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horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the horrible. The graphics are bland and boring.
1) Something feels wrong about the steering / turning physics, trying to power slide will kill all of your forward momentum.
2) The thing that ticks me off the most about this game is the AI of other drivers. They follow a line, which you cannot push them off. You can try to nudge them, but its like trying to push a house! If you are driving next to them, and their line crosses your path, they will ram right into you sending you flying into a wall.
3) The other thing that ticks me off to NO END is the cops. Cops in this game try to catch you, but the key word here is "YOU". Watch the other cars fly by the cop at 100mph, yet the cop ignores them until YOU pass him. The cop will continue to chase you forever. You can drive until the cop is off your radar, but rest assured he still knows where you are and is coming for you. One time I saw a computer car crash into a parked cop car, sent it flying 100 feet, but the cop car did nothing until I passed it.
4) I can't stand the music (which comes from real artist), its mostly rap. If that's your thing, fine, but it isn't mine.
5) Booting is a hassle, turn it on, walk the dog, take a nap, come back and maybe all of the ads for technology and publishers are over.
6) The opening FMV sequence is horribly compressed, looks like utter [garbage].

Things I DO like:
1) The attempt at a story line.
2) PONG. You get to play PONG while it loads the levels.
3) Wide screen support (which is why I originally bought this game)
4) Loading and saving games seem very quick. Apposed to other xbox titles.

If you value your money skip this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was just pure [junk]! Touchy controls, no sense of winning, everything is the same over and over, you can lose or win in a matter of seconds, boring interface and the list can keep going on. I would give it no stars if I was allowed! If you want a good racer pick up "Project Gotham Racing". Much better feel of control overall, better cars, better design, it's just a better game. To make this quick, if you value fifty bucks don't waste it on "Test Drive" it really is that bad!

game is worth more as a frisbee.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When i bought this game i thought it would be like gotham racing but with more of a variety, but i was wrong, it has less variety. No damage on the cars and the lighting sucks. Almost every level i have been to(which is as far as the 4th level on underground mode because i just gave up cause it was to damn long and hard.) is in the night which is anouying. Also you cant get a lead on the computer they are always right there. The cops are also anouying especailly when they pull you over right near the end of the level. Also the computer can knock you into oblivion but you cant even knock them off course, and characters are anouying, they say the same thing every time. This game isnt even worth renting and definantly do not! i repeat, do not buy test drive! Its an exspensive frisbee. In fact i am turning it into funco land.

This game does NOT have HDTV support !!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Anyone considering buying this game because they thought it supported HDTV as has been written about it ... may want to reconsider before they purchase. This game only supports 480p like ALL other XBOX games.

horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the horrible. The graphics are bland and boring.
1) Something feels wrong about the steering / turning physics, trying to power slide will kill all of your forward momentum.
2) The thing that ticks me off the most about this game is the AI of other drivers. They follow a line, which you cannot push them off. You can try to nudge them, but its like trying to push a house! If you are driving next to them, and their line crosses your path, they will ram right into you sending you flying into a wall.
3) The other thing that ticks me off to NO END is the cops. Cops in this game try to catch you, but the key word here is "YOU". Watch the other cars fly by the cop at 100mph, yet the cop ignores them until YOU pass him. The cop will continue to chase you forever. You can drive until the cop is off your radar, but rest assured he still knows where you are and is coming for you. One time I saw a computer car crash into a parked cop car, sent it flying 100 feet, but the cop car did nothing until I passed it.
4) I can't stand the music (which comes from real artist), its mostly rap. If that's your thing, fine, but it isn't mine.
5) Booting is a hassle, turn it on, walk the dog, take a nap, come back and maybe all of the ads for technology and publishers are over.
6) The opening FMV sequence is horribly compressed, looks like utter [junk].

Things I DO like:
1) The attempt at a story line.
2) PONG. You get to play PONG while it loads the levels.
3) Wide screen support (which is why I originally bought this game)
4) Loading and saving games seem very quick. Apposed to other xbox titles.

Not realistic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The worst thing I hated about this game is that it didn't matter how well you did, you could never gain a lead on the others. You could pass a car that was facing the other direction and in two seconds that car would be passing you. So basically it doesn't matter how good you are, it matters how lucky you are. Get rid of the computer assistance.

Nothing special

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As far as driving games go, Test Drive offers nothing particularly compelling. It sets itself apart from other driving games in that it attempts to wrap a story around the races. Seeing where this story goes makes for interesting gameplay, but that's about it.

The driving itself is pretty fun, with courses ranging from twisting urban environment to rurual settings where you can really open it up. You have a variety of cars at your fingertips, ranging from classic muscle cars to modern Italian supercars.

The biggest downside to the game is that there is no damage model whatsoever. If you get into a head on at full speed you'll see some impressive physics as the other car goes flying, but no cars sustain any damage. All you loose is time.

Test Drive is worth a rent, but there are better driving games out there for the XBox (such as Burnout and Project Gotham).

Difficult to play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I still remember the very first Test Drive game, for DOS. It had EGA graphics and all you had to do was press the up, left and right arrows, and it was TONS of fun.

Later versions of Test Drive for PC added better graphics and better physics, but otherwise remained the same. This Xbox version is more or less on the same track (no pun intended). The graphics is good but not much better than the PS2 version. The gameplay is basically the same -- let's race and outrun the cops! -- although there's a mode ("underground") with a storyline and another where you play the cop and tag the six racers to "arrest" them. There are four cities to choose from, and a seemingly large number of tracks.

What frustrates me about this game is, in the basic racing mode, you have to be #1 to win the race and unlock the goodies. And this is very difficult to achieve, because the AI competitors are unforgivingly fast (even though at times they seem a little "stupid" as they crash into walls and other cars -- eventually they always beat you). Plus, it's very easy for you to crash into walls and other cars -- the car physics model is somewhere between arcade and serious simulation -- and if you do this once in a race, there's pretty much no way you can finish 1st; so you'll need start the race over.

The designers could have made the game more accessibly by simply allowing a 2nd or 3rd finish, even if that earned fewer goodies. I played the same tracks over and over again, and after two hours, I simply came to *hate* this game. It's sad how un-fun the Test Drive series has become.

So, in short, PS2-level graphics and difficult gameplay make this game at most a rental title... unless you are a diehard racing sim fan.

Board

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I like muscle cars a lot. The game has some strong points like drag racing is cool exept that it gets boaring after a wile. Underground racing is not bad. The graphics are not the best, XBox could have dont better. The one big problem with this game is that it gets boaring after you play it for a wile.

This sucks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game [isn't good],don't waste your money on this.I found it to have bad graphics and it just wasn't fun.I rented it and I became so bored with it that i took it back 3 days early.If you're interested in a good racing game,get either Sega GT 2002 or Project Gotham Racing.

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