Test Drive Unlimited 2 Game Review
Review by IGN
The videogame landscape is filled with racing games. With such a crowded genre, how are developers supposed to create a product that can stand out from the rest while still maintaining a certain familiarity to capture an audience in the first place? The developers at Eden Studios are tackling these challenges in Test Drive Unlimited 2, a “massively open online racer” that combines the online functionality of an MMO with a traditional arcade racer. I recently had the chance to sit down and watch a demonstration of Test Drive Unlimited 2 and I was impressed with the amount of multiplayer options available to players. With a lovely Mediterranean locale and some extremely exotic cars to drive, Test Drive Unlimited 2 has the potential to be the next great multiplayer racer.
Review by Eurogamer
It’s been four and a half years since Lyon’s Eden Games unfurled its manifesto for “massively open online racing” with the sprawling, quixotic Test Drive Unlimited – and like every year in the young industry of videogames, they’ve been long ones.
We’ve seen other attempts to expand the horizons of the online racing game in the interim: Forza Motorsport’s bustling bazaar of customisation and hot-lap competition, Gran Turismo 5′s halting attempt at a more genteel autophiles’ club, and Criterion socially networking its way around the online/offline divide in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.
Review By Gamespot
Late last year, Atari and developer Eden Studios released Test Drive Unlimited for the Xbox 360. Purportedly the first “massively open online racing” game, Unlimited provided you with a wide-open setting (the Hawaiian island of Oahu), a myriad of slick rides, tons of different races to take part in, and an online mode that actually let you occupy the same basic driving space as other online players and challenge them in competition. Not everything the game did on the 360 worked brilliantly, but it was an inventive and unique piece of technology that was impressive in its own right. Now the game has come to the PC, and for all intents and purposes, this version is nearly identical to the 360 game. It’s a little rougher around the edges than its 360 counterpart, but if you never played the 360 version and think the idea of racing around Hawaii while bumping up against other online players sounds like fun, this version’s worth a look.
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