Tour De France 2024 Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · June 17, 2024

Tour De France 2024 Review, Claim the Yellow Jersey in the official game of the 2024 Tour de France. Outperform your opponents, push yourself to the limit and show what you can do in the brand new multiplayer mode: Criterium.

Tour De France 2024 Review Pros:

Highly detailed realistic graphics.
27.32GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Officially licensed game.
Display settings – display rider names, dynamic profile, display trajectory, shuddering non-tarmaced sections, and display ghosts.
The tutorial section is broken down into different parts and is completely optional.
Accessibility options – subtitles that can have shadows, background, color, window, size, and position changed. Icons can color or black and white and you can turn the controller vibration on and off.
Gameplay settings – pause auto fast forward, duration of individual instructions, automatic control, and auto-save.
The manual is an online book giving more in-depth controls, tips, and help with jargon and mechanics.
Controls look complicated but are actually not that bad.
Five game modes: Race, Pro team, Pro leader, Club tour, and Training.
Can edit every name and team name including the starting lineup of teams.
Four difficulties – Amateur, professional, champion, and legend.
Pro leader- Create your own player, Play/simulate each race. Complete set goals in order to progress.
Pro team- Solo/Duo (Splitscreen) Default/custom teams with four difficulties then you create a team, Pick jerseys, Buy/sell riders, etc. Basically, it’s the full sim mode.
Online leaderboards can be filtered down to friends only, race location, etc.
Full commentary through each event and sometimes they give you tips on what’s ahead or behind you.
Events can be set to solo, cos op, and verses.
HUD is clear with your need to watch bars right up in your face. The yellow bar is your stamina and will go down as you cycle. You can refill it by using particular items or by holding back on your pedaling. The red bar depletes as you use the attack button, Again, it can be restored with items. You also get a percentage bar for telling you how steep a hill is.
Earn EXP to unlock new races/tours/classics and my tour additions.
Autosaves regularly.
Three views including first person.
You can enable the racing line to help with knowing when to brake.
Wind affects you on corners and hills and can drain your stamina more as you ride into the wind.
You pick two feed items before the race and each one has pros and cons on what they do.
Feed stops located through the stages will give you the second item you chose at the beginning.
The controller layout is on the loading screens.
You can enable and tweak how severe illnesses are in a race or event.
Create and use your own databases of teams, lineups, and racers, or go with the original Official database.
Can save mid-race and at any point really. You have a handful of save slots for each of the different modes.
You can give commands to your teammates, Bring up the menu, and select a rider, and then a whole circle of options will come up. Get your team to push up, back off, block riders for you, and just about anything else you can think of.
You can swap between riders in your team at any point in the race which is really handy. Before swapping you will get shown a map showing rider positions.
You can fast-forward races and in theory “sim” the game and you can stop it at any point and carry on.
OK loading times, they hide them well with graphics and hints.
Full online multiplayer support.
It’s a game for the fans and it does a good job.

Tour De France 2024 Review Cons:

No real hit detection and you can drive through other riders’ wheels with no worry at all.
Just tapping a wall or rider will slow you down significantly.
No online play.
Cannot remap controls.
The manual is online only so it is not good for offline players with no Internet connection.
Not super helpful to new players.
Handling feels very stiff.
Gameplay is really slow even with the fast-forward button.
The tutorial is actually difficult.
The team commands menu is really intrusive and fills your screen with command boxes. Keeping an eye on the race and trying to read every command is nigh on impossible.
Little variety.
The commentary is very sporadic and after a while will just repeat things.