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Fresh cars for Test Drive Unlimited News

Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese

6 February, 2008

Eden has parked the sixth batch of Test Drive Unlimited cars on Xbox Live.

Splash out on the 350 Point premium pack and you will be treated to a Nissan 350Z Roadster 2004, Audi A4 Touring Car, Cadillac Sixteen, Dino 246 GTS, Triumph Dayton 995i, Pontiac Solstice and a Lamborghini Diablo GT.

If you are cheap and drive a normal car in real life you might like the free Nissan 350Z Roadster 2004. But ha, you still have to buy it with in-game currency.

Test Drive Unlimited is as old as a year and bunch of months, and is an open world driving game where you roar around a tropical island in lots of very expensive cars. Pretty good, too.

There was lots of sequel chatter last May claiming a follow-up would be out in early 2008, but the publisher avoided commenting and we have heard nothing since.

Unfortunately Atari was unavailable to dodge yet more probing this afternoon.

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Eighthours
06/02/08 @ 16:23
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A TDU sequel could be immense. The first game, depite its flaws, was damn fine.
aldo_14
06/02/08 @ 16:29
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It'd be nice if they'd fix the PC version so you could use steering wheels/joypads without stuttering to a halt.
Anthony_UK
06/02/08 @ 16:33
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Traded this in over the weekend, after getting burnout I just knew I wouldn't be playing it again any tiime soon!!

A would love a sequel though, it was one of the games that made me buy a 360 in the first place so I was slightly dissapointed by the not so great handling and the awkward, hit and miss way of finding friends online...

If they can't sort both these problems in the sequel, it will be all kinds of awesome!
[maven]
06/02/08 @ 16:42
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I'd also love a sequel (even if it "just" contains the same drivable area at a higher resolution).
estoo
06/02/08 @ 16:51
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Love to see a sequel where the handling was tweaked to make using the steering wheel a more realistic option.
Online mode was full of potential but shoddily implemented I thought.
Darren
06/02/08 @ 16:54
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Test Drive Unlimited was a great concept but it was seriously flawed: dodgy handling (bikes especially), an impressively large but very samey looking and ultimately boring environment, no weather or day/night cycle, unexciting races, mediocre sound effects, etc., etc... it's ambitious and looked nice but it just was not very well executed IMO. A sequel would be nice so long as it fixes all the issues.
sickpuppysoftware
06/02/08 @ 17:25
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Shame they effectively abandoned the PC version after launch.

Sorry, they released one fix which I'm too scared to install after reading the forums.
Der_tolle_Emil
06/02/08 @ 17:28
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As mentioned the game was severly flawed. That didn't stop me from enjoying it a lot though, I actually even got the achievement which requires you to drive on every piece of road there is. However this game is really nice to just relax and drive around the island a bit.

And I think it's very nice that Atari is still putting out cars. I think TDU is the only game that keeps the promised "steady flow of DLC" unlike most other games that put out one or two packs of DLC after a month and then nothing else follows.
mkreku
06/02/08 @ 17:30
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A few more RPG features, a better way of upgrading the cars (more individual parts instead of just three packages for each car) and a damage engine would be nice. If they also filled the world with more stuff to do except the races (collectable hidden things, hidden jumps, hidden vistas, hidden racetracks in the woods etc.), that would be awesome.
UncleLou
06/02/08 @ 18:20
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Never had a problem with the PC version, apart from some lag online. Pad works perfectly fine, too. Vista FTW, obviously. :p
markypants
06/02/08 @ 19:24
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Loved this game, I also did the achievement on every piece of road!

I'd love all the enhancements mentioned above, but also fuel (would have been great to have to stop for fuel), more mission/race variety and off road vehicles.

I don't think they could get away with same island but higher resolution, but they could quite easily do away with trying to recreate an existing island and create their own with more variety and less 'ghost town'.

I still think this game is underrated and despite its flaws, it was the first game in many many years that I literally took sick leave off of work to play!
BBIAJ
06/02/08 @ 21:14
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Actually, this content originally went up towards the end of December, God only knows why it's made a reappearence now!

Interestingly enough though, it did actually download again when selected, rather than instantly downloading as expected.
Fitzmogwai
07/02/08 @ 10:01
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I never had too many problems with this on the PC, and I thoroughly enjoy it, but damn Atari for killing any further development for the PC. Bastards!
SomaticSense
07/02/08 @ 12:24
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I swear this DLC was already out a short while ago. I definitely remember looking at some Marketplace TD:U content with the Diablo GT and Solstice in it.
MilkYMoO
07/02/08 @ 21:33
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I really must buy this game, I've seen it at dirt cheap prices in a few gamestores.

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