Ducati World Championship Reviews

I've always loved this game, so glad it's finally working on Steam. My son figured out some settings to get it to work. I played this for hours in the past, still an adrenaline pumpl. Allows me to play motorcycle racing with the sound of a Ducati, which is a dream bike to me.

If you are a fan of Ducati and or music buy Lacuna Coil by this when it is on sale. The bikes look nice enough and the tracks are interesting. It just starts to feel the same after a few races. I barely have a bike for 2 races before I'm onto the next bike, so I don't form any attachment. The bikes themselves don't have any upgrades. I finished the Class C championship before writing this review. TIP: You will need to run the exe in compatability mode on most modern PCs

The game was released 9/6/2006. Given the age and the fact that widescreen wasn't a thing at that time the Steam release has a limited widescreen support up to 1776x1000 16:9. It doesn't look too bad you just have a black frame around your game screen at 1080p. DWC is an arcade racer and by no means a racing sim. I bought it for €1.24 because I'm a Ducati fan. Using ReShade 3.0.7 improves the image quality noticeably. I play it on Win10_64 compatibility set to WinXP_SP3. There's not much to say about gameplay it will keep you entertained for a while. You can use kb/m or a controller - please use a controller. I don't understand why this game has so much bad reviews from people who didn't get the game to run. As I said the procedure to get DWC working is straightforward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LQgr7_2DbA&t=11s I'll give it a 6/10 and you should only buy it when DWC is on sale.

Ducati World Championship is an ancient game from 2006. It's a whopping 18 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. The game is broken under Windows 10/11, but you can make it run and avoid the "AVIStreamGetFrameOpen failed!" error by running the game in Windows XP compatibility mode... a hoop, through which, gamers should not be expected to jump. If a game developer wants to keep [i]selling[/i] their game on Steam, they must keep [i]maintaining[/i] their game on Steam. The developers failure to do this is unacceptable. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display. The game is incredibly dated, buggy, and unfun to play. There may be some argument that a remaster is in order, but that seems unlikely, and either way, this is not a remaster. It's abandonware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 13 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Ducati World Championship is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend.

What we have here is a pretty cute clone of [b]Motor Racer[/b] with licensed [b]Ducati[/b] motorcycles and music by [b]Lacuna Coil[/b] (ten tracks total). The original [b]Motor Racer[/b] mechanics is still fine, [b]Lacuna Coil[/b] adds quite a lot to the atmosphere (not really a fan of this kind of music, but it feels totally great in things like [b]AMV[/b]s and video games), there are some game modes to choose from (single race, career, championship and even multiplayer)... In other words, like I've said, it's a pretty cute [b]Motor Racer[/b] clone. The problem is – [b]Motor Racer[/b] was released in [b]1997[/b], while this one? This one came out in [b]2006[/b]. That's right, folks, you've read it right. What we have here is a clone of [b]1997[/b] game... that came out in [b]2006[/b]. [i]La-da-da-da-dah~ It's the mo*****ckin' D-O-double-G~[/i] ♫ I mean, seriously. When you start [b]Ducati World Championship[/b] for the first time, you begin to feel like you've just being trolled. The game looks like [b]Motor Racer[/b], the game feels like [b]Motor Racer[/b]... and yet, it claims to be from [b]2006[/b]. I don't know who screwed up the timeline this time. [b]Barry Allen[/b], [b]Marty McFly[/b], or [b]Steven Moffat[/b]. But this? This is just wrong. I mean, sure, everybody loves good ol' [b]Motor Racer[/b]. But in [b]2006[/b] we've already got games like [b]MotoGP '06[/b], [b]MotorStorm[/b], [b]Crusty Demons[/b], [b]Jacked[/b] and the others. Having something like [b]Ducati World Championship[/b]? Let's just say it was an instant no. [b]Harley-Davidson[/b] did better in [b]2006[/b]. [b]Kawasaki[/b] did better in [b]2006[/b]. [i]Everybody[/i] did better in [b]2006[/b]. Ten years prior, [b]Ducati[/b]'s game sure had a chance to become a thing. When compared with the first [b]Moto Racer[/b]? [b]Ducati World Championship[/b] feels totally competitive. But in the middle of [b]2000[/b]s, while being compared with the real deal? It's close to impossible to take this title seriously.

I've never been able to get this to run. I feel robbed. The worst part is I work in IT....what does it take to get this to work?

Bahahaha! This game is definately worth 50 cents. No way to exit a race. You use Q to go forward, but the arrow keys to turn. The soundtrack is some orchestral chick rock band. I think their Janitors decided to make a game, and then decided they had better things to do and outsourced this game's development to a couple 8 year olds in somalia, who were using a Pen and paper flipbook made of hippo toenails to program. I've lost more money in my couch than this game cost, and I still would rather have just thrown 50 cents into a river.

I was excited to find a pc game that ran on legacy hardware and had single pc splitscreen, but after playing motocross madness and road rash, I felt this game came short in a lot of areas. I remember the controls playing like super hang on and everything else about it just wasn't worth the 5 dollar price tag. If you are looking for some weekend fun you can grab this for $1 or $.50 on the christmas deal, but buy it regular price and you will be disappointed.

I don't recommend this game. Graphics and control suck. Not fun. Hard to configure controller. Even for $1.24 it wasn't worth it.

This game is not nearly as bad as everyone says. The handling takes some getting used to, the commentary is best when it's turned off and the game is best played with a 360-pad along with the knowledge that the P-key brings up the in-game menu which you can use to exit or restart races. The game has several modes, including a career mode, championship and a challenge mode. The championship is a pre-determined series of increasingly difficult races, the challenge mode tasks you with performing various timed trials such as wheelies. The most interesting mode however is the career mode, which has you competing in a variety of race types while working your way through several license classes. You get to create your own racer for this mode and you earn new bikes by completing races. These new bikes allow you to enter even more races and once you've completed all of them, you move into the next class - the goal being to eventually win The Race Queen - the girl from the intro. The races can be as simple getting to first place within two laps, to a multi-stage endurance race where your performance carry over between stages, meaning your bike or even your character can become beat up over time. You can enter the pit stop to allow either your character or your bike to recover. You also gain nitro by racing well. Staying on the road gives you a slow but steady build of nitro that you can use when you need a boost, driving outside the road will drain the meter quickly, and performing stunts such as wheelies will make it rise dramatically. The visuals for this game are quite old-fashioned but they did employ the RenderWare engine for the game and it does a good job of maintaining a smooth frame-rate with no pop-ups to be seen anywhere. The stages are pretty varied too, with plenty of locales like arenas, deserts, tropical, mountain- and country-side tracks - and in some of them you can literally see for miles into the background. If you like classic arcade racers (especially those made by Sega and Namco) and don't mind old-school graphics, taking chances with low budget titles and dealing with an initially harsh learning curve - then this game might be for you.