After having found a challenge, you will always be able to return to it instantly by selecting it on your map, if you wish to try again for better results. Each challenge originates from an actual location on the island, so in order to discover a challenge you'll actually have to drive to it. Test Drive Unlimited's actual gameplay is largely made up of hundreds of challenges-most of which are, of course, races. Once you're done with all the initial creating and buying, it's time to actually start racing. The game also includes a range of motorcycles. All of the vehicles in the game are licensed from real-world manufacturers, ranging from domestic brands like Ford to exotics such as Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Jaguar, and so on. After the purchase, you'll ditch the rental and head to a dealer to buy a car for keeps. Now, I don't know if that refers to owning all of those cars simultaneously or not, but either way, that's a lot of wheels. One of the Achievements in the Xbox 360 version of the game is awarded for the first time you attain one hundred cars.
You'll probably be getting a lot of cars, so you'll be needing that garage. Your home is where you can modify your avatar's clothing and, more importantly, the site of your garage. Since you actually have to drive to the real estate office to purchase your home, you'll first select a rental car and head on over. You'll also receive a starting sum of money, which is used to buy your home and your first car. When you create a character, you'll go through a fairly standard avatar creation process, choosing various visual characteristics or simply selecting a preconfigured avatar. As you drive around the island, the list of eight players you can see is constantly being updated, so when one is no longer in your viewing proximity the game will seamlessly replace it with another that fits your criteria. Or, if you've just started the game, you might simply say to filter out everyone but players in your own skill class. For example, you might choose to be rather picky in terms of with whom who you'll share your roads, filtering out everything but players in red Ferrari Enzos. These filters include such traits as player rank, car type, whether or not the player is in your club (clan), and so on. A set of personalized filters determines which seven players the game will select. At any given time, the game will block out all but seven other players that you can see in relatively close proximity. The online model is much closer to that of Guild Wars rather than most massively multiplayer games. Since the point of a racing game is generally to go fast and drive relatively uninterrupted, that probably wouldn't end up too fun, even if it is slightly amusing just for its novelty value. Though all players coexist in the same world-that is, the playerbase is not split up among multiple realms-your screen will not be filled with hundreds of cars bumping and crashing left and right. Atari calls it M.O.O.R., Massively Open Online Racing, which, despite possibly being a PR term invented so that Test Drive Unlimited can be called "the only game in its genre!" or something, is actually a pretty good description. Though the game is indeed massively multiplayer, it does not contain many of the gameplay trappings of the MMO genre again, this is first and foremost a racing game. Eden has recreated the Hawaiian island Oahu to a high degree of congruence with the real world version, including some thousand-plus miles of drivable roads. The main draw of the game is that, when played online, every single other online player is driving within the same world you are.
Test Drive Unlimited, being developed by Eden Games for Xbox 360 and PC, is first and foremost a racing game, but it's also an MMO-well, sort of.
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