The Worst Racing Game Developer - Team6 Game Studios

[@GamerAlexVideos]

NEW EDIT: Team6 has changed their name, now known as Fusion Interactive! I do want to mention that the games I showed in this video aren't the only games Team6 has made. The ones I showed was because they were games I could easily get my hands on, and also I wanted to pick games and brands that people might be familiar with (hence FlatOut, Monster Jam, and Street Outlaws). If you want to see a full list, check out their Wikipedia page for more garbage games: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team6_Game_Studios

[@rlfpotatoking9253]

Dang, didn't know these guys made European Street Racing (ESR) I played that game a lot when it came out in 2007 and I remember enjoying it, but of-course looking at it now most of their games definitely look the same and very mediocre.

[@NASCAR511]

Ah, good times with Paris Chase, my first Midnight Club before playing Midnight Club, unironically an overall fun game

[@jonnyboy12ishere]

I did an internship at Team6 for a year. They barely focussed on the physics or gameplay, it just had to look good (wich it didnt), idk about the budgets but the deathlines were very short. It was also a very very small team, like 5 that actually worked there and 3/4 trainees. the engine that they were using was also very poorly designed and very outdated. although I did enjoy working there!

[@shannonbayley3684]

It's amazing a team that puts out such poor games can still exist, yet amazing teams have fallen by the wayside year after year.

[@KanishkSinghrana]

the games aren't as bad as being portrayed here. They did pretty good when they were initially released. The glacier racer series was pretty dope.

[@lannak]

Смешная шутка. Нет, были и остаются, и их всегда поливали говном и абсолютно заслуженно. Видимо ты к нам из другой вселенной попал.

[@geoffreymillennium-maximus4140]

Legends like Black Rock studio and Bizarre creations

[@pavelskrylnikov9658]

In the age of microtransaction scamming, putting out this much honest to God, DLC-free, season pass-free shovelware with that consistency and, for the lack of a better word, quality, is a dying art. Godspeed Team6 you glorious mfs, releasing crappy cheap arcade racers like 2007 never ended. SCS Software eventually made ETS2 after almost two decades of shovelware, and i hope Team6 will have its hour.

[@PtVienna316]

Team 6: Bad Team 17: Awesome Team 7: Ninjas

[@mustafashelby5683]

If you ever feel useless or feel like you are bad at your job, just remember that these guys got publishing contracts and licenses from big corporations a few times and they are still somehow in business

[@KanishkSinghrana]

the games aren't as bad as being portrayed here. They did pretty good when they were initially released. The glacier racer series was pretty dope.

[@advsttsvda4935]

@@KanishkSinghrana the glacier had also unique Tesco Edition, one of most curious marketing campaign i ever seen

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

​@@advsttsvda4935Tesco Edition sounds like a shitpost without any context

[@advsttsvda4935]

@@ArbitraryOutcome why? that's how it was named lol, what's your problem. Tesco Ice Racing to be exact. your comment and lack of doing research on your own are rather better pretender to be a shitpost

[@bearegoreva]

You missed Super Taxi Driver 2006. The game about a dream of having a taxi island.

[@BudarEndario]

at this point in time these weird physics that's been at the heart of team6 will and always be laughable

[@carnicorp]

Great video! I'm glad you didn't tear them a new one. Honestly I think Team 6 should be more open to feedback from fans, grow and earn a fan base a listen to feedback. I mean who are they making games for atm? They tried hard with Taxi Chaos but I guess other factors didn't allow them to get any further than the Crazy Taxi template. Road Rage and Super Street could have been fun, but have 0 progression and 0 direction. Monster Jam games sadly are one button games and honestly could be ported to mobile.... That said, I'm kinda curious, if you were every able to make like, feedback video/review with tips on how a next interaction of a series would look like, what would you say to them?

[@GamerAlexVideos]

There is honestly a lot I could say to them, but I would have to address it as a game-by-game basis. It's easy to say that 'the physics sucks' for most of their games, but that means different things for different games. That also goes for the type of game they are aiming for. One arcade racer might need totally different physics than a different styled arcade racer. If I ever got the chance to talk to Team6, I would love to because I can see the potential they have, but they just cannot do it because of a lack of effort and care.

[@starshape6650]

It really is an achievement that after over 2 decades in the gaming industry they haven't made a single good game, not one. It feels like there isn't a single drop of passion in that studio. If it wasn't for FlatOut 3 really putting them in the public eye (which i guess is the only good thing about it), no one would know they even existed. And it's pretty sad that the best thing you can say about them after 22 years is that their games are a bit less broken now. Super Street was the closest they got to ok, but they really fumbled that one in so many regards. Despite handling improvements the physics were still poor, the uninteresting maps (they all look like asset flips, which they probably are), the uninspired soundtrack (with one or two exceptions), only being able to own one car in the career mode, and said car designs being poor which really limited how much you could appreciate the customization.

