test drive unlimited 3

[Dimahoo]

Big Ben are producing this according to vvvv!

 

http://www.teamvvv.com/en/news/comments/New-Test-Drive-Unlimited-games-in-the-works-rights-now-belong-to-Bigben-Interactive

 

 

[T Pot]

Wait.

 

What?!!

[Dimahoo]

Edit to show link.

Frakkin' amazing news.  No details as to the Dev. Yet but at least it's not being managed by the twats at Atari.

[TehStu]

Where do they go with this? I doubt they have the budget for something as hand crafted as FH3, but we've kinda "done" Test Drive on US scale, with seemingly generated content, in The Crew. 

[Dimahoo]

Should be interesting. If they had any sense they'd do Japan methinks.

Options for mountains, high speed motorways, some great roads and bridges. I know that sounds a bit cliche'd but failing that i'd be looking at doing somewhere with one of top gears greatest roads in it. Somewhere like the French or Austian alps.

[Salsa Party Animal]

is Big Ben Interactive good developers ? 

 

[Shimmyhill]

Lets hope for more TDU than TDU2, more FH than The Crew.

 

I think I have the formula nailed now, are they hiring? 

[Dimahoo]

34 minutes ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

is Big Ben Interactive good developers ? 

 

 

They're the Publishers.

Devs are not known at present. Maybe Kylotonn (who did WRC 6 - a fairly solid rally game in the mold of the old CMR games).

 

Maybe they'll make it like the old Test Drive - you know...Linear street racing. Remember that (although its hardly unlimited then!).

[Fletch]

TDU South West please, featuring both Severn Bridges as well as Clifton Suspension Bridge, Cheddar Gorge and Weston Super Mare. 

 

I'd be all over that.

[Dimahoo]

Well they're french devs...i'd reckon on somewhere Europey.

[mushashi]

Both of the previous games were done by a French developer anyway, and they only ever seem to be set on holiday islands so it'd be a big change to go for a more trad openworld setting.

[Dudley]

I'd take the Crew sans the story and plus the ability to own more than about 3 cars.

[Dimahoo]

I hear ya.

The Crew's story was pretty much "illiteratecy" compared to the goings of the Wilder brothers.

TDU's story almost made it to Crashtime/Cobra 11 series of literature (Crashtime 3 that is, not 5 or 6).

 

 

[Salsa Party Animal]

Let hope it is Paris if there is French developers making the game. 

 

[Fletch]

What's that place in France with the awesome bridge? That place, yeah I bloody love bridges.

 

Not Paris it's so grey TDU needs a sunny location and lots of colour.

[Dimahoo]

Milau.

The Garabit viaduct is down that way too (Thats the bridge from the film the Cassendra Crossing is based on).

 

Fuck me if they did that area they could include the second greatest old Racetrack of all time...

Le ole' Charade - 1960's edition.

[TehStu]

34 minutes ago, Dudley said:

I'd take the Crew sans the story and plus the ability to own more than about 3 cars.

The story was awful early Fast and the Furious stuff, and the inability to collect cars really annoying. I essentially only had the Camaro, monster truck from free credits with the expansion, and the Aventador from free blue money from buying an early copy of the game. I did eventually save for a bike (which was incredible to drive) and the LaFerrari, but the handling on the latter was so disappointing I stopped playing, having pretty much done everything.

 

But apart from that, the scenery was fantastic. I'd take that scope again, given the current-gen only treatment. Perhaps a cross Europe affair this time, with the major cities included. I'm a sucker for open world racers, though.

[mushashi]

They've chosen to set it in 2 very world famous holiday islands so far, so assuming the trend continues, pick another one and you would likely be more right than wrong, somewhere sunny. For Asia, Okinawa works or Taiwan if you want something a bit more metropolitan (but China, so probably not for a peaceful life), they've already done the US and Europe.

[Bojangle]

Had Forza Horizon not existed I'd be excited for this as I utterly adored both TDU 1 and 2 last gen, but given the publisher and relatively no name dev, I'm finding it hard to care about this. I suspect it will be a massive stinker.

[Dimahoo]

Hmm...Tehstu 

The Crew was next gen treatment though - and by a fairly competent team. Ubisoft are second only to Rockster for open world.

 

WRC6 was based on some new engine and looks great - but i'm not sure if it'll do open world any better then the crew.

I'm going hedge my bet on Milestone being the devs. They've finished Ride 2.

 

It won't be Kylotonne as they're doing Isle of man TT and Syberia III (oh and Flatout 4 apparently).

[TehStu]

4 minutes ago, Dimahoo said:

The Crew was next gen treatment though

Ah yes, for some reason I thought it was cross-gen. It was an early title though, and suffered for it a bit. The free update was decent, and weather effects much better, but generally it still looked poor to comparable stuff at the time, and obviously looks dog food compared to FH3. Admittedly, I've no idea if that's engine related, or amount of money available to throw at nice assets. 

 

Mushashi is probably right, and an island does actually present a cleaner way to limit scope versus artificial barriers, which FH has always suffered from.

[Fletch]

13 minutes ago, mushashi said:

They've chosen to set it in 2 very world famous holiday islands so far, so assuming the trend continues, pick another one and you would likely be more right than wrong, somewhere sunny. For Asia, Okinawa works or Taiwan if you want something a bit more metropolitan (but China, so probably not for a peaceful life), they've already done the US and Europe.

 

Maybe it'll be the Isle of Wight then, high speed races from Ventnor to Blackgang Chine.

[rafaqat]

20 hours ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

is Big Ben Interactive good developers ? 

 

 

I hear they write a mean hello world.

[SteveH]

3 hours ago, TehStu said:

Ah yes, for some reason I thought it was cross-gen. It was an early title though, and suffered for it a bit. The free update was decent, and weather effects much better, but generally it still looked poor to comparable stuff at the time, and obviously looks dog food compared to FH3. Admittedly, I've no idea if that's engine related, or amount of money available to throw at nice assets. 

 

Mushashi is probably right, and an island does actually present a cleaner way to limit scope versus artificial barriers, which FH has always suffered from.

The Crew was cross gen, it's on the 360 as well

[Boozy The Clown]

I'm still processing this news.

 

Right now my only thoughts are

 

DO

NOT

FUCK

THIS

UP

!

[Dudley]

17 hours ago, Dimahoo said:

I hear ya.

The Crew's story was pretty much "illiteratecy" compared to the goings of the Wilder brothers.

TDU's story almost made it to Crashtime/Cobra 11 series of literature (Crashtime 3 that is, not 5 or 6).

 

 

 

haha, at least TDUs story was very brief.

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

Test Drive Unlimited was mind-blowing back in 2006. I remember meeting up with online mates and just fucking around on that island for hours.

[Plissken]

TDU2 was horribly bugged but I still loved it. Forza Horizon is clearly TDU Done Properly but I still think that there is room for it.

 

Mainly because I don't care for upgrading festivals but do want to buy some sweet, sweet houses and clothes.

[Dudley]

2 minutes ago, Plissken said:

TDU2 was horribly bugged but I still loved it. Forza Horizon is clearly TDU Done Properly but I still think that there is room for it.

 

 

Yeah, in some ways.

 

I agree with you about houses etc but I also loved the mechanic of buying the cars from the dealers you discovered driving round.  Forza H still kinda feels like a normal racing game with a very fancy menu compared to TDU's actual "world".

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

TDU is one of those games that everybody loved except for me. The scale and social aspects were good, but the actual racing itself was horrid IMO.