Test Drive Unlimited Playstation 2

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IMO i agree with you right there đź‘Ť Maybe they just said meh to the PS2 coz the PS3 was gonna come out like a few days/weeks later. Maybe they making some PS3 version now :trouble:
 
On the off-chance that anyone comes here anymore:

I'm at 81% complete. I've got gold in all the challenges that appear on the map, I'm president of all the clubs, and yet the statistics tell me there's 50 odd races I haven't done yet (Dock2Dock, Chicken, Bridge Too Far to name but 3). Any ideas where I can find them?

Neither the search nor Google could help me on this.
 
I rented this game over the weekend. Here's a brief overview of my time with this game:

* The game is absolutely immersive. It has some elements of Grand Theft Auto with (recent) Need for Speed. GTA in the form of going about in a completely open space and (obviously) recent Need for Speed games for street racing. One of the coolest things about this game is that you can rent some of the faster cars for either 30 minutes or 60 minutes. How do you think I enjoy the experience of the Ford GT early? The cars look amazing, and so do their interiors. You can actually sit inside these cars and still get the same feeling most sports car afficionados have- "I want this car!"

* I have two cars at present. My first car was a dark blue Saturn Sky. My other car is the latest Mustang GT. I use the Mustang GT a bit more because it's faster. Funny enough, the Sky and Mustang have about the same level of handling. I do think the latest Mustang can be quite agile (maybe from my GT4 version). I'm the president of Club E. I had the first house, but stepped up to one of the bigger and better houses. Any racing game that allows you to exchange stuff for bigger and better cars and items is always a great thing to be able to do.

* This is just a straight-up old-school racer. Old-school in the sense of no illegal street racing (for example, drivers who talk like they're hard asses trying to knock you off the road). I think Need for Speed can still do what they are doing with their illegal street racing, just not make it like a traditional street racing game with 'hoods and racing for respect. I still think that maybe NFS could be more like TDU. The game just has an amazing sense of immersion. And don't even get me started on the showroom and realtors. You have realistic, believable showrooms. Just amazing. I don't wish Gran Turismo to be completely like this, but it would be interesting if you had a massive showroom where you could see and be in all the cars.

* Finally, I'm not an online gamer, so I won't comment on that. The game seems to ask you before starting if you want to go online. Almost as if the game has a solid single-player that only gets better online. I respect that. I still have a classical view of gaming in which multiplayer is always secondary or even optional. Never let a multiplater-required interface ruin or undermine the element of single player. I'm sure I'll meet several other car fans with their awesome rides.


All in all, this was an amazing experience. I take back any sort of negative comments on someone saying that this game is the biggest leap in racing games since Gran Turismo. Just real sad I didn't get to rent this any earlier.
 
Even with the horrible physics and the lack of a lot of things (the ability to communicate with other players for the most part), I still find myself drawn back to this game over all of the other games that I have.

What I like to do is take a car on an extremely long drive. It's very relaxing, especially listening to Led Zeppelin :D. The last drive I went on was a 45mi drive in my Mustang GT, and it was pretty good up until some noob in a CCR started following me. He must have followed me for around 20-30 of those miles.

Turbo, or anyone, if you’re interested, I’d like to go on a very long drive with slower cars. I was thinking about all the way around the island, though i wish the gps would allow you to set to something like that. Maybe across the island diagonally to the top right from the bottom left, then a straight drive from the top right to the top left, then another diagonal drive to the bottom right. That would be a lot easier to work out GPS wise.

If you are interested we'll need to set up times because of different time zones, and it will definitely have to be on the weekend. Hope you’re interested, if not, at least I will have some fun going across the island.
 
i got the game myself for the PS2 and i quite dissapointed with it. There is no damage, no BMWs, no Supras, RX7, NSX, 3000GT or even EVO 9. Skyline sounds odd and has LHD interior (damn i don`t like LHD Skylines) But the concept of the game is kinda genious.
 
I respect a world of cars. And as you know with me, I'm not a fanatic of crashes. If it's one thing I really disliked was that you had to come to a complete stop and tap the brakes again just to reverse. I'm sure it's perhaps realistic, but for an arcadish game like this, it's sad. I don't get points for drifts like I do in "Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2." You have to wait a little bit in drifts to get credit for them in TDU.