[@MastermindAtWork]

Out of all the games shown. Super Street looks like it has the most effort put into it and Speed 1&2 looks very fun to play.

[@racedriver43]

You know and it's funny you can look at some of these games and go "wow, this wouldn't be half bad if they put some more effort into it". Very controversial opinion of mine, but I actually enjoyed Flatout Wii quite a bit and while I don't think they should've got Bugbear's engine, I think being that it ended up in their hands they were one of the few companies to have the balls to do anything other than what Flatout 4 did, basically a mediocre mockery of the original gameplay and style. Though this being said between the other like 10 shitheaps in dev alongside it as well as the lack of a PC port, (yet Glacier 3 got one? why) it gets really undermined in the hierarchy of Team6's stomachable products. It at the very least vaguely resembles Flatout and while it's missing a few core elements, some of which were a big part of the series (drivers in cars, good damage, etc), it just barely manages to stand on its own feet as a Flatout game, just not really a good one. And yet only a year later its younger brother FO3 hits the surface and proves itself to be one of the worst games imaginable to the racing genre, let alone the well deserved beatdown it got by fans and even non fans of the series. Completely random fun fact about FO Wii, likewise to the Bugbear titles, unique drivers are present that always use a certain car and skin and randomize spawns each race. The file for all the drivers is still leftover in the files of Flatout 3. Super Street was one that I kinda had some hope in and even after a couple updates they ironed out some problematic stuff but the game got shafted SO hard. I remember being in the Discord server for it and over time people would have to bug the devs for literally any info of which they were said to be working out another update but went radio silent before it ever hit the surface. Which funny thing is, the game that came out right after, that terrible Street Outlaws game was by a completely different division of Team6 which means that it was most likely different devs of the studio, or maybe a couple that would've been shared. It was beyond disappointing to see any potential the game had wittle away slowly into nothingness for yet another game which was just shovelware garbage, go figure, just like most of their other games. While I do loathe Flatout 3 with every shred of my existence, I still would really be interested in seeing its development cycle, especially spotting the tipping point where the game went from FO Wii on PC with some new content to "what if we crammed in everything imaginable". Glacier 2 seems alright though likewise to Flatout Wii as well I hear is insanely short and riddled with strange physics bugs. (Surprise to who?) Wonder how different things would be if Team 6 didn't shove out so many games in such a short span every year.

[@dimarianopasquale2585]

I was able to get hold of a copy of Manhattan Chase (2005). The game was not that horrible but how can you forget to put a key to look back in a car game? Also it's probably one of the few Team6 games which incorporates a FPS part.

[@cylintruclemachin9560]

Flatout 4 is Fun

[@luxerhusku2609]

Super Street Racer was the best of all of them. The team actually tried their hardest to make a progression based arcade street racer AND the amount of customization you can do with a rusted stock car with licensed cosmetics from Super Street. But somewhere in the development, the seem to have gave up and realized they can't make promises. I still remember the interview T6 had gotten about the game and the guy in the video wasn't even 100% sure the game was gonna be good and have everything everyone wanted in the game. Overall, I enjoyed it and got weirdly addicted to it that I am almost 100% done with the game. I come back to it time to time and had fun with it just to unlock and complete everything.

[@GamerAlexVideos]

I do agree that Super Street: The Game is the best Team6 game, but it definitely still falls short in so many ways. I still can't get over the ridiculously bad Crash cutscenes like why even include them? So many boneheaded design choices.

[@allesinallem7]

@@GamerAlexVideos i think he meant "racer", yes that is a different game, its only on the switch and has completley new courses. But its also a bit buggy but i enjoy it very much because i love the physics this game has (as you can see of some of my videos). I do not in the slightes regret that i bought the game for 40€.

[@petrolheadentertainment2620]

Funny, I didn't come across anything too egregious in Taxi Chaos, at least the car physics feels good to control, and I know every single shortcut in the city, with a number 1 ranking on both PS4, and Switch Versions respectively.

[@GamerAlexVideos]

Taxi Chaos is definitely one of Team6's better games, but it still doesn't feel like a 'quality' product. At least they are heading in the right direction though...

[@petrolheadentertainment2620]

@@GamerAlexVideos That's fair. As of 2019, they have a new CEO, after the former one, Ronnie Nelis, decided to focus more on the publishing side (under Lion Castle Entertainment). Team6 has good intentions, only that it gets hampered either by deadlines, the publishers they work for, or having to work on multiple games in a yearly basis (Ex. Taxi Chaos: February 2021, and Street Outlaws 2: September 2021.)

