In a few words.... Beautiful, but boring.

User Rating: 6 | Test Drive Unlimited PC
By PigVenus | Review Date:
I was hoping for a game with the strengths of the GTA series, but without the "bad" content (so that it would be kid-friendly). While Test Drive Unlimited (TDU) is beautiful, there is little beyond a pretty ordinary driving game. While is not on "tracks" and you can travel cross country to some degree, the environments are still largely non-interactive (you cannot cause damage to the environment). In fact, even your own car cannot be damaged!

I know this is supposed to be a totally different genre than the GTA series, but it is hard not to draw some comparisons. For me, I have found the most rewarding part of the GTA series is not the missions (although they provide a fun distraction now an then), but the free-roaming and (almost) fully interactive environment. Let's admit it - it's fun to cause to mayhem! I love just driving around the huge landscape and exploring. So do my kids (I've modded my version and removed almost all the bad stuff).

If Atari/Eden Studios would make the environments as interactive as the GTA series, they would have a serious hit. The missions are pretty interesting and the graphics gorgeous - it's just missing that "fun" factor.

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