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Great game and it was only $39.00 when it was released so you might be able to find it cheaper. I have not played it for sometime so I can't comment on how it plays now but I never had any huge issues online. I would put this game up there with one of the more hardcore sims, motor cycles are fun but unrealistic, cars drive great and each car has a unique feel and sometimes a unique learning curve, it has 80+ vehicles in retail and more can be accessed via DLC(Marketplace). There has been a demo out for sometime and I would recommend d/l it. If you're a racing fan I don't think you will be disappointed.

I will probably be picking this up as it seems to be the only other game besides PGR3 that works well with the FF wheel. You can't enable the wheel in the demo though, which is puzzling.

it's a good game especially at the price point. the people complaining about online are the probably the ones that are having issues connecting with people because of NAT issues. if you leave your NAT open, then you should have no problem connecting with people.

personally, i like the game. it's not your usual racing game (GT comes to mind) because i'm not in it just to race. i'm just driving around Oahu and collecting different cars while meeting people on the road. it's rather relaxing to me.

Amazing game. It's an MMO racer. You make missions, transport people, PvP, customize your character, mod your car/moto, etc. It' almost Oblivion on wheels. Highly recommended.

I really like TDU it's something new and fresh for a racing game it's well worth the money. I never had any online problems.

Ill say go for it...tons of cars lots of roads to explore.

I logged onto the demo last night to test the wheel and I found that you can't turn it on in the options, but you can still steer with it. You just have to turn it about 1/4 of the way to get it to respond. So I was driving all over the road and this one guy decided to just start ramming me for the fun of it and I couldn't get away. I didn't see a way to turn off the MMO portion.

Get the full game. It is well worth the purchase price. The demo sucks, too many limitations.

Hell, I'll give you mine..

If you stand still you go invisable or you can go back to the map and go somewhere else.. Annoying yes but you avoid him..

I didn't play for long because the wheel was not really supported.

I started out disliking it, then I would up loving it and playing it all the time. It helps once you get accustomed to some of the road areas around the island. The handling is good no matter which view you use, I prefer the in-cocpit.

I'm still working my way through the single player game tho I am getting close to wrapping that up, when my unbricked 360 machine makes its way back to me I'll work on finishing off some of the last of the single player missions.

When you travel around from place to place you will see single players racing by...thats neet.....its fun when you're in Single Player, and choose to race to a mission rather than just "warp there".....its also neet to be driving with other people also on their way to single player missions.

I enjoy the car-delivery missions (which require you to drive very conservatively if you want to earn the maximum money in the game, which you'll want to do if you want to buy the faster cars, earning cars in this game takes time. Its nice to have to, say, really watch your
passing and learn how the car handles in order to make it to the delivery point without ANY issues, which lower your total $$$ take home.).

If this sounds overly fanboyish, I must admit to have taken a real shine to the game after being initially very disappointed in it. It controls great with the joypad, tho it would be perfect for use with the wheel.....hopefully a patch is in the works.

it was great at first but there are missions later in the game where you have to drive like 50 plus miles etc. and it just gets stupid, i really want to play it but the controls and the extremely long missions get overwhelming after a while.

I really, really wanted to like this game. I kept playing it, thinking it would get better, and for me, it really didnt.

I really didnt like the controls...they seemed inconsistent to me. Its a "meh" looking game (your in-game counterpart is UG-LY). I had no online problems with the game, but it just didnt suck me into the world.

It was a good attempt, though. There are some really solid ideas. Perhaps a sequel will iron out the issues.

When I first got the game I commented how, had anyone other than Atari developed the title, it would have been a home run. Instead its more like a ground rules double. There are alot of areas that need polish, and the game...while being massive...has a "last gen graphics in a next-gen 720p resolution" look to it.

But I kinda dig those 35 mile missions....you really gotta drive careful....and it becomes a real challenge to pass a half dozen cars and then not go off-road or clip another car or whatever...sometimse the cars you gotta drive are dogs, or they handle terribly, or they're too quick....its part of the challenge.

Its "different" from PGR3 which is, basically, buy a super fast car and race on tracks.

I do like the open-ended racing...but the moon-buggy physics when going over bumps can get a little stale.

Little touches...like hearing the exhaust notes and road noise change when you raise or lower your windows, and the excellent quality of the engine sounds....those do work really well, however. I also like being able to adjust your in car view.

