Test Drive Unlimited (Xbox 360) site now live [Archive]

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 02:50 PM

Head on over to /www.testdriveunlimited.com/ (http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/) to check out the new flashy website along with the trailer and latest screenshots.

http://www.evilavatar.com/images/thumbs/test_drive_small.jpg

Wow, the screens of this game are AMAZING. This might just top PGR3's visuals.

DeadPixel

12-27-2005, 03:07 PM

very nice! how long will thats creen stay up on the front page? I give it 10 minutes.

thecrazyd

12-27-2005, 03:09 PM

Ahhh! Kill it! It's a monster!

ÜberJumper

12-27-2005, 03:10 PM

Wow, that shot is amazing. So amazing that I'm not really annoyed by it blowing up the main page so bad.

Rirath

12-27-2005, 03:12 PM

Goodie, a ridiculously big 143K blurry image in a 19 word news post.
People, honestly...

Franjo

12-27-2005, 03:16 PM

love it....

Heretic Machine

12-27-2005, 03:16 PM

Who approved this...? <.<

Jukey

12-27-2005, 03:17 PM

Goodie, a ridiculously big 143K blurry image in a 19 word news post.
People, honestly...
Still on dial-up rirath? The picture took almost an entire second to load for me on broadband. Hardly worth whining about.

thecrazyd

12-27-2005, 03:20 PM

Still on dial-up rirath? The picture took almost an entire second to load for me on broadband. Hardly worth whining about.
Except it expands my goddamned page, makes it so I need to horizontal scroll to see the full posts further down.

torrefaction

12-27-2005, 03:27 PM

Consider me fuckin THOROUGHLY impressed. Those trailers...to me, blow PGR out of the damn water. I'm sold.

Deathbane27

12-27-2005, 03:45 PM

Gah! The horizontal scroll bar of DEATH!!!!!

fushi

12-27-2005, 03:46 PM

Heads will roll for this!

bone4ahead

12-27-2005, 03:47 PM

Consider me fuckin THOROUGHLY impressed. Those trailers...to me, blow PGR out of the damn water. I'm sold.

I hope you know the first trailer is prerendered...

Stormeh

12-27-2005, 03:49 PM

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 03:49 PM

Hmmm, should be fixed now.

GrinR

12-27-2005, 03:50 PM

I'm at work. My windows teh small.

Heretic Machine

12-27-2005, 03:52 PM

Wow, you guys get horizontal scroll bars from that? Maybe it's time to get a video card + monitor that go higher than 640x480?

The game certainly does look fantastic. It's definitely giving PGR3 a run for it's money in hte graphics department.

I got scroll bars at 1280x1024, dick.

EDIT: It just occured to me that he probably didn't see the ginormous pic... he probably came in after it was edited.

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 03:55 PM

k, fixed it. Sorry bout that.

carneconcarne

12-27-2005, 03:57 PM

it's the h-scroll, ya heard?

Stormeh

12-27-2005, 03:57 PM

I got scroll bars at 1280x1024, dick.

EDIT: It just occured to me that he probably didn't see the ginormous pic... he probably came in after it was edited.

I saw a 600x338 image on the front page. Is that what you see?

At any rate, no reason to bring dick into this. He's a good guy.

JazGalaxy

12-27-2005, 04:00 PM

It would be awesome if they actually made let you walk around the car lots and test drive the cars of your choice...

And a virtual salesman would try to talk up the individual cars features to you...

Presentation like that would make videogames so much cooler than they are now...

Rirath

12-27-2005, 04:06 PM

Still on dial-up rirath? The picture took almost an entire second to load for me on broadband. Hardly worth whining about.

No, but everything in proportion. This isn't Geocities, and round here we usually don't use an image that takes 10x more bandwidth than the entire page -- it's just bad form. EA is rather minimalist.

I saw a 600x338 image on the front page. Is that what you see?

Obviously the post has been edited. The original was twice that size.

Veloxi

12-27-2005, 04:11 PM

Crap, I was hoping this would be a sequel to Test Drive: Eve of Destruction. THAT game kicks all kinds of fucking ass.

Suicidal ShiZuru

12-27-2005, 04:13 PM

It looks rather bad when you see the screens at full res...

XenonCJ

12-27-2005, 04:17 PM

Nice, that pic looks pretty fucking real...

