 2024.