[@petrolheadentertainment2620]

@@GamerAlexVideos But to think... They've been around since 2001, surely they must have somekind of audience somewhere, an obscure audience, but an audience nonetheless.

[@dimarianopasquale2585]

Nice to see you here too. I am still waiting on your story about the "Behind the curtains" of the Flatout 3 development.

[@edwardmerriam6970]

I remember playing a GTA clone of theirs (Manhattan Chase) and it was Big Rigs tier of quality. I'm not shocked they haven't improved a bit other than making the game look nice. Team6 are the LJN of racing games it seems.

[@ripcord4201]

"Where is my bullets going?!" -Gamer Alex, 2021

[@octanegamer1576]

When your game studio name sounds an influncer content house, you know it's gonna be bad

[@PtVienna316]

It's always so funny and interesting to me when I hear someone from a non-german speaking country talk about the "Crash Time" Series! It's actually a licensed game called "Cobra 11" in Germany/Austria and serves as the extended universe for the TV Show of the same name.

[@GamerAlexVideos]

I made a whole retrospective video on Crash Time, actually!

[@hamdichami4636]

When i saw that Crossfire-looking car with ICE on the license plate, i immediately realized that I remember playing that game a while back. I remember the game being pretty buggy and it would crash at times. Because of this video, i just learned of its name.

[@xzVice]

Pizza dude from Team6... best game ever xD

[@A_furry69]

It was like a mix between good and bad.

[@wydua]

worth mentioning that their game was the lowest rated game on steam for some time (flatout 3) now it is on second place

[@brokenhearth1826]

I honnestly think that Team 6 is like Blast Entertainment in racing games lol If you remember Blast Entertainment from PS2 era then y'all know what i'm talking about

[@m_gaming_1]

bro at 6:21 with that shovel i laughed so hard

[@FastCarsNoRules220]

"TO THE MOOOOOON!!!" "Take off the shakes dude" 😂

[@naoisediver6541]

3:26 I sPaWnEd BeHiNd ThE FiNiSh LiNe Edit: Glacier is basically a snow and the Team6 version of Madout

[@High_Bread]

I actually have super street lol, its definitely garbage fun, my cars go like max speed and u gotta actually learn how to control it like ur flying a grounded jet. Always wondered why it never got updated now i know why

[@badwolf66]

This video is just pure pain.

[@thebrodator]

Team6? More like Team666!

[@A_furry69]

Spoopy

[@allesinallem7]

But somehow i like this studio. I had such a good time with much of their games, better times than with "better" games, some would say.

[@mleb8530]

Team 6 has same sound effects in every game and almost same physics. Some other Team 6 games are(which i wonder if you can even find online) Taxi 3 Xtreme Rush, European Street Racer(ESR), German Street Racer, Shanghai Street Racer or City Racer Extreme

[@Shotgunner_K]

Super street was a bit different as there were difficulty choices ranging from Easy,Medium,hard and HARDCORE. Which made it TWICE AS HARD. another fun thing about the game is being able to drift in STYLE.

[@paperclip9558]

Sometimes I wonder how the hell studio this bad can manage to survive for yeeeeeaaars.

[@notanengineer]

This video was ahead of its time

[@1mdemirci]

Taxi 3: Extreme Rush is missing in this list, I used to play that game in my childhood.

[@Nightlife135]

I don't think that Super Street is *that* bad. I find its over the top gameplay and the jankiness kinda entertaining! :D Also I remember I had a Demo Version of "Glacier" as a kid where you could play the first track only and I unironically enjoyed it! I loved blasting the opponents to another dimension with the weapons! But yeah, the other games do look pretty bad! xD

[@Nightlife135]

@GamerAlexVideos how did you manage to run Glacier btw? I'd like to try it out myself and to relive those old memories! It'd be awesome if you'd let me know! :D

[@GamerAlexVideos]

The game ran fine on my system. I don't remember doing anything extra.

[@Nightlife135]

@GamerAlexVideos oh, well I never owned a physical copy of it. Although I was able to find a version online a few minutes ago and I stand corrected, it was way worse than I remembered. xD

[@RBXbump]

i grew up playing speed, my mom got it thinking it looked cool at the very least the game has some pretty good music, albeit reused from other team6 games should also point out speed’s filesystem is literally basic files, no special nintendo file systems or anything lmao

[@LGLFanTeam12]

Hi.. I think reviewing "ValuSoft Cosmi" published games or games developed by "Canopy Games" from the early days might surprise you.

[@shawklan27]

Super street is such a huge disappointment of a game.