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 04:21 PM

It looks rather bad when you see the screens at full res...

No it doesn't.

Suicidal ShiZuru

12-27-2005, 04:33 PM

No it doesn't.

Yeah... mmk... I guess you like blurred backgrounds and jaggies for paint stripes

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 04:35 PM

Jaggies for paint stripes?

I think you must have accidentally stumbled into the Gran Turismo website.

JazGalaxy

12-27-2005, 04:42 PM

It looks rather bad when you see the screens at full res...

I hate this kind of talk. "Bad" is a terms that should be generally left behind when describing modern games. I've heard people call Perfect Dark "ugly". That's just a ridiculous eggageration of the games flaws.

"not perfect" does not equal "bad".

Thenetcase

12-27-2005, 04:43 PM

Except it expands my goddamned page, makes it so I need to horizontal scroll to see the full posts further down.

Dude, get an f'ing screen capable of displaying more than 800x600... Damn you live in the arch age or something, boy!!

Kelegacy

12-27-2005, 04:43 PM

Red Cloak gets halted from smearing poop on the main page and another takes his place. It's like a Hydra or something.

Thenetcase

12-27-2005, 04:46 PM

It looks rather bad when you see the screens at full res...

That's pretty friggin' caloused... but you have a point.
This game, in no way, even TOUCHES elbows with PGR3. :)

Might still be heaps of fun though, and that's what counts. I'd buy both games... if I had a 360 ;)

-TNC-

Suicidal ShiZuru

12-27-2005, 04:47 PM

For those not agreeing with me, go to the site, view a screen, then click download.

Thenetcase

12-27-2005, 04:49 PM

Reanimated

12-27-2005, 05:03 PM

Red Cloak gets halted from smearing poop on the main page and another takes his place. It's like a Hydra or something.

So who will troll all the threads when you're gone? :(

Noiz

12-27-2005, 05:32 PM

Oh and let's not forget that MOST racing games are about physics.. even if they're unrealistic... they have to be fun. My main complaint with the Test Drive series is that the controls and physics are appalling. Let's hope they fix that.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Test Drive games have always looked great but have been lacking in the physics and gameplay department. So now that EA have completely turned the Need For Speed games into a glorified Pimp My Ride lets hope this one can take over the market that NFS has left behind.

ezra

12-27-2005, 06:03 PM

That picture shrank every time I've checked the main page tonight.

Bumbuliuz

12-27-2005, 06:14 PM

The big question for me is; will is suck like the lasr games! :)

TKO

12-27-2005, 06:15 PM

That's exactly what I was going to say. Test Drive games have always looked great but have been lacking in the physics and gameplay department. So now that EA have completely turned the Need For Speed games into a glorified Pimp My Ride lets hope this one can take over the market that NFS has left behind.
Yeah, my main concern is the car-physics. They don't have to be 100% real. I don't mind a little artistic license in the name of gameplay and fun, but I don't wan't dumbass physics like Ridge Racer has. (I keep comming back to RR as it keeps getting so damn pretty, but just can't stand the driving-model ..the curvy model is a different matter.) ;)

I liked the last Test Drive preview I saw, but even from that the physics looked a bit lacking. Not sure if I could really like it.

TheEpicOfTyler

12-27-2005, 09:20 PM

Borys

12-27-2005, 09:38 PM

Sorry, Reanimated, but it's still Test Drive. This could look like the Second Coming of Jesus and will still play like shit.

Genital Eclipse

12-27-2005, 10:18 PM

Seriously, can we get back on-topic about the size of the screenshot on the main page?

I need more stuff to sit back and laugh at in pity while i wear no pants.

SynapseLapse

12-27-2005, 11:00 PM

Wow. This takes me back. It reminds me of how amazing this:
http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/td3.jpg

looked after having played this:

http://home.comcast.net/~linasach/td.gif

The rain effects really blew me away.

TKO

12-27-2005, 11:46 PM

Some of the screens look really good, while some of them look very un-polished. Renders/Gameplay?
Good: http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/31.jpg
Bad: http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/17.jpg
I don't know, maybe I'm just looking into things to much?

