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Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: yaazz on May 09, 2006, 10:18:00 AM
Ive been waiting a while for a game that takes the semi realistic driving of PGR3, and puts it into a GTA like setting where I can drive around and do what I want, was playing the game and having fun, when I realized I was playing the game with like 10 other people Online!!

Wow TDU took all I wanted out of a driving game and one upped it! def buy for me!
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Justaren on May 09, 2006, 11:21:00 AM
yupp i agree with you there...just imagine car clubs and betting on pink slips or houses....yea instantly i knew there was people online with me.... it was fun but i ran out of time to play...kinda wack... but got back on and won a couple of races....definetly gonna pick it up....controls i need to get a little use to cause im more of a sim racer...forza...pgr3.....all that good stuff but TDU is gonna go on my shelf
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Ozy on May 09, 2006, 11:25:00 AM
Well 3 hours at downloading and still haven't got it. Damn the slow connection to live!
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: tonloc79 on May 09, 2006, 10:51:00 AM
QUOTE(Ozy @ May 9 2006, 05:56 PM) View Post

Well 3 hours at downloading and still haven't got it. Damn the slow connection to live!

Everybody and there mother is downloading so its kinda understandable.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Ozy on May 09, 2006, 10:56:00 AM
QUOTE(tonloc79 @ May 9 2006, 05:58 PM) View Post

Everybody and there mother is downloading so its kinda understandable.


Yeah. They should be able to do something though, at this rate XBL will be down.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: steve008 on May 09, 2006, 12:08:00 PM
Game is good, its a kind of weird online experience, when your just driving around are the players on their with names like "george" etc other online players. Then when you go to the orange multiplayer icon your racing against people with proper gamertags. Most ive seen is 5 people so far wonder how many their letting the demo support?
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Ozy on May 09, 2006, 12:11:00 PM
Now I'm getting pissed off. I know I have slow connection anyway because UK internet is crap anyway but this is ridiculas. It must be 4 hours of downloading this demo now for something that should take 1 hour at most.

By this rate it'll take me all week to catch up to wednesday's demos released tomorrow.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: twistedsymphony on May 10, 2006, 08:27:00 PM
as much as I like the concept I didn't really care for the game.

The physics are really unrealistic and it's interesting how NPC (non-playable cars) can take damage but you don't.

I will say that the sense of speed is VERY well done. the engine noise and the feeling of going fast is done better on this title then on just about any other racer I've seen.

The graphics were pretty fugly IMO (dare I say worse then NFS) but I'll chalk that up to the game not being finished..  wink.gif

If you like the NFS style street racers this will be an awesome game. Lots of free roaming and the whole MMOR concept is really cool

I'm just not a fan of open track racers. I like a properly defined course where I can win by accurately accelerating, breaking, shifting, and taking proper racing lines as opposed to a game were I find short cuts and push my opponents into NPCs  laugh.gif

So I guess overall my impression is: really cool concept, NFS style racing, fugly graphics (so far). Looks like it will turn out to be a great game but it's just not my cup-o-tea
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: amb7247 on May 10, 2006, 11:02:00 PM
I think you made your point plenty of times twisted. Is the horse dead yet? I gotta try to get back in. It was good at first, then it kept freezing. Hopefully that's resolved.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: twistedsymphony on May 11, 2006, 05:30:00 AM
QUOTE(amb7247 @ May 11 2006, 12:33 AM) View Post

I think you made your point plenty of times twisted. Is the horse dead yet? I gotta try to get back in. It was good at first, then it kept freezing. Hopefully that's resolved.


You do realize that is the first and ONLY post I've made about the TDU demo  rolleyes.gif
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: amb7247 on May 11, 2006, 07:11:00 AM
QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ May 11 2006, 07:37 AM) View Post

You do realize that is the first and ONLY post I've made about the TDU demo  rolleyes.gif


uh-huh.  laugh.gif
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: metaldevil on May 11, 2006, 01:41:00 PM
I'm wondering if a more complete demo will be made available around its release date. The cars control very badly in this one. The cars seem incapable of handling turns well. They drive like the bricks in NFS: MW.

I like the idea of MMO racing (which is new to me), but I think the developers of the Test Drive series should first figure out how to make a decent racer before taking on such a task. It's a shame because I wanted to like this game.

I understand that the game isn't finished so don't light your torches. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: TUUK on May 11, 2006, 02:55:00 PM
I think if the Devs of Test Drive Unlimited should have worked on anything, it was the online code. So many people are experiencing lock-ups while playing on-line and since the whole 'catch' of this title was the on-line aspect, seems pretty dumb to me.

Also love the whole irony of have a time limited demo of a game with unlimited in the title  smile.gif

TUUK
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Joergen on May 11, 2006, 03:35:00 PM
I think I wrote somewhere almost exactly what twisted said there.

Though last night I tried the demo again and the servers were offline so only bots were present and I had some fun taking my callardo up a 45 degree hillside to the highest point on the island. TDU is best as an offroad hillclimber (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Though I was semi impressed with how those people could throw together a nice vegetation system, almost made me want to get out of the donkey-hopping car and do some FPS adventuring. If you want to see some funny physics park the car on a cliff and watch it float and wobble down the hill.

This post has been edited by Joergen: May 11 2006, 10:36 PM
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: mike_jacko on May 11, 2006, 03:06:00 PM
too arcade...preffer sim style racing biggrin.gif
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: GSX on May 11, 2006, 03:20:00 PM
I love the concept. The gameplay is not that bad, I tend to enjoy it. Can't wait for the full game, to see what it will really be like. Oh and yea, I'm so buying this and MotoGp 06... Main reason I have my 360
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: Grentz on July 08, 2006, 11:39:00 AM
I thought the graphics were pretty good, if you are inside the car and crash into other cars and their hood or trunk pops up you can see inside the other car (like the engine and such).

Its fun, but i still prefer PGR and Forza.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: sidewinder33 on September 01, 2006, 10:43:00 AM
This has to be one of the worst racing games I've ever played, I couldnt bare to play it for more than just driving around because its just so flat out bad. I'll just wait for Forza 2 to come out, bc this game isn't worth the disc its made on.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: TonyF11 on September 01, 2006, 10:52:00 AM
QUOTE(sidewinder33 @ Sep 1 2006, 05:50 PM) View Post

This has to be one of the worst racing games I've ever played, I couldnt bare to play it for more than just driving around because its just so flat out bad. I'll just wait for Forza 2 to come out, bc this game isn't worth the disc its made on.



I 100% agree. This game is absolute tripe.
Title: Test Drive Unlimited Rocks!
Post by: alsybub on September 06, 2006, 05:15:00 PM
Try turning off the driver assist. I think you'll be a little surprised at the results. I know I was.