Interesting, before Ibiza there was Dubai!

[Eudemon]

Source: Thibaut Trampont Designer

 

During the preproduction of the game, I was in charge of the entire Level Design of a second island : Dubaï. The project was designed to take the high level player from Hawaii to Dubaï.

 

With that in mind, we made a huge research on every element of the Dubaï environment :

• Roads and marking
  
  
• Buildings and monuments
  
• Vegetation and districts
  
  
• Topography and landscape
  
  
• Street elements
  

Read more at the website of the employee who was tasked with doing this.

 

Makes me wonder, even though Dubai was canned, they probably still have the info and data for future use? :hmmm:

[Andreas¹]

Ooh, so those rumors were true then, strange. I wonder why they cut it out, especially as it seems this guy was practically done with his part of the job.

[Eudemon]

Well the image showing Game Limits is a hard barrier whereas the Unlimited nature has been an island where the edge of the land is the barrier due to the sea.

[Andreas¹]

Yeah I thought about that aspect too but it seems so obvious to me that there would be physical barriers if they implemented it on "dry land". Surely they must have thought about that before putting him to work on it, or?

[ScoobSTi]

Not to brag, but: Click.

 

:leaves:

[Eudemon]

Yeah I knew about the references in the game files but this is someone talking about the actual task at hand as they were working on it. I'm just posting things I've found on my travels basically. :)

[TIMELESS]

I remember the rumours, nice to know it was true. I hope they use what they already have and give us Dubai.. it would be nice. Although I haven't touched TDU2 until I discovered it's even worse on PC. :/

[ScoobSTi]

Some other company should seriously pick up on the TDU series.

[TimBud]

i had build the entire network, and specificaly the Jabel Hafeet road, wich has a world renown among drivers.

 

It is a great road, but its not anywhere near Dubai!

Although his basic Dubai layout looks good though and the barriers could easily have been achieved by moutains and unpassable dunes... would have been pretty accurate too.

But I think driving on the mainly straight roads would have got boring real quick.

:)

[Ryzza5]

Besides that one twisty road that I've seen on Fifth Gear (wasn't it someone's mansion driveway?) it looks even more boring than Ibiza

[superhyper]

I liked Ibiza :hmmm: But Dubai looks really interesting too, after seeing this picture :hmmm:

[calster17]

The city layout reminds me of Hawaii's main city. I'm guessing that was a basic map as it looks quite boring to be honest, mostly straight roads. I do prefer twisty, challenging roads! Looks smaller than ibiza, but has alot of roads!

 

Shame they never shelved it for DLC, would be good!

[TimBud]

Besides that one twisty road that I've seen on Fifth Gear (wasn't it someone's mansion driveway?) it looks even more boring than Ibiza

 

Just a road to nowhere in the 'Empty Quarter'. Need to have 'friends' if you want to drive on it. but it get covered with sand all the time.

 

 

if done to scale the emirate of Dubai could be bigger than Ibiza... but the roads are mostly straight.

[Ahautcar]

So I had the potential to visit my own house? :mhmm:

However, despite the fact that the highways are indeed straight, there are a hell of a lot of those funny half-circle exits (don't know the term for them :leaves:) and there are also plenty of roundabouts.