quite agree with you sir.
I've posted mine ages ago actually in the atari forums:
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So tdu2 , night drive , dynamic weather you're all excited I bet. And I was too a year ago when it was announced. Because I was a huge fan of the original. Although before you rush into the shops and buy it I got some news for you. This game has a huge problem:
The Physics
yes the pyhsics. I have a g25 racing wheel and I've never felt so detached from it. I was expecting at least an improvement given that one of the aspects that made the original game legenedary was its hardcore mode. It was the only game to support the clutch accurately until gt5 came along.
Meanwhile in the eden studios too many people were busy designing plastic surgery buildings and new sofas so they forgot to add the full clutch support. Nowadays it's more like a button, it's on or off. The clutch however is not a problem compared to what steering has.
It really has no feeling at all, no matter what combination you try the force feedback is a joke. And don't get me started on the brakes. The button fashion continues with that as well. You can pretty much stop in 2 secs no matter what speed you're travelling at.
The gearing is an issue as well. In the old game if a car had a proper manual gearbox you would use the h-shifter. And if the car had pedal shift gearbox you'd use them. Though the guys at eden thought what we needed was a system that wouldn't support both of them at the same time. So you have to get into options and change the setting every time you change your car(gearbox style)
Don't get me wrong I like all the new stuff but I just think before having our avatars moving around the buildings we should get some sort of pleasure from driving as well.
So there we are , I assume I can think of 1 remarkable aspect of tdu2 and that is , it reminded us how good the original was.
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in addition >
-game is full of glitches/bugs (most of them are collisions and textures)
-It seems to me like an half-arsed job this game, but it's only fair because atari is nearly going bankrupt and there's evidence for it all over the place
-Photomode is a disgrace, I've never seen anything ruined this badly. You can't actually pause any moment while driving around with your friends. So if you want to take an action or a flying shot go and play tdu1... Oh and there's no forcal lenght so there's not a lot to do with the photomode.
-People say graphics have improved, no they haven't? You can see the shadows of trees on the ground at nights, the headlights have no effect on any shadow(dx9 still..) , far objects are still unrendered or rendered badly. Some of the cockpit textures are taken straight out of test drive 6