TDU was an awesome game. It was the first game to feature the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve and the open world racing system worked pretty well. I especially loved buying houses and shizzle, although customizable avatars were sadly missing.

The sequel though, offers up a much more realistic approach to living on an island and racing. Proper cut scenes, friends and foes, petrol gauges, plastic surgery and all other kinds of enhanced stuff will be featured in the title which at this moment has no set release date, but will "probably be seeing its official unveiling sometime later this year".


It is planned to actually have a story this time around told through cutscenes and dialoges. The player will meet both friends and foes throughout the career while starting with nothing somewhere in nowhere. Your ingame avatar will have more tuning options then before, more clothes, more accessories, tattoos and body pircing. There will be hairstylists and barber shops where you can get a cut or a completely new hairstyle. You have problems with the police or some enemies and you don't want that they recognize you anymore, no problem, go to the clinic and undertake a plastic surgery on your face or anyother cosmetical treatment. Here is an early ingame look on the updated avatar.





See the fuel gauge? Time to fill up and drive conservatively...


In case you wondered what happened to all the normal cars and bikes after you heard all that off-road stuff, don't worry, nearly all, if not all your favorite makes from TDU will be back including some new ones. But since this is something where licenses are involved, nothing can be confirmed nor denied at the moment until the deals are fix, and as you may know from the past, licensing issues like to appear at the very last moment.

In case of cars, you will have this time a bit more control, not just the windows or the radio, this time you will be able to turn on, turn off the windshield wipers, thanks to the rain, or in case you are driving an convertibel, open/close the roof, just to name a few.

The world is planned to be more richer in detail, to have more life, thanks to that that the people in the game will actually talk this time around, there will be a story, you will have to fight your way up to the top, not just switching from one task to another like in TDU.





[FINAL UPDATE]Part 4 - Here we go with the final bit of teasing.

Races and tournaments on actual closed racing circuits are planned to play a bigger role this time. Also a full 24 hour night and day cycle is planned to finally find its way into the game. Will be of importance cause some missions and races will be only accessible at a certain time.

TDU2: An early look at the Main Menu


Following is an early look at the map screen, you may notice the clock at the top in the middle, below it the display for the current weather and below that a graph going from dawn till dusk, all of importance for the player.

TDU2: An early look at the Map


Another new thing which you probably noticed in the screen before will be racing schools respectively driving schools. Those will be necessary for the player not only to learn to drive all the vehicle classes in the game but also mastering a license will open up the vehicles from the corresponding vehicle class for the player at the various dealers and also give him access to new missions, races and tournaments which were previously closed.

TDU2: An early look at a Racing School



TDU2: An early look at the Car Dealers



TDU2: An early look at a Checkpoint Race



Ohh and before I forget it the team from Pink Whale's CAR WASH service is more then happy to serve their customers this time around.


That's it. Hope you all enjoyed that little teasing, now it's up to eden to finally finish it. An official unveiling of the game at this years E3 is possible but not fix at the moment so fingers crossed for the best.

Over and out


What do you guys think about the enhancements? Did you ever play the original Test Drive Unlimited?

[source: Forza Central]