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Test Drive Unlimited - PC
Rook
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Not sure how many people have been following this one but the game was released on the 16th in Europe and will be released on the 20th in Amelicaland.
Test Drive Unlimited is being billed as a new Massively Open Online Racer (MOOR) which has already enjoyed a lot of success on the xbox360. It's now come to a bunch of other platforms including the PC and the PS2.
Game wise, it plays out as some weird hybrid driving/racing/lifestyle sim. You land on the Hawaii island of O'ahu with $200,000, renting a car allows you to visit the real estate dealer and buy your first piece of property. After that it's down to the car dealers to make your first purchase and once you have that set of wheels the game pretty much leaves you to your own devices. The islands road networks were modelled using satellite data, they even include a roadmap in the box for you.
Cruising around the island gives you access to a bunch of missions where you can earn more cash (to buy cars andhouses) or fashion tokens (to spruce up your wardrobe). These range from the standard race and timeattacks, to the slightly bizarre speed traps (get clocked at the highest possible speeds at a set of speed cameras). To the hilarious BMW ad/Crazy Taxi inspired model/package drops. If you really need some cash there's always the car delivery missions, simply drive from A-B with no time restrictions. Sounds easy? Not when you get sat behind the wheel of a ferrari enzo, every scrape of the car might lose you money, but the temptation to gun the engine up to full can sometimes be a little too tempting.
Screens
(If you want to see what it actually looks like: 1, 2, 3)
+ve sides
-MMO racing
-Free roaming
-Pretty
-Amazing selection of cars to drive
-ve sides
-Single core coding so the game is pretty slow (E6600@2.6/8800GTS and fairly low framerates at the high reses)
-Draw distances could be improved
-Doesn't fully support X360 pad (can get rumble with the homebrew drivers though)
-Really hard to get a multiplayer race going for some reason.
-Weather seems limited to cloudy, and no day/night cycles.
Anyone else playing this or got anythoughts questions?
Test Drive Unlimited is being billed as a new Massively Open Online Racer (MOOR) which has already enjoyed a lot of success on the xbox360. It's now come to a bunch of other platforms including the PC and the PS2.
Game wise, it plays out as some weird hybrid driving/racing/lifestyle sim. You land on the Hawaii island of O'ahu with $200,000, renting a car allows you to visit the real estate dealer and buy your first piece of property. After that it's down to the car dealers to make your first purchase and once you have that set of wheels the game pretty much leaves you to your own devices. The islands road networks were modelled using satellite data, they even include a roadmap in the box for you.
Cruising around the island gives you access to a bunch of missions where you can earn more cash (to buy cars andhouses) or fashion tokens (to spruce up your wardrobe). These range from the standard race and timeattacks, to the slightly bizarre speed traps (get clocked at the highest possible speeds at a set of speed cameras). To the hilarious BMW ad/Crazy Taxi inspired model/package drops. If you really need some cash there's always the car delivery missions, simply drive from A-B with no time restrictions. Sounds easy? Not when you get sat behind the wheel of a ferrari enzo, every scrape of the car might lose you money, but the temptation to gun the engine up to full can sometimes be a little too tempting.
Screens
(If you want to see what it actually looks like: 1, 2, 3)
+ve sides
-MMO racing
-Free roaming
-Pretty
-Amazing selection of cars to drive
-ve sides
-Single core coding so the game is pretty slow (E6600@2.6/8800GTS and fairly low framerates at the high reses)
-Draw distances could be improved
-Doesn't fully support X360 pad (can get rumble with the homebrew drivers though)
-Really hard to get a multiplayer race going for some reason.
-Weather seems limited to cloudy, and no day/night cycles.
Anyone else playing this or got anythoughts questions?
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Tour of the island (Race) was my fav, a 45 min race.
I like to think of it as Oblivion for cars
Jesus...who tested those motorcycles and thought they were good?
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The Miura is also a thing of beauty.
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Well, there's some bargains to be made, especially with Chevrolet and, surprisingly, Ferrari. Look up the dealerships on the map and try them - you can get quite fast cars for very little. I don't like Chevrolet myself, but I'd be getting one Ferrari car in particular if it weren't for the fact that I found the XJ-220...
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I'm at Champion rank with about 70% of the roads explored, 45% game completion, 4 houses and about 25 cars.
My favorites are the Ford GT, Lotus Exige and Ferrari Enzo.
Man, no kidding. The handling is so far removed from reality I'm not sure why they bothered to have them in the first place.
Other than that the game is pretty fun, but I played enough of it during the open beta that I don't feel like buying it.
I miss MCO.
