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Originally Posted by Nour Polloni
[splr]Test Drive Unlimited is about an open world where you can meet and challenge online players, either through user-generated or predetermined challenges. The objective is to earn money to acquire the most beautiful and desirable cars in the world. In Test Drive Unlimited 2, we've really capatalized on this basis, extended the core features, and added new elements to really expand that car experience in a luxury lifestyle universe. Concerning the new island we've implemented in Test Drive Unlimited 2, we wanted something different from Hawaii, a bit more warmer, Meditteranean island. We've implemented Ibiza. It's about 380 square kilometers, 930 kilometers of roads, we've got different landscapes, you've got small villages, fields, forests, and deserts, and what's really typical is the historical buildings and narrow roads, so it'll really be a completely different experience for players to discover.
You'll be able to go to Hawaii using the Ibiza airport after you have levelled up in your global advancement. The idea is that with Hawaii, we wanted players to really rediscover Hawaii in a new light. In Test Drive Unlimited 2, we wanted to include elements from the community feedback, so a lot of these elements for example have been the weather conditions or the day/night cycle. We've also implemented new elements of following the players behaviours, like for example, a lot of players just love to cruise around on the island, so we've implemented a way to reward players just for cruising around, or for example we've noticed that players just love to get off the ashphalt road and just explore the environment. Well, we've added new all-terrain vehicles as well as specific offroad networks to really incite players to push that offroad aspect.
We have integrated a new game progression, where now you will be able to progress through 4 different means, either through your collection aspects, your competitions elements, the discovery aspects, or through the social network that you can do.
Test Drive Unlimited was the first game to be what we classified as the 'MOOR' experience, the Massive Multiplayer Online Racing game, and in this version, we really pushed that aspect and extended it even to a higher level. What we did was really push the aspect of the open world (persistant world), needed also reworked in terms of the connections between the players, so that now players, when they meet up they can always stay linked together throughout the game world. We've added new game modes that are linked to a new online gameplay which is the co-operative experience. We've also pushed the customization possibilities for players to really be able to have a unique identity in the online world. You will be able to customize your character as well, you will have a possibility to change their clothing, change their hair, shoes, even the facial composition, so customization is one of the key elements we want to have in the game.
One of the co-operative experiences we have in the game is that you can meet up with your friend inside your car, so 2 people team up inside the same car and your co-pilot can send you directions to follow, either through direction icons or through voice chat, and this co-operative mode, we call it the co-operative passenger mode.
Concerning the other game modes, like cops like in the first one, we'll be keeping that to be revealed later on - we have some really nice stuff with cops in the game.
The clubs are for players to be able to regroup together towards a common goal, like the principles of clans in MMOs. You'll be able to create a club or join a club, so when you create your club, you can invite your friends or other online players you met to join the club, and between club members you can either compete in challenges between each other to have fun or compete in inter-club challenges with clubs of the same level in order to win points and money. With these points and money, you will be able to attain your goal of making your club progress and earn recognition of your teams' skills - and that's not the only thing we have in the clubs. When you progress your clubs to the first level, you will actually be able to have a more luxurious setting, you can invite more club members to come in, but most importantly you'll have access to a car garage where you will have access to very exclusive racing cars that are only available in clubs.
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