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Review : Test Drive Unlimited 2

Test Drive Unlimited 2, the perfect driving simulator? Well, not really. The game has a lot to offer, maybe a bit to much. After playing this game for quite a while I am still not sure what kind of genre I am playing. Is this a racing game, is this a first person sims or an online showoff contest? Yes there is a lot to do in this game but the game doesn't really focus on anything and is a big mix of the genres I just mentioned, all of these features are okish, but far from well done ( -1%) .

The game starts out on your birthday, you seem to be a spoiled child that receives a good looking car for his/her birthday, after a small not so unlimited test drive you appeared to be dreaming. In fact you are a valet driving in a car of someone else. All very fun but not really interesting, the waking up from a dream has been done so many times in so many games/movies. Now you would expect the main story to kick in, well, it doesn't. In fact there is no story in the game. ( -2%) All you do in this game is driving around, beating opponents in races which are redicilously easy, no challenge what so ever. ( -2%) After several wins a cutscene kicks in and your main rival asks you for a duel, if you win, you will win their car, again this has been done so many times over and over, not really creative. The races are so easy that they become really really boring, and after a while you are just doing the races so you can buy a better car, finishing the races felt like a grind, no fun for me. ( -3% ) Apart from the driving, which isn't even that bad itself ( and a nice cockpit view in all cars! ), there is this wannabe sims mode, where you can change your house and redecorate it. Well I couldn't care less how my house looks especially with the extreme prices for simple decoration, I rather have a pagani zonda in my garage than that nice looking wooden floor! But not only your house is up for decoration, also your face, yes your face. Plastic surgery is no problem and and you will have a brand new face in 24hours. As expected you can also dress your character, buying new cloths in shops all around the island. The whole sims idea adds to the experience that this games tries to create ( living the good life, with awesome cars and expensive houses/clothings ), personally I didn't quite like it.

I felt like the developers spend so much time on this whole sims mode that they forget to make an interesting driving game. The game modes are plain boring and very unlimited. ( -4%) You can race others, do a time attack, drive through gates with max speed and a knockout race ( where the last driver drops out of the race every lap ). The online features are a bit better, with a lot more different race modes, I wonder why these modes are not in single player?

 

The last thing that really bothered me were the random events. From time to time somewhere on the island a random event pops up, if you go there in time you get an extra mission. I think there are around 90 random events if I'm not mistaken, in my experience they were not so random, in fact most of them were the exact same, with the same voice actor telling me the exact same thing I heard 20 minutes ago. To make it worse some of these events are really unrealistic, it goes something like this :

Random person : Hey stranger! Come over here!

You : What can I do for you?

Random person : Drive my car ( a fucking Ferrari ) to the other end of the island!

Like what? This never happens to me in real life, never had a stranger asking me to drive his expensive car to the other end of town. ( -5% )  

Personal playtime :  around 20 hours


Final score : 83%

Free Game : Quake Live

Another free game for you, and this time a shooter! Did you ever got bored at work or in class and wanted to play a computer game? In most of these cases there are no computers nearby that got some cool games on it. Until today, I present you Quake Live, a free computer game in your browser! Most of you have probably heard of Quake before, well this version is very comparable except it comes in a browser.

For you that are not familiar with Quake I will give you a small explanation what this game is all about. In Quake you play a very athletic character that can jump through the levels at high speed, while doing this you have to pick up ammo/weapons/armor. There will be enemies around which you need to kill, either offline AI enemies or real people in the online multiplayer mode. This game is very high paced and concentrates on precision shots and your ability to outsmart your opponents. You have to make sure you get that awesome weapon pickup, or maybe you prefer the amor so you will last longer in battle, or maybe you are going for the railgun, a weapon that shoots lasers which can be fatal in one shot.

All in all, this is definitely worth a try. Maybe just play it a couple of times when you are bored. As always I will present you a video of this game, so you can actually see the game before downloading going to the website to play it! Enjoy!

Website : http://www.quakelive.com

Free Game : Trackmania Nations Forever

Who doesn't want a free game? Who doesn't want a great free game? I present you Trackmania Nations Forever ( TMNF for the rest in this article )! TMNF is a racing game, but not your every day racing game, it has this amazing balance between realistic and not realistic. The driving itself is somewhat realistic, there are no power ups like Mario kart to collect, the drifting is really well done, it really gives you a great feeling when you complete a drift at full speed through a difficult bend. The tracks however are far from realistic, you will be jumping from one place to another and maybe even drive along a wall for a few seconds. Don't leave this game because it isn't a driving simulator like GT5. Personally this is one the racing games I had the most fun with in my life. The point of the game is to reach the finish as fast as possible, on most servers you get around 5 minutes to try to get your best time. You will be racing versus other people but they act like ghosts, you can drive right through them, you just have to make sure that you are the fastest, it is comparable to a Time Attack mode. As I already mentioned ( server ) this game is played online, well 95% is, there are a few offline tracks you can practice on but that is about it. You have to compete online, if you beat someone that is better than you, you gain points and climb on the online leaderboards.

Online you will find the most bizarre tracks. The TMNF community made a lot of these tracks, one the reason that there are so many tracks around is because they are so easy to make. Every moron can make a track ( probably the reason I made +20 !). On the picture you can see how easy it is, you just select which kind of road you want and connect it to your track. My recommendation is that you really try this game, even if you are more into realistic/simulator racing games. It's not like you have to pay for it right?



If you are still not sure if you want to download it, LOOK AT THIS VIDEO, this video shows more than I could ever tell you, it is awesome! The person driving is one of the best drivers around.

Download like here : http://www.trackmania.com/

If you become addicted to this game you can thank me later!