EXCELLENT OFFLINE!! DISAPPOINTING ONLINE!!
The single player is EXCELLENT. 120 races + 100 missions + a big island = a lot of stuff to do. So the value of the game is high. You will expend more than 30 hours to close every race. Without any doubt, i can say that TDU single player is a lot better than PGR3 single player. PGR3 lacks passion offline. This game is pure emotion and fun offline.
Graphics are great and deserves more than a 7 (gamespot score). Yes, you have some hiccups (nothing annoyng), but the graphics are gorgeus, the light is amazing, cars look cool, the blur effect is great, and.... no loading times!!!, on a huge environment. You will love Oahu island.
The handling of the car is good, and you feel the differences beetwen car classes. The music is the most weak feature of the game, but your 360´s HDD i think have at this time a good compilation to hear while racing.
The problem with this game is online. Yes. This game have been made to play online everytime. And that is cool. You see people around while you are strolling arund the island and you can race against them on instant challenges. The problem is when you race on the online spots of the map:
- Everybody is racing in Waikiki. There is two tracks when everyone is playing online. The rest of the races ( a lot), have nobody racing. And these tracks are boring.
-One night, 10pm ET, there were just 12 races in all the island!. 11 in Waikiki of course. So, is tough to find a good race. Few people online. And mostly online gamers race with A cars 80% of the time. Boooring too.
- You experience lag online. This game is not smooth online as PGR3 was. And this is the big dissapointment of the game. -And when you find a race , you can not retry that race with that group of people.!!. This is weird. At the end of the race, whatever button you press you return to the lobby.
- When i raced 1 v 1 , it was mostly disgusting. If you are winning the race, the other guy easily disconnected from the race. And the race finished!!. So, the server punished the guy who wants to play and don´t quit. And the quitter?..., very well, thanks.
So, this is a great game... offline. Sadly, CPU >>Real people. PGR3 is a lot better online: no lag, no cheats.
But the offline worth enough to enjoy and buy this game, if you like racing games. We will wait until ForzaMotorSport 2, to enjoy a better online experience. I hope that.