Customer Reviews

Test Drive

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This game is very exciting. You can be the bad guy or you could be the cops, with three different police cars to choose from. In Project Gotham Racing, you can't be the cops. In Test Drive, if you do a circuit, linear or quick race, you can choose your car and the color. You can also customize your car with your own colors and shininess. If you buy Test Drive don't spend more money for a steering wheel, the car is very easy to control without it. The graphics are as good as can be. The cars look real, the scenarios look real, EVERYTHING LOOKS REAL! You can choose from four different scenarios: London, Tokyo, San Francisco and Monaco as you unlock them during the game. It is also very fun playing 2-player mode. You can't play with more than two people. The ONLY negative part about this game is that you can only choose between two cars in Underground mode. Buy it, it's a great game!

This game is fun and entertaing, for a while that is.. Its graphics to start, arent the best, but they arent the worst. The car models are pretty good. But where in the hell is the car damage, XBOX should have car damage. The towns you drive through look pretty good, and the story behind is not as bad as i thought. But the races are good, but after a while, it gets repetitive, you drive through the same city 10 times, its just in diferant parts, and its not that hard to win. It goes along good, you get differant kinds of races like pink slips and linear and circut. The Bad thing is in pink slip is, if you lose, your outa the job, NO, pink slip meens u lose your car, you should just lose your car and not your carreer.

so hear are the pros and cons.

Pros-1.Not bad graphics
2. Very enternaing for a while.
3. Lots to do.
4. Awesome cars, for muscle car lovers.
5. Good underground story.
6. Love the charachters u race with in the underground.

Cons-1. No car damage

2.Gets repetitive.
3. Pink slips-take the car-not the career
4. In underground u race through the same city, its annoying.
5. NOt enough corses in cop chase.
6. Could be alot better

So, to conclusion, this game is a deffinant rent...

Test Drive is a very exilarating game. All of the sorroundings can be interacted with. The only downfall with this game is that when you crash the cars that you hit go flying and you may aswell but the appearence to the car has not changed. The cars don't actually get damaged.

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.

In ways this game can be fun but in other ways in can be as frustrating as hell!.
First, in underground mode you can only race as two cars?!.

Drag races get pretty boring after a while.

Cop chases are great but why do you always have play as the cop,
why not be able to run from cops?!!.

Most of the music is good but some [disappoints].

And finally graphics are great, as usual with XBOX.
So rent it before you buy it.

I think this is one hell of a racing game, It rocks it's a must have.

The things you love about Test Drive and hate about Test Drive run in a dead heat. The action is fast and furious, the streets flashing by in a 100 mph plus blur is a bit of a rush but ultimately there really isn't much to look at, no check that, there's a lot to look at but there really isn't much to see that we haven't already seen in say... Crazy Taxi. Frame rates are solid but the landscapes are anemic and flat, the cars don't fare much better, feeling a tad on the jagged side with muted paint jobs and reflections. The sound is horrible, with some effects missing altogether, when you pile into a lamp post at break neck speed, there is no sound of crumpled steel, just an odd silence. Which brings us to a another major disappointment, car damage, like the sounds of destruction, there is none, not so much as a scratch or paint chip, no twisted fenders or one single dented bumper, which in the end makes Test Drive feel unfinished to say the least. On the up side however Test Drives levels are large and teaming with traffic and peds, the sense of speed is very nice and the controls are comfortable and easy to acclimate yourself to and the Cop Chase mode is a hoot but in the end there are better and much prettier examples of driving games out there, simulation; Project Gothem, arcade; see Wreckless and for a little of both we'll just have to wait and see how Midtown Madness 3 fares. You wont love test drive but you wont hate it so if you're looking for something different to drive around on your X Box this weekend (that's arcade style crash 'em up fun) rent it and save your money for something useful... like say, a cute poster of a kitty.

This a great game because of the graphics and the new Underground mode. The problem with the game is that after playing a couple races in a city it gets very boring. The reason for this is the tracks are all very similar except for the direction you are driving the track in.

If you dont have this game you have no idea what you are missing. It is one of the best racers to hit the XBOX so far. at first i wasnt impressed with only having a supra and a cuda. and not being able to beat the third level. but after a day to get use to the game it was awsome. i really liked the difficulty of the A.I. characters and all the levels the game had to offer. i eventually beat all 45 levels and unlocked all 30 cars. but that is only the begining after beating the game you unlock all kinds of cool features.

This game is a ton of fun with two players! Even though the initial car selection and track selection is very limited, it is still fun to fly through the cities, racing your friends and the cops. I just wish it had more options for courses to start out with.