- Seamless online connection offers unlimited new challenges, nents and competitions as well as monthly additions of vehicles, aftermarket parts, clothes and apparel.
- More than 125 licensed vehicles from exclusive manufacturers including Lamborghini, Ducati, Aston Martin, Mercedes, Saleen, Shelby, and Jaguar.
- Realistic cars and bikes: amazing render quality and unrivalled interior details including full car functions such as radio, electric windows, horn, wipers and more.
- Personalisation: upgrade each car or bike with options from the actual manufacturers' catalogue. Players create characters, buy new homes and garages, and tune and upgrade vehicles with aftermarket parts.
- Create challenges or races from more than 50 game rules and settings. Upload your created challenges online to become part of the player community.
- A gathering of communities: Players can create or join a club to talk, chat, trade, race or organize club-based competitions and tournaments.
- Simplified match making and division based rankings make this game the most comprehensive and accessible online racing experience.
Review
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"Test Drive Unlimited, quite simply, is awesome." -- X360 July
06
Manufacturer's Description
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Test Drive Unlimited is the ultimate automotive experience for
car and bike enthusiasts alike. Visit the most sophisticated car
and bike dealers to purchase new vehicles or simply take them for
a spin. Collect and trade rare performance parts and customise
each vehicle to make it one-of-a-kind. Test Drive Unlimited
challenges players online to experience the most exotic and
fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian
roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to
earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance
parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.
First and foremost, the game encompasses a lot more than just
racing. The player creates a custom avatar that other players
will see driving his vehicle the same way a Massively Multiplayer
online game. The idea is that the developers wanted the player to
be able to put him- or herself into the game, so you can select
your clothes, head model, glasses, etc. to create an avatar that
looks like yourself, sort of along the lines of what you can do
in a lot of recent football and basketball games. Then, when you
go out driving, you will see this model in the car driving around
in impressive detail.
At home you can change your character's clothes and other
attributes to better match your personality. You can even take a
spin down to the local clothing store and pick up some new gear.
If you've grown tired of your surroundings, you can buy a new
house as well.
Further continuing the customization aspects, players will be
able to set up their own house and even decorate it with your own
car photographs on the walls. The main options: not only saving
points; ability to buy a bigger house and garage, with swimming
pool, view, etc. That's where you get the news, store your car
collection, tweak and tune your cars etc. Other locations include
private clubs, public places such as car parks where you meet up
with other inline players.
Feel like you need a change in your ride? No problem. Take a spin
down to the car dealership and pick up a new car to add to your
garage. You can fully customize all of your vehicles and then
make a living by selling them online via the in-game auction
system. It is very similar to eBay in that other players are able
to see what you're selling and buy it via a stock exchange
related system. If you set your price too high, you won't get
many buyers, but set the price just right and you'll bring home
the bacon.
All items you can buy use in-game credits, so don't think you'll
be spending any real cash. New aftermarket parts, cars, bikes,
clothing and apparel will become available via downloadable
content every month.
All set up with trendy gear and clothes, tweaked and tuned dream
supercar, membership in a top notch club? Your next officially
sanctioned inter-club competition is still 2 hours away? Why
don't you just drive down the alley and look for a challenger
among the other online players driving now over the island?
ONLINE COMPONENTS: OFFLINE IS ONLINE
Imagine what you would do in your car fanatic fantasy world.
That's what TDU delivers online:
* Wake up, dress up, choose car, tune it, leave your house
* Drive freely in the streets of Hawaii, and meet other online
players in the street
* Challenge whoever you want for a quick race you choose the
goal, the bet, the path, the rules
* Go to your private club to meet your friends chat, trade,
prepare the next race
* Time for the official competition Watch your friends races on
in-game G4 TV while waiting for your race