The only really glaring thing I've found is that I can't seem to go in reverse. I'm using a steering wheel/pedals setup and automatic transmission. Holding down the brake only... holds down the brake, and binding a key to Reverse Gear and pressing it does nothing. I also can't manually shift down past neutral. I'm sure I'm missing something, but I need to spend a little more time with it.
Edit: Figured out the Reverse thing. Apparently my pedals weren't calibrated correctly and it was constantly giving a small bit of gas. I thought this was just the behavior for an automatic, but it was preventing me from switching to reverse since I was technically still trying to go forward. It's working fine now.
I'm finding the xbox360 pad to be excellent with this game.
ATARI HAVE ANNOUNCED TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED 2!
Out toward the end of the year. Once we get a little more info on it, be sure that I'll create a thread specifically for it, but for now, this ones alright. Loved the first btw, Screw that racing, I just drove around.
I loved the first one, too. I had a lot of fun just driving around in the cockpit view and enjoying the atmosphere of the game. I'll be looking forward to the sequel.
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I'm just so happy that two of my most favourite games of all time are getting sequels.... AND THIS YEAR TWO! (The other is Just cause)
Likewise - the game hasn't left my hard drive since the day of release. I don't play it that often either, but I still enjoy it when I do. It may not be an exciting car in reality, but oh man, the Audi A6 in the game is lovely to drive.
Wish I had a G25, though. Bastard.
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Ditto on the sitting on my hard drive too!
I just like pretending to drive faster cars than I'll ever be able to afford.
I hope they make another map based on a real island. I could totally drive around the Hawaiian Island (whose name I've forgotten) if I were put there IRL.
I just hope they get rid of all the stupid clothing and house buying crap. I didn't enjoy any of that at all. I mean, the housing was horrible, because you'd store cars in other houses, and then have to magically warp there to drive them. I understand that that might be slightly more realistic, but I don't think i'll ever be owning any property at all on an exotic island, let alone MULTIPLE for my fleet of cars.
And I never did anything with the gear. I just thought that was a way for in-game advertising, really. At least they didn't have you decorate your house....
I would also really like if they made it modular like they said they were going to, where you could actually add your own cars, instead of straight up overwriting them if you wanted a different car. I don't know about you guys, but if the Mercedes in the game are like they are in real life, they're completely worthless. I'm glad that there were other cars you could use that overwrote them. I would just like the idea to actually add on cars, or different courses, instead of using the horrible method of dropping files on top of the pre-existing ones.
Also, I love that it's got motorcycle racing too. I played the first one right around the time I was starting to get into motorcycle riding, really got me curious about other motorcycle racing games.
so... the sequel comes out tomorrow, I'm probably gonna get it for 360. It's 50 on Consoles, 40 on PC.
Anybody picking it up? This time it's the island of Ibiza and Oahu
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/test_drive_unlimited_2/b/xbox360/archive/2011/02/01/drive-into-a-virtual-paradise.aspx
If that "policy" changes with this game, I might pick it up. Otherwise, I'm going to pass.
The first game did get a demo too so here's hoping the sequel gets the same treatment. If I still had my 360 I'd nab the game instantly.
Didn't help that at the time I had a very borderline PC to run it.
Nevertheless, I've been monitoring the sequel's development for a while because the concept of the game is unbeatable for me, and I even got an invite to the beta except I could never get it to accept my code and actually play, which I guess might be a bad sign. :P Probably going to end up getting this very soon if not actually at release tomorrow unless I hear some really bad things to scare me away.
ALso it's discounted on Steam.
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Yeah, I liked just driving around the island. I was hoping to have a TrackIR setup by the time the sequel came out, but no luck.
One thing I ended up doing with the original that I loved, and will probably try to reproduce with the sequel, was take out traffic and cops. I thought it was just fun to drive around the island in just about any car, without said traffic or stupid cops. Maybe I'm fantasizing a bit too much, but I thought they way they implemented the cops was waaay too annoying, and the traffic was far too stupid to be of any good. I get what they were going for, but it just felt dumb. So I took them out.
The only thing that I hope they've improved is the viewing distance. Even with maxxed out settings, you could still only see 300 feet in front of you, and when you're doing a decent speed, that's not far enough to see where you need to be going.
Also, the preorder car skin looks sweet.
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well eden has spent like 5+ years making this sequel so I have high hopes
That is awfully kind of you. I'd like the 350GB version. Two pads if you can stretch to that.
Dammit, I just made the mistake of watching beta gameplay videos on YouTube and, welp, now I've pre-ordered the thing and I don't even care about the bonus Pagani paint job. :P
It wasn't even race gameplay videos, either, just people driving around. If the actual competition modes are even halfway decent I figure I can probably get my $40 worth just virtually cruising. I hope that they release more classic cars as DLC later on, assuming they don't go the route of the first game and NFSHS and screw the PC on DLC entirely...