Maybe the truth is somewhere in between? Knowing EA, maybe the truth hasn't even been photographed yet? :D But hey, it's an EA title ..it has to be pretty darned good to get me to buy from them again. So with EA stuff I think it's safe to say I'll be keeping my money.

I'm wondering just how much of a difference we'll be able to notice when it's all flying past at 200kph. Sure, motion-blur will make it a bit more realistic looking. But when yer looking hard at the apex of the next corner, will ya notice? :)

Deadend

12-28-2005, 12:07 AM

It's an Atari game, not EA.

That said, it looks good enough for the 360. I like the idea that I heard the game will be based around free roaming multiplayer mode with more than 8 or so people at once. I heard it will presistant, but I am not sure if cramming 2,000 people into a small area is a good thing.

megaman

12-28-2005, 02:01 AM

Can i get links to the trailers on the site..flash is banned on my pc

phantomhitman

12-28-2005, 05:05 AM

Game is ok, but it is no were near pgr3. I might rent this one....

TKO

12-28-2005, 05:18 AM

Can i get links to the trailers on the site..flash is banned on my pc
I'm not sure about the trailers on that site specifically .. the only trailer I ever saw I downloaded from here on WorthPlaying (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=1246&id=4287).

Looked pretty, but I was concerned by the physical behaviour of the cars ..Kinda like when you see a Ridge-Racer trailer and go "wow" at the shiny cars, but then see the huge powerslides into .. every .. single .. turn. I just think "now that's not right." Pretty, but potentially s--t to drive. (And given the whole Test Drive franchise has essentially been based on graphic appeal with a passing glance at the actual driving, I don't hold out much hope for it. I'd like to be wrong though.)

It's an Atari game, not EA.
Holy crap, you're right. Hmmm... I thought the very old ones were EA (we're talking c64 and Amiga era here), but I look back and see it was Accolade. Guess I was just thinking "shallow game, infinite sequel train .. must be EA." :D

Bubby

12-28-2005, 07:48 AM

Can i get links to the trailers on the site..flash is banned on my pc

Try these:

http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/videos/download/trailer01.zip
&
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/videos/download/trailer02.zip

absolut taco

12-28-2005, 08:29 AM

Sorry, Reanimated, but it's still Test Drive. This could look like the Second Coming of Jesus and will still play like shit.
Huh? It could look like a spoonful of white goo?

Hey Borys, how did those actual Perfect Dark Zero reviews compare to your predictions a month ago? I think your words were something like "mostly 6s, maybe a 7".

Thenetcase

12-28-2005, 10:49 AM

Some of the screens look really good, while some of them look very un-polished. Renders/Gameplay?

Good: http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/31.jpg
Bad: http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/17.jpg

I don't know, maybe I'm just looking into things to much?

"Bad" is a picture of a car sitting still (no motion blur)

"Good" is a picture at high speed.. the motion blur effect makes the game look decent, even though there obviously was minimalistic effort put into the sprite-based craptacular scenery.

Basically it's lazy-ass developers using video effects to make an ugly game look pretty.
-- Kind of like putting tons of make-up on Ashley Simpson!

-TNC-

XenonCJ

12-28-2005, 02:35 PM

Huh? It could look like a spoonful of white goo?

Hey Borys, how did those actual Perfect Dark Zero reviews compare to your predictions a month ago? I think your words were something like "mostly 6s, maybe a 7".Actually I would think Jesus could fill a few 1 gallon milk jugs...

XenonCJ

12-28-2005, 02:47 PM

Hmm here's some other pretty decent shots :

http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/40.jpg
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/2.jpg
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/7.jpg
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/25.jpg
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/39.jpg
http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/41.jpg

SynapseLapse

12-28-2005, 02:51 PM

Hmm here's some other pretty decent shots :

http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/2.jpg

The FSAA on the shots look very clean. It's nice to finally see some console games get the FSAA lovin'.

But what's up with the motorcycle person in that shot? It looks like a 2d video overlay.

XenonCJ

12-29-2005, 07:57 AM

The FSAA on the shots look very clean. It's nice to finally see some console games get the FSAA lovin'.

But what's up with the motorcycle person in that shot? It looks like a 2d video overlay.Yeah it does look weird, but here's another shot of a motorcycle...

http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/02_medias/shots/bigshots/5.jpg

absolut taco

12-29-2005, 08:17 AM