I dunno, I like it. I can definately see, however, whys ome folks dont.

To me its like GTA III....you give up fancy graphics in exchange for an open-ended world...while the graphics aren't BAD, they are a bit Meh.

i just remembered that there are no pedestrians in this game lol. plenty of pedestrian cars though

Yes there is waaaaaaaaaay to many cars for such a small island..

Headrusch

You are right, I actually liked the car models, and the scenery was really nice, I guess the people models were so awful, that I just fixated on it. I mean, the guy I picked out looked emaciated, EAT SOMETHING!!

Oh, and you brought up my #1 annoyance and stated it perfectly. When racing and you hit a bump, that's it. If you dont slow down, your doomed, but yet the AI can do it perfectly. ARRGH! Bad, bad, bad BAD game design.

Like I said, it does have some really good ideas. The long drive missions actually broke up the game nicely I thought. Maybe its b/c I didnt progress all that far, but it seemed like a few more variety of races were needed, too.

I think you really have to want to get the other cars in the game, so you'll go through the missions....unlike PGR3 it does take alot of work to earn money in this game so buying cars becomes a very selective process.

PS: you can change the look of your characters...
I picked a chick and wound up getting her to look almost exactly like Michael Jackson (the current Freak version).... I dig the car physics once you get used to them..in SOME ways they are more realistic than PGR3, in other ways not so much. Still, its fun...

Unpolished? Yes...great concept? Absolutely.....to me there wound up being more to like than to dislike. Plus, racing first-person on the bike was the first time a game ever made my physically nauseous while playing

I've read that the retail version works well with the wheel. It's the demo I was talking about where I couldn't enable the wheel. I will tell you if this is true when I pick up the game next week.

Well... I played TDU last night and it downloaded a patch.

Last time I had played the game with the wheel, the control was awful (being plagued with a waay too big dead zone).
Last night after the patch I activated the wheel in the option menu sliding linearity cursor a quarter to the left. I also putted wheel sensitivity to max.

Then I started to actually enjoy the game with the wheel. I hated the controls, now I love em.

I rented the game a few days ago...I'm hooked! Feel free to add me to your friendlist if you want to get some races going or just mess around. I'll be picking up the game this week.

I love the details they put into the cars and the sounds of each car is really nice also.

I haven't fired up this game in awhile...I bought the added car packs, and even bought a couple of the cars...(Wanted the vintage Ferarri but at 3 million....DONT think so ).

Have they released the FF patch yet?

Once they do I'm going to be tempted to get the wheel in anticipation of Forza 2.

I got it, I really like it. It is a racing game that actually makes you learn to brake and learn how to drive. The side missions like the driving people around can get tedious. The speed races are a quick way to pick up cash. Online is fine, I havent had no lag or problems with it and its a laid back atmosphere. I was driving around in my crappy Chevy SSR and this guy on a back just drives up to me and asks if I want to by an F1 Mclaren for 50k with only 8 miles...Really cool people online, at least in my experience. The upgrades are not all that great but its a solid racing title...I would like to play it more than I actually do but I am still waiting to find enough time to do the race of "tour of the island" its like 180 miles long and your movement throughout the area is in real time...Worth it for 40 bucks definately.

TDU was my game of the year for 2006. It does a whole lot of things right.

If you can take a modified bike into those "race of the islands" then do it......the one where its all Class A supercars will be a challenge, but if you're on a bike, you'll smoke the competition in no time because they're much easier to control on open roads.

The one where you are fighting the clock with no other opponents, but traffic and cops, that one ISNT as easy (Millionaries challengE)...I mean, I beat it twice.....but it does take awhile..and you can get busted easy if you're not careful. The last time I did it I had 4 minutes to spare......

that one was actually easier with a car....

Forgive my newbie ignorance, but how do you download the patch? I have the game and the wheel, and I've got the deadzone in the middle. Do I need a hard drive or a registration on Live to get the patch? I have neither.

Connect your 360 to the internet.
Sign into live gold or silver will work
put in TDU when connected and it will automatically pop up for an update.

You need to register on Live but you don't have to pay for gold membership, silver will do. I also think you need a hard drive to store the patch.

You then have to activate the wheel in the option menu (on pause) and play with linearity slider to fit your needs. Can you activate the wheel without the patch? I don't remember seing this option there before the patch... Maybe it was there and I just didn't see it...