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Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for offroad action get smugglers run instead of this lame excuse for a game. It's boring and pointless. Avoid at all costs.

Boring.....ZZZZZZ!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is boring....most of the races are the same thing over and over! I have played the one for X-box, and it will let you unlock the moon buggy and the moon level, but the ps2 wont let you! What is up with that?! If any of you gamers out there plan to buy this game.....forget it. Spend your money on something else. If you bought it already, RETURN IT! This game is worthless! If you want a better game, get Midtown Madness 3. That game is way better!

next generation?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

wow! i can't even put into words how bad this game is. initially, i thought it [was bad], but i wanted to spend more time with it hoping that it would grow on me. unfortunately, spending more time playing it only made me despise the developers.

graphically, this game is laughable. it easily could have been a first generation n64 game. everything from the attempted reflection effect on the vehicles to the draw distance of the terrain is terrible.

the bottom line is that i feel like i already spent way too much time with this game, so I'm not going to waste any more going into great detail about how horrible it is. please, for your own good, rent this game before purchasing it.

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Boring.....ZZZZZZ!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is boring....most of the races are the same thing over and over! I have played the one for X-box, and it will let you unlock the moon buggy and the moon level, but the ps2 wont let you! What is up with that?! If any of you gamers out there plan to buy this game.....forget it. Spend your money on something else. If you bought it already, RETURN IT! This game is worthless! If you want a better game, get Midtown Madness 3. That game is way better!

Dont waste your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was very disappointed after popping this game in my ps2. As the graphics are somewhat ok, the general handling and realism are far from ok. When you catch mass air on a jump, you land as if you just jumped a gopher hole. The steering is to tight and the general vehicle selection [lacks]. If you are into realistic games like myself, you would have more fun watching a donkey climb a tree. All and all, I wouldn't even pay the shipping charge for this game.

This game is a rental.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's fun for an hour or 2, and then you're glad you didn't blow your money buying it.

Fun, but far from perfect.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: August 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

TDORWO is a game that I have been looking forward to for some time. I am a huge fan of the Driver series for PlayStation, and Angel Studios' previous PS2 title Midnight Club was a game that captured some of the elements of Driver that I liked. I love being able to drive around and explore an environment. The concept of taking that exploration offroad was one that really appealed to me, so I have been following the development of TDORWO since it was first announced. I picked it up the day it came out and was ecstatic to learn that there is a Free Roam mode. Unfortunately, I have to report that I am a bit disappointed with the final product. I have been absorbed in GT3 since it came out, and that game's graphics and realistic physics just aren't matched in TDORWO. The environments aren't quite as large or interesting as I would have liked, and the career mode isn't very involving. The controls are floaty and the physics are questionable, even though they are touted as being just like the real vehicles in the instruction manual. While the vehicles can't actually climb a 90 degree incline, they are able to climb an 89 degree incline, hang there using traction, and drive laterally along a sheer cliff face. Hardly realistic. Damage modeling is barely present, and amounts to the rear-mounted spare wheel falling off if you hit a tree hard enough.The side of the truck will accumulate a bit of dirt, mud, etc, but hardly an accurate amount. The environments are pretty big, and there's a lot going on, but the Hawaii stage in particular seems a bit rushed, with repetitive textures and sparse vegetation. I like the Moab, Utah stage the best, because it has little touches that make exploration seem worthwhile. The other two don't really. But that's just me. Maybe you're not interested in Free Roam mode, or exploration at all. The racing is competent, but the AI is far from perfect, and some cheap shots come from the competition when they ram you from behind and cause you to spin out. There are three different types of races-Circuit (laps around a laid-out track), Blitz (point A to point B while hitting checkpoints along the way), and Scramble (hitting all the checkpoints in any order you choose). The Career Mode gives you a bank account and cars to purchase/upgrade, and throws you into Seasons and Leagues with different races to win more cash. It all feels pretty contrived, though, because these are the same races you would play in the arcade mode (Single Race) for free with any of the trucks in the game. Maybe I'm being a little too harsh, and maybe I had been expecting too much from this game. It is rather fun, at least during the first few days. I still can't wait to get home and play it some more. Maybe if I stop comparing every game to GT3 (not an easy thing to do), I'd enjoy it more. If you like the prospect of being able to drive and explore a 'Wide Open' environment, check it out-maybe you won't be as disappointed as I (think) I am.

It's ok, but don't spend too much on it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's fun to be able to drive around wildly through the mountains like a maniac. However, the mechanics of the game are extremely sloppy.

One thing that bothers me is how it appears that the vehicles have magnets in the tires that stick to iron deposits in the ground. That's the only way I can explain how you can easily drive up a cliff at 90 degrees. It also explains how difficult it is to flip over when you fly off of something, and the fact that your truck isn't destroyed when you jump off of something that is as high as a skyscraper.

The graphics are decent, and the world you can play in is expansive. I got this game used ... and don't mind that, but I wouldn't want to pay full retail price for it. I've played it for one day, then put it down. There may be other games in this genre that are better, as it wouldn't be difficult to improve on this. Still, it can be fun at times, so if you can get it dirt cheap, go for it.

pretty cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is really cool! You get to choose from a buncha different offroading trucks, my favorite being the Hummer. For each offroad vehicle, you can choose between four different stages of each vehicle, with stage 4 being the best and 1 being the worst. You start out the game with a limited amount of money to buy a truck, so you need to earn a lot more money to get a better one. The different stages on each truck need to be unlocked, with 1 being available from the beginning of the game. There are multiple shortcuts on each track, with some being very obvious. There are some insane jumps in the game, and you seem to land correctly every time. Overall, this is a good game for the not-so-hardcore gamers.

Wide open spaces

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When the new test drve came out i sent my mom to rent it. But she came home with this game. I started to play it and I just went on freedrive and i thought that the levels would be small but, it turned out to be huge! I couldn't find the end of the level. This came has awsome vehicles and great controols all it needs is some cops to bang up!The addons make the game the coolest.

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