TDU2 Preview (PCGAMER MAY2010 ISSUE)

[The Queen]

*This is Test Drive Unlimited 2 news and may need to be moved as I was unable to post it in the TDU2 section as I wasn't allowed.*

 

 

PCGAMER MAY 2010 TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED 2 PREVIEW

"FIRST LOOK - Welcome to Ibiza, where your driving fantasies come to life."

 

What do Sammy Davis Jr, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field and that guy from The Man With The Golden Gun have in common? They've all, in one movie or another, proved that a useless co-pilot is still ten times better company than the best GPS.

 

Eden Games know this, and will prove it again with Test Drive Unlimited 2. A new cooperative passenger mode means that when your online buddy gets to gawp at your new velvet dashboard, they won't have to leave when you start the ignition. Off-road treasure hunts, high-stakes clan battles or heaven forbid an actual test drive: whatever it is, they can spend all of it in your peripheral vision.

 

The original TDU left us at a junction. On its left: a road to realism, where Crysis-style visuals could meet a narrower, more conventional racer. On its right: MMO country, where behind the humble looks lives a world of opportunities. The sequel takes the latter - the right road - and look where it's ended up: Ibiza, home to Channel 5 documentaries, Britons with no centre of gravity, police with no sense of humour, and locals insisting there's a lot more to it: which there is. There are relics of the Punic wars, wild topography and an erratic climate: all you need for a colossal open world Gumballing game.

 

Like it's predecessor, TDU2 isn't afraid of being gaming's answer to the Magic Eye puzzle, stressing details within details. Yes, there's a new metallic flake layer for shader fetishists. Yes there are stitches, and raindrops on the leather when you forget to raise the hardtop. And, yes, the message is still that greed is good, and that a giant yacht with a massively multiplayer jacuzzi (the best of the game's new homes) makes up for you looking like a porcelain zombie. But this is luxury with a hint of restraint. It doesn't have the extremists attitude of Dirt 2.

 

Test Drive Unlimited is one of the finest racers of its generation, precisely because it looks beyond the cars and whatever's reflected in them. That means better clans in the sequel, with war to chests to either gamble on tournaments, fritter on luxuries, or invest in bricks, mortar and playable trophies such as the Gumpert Apollo supercar. It means 4x4s built to climb taller mountains to find auto-wrecks, giving you further exclusives. It means persistent stats for winning, dodging and discovery.

 

What it doesn't necessarilly mean is a handling system to everyone's taste. No such thing exists, of course, but this build of Test Drive Unlimited 2 dwells on the accessible and cosmetic, it's toylike crashes causing little harm while savaging the paintwork. Even that's an improvement on last time.

 

Article written by Duncan Harris of PC Gamer.

 

*Supposedly released in the AUTUMN according to the article, probably means an August - October release date so probably not November onwards.*

 

 

Image of the article below:

 

[Tool831]

*Runs in circles* Woot! woot! woot! :D

 

Soft tops ftw!

 

+Rep

[Guest turbo lag]

Jizz. :D

[Penfold]

All sounds awesome except from the last paragraph about the handling system which worries me a bit.. +Rep

[t.]

Nice work +rep, I've got so much reading to do!

[calster17]

Nice, I'm liking the part about a yacht! Hopefully i'll be able to keep a Caterham on it.....

:twisted:

[T1M]

Nice. Working cabrio roof!? :thumbsup:

[ShadowGT]

*Mr burns voice* Excellent

 

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/topsbbq/Mr-Burns-Excellent.jpg

[HOAX]

Thx for the article :)

[Djey]

Great day, today !

 

Thanks.

[FizzPagan2000]

i'd like to urge people to not judge a game that is still in development.

if you're unsure then wait till the release then rent it or play the demo (assuming there will be one).

wobbly opinions at this point are unfair especially since the game will be the bestest thing evah! :D

[CLR-GTR]

Wait a minute...

 

Yes there are stitches, and raindrops on the leather when you forget to raise the hardtop

 

How's the last one possible if they first said roofs automatically close at rainfall...?

[blackhole522]

Thanks for the article. I wish they would say something new though..

[BobbyV]

Except the full car list, I doubt we will find any more interesting info about the game which haven't been revealed already. They have to leave something out of sight don't they? ;)

[Eudemon]

Well in the Pelaaja or PCGames interview the Police were mentioned but they didn't want to talk about them at the moment so maybe that will be a nice little surprise.

[Dan G]

hmmm that yacht sounds good :cheeky:

[Eudemon]

Don't you mean Yatch? :lol:

[Dan G]

i did :) but didnt know how to spell the mis-spelling :lol:

 

e: i think it's yatcht

[BobbyV]

bimmer u were right the first time :D it's yacht he was just teasin' ;)

[t.]

No, you were right the first time lol

 

[E] Oh snap!

[Eudemon]

What is going on!! lol

[Dan G]

:fp: guys, i KNOW it's yacht, read my post again, i didn't know how the wrong word was spelt so i just wrote it normally ;)

 

yatcht is the literal way of saying it :cheeky:

[BobbyV]

ok whatever....on topic again....I'm so sorry Formantera island is apparently out of map. I was secretly hoping they would include it...:cry:

[HOAX]

We don't really know that. Formantera is part of Ibiza so it could be it opens when you reach certain points, archive something or it's a hidden island like there were in TDU.

[Rodrighazzo]

Interessssssssssssting Yacht FTW! I'll open a floating casino in there! Poker, BlackJack,Roulette, Dices and some drinks eheheh

 

Another thing: "Tournaments" that's really cool.

 

Wait a minute...

 

Yes there are stitches, and raindrops on the leather when you forget to raise the hardtop

 

How's the last one possible if they first said roofs automatically close at rainfall...?

 

Is atuomatic, but, if you want "maybe" you can disable that option or you can open again the roof and feel the water in your face