I have played several hours of the demo. Below are my experience with the demo.
1. The "MMOR" part is basically driving the entire 1000 mile island of Oahu with thousands of other 360 owners with traffic and cops in an open environment. Cops will chase you if you crash into cars, create road blocks, etc. This is using TDU servers, sorta like Guild Wars town area but much, much bigger. Not sure if voice chat is used here, never worked for me.
2. The "peer-to-peer" racing supports up to 8 players. There are areas in the map where this is performed. In these races, there are no other cars on the road. This is also similar to Guild Wars when you leave the town and go on a quest. Voice chat works.
3. PC supports this as well. 360 and PC players will not be able to play each other.
4. You can perform time trials when you race with no traffic offline. I think the best times are posted online.
5. Game also allows you to dynamically create waypoint races against an AI opponent with traffic. The race is performed offline. Hopefully full version supports this with online players.
Pretty ambitious and cool game. There will be a newer demo available soon. The current demo has an annoying 15min time out.
Joystiq hands-on: Taking Test Drive for a test drive
Jun 20th 2006 11:36PM (Joystiq)1. The "MMOR" part is basically driving the entire 1000 mile island of Oahu with thousands of other 360 owners with traffic and cops in an open environment. Cops will chase you if you crash into cars, create road blocks, etc. This is using TDU servers, sorta like Guild Wars town area but much, much bigger. Not sure if voice chat is used here, never worked for me.
2. The "peer-to-peer" racing supports up to 8 players. There are areas in the map where this is performed. In these races, there are no other cars on the road. This is also similar to Guild Wars when you leave the town and go on a quest. Voice chat works.
3. PC supports this as well. 360 and PC players will not be able to play each other.
4. You can perform time trials when you race with no traffic offline. I think the best times are posted online.
5. Game also allows you to dynamically create waypoint races against an AI opponent with traffic. The race is performed offline. Hopefully full version supports this with online players.
Pretty ambitious and cool game. There will be a newer demo available soon. The current demo has an annoying 15min time out.