TDU2 and TDU1 - many similarities.  Unfortunately, even with the bugs.

TDU2 and TDU1 - many similarities. Unfortunately, even with the bugs.

Test Drive Unlimited 2 (computer game)

Customer Review

Now that I've played about 12 hours and I cruised, I want to get rid of my resume times.

I'm trying to work through the individual points, each must decide for themselves how important they are to him.

Graphics:
5 years have passed since the first part. And you did not notice it really. Graphically could tear out part 1 and not a tree, in Part 2 in this case there was almost a standstill.
Overall, the graphics style is internally consistent, which is important! WOW lives so it has always been.
Better was the appearance of vegetation, water and roads. Shrubs respond well to the vehicle and there is more than just grass textures.
Worse, however, the vision of details, trees popping now unattractive to within sight. Was rationalized the HDR, so the sun effects are less beautiful. The cars look really not bad, but very nice, but not more that can actually any other race better representatives.
New are the weather effects and the night, especially the rain and the wet roads I find very well done. Bad, -vermutlich a bow headlight flasher does not work properly when the dipped beam is on (tunnel or night). Purely visual makes nix.
Here, the developers have also just sloppy at Audi, the TAG headlights illuminated only with the low beam.
Graphically no longer up to date, but still appealing. Patches could not quite bring improvement, keyword visibility and HDR.

Story:
Honestly, who expects a blockbuster here? The story is absolute average, Parkplatzboy / girl with the chance to become racing champion.
Insziniert which is a television show, stupid speeches and the same old race start sayings. In the translation you'd be able to give some more trouble, once there is talk of speeds beyond the 300 miles per hour. The Hauptkonkurenten the best drivers are not necessarily for you, often they manage second place only if they do not really need to go (Time Trails). Then you could have done without.
For racing it now licenses required by the way the one for the race qualifying. The exercises are at first nice, but on a permanent wasteland. Especially because one for each racing class needs its own certificate and the samples are repeated.

Gameworld:
Ibiza and Oahu, heart what you want more? Streets and lanes, many venues where you can meet up with friends. Atmospheric vegetation and cities are very well done. For cruising highly recommended. Oahu has been completely revised, some new roads there and of course the off-road routes.
Outdoor mode can now also collect money by narrowly evades the traffic, drifts and jumps. Also car wrecks are now scattered on the islands, if you have 10 some kind of together, you get a car it built, for example, a VW Beetle and the Shelby Cobra.

Run:
Major weakness. The routes are very beautiful, route I find very good and racing modes are very varied. Spanner in the works makes the AI ​​here. I have had exciting opponents on the Atari (small nod) 20 years ago. Both Aggresionen and driving skills are missing, the drive as if it were a driving instructor aufn passenger seat. If you make only a few own mistake, there is no problem with massive winning margin. This is a whole type of race for exhausting ordeal: Eliminator. If you have struggled with dirt until the end, to fight here more than against boredom. 7 rounds have to drive one, because come before 15 minutes together that one ended with 50Sekunden Vorspung. Highly annoying. Rides against NPCs are so not funny. Multiple difficulty levels would ne solution.

Fleet:
Nice, but not gigantic. Lamborghini has been completely removed, allegedly because of licensing costs. Even little diversity comes on at the race-specific classes, because there are so many. Often only 3 different types of vehicles drive up to today. Presumably, and unfortunately is the magic word here DLC ...

Driving behavior:
Arcade extremely heavy. The vehicles were very shaky in the first part, especially at high speeds, it was here (more) simplified. Although a little flair is still necessary, but very little. With the steering wheel, it can be controlled very well find better as with gamepad. Differences between offroad and street are now but much better than in the first part, whether with sports car or SUV. Athletes but do visibly harder, somehow logical).
Fun frenzy comes, but a realism weight it has just nich. However, the automatic transmission is botched. From N to R or to the first gear it takes often very long. At the start, it passes through the pedal, start the race, it takes 1-2 seconds (!) Until the transition is indoors. Not always, but often. Another bug?!? Have Mario Kart-like trying times with less speed, even without pre-gas-pass going down, it makes for that matter speed snapping no difference.
Note to steering wheels: There are reports that many are not working properly. My Logitech GT Pro (the old) to work without quirks.