[@GamerAlexVideos]

It really is a shame because it's still like Team6's best game to date, but it just falls short in so many areas.

[@adlibbed2138]

at least that game had made me opened my eyes a bit that I trust any 'good' company whose tried to be "friend of the people" even less, regardless whether they're we're small or big

[@brokenhearth1826]

Ironic since they using the big name of Super Street magazine lol Even more ironic, while some of the aftermarket part of this game are completely licensed from bodykit to wheels NONE OF THE CARS IN THIS GAME ARE LICENSED

[@FOREST10PL]

No Paris Chase love? I actually completed it two times... Well, I was 7 years old

[@GamerAlexVideos]

I couldn't cover all of their games sadly, so I featured the more notable ones.

[@RalcolfWolfcoon-cj2zi]

Even the 3rd Driver is more playable then anything this studio puts out, and it's an unfinished game with actually pretty good physics.

[@ejune98]

Did they really charge consumers to play these shitty games that are way worse than early 2000s flash games?

[@kauandesu6440]

Crash time is best

[@BlurXIII]

Team6 probably has never made a single good racing game in their lives.

[@GamerAlexVideos]

And they never will either lol

[@soulbrother5435]

Used to play Taxi 3 game a lot, not because I liked it but because I didn't have nothing else for some time😂

[@naidedossantos500]

street king,speed 1,2 and 3,crash time (by synetic and team6),road rage,street owtlaws,taxi chaos and monster jam is better

[@naoisediver6541]

1. Do you prefer gas guzzlers or crash time? I prefer crash time more because of *CRAHSING CARS IN THE AUTOBAHN!* 2. Do you prefer full auto or gas guzzlers more? I prefer Gas Guzzlers more because the Lamborghini aventador car (The Macho) always flew in my head 2.1. I even prefer Burnout 3: Takedown (along with Revenge And Dominator) and crash time than Full Auto And Gas Guzzlers 3. Is HW Unleashed And Forza Horizon 5 still better than speed 3? 4. Do you prefer 1.0 Or The Ultimate Box More? 5. Is Glacier that bad as Madout?

[@GamerAlexVideos]

1. I prefer Gas Guzzlers as I really like weaponized vehicular combat games. There is just more depth to the gameplay of Gas Guzzlers verses the Crash Time games except for Crash Time 5, as that game has weaponized combat as well, which is quite fun. 2. I prefer Full Auto. I prefer how the combat and the world design is in the Full Auto series, but Gas Guzzlers is still really good. 3. Speed 3 is like one of the worst modern racing games I've played. Hot Wheels Unleashed and Forza Horizon 5 are way better than Speed 3. 4. For Burnout Paradise, I would say I prefer 1.0 more because it was before Criterion goofed up the game by unnecessarily changing core elements of the game. 5. I'd said Glacier is about as bad as MadOut, so it really is Team6's version of MadOut lol

[@naoisediver6541]

@@GamerAlexVideos if you say that Glacier is bad as Madout I would argue this: All of the games made by Team6 > Madout (Team6 games is better than Madout games)

[@wildc4t867]

@@GamerAlexVideos What do you think of burnin'rubber??

[@naoisediver6541]

@@wildc4t867 he has only played BR5 HD

[@Djoki1]

I used to play the absolute shit out of the first glacier game when i was maybe 7-8. 8 year old me would also probably have infinite fun with the other two games and perhaps road rage. Ive always found shitty game physics funny and entertaining.

[@akisalmenaho8473]

Also, not to mention that all games they made feel the same. They are reusing the same resources over and over again as much as possible.

[@zolaaunderscore]

too bad you didnt include Paris Chase

[@legogeneralgrievous1173]

My first console game was a Team 6 game. I think it was Monster Trucks Mayhem or European Street Racer.

[@Theottselmaster]

I remember a big youtuber singing Super streets praises.... LKets just say after playing it I unfollowed him and recommend everyone ignore his reviews.

[@segeros]

Hold up. Speed had Money Clips AND My Religion? I'm buying that game.

[@darknova1552]

Man these guys suck at making games they need to go back to school so they can make better games.

[@flariz4824]

5:48

[@lyndina8492]

How many trash game can you make without getting bankrupt?

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

Team si-UCKS is more like it.

[@naidedossantos500]

Who dont like crash time and super street racing the game go to hell

[@no-hadaceur]

These are not only worst They are abysmal it deserved to hated this studio

[@A_furry69]

The freaking physics on speed 1 and 2 I can’t XD

[@frycopy2746]

what were they THINKING

[@GG_1318]

i like super street

[@alexq2930]

Great video my friend.

[@mrbaazzman]

Team6 making games just to laugh at xDDD

[@wildc4t867]

nice video.