Pros: 50+ Cars. Always Online. Looks great in HD Cons: Framerate Issues at high speed, dumb AI, Not much variety
TDU is basically an MMO game. You're always online and connected to other players on the island. This is good since you can pretty much challenge anyone, provided you're next to someone, anytime you want. Racing online is 24/7 so you don't have to worry about searching for matches when you can't find one.
The game boasts that is have over 300 challenges. However these challenges are all the same. You're either a courier, taxi driver, car deliverer, or hitchiker picker upper. The bad part is that it doesn't change the gameplay. You're still driving from point A to point B.
The games racing isn't very difficult. You can basically win any race provided you've got enough skill or a car/bike powerful enough. Test Drive isn't very challenging due to its easy AI. As for the police, don't expect Most Wanted Chases here. If they can't see you anymore, they wont bother chase you. Infact they'll only chase you if you're on a mission and have caused too much mayhem, or if you hit one of them. After a while TDU gets old and boring. The game doesn't have much replay value, and the online achievments are pretty simple to get. You have no reason to finish the game, since it isn't forcing anything on you. The island Oahu is pretty nice, and fun to drive around on, but thats what you'll spend most of the time doing since you can't fast transport anywhere unless you've already stopped there. At 39.99 it isn't a bad buy since the game isn't broken. The minor framerate issues, which usually occur only when your at realy high speeds, are overlookable. If you're waiting for Forza 2 and is tired of PGR and NFS:MW, look here to get your fill. You'll be hungry in a short while, but at 39.99 it isn't a bad buy.