How many of you would agree that (off-topic) the NFS series would be better with a true open-ended city system without the thug-like elements of recent NFS games?
 
I try to make this thing alive. Much like I used to do with the Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2/Kaido Battle 2 thread. I'm often times a late bloomer. I just tend to think that what Test Drive Unlimited is in terms of immersion and a love of cars... is what recent Need for Speed COULD be rather than what Need for Speed is today. I'm not saying that Need for Speed should just go back to mostly supercars and sports cars, but just not so much of a game in the illegal street racing sense. I grew up in the sports compact/import scene and accustomed to some of the modified rides. However, I'm not so much into the culture to the point where you get into "ricing," drifting (I don't consider this a negative aspect at all apart from people saying it's a "ricer" subculture), and most other stuff.

All in all, play Test Drive Unlimited if you haven't already. It's high-quality stuff. Only things I haven't done were go to the tuner shops and (obviously) going online to play. I knew there was one aspect of TDU that I forgot most media types didn't like. It was ll to find out that the online lag was the issue.

PERSONAL TRIVIA:
This is the first Test Drive-titled game I've ever played since "Test Drive: Le Mans" in 1998.
 
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PERSONAL TRIVIA:
This is the first Test Drive-titled game I've ever played since "Test Drive: Le Mans" in 1998.
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I was going to reply that it's the same with me, but then I remembered that I read somewhere that a game I liked very much (V-Rally 3) was in the US called "Test Drive: Rally" or something like that.

I played this old rally game with my kid a few days ago and I still like it very much.


@Roo: I have TDU at 100% and, still, those same races/chalenges appear unraced. I suppose they're "online-only" races. And, because I don't have broadband at home (yet, I'm working on it), I'm unable to race them.
 
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@Roo: I have TDU at 100% and, still, those same races/chalenges appear unraced. I suppose they're "online-only" races. And, because I don't have broadband at home (yet, I'm working on it), I'm unable to race them.
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The online races don't count for anything. They're just there to give the people online something to do with others, though i have only raced one.

The online is exactly the same as the regular game, just without police, which is why I always play TDU online. The inabilty to communicate with other players makes the online experience somewhat frustrating though

Usually, like with Turbo for example, I'd just have msn on so i can talk to him. Now that i think about it, teamspeak would work a lot better so that we don't have to stop to talk.
 
Yesterday, i went on a cruise with myself (yes myself) in my GT500 round the whole island...and amazingly i didnt lag, most people appeared yellow-ish, for about the first time ever... And Diablo, about that cruise, are you free on Monday or Sunday?
 
turbo lag
Yesterday, i went on a cruise with myself (yes myself) in my GT500 round the whole island...and amazingly i didnt lag, most people appeared yellow-ish, for about the first time ever... And Diablo, about that cruise, are you free on Monday or Sunday?
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Sunday for me, Monday for you. Im free during the day so that would work. I wont be able to get on until around 1:00pm though because of church. We could also do it on my saturday night, though i'll probably be tired (I work until 11pm on saturdays).

Do you have a mic? If you do, dl teamspeak
 
That was an awesome cruise last night. I think it was about 70-80 miles all together. Can't wait to finish off at the snake tonight (this afternoon for you i think)
 
Hey Diablo, have you had any trouble racing with people online?

I met Leon and a few others before, their cars show up on my mini-map,
but we can't find each other on the roads. Any ideas?
 
Diablo never has connection problems. I have around 1/35th of his connection speed and i still show up :P If you can, go on msn and im free tonight and ill come check your connection probs. :)
 
I would love to meet up with you lot on TDU. Problem is, my bloody online adpator is a right pain in the backside. You have to list the network you use, but the one I use (Toucan Surf) is not on there. And when we use the other network option, it doesn't work. What a bummer. Can I just ask what car(s) other people own. I only own one. It's a Mercedes SLR McLaren. I have fully upgraded it aswell!
 
I would say that Codejunkies.com would have one or two cheat codes for it,
though you would need an Action Replay Max disc to use it.
 
Especially for the PS2 version. You pretty much take ALL the fun out of the game if you cheat considering how watered down it is.

I was looking at the 360 version and they have the F40, I'm going to cry :(. I was seriously contemplating getting a 360 just for the Ferraris, but i'd have to buy xbox's rubbish wheel when i already have a G25. If only my computer didn't blow.
 

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