Was I the only one completely unimpressed by the demo?

I liked the demo. I'll probably be picking this up on launch day.

I'm buying it on launch day, especially since it's only $40 (is that a good sign or a bad sign?) I liked the demo, a lot. The car physics are kinda blah, pure arcade and nothing as nuanced as PGR, and certainly not like GT or Forsa. Then again, driving on normal streets with NPC cars all over the place, you wouldn't get much chance to see that stuff anyway. However, I'm a huge fan of "adventure driving" and this is the coolest game of that type, evar. 1000 miles of real road? I'm there. GWJ car club!

Put me down for launch day as well. I never tried the demo, but the premise has me pretty excited. Exotic locales and fast cars? Sounds like all it's missing are the hot women. Though some of the escort missions sound like they may have some of that as well.

For those that didn't like the demo, what soured it for you? Also, is the control more like the recent Need for Speed games than PGR, or even more arcade-like?

Test Drive games have always had a certain feel to them and the demo seemed to continue that style. It's not quite full-on sim but it isn't pure arcade either. The demo actually reminded me a lot of World Racing on the Xbox... if you had that game set to maybe 50% or 60% sim that's probably what TDU felt like. I'm guessing the controls will be tightened up a bit for the final version, too.

I just liked how there were other people in your area as you drove to missions. Plus it had a fun mini-game of trying to line up with oncoming players for a head on collision. Hope the physics gets fixed though as some of those collisions would send me flying backwards several hundred yards.

Well, the concept itself is interesting to me. I love racing games these days.

Most of my problems were with the execution of the game's play mechanics. The inconsistency of the cops, the crazy physics that I only expect in games from the Burnout/Flatout/NeedforSpeed series', and a few other little things that really irritated me.

I'll listen up for impressions and check reviews for more details, but if I hear anything about cops sometimes pulling you over when you're doing 60 and four car lengths away.. then I'm still out

This is a launch day buy for me. I havn't bought a racing game since Full Auto(and that's not really a true racing game). I'm gonna have to agree with everyone's complaints, but I still had fun with the demo. Does anyone know what kind of Lamborghini you get to download if you pre-order it?

You know there's Burnout on the 360 right?

You're weird.

YOU like the latest version of Burnout because in France they hit everything on the road.

There's no Canada like French Canada
It's the best Canada in the land!
That other Canada
Is the bullsh*t Canada
If you lived here for a day you'd understand!

PGR3?

K.

Good to hear that TDU comes with so many cars out of the box. I wasn't aware of that and that makes me mroe confident that Atari isn't trying to micro-transaction us to death. I liked PGR3, but that game is the prime example of why micro-transactions can go a bad. The only cars that anyone seriously competes with online are the ones from the Speed Pack. They are better tuned and faster than anything that comes with the game and if you're playing a stock car against them, you are guaranteed to lose. So they arranged it so that you buy the game and then have to shell out extra money to have a chance at winning online. That was my concern with TDU and while it could still happen, at least you're getting a wide variety of cars to try out on day one.