Sometimes you are the irresistible force, obstacles crumpling before your mighty bumper. Collision physics and the limited destructibility, meanwhile, are unpredictable. The other handling modes are less exacting but no more convincing-less twitchy, but a not-very-happy medium between simulation and arcade racer.īut once you've mastered the quirks of your preferred setting, there's fun to be had, with bombing along dirt roads and rumbling down sloping hairpin turns a highlight. Though the inconsistent hardcore handling is tough to master, it doesn't serve up the simulation-like experience promised, with cars feeling too light.
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Full assistance is all-forgiving, hardcore is demanding, with sport mode pitched in-between, but none quite satisfy. How taxing you find the events, as with driving throughout the game, depends on your choice of vehicle handling.
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In the competition events there's a stab at a story and characters-it's bland stuff, but puts a face on the racers in the other cars and sets up rivalries between you and the star driver in each class. Now Playing: Test Drive Unlimited 2 Video ReviewĬompetition is the most structured of the game's categories, based around the Solar Crown championship: a set of classic, asphalt, and off-road contests made up of race, speed, and time trial events.
But though its shortcomings are offset by the sheer wealth of content, the game's real saving grace is the combined experience: the pleasure of cruising the open road and the satisfying tick of progress through the collection, discovery, competition, and social categories.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Quality, not quantity, is TDU2's occasional issue uneven handling and visual and online hitches hold it back. TDU2 is a smorgasbord of open-road driving, single- and multiplayer challenges, exploration, social features, car collecting, and luxury lifestyle trappings, played out on 3,000km of road modeled on the real island-and that's before you unlock Oahu, the Hawaiian island on which the first game was set. In extensively re-creating the island of Ibiza for its open-world, online driving game, Eden games presumably had to give up foam parties and club-addled tourists at an early stage. Though it is dubbed "Unlimited", a developer has to be selective when making something as huge and ambitious as Test Drive Unlimited 2.