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Ibiza is famous for many things. Sun, sea and sand, lager-fuelled holidays, world class dance clubs and street car racing. Well, maybe not the latter... but Test Drive Unlimited 2 is set on the fair Spanish clubber's paradise. The entire island of Ibi...
Test Drive Unlimited 2 has a lot going for it, with a decent arcade-style driving model, and a fully realised version of the Spanish island to race around, allowing you to partake in all sorts of tasks and discovering hidden secrets. Unfortunately, if...
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The potential for this sequel is enormous, but have the developers bitten off more than they can chew?...
Lots of exploring on offer, nice vehicles available too. Lots of different sections of road and off-road to race on. Playable cars are modelled well. Some of the challenges require serious practise.
Terrible acting, average visuals, compromised vehicle handling, too many bugs. Multiplayer instability. Not enough vehicles.
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There’s always an element of danger surrounding projects that defy genre classification. No matter how wildly radical a developer’s idea may sound on paper, the core mechanics at hand may fall apart once they’re all brought together as a complete packa...
Rewarding, generous and overwhelmingly massive, this is a racing fan’s dream, and proof that the racing-MMO genre has legs. Arcade racing fans may baulk at the disciplined racing mechanic, but purists will find plenty to enjoy. 8.7/10Print this pageCom...
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 is something of a different beast when it comes to racing games. Sure, there''s racing, slick rides and all that, but there''s also a RPG element that will sometimes make it feel like you''re playing The Sims instead of an adrena...
TDU2 is definitely an ambitious titles as far as racing games are concerned, the game offers an enormous amount of content to players, and if you stay faithful and explore the title''s options, it will definitely reward you. Purchasing luxury yachts, s...
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I was a huge Test Drive Unlimited fan. Sure, there were some areas that other "racing" games did better in, but what TDU did was bring with it not just a racing game, but a life style game. TDU2 hopes to take that experience to the next level and...
I was a huge Test Drive Unlimited fan. Sure, there were some areas that other "racing" games did better in, but what TDU did was bring with it not just a racing game, but a life style game. TDU2 hopes to take that experience to the next level and...
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Dating back to 1987 when the Commodore 64 ruled the world and the Test Drive franchise was under the Accolade banner, I have had some sort of relationship with a Test Drive title. So I was pretty excited when I loaded up Test Drive Unlimited 2 (TDU2) f...
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The Test Drive racing series has had a presence in console gaming for over twenty years, beginning with the original release for sports publisher Accolade way back in 1987. Two follow-up releases came and went without much fanfare, but with the release...
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gamingshogun.com Updated: 2012-01-25 05:21:16
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I was so looking forward to Eden Games and Atari’s newest racing game, Test Drive Unlimited 2. Lots of licensed cars, the tropical island of Ibiza, and open-world racing action! Unfortunately, all of this adds up to to make TDU2 one hot mess of a gam...
Not much to be said here...
Visuals, wonky physics, license tests, firstperson sections.
Disappointment. This is my one-word lightning review of Test Drive Unlimited 2 for the Xbox 360. What was disappointing? To find out, check out my full review of this title, After the Break!Full Review:I was so looking forward to Eden Games and Atari...
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Let me start by clarifying one very basic and often misunderstood fact about the first Test Drive Unlimited game, and this, its follow-up. This is not a racing game. Yes, there are times when you will participate in car races, but you do that even in G...
Beautiful game world, Massive open world, Accessible controls, Tons of missions and activities...
Uneven framerates on PC, Intrusive DRM, Unstable game servers, Some strange lifestyle activities...
Let me start by clarifying one very basic and often misunderstood fact about the first Test Drive Unlimited game, and this, its follow-up. This is not a racing game. Yes, there are times when you will participate in car races, but you do that even in G...
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I'm extremely happy that the racing genre seems to be picking up again. In 2010 we had some spectacular titles like Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and Gran Turismo 5 so I couldn't wait to see what was in store for 2011. Well that time is now and Atar...
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Jaz Rignall takes a spin in the latest model of the longest-running racing franchise in the business. And remembers what it was like the first time around. The Test Drive franchise has been around for a long, long time. Indeed, I remember reviewing it...
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ign.com
Updated: 2012-01-25 05:21:43
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I wanted to love Test Drive Unlimited 2. I really did. It lets you live the life of a pro racer on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. It combines traditional racing with an open-world, always-online (except when it's not) multiplayer setup that makes i...
Test Drive Unlimited 2 had promise, but the final product didn't come together for this online racer. I'm a fan of games that give you control of your character's life (see: buying houses, decorating, pimping sweet rides), but the driving is missing th...
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Play.tm
Updated: 2012-01-25 05:21:45
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Racing games have always been aspirational. From roaring along in OutRun's gleaming Ferrari, glamorous blonde at your side, to curating a vast collection of showroom catalogue supercars in Gran Turismo, the genre excels in offering a taste of a better...
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Ever dreamt you had it all? Beautiful partner, sweet crib, stylish clothes, good-looking friends, a garage full of fast cars, and more money than you knew what to do with. That life appears to be yours at the start of Eden Games' Test Drive Unlimited 2...
Huge islands, Excellent online integration, Awful storylike elements, Dated visuals...
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Bum-off-the-street vocalization meets Barbie doll articulation in Test Drive Unlimited 2's shamble of a narrative, ostensibly meant to draw players into the romantic notion of being a pampered, jet-set dick. Instead, the often unskippable storyline off...
Always online; cool houses to buy.
Stupid story; weak racing; buggy.
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Though it is dubbed "Unlimited", a developer has to be selective when making something as huge and ambitious as Test Drive Unlimited 2. In extensively re-creating the island of Ibiza for its open-world, online driving game, Eden games presumably had to...
Huge, attractive, open and online world, Masses of varied content for fun, steady progression, Enjoyable openworld driving .
Inconsistent vehicle handling, Visual hitches, including popin issues, Technical bugs make the online/offline divide less than seamless.
This expansive driving game offsets its faults with the pleasure of open-road cruising and a wealth of content...
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The survival horror genre has Deadly Premonition. Role-playing gamers got Two Worlds II. Now racing fans have their own "so bad it's good" title to talk feverishly about. Test Drive Unlimited 2 is utterly hilarious thanks to terrible dialogue and voice...
The survival horror genre has Deadly Premonition. Role-playing gamers got Two Worlds II. Now racing fans have their own "so bad it's good" title to talk feverishly about. Test Drive Unlimited 2 is utterly hilarious thanks to terrible dialogue and voice...
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It has been a long time since the original Test Drive: Unlimited graced home consoles, but fans of the automotive genre have definitely not forgotten Test Drive's unique approach to a genre that is constantly looking for ways to reinvent itself. The so...
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