World Online:
The great strength of this game! If indeed works ... As part 1 also has TDU 2 a big bug problem. Well, I will tell something is yet to report:
There are online now police in action I have not seen so far.
If the server is not connected, the world is filled with NPCs, but which technically a mixture of Opa and 12-year-old "I Daddy stole the car keys" are. Drive like sleeping pills on Valium and rams like by asking you to you absolutely no reason in the way. OMG.
With others, I could actually go sometimes, and if it works (so far half an hour at a time) is real joy. As in part. 1

Casino:
As a pre-order, I can use the casino. Could, if it is not constantly be offline. As far as I can tell so far, it is quite nice, but not really the ca, 7 as extra money worth DLC.

Overall, I can say, it needs to be patched like crazy. It lacks a lot of fine-tuning. Then it really would a game with which a fan of TDU will again have really long fun.
My fear is that Eden / Atari As with Part 1 takes one year to complete the game runs. Bug-fixing is nich so their strength ... so knock on wood times.
For Part 3, however, a general overhaul must be found to be successfully compete, and I mean not just the graphics.

Become aktualliesieren the test here constantly, hope there is something for aktualliesieren that without the quirks it would be a 4 star game.

I like the song 1 Rank: 5/5
January 7
Very satisfied 430 Rank: 5/5
February 11
product compliant 212 Rank: 4/5
May 24
Perfect 1 7623 Rank: 5/5
December 3
Be careful when rebuild! Rank: 5/5
January 12

Related Reviews


Thule quality, unfortunately, even with the manualThule 591 ProRide, bicycle roof rack Without roof rails Very good reception even with the small antennaCSL - 300 Mbit / s WLAN Stick included with aerial socket + 9 dBi WLAN omnidirectional antenna pedestal |. Wireless LAN | Mini Dongle 802.11n / b / g | SMA socket 150 54 | Windows 7 + Windows 8 + Windows 8.1 compatible | particularly high ranges ( Electronics) Doctors are and remain a special case - even with TOO!also (Audio CD) Cheap small wireless mouse with handy features and thanks to LED find- even in the dark and can be used ...Victsing® 2000DPI USB 7 Keys Wireless Professional Games Game Optical Mouse Mice (Electronics) Very well made and even with the necessary tools!Flancrest SSD / HDD Adapter for MacBook (Pro) + Slot-in SuperDrive USB enclosure Unfortunately, even with us negativePlanToys 13564052 - Oval Xylophone (Baby Product) Unfortunately, even with me faulty in package ... - ... Complaints difficult ...Teeadventskalender - Advent Calendar with 24 noble teas (Misc.) 100 test days - and I am still very happy with the MOTOKRZR K3Motorola MOTO KRZR K3 UMTS / HSDPA mobile phone without branding (Electronics) Action has good, but unfortunately, nothing with the original concept on Turtles HatTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Amazon Instant Video) Who needs passive speakers? Unfortunately, problems with the lack of dynamic volume control in filmsNubert Nupro A-200 - Full Active HiFi / studio / Multimedia Speaker (piece) (Electronics) The supposedly old and unsuccessful graphics from gray medieval with the devil controlWatchdogs - DEDSEC_Edition (exclusively at Amazon.de) - [PC] (computer game) Very chic and fully functional - but unfortunately not in the Fritz box WLANB & N M3S Wireless Bluetooth Mouse Optical Mouse for Laptop PC Macbook Imac Mac (Electronics) Even with the shortest carpets a total failure!Dirt Devil M223 Fello turbo brush (household goods) Unfortunately, problems with the autofocus through the viewfinder with fast lensesCanon EOS 70D SLR Digital Camera (20 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, 7.6 cm (3 inch) display, Full HD, WiFi, DIGIC 5+ processor) body only (Electronics) Even with the size no problem2 x atFoliX Apple iPad Air Protector Shield - FX-Clear crystal clear (Electronics) Finally I can sleep through the night! Even with the window open!Alpine Sleep Soft Earplugs (Personal Care) Attention: Even with the new MacBook models no sound !!!!HDGear Mini DisplayPort / HDMI Adapter (19 pin Mini DisplayPort Male to HDMI Female) 0.15 m white (accessory) Good memory expansion for my Convertible and faster than specified, but only with the right card reader (USB 3.0)SanDisk SDSDQXN-064G-G46A Extreme 64GB microSDXC UHS-I Class 10 U3 memory card up to 60MB / sec. Read (Personal Computers) Unfortunately, problems with the electronicsBeko WMB 71443 Washing Machine Front Loader LE / A +++ / 169 kWh / year / 11220 Liters / Year / 1400 rpm / 7 kg / multifunction display / 16 wash programs / brushless DC motor / white (Misc.)