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.