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But it's not just about reducing the scope to something a small developer can manage. The art and licensing teams can thank me later for this one.

Don't put too many cars in it, and don't let me have all of them.

And although its customisation options are dwarfed elsewhere, this is the only game I can think of that lets you match paint and upholstery colours straight out of the factory catalogue to find the perfect combination. You could poke around the car in the showroom, rolling down the windows, turning the ignition, listening to the reassuring thunk of the doors. Long before Forza Vista, TDU offered the ultimate car-shopping experience. So here is my entirely unsolicited advice to the Kylotonn team on what they need to preserve from the original TDU to set the game apart. It turns out that there are a few specific ingredients in Test Drive Unlimited that haven't been successfully copied by Forza Horizon or, for that matter, anything else. Suddenly the noughties seem like a distant land.īut good lord, it can still intoxicate too. (Did I mention the game is French?) Some aspects of the game seem embarrassingly dated now: the fashion brands (remember when people wore Ecko Unltd hoodies with cargo shorts?) the glossy, Second Life-style lifestyle MMO elements the missions that require you to give ladies a lift home with their shopping.

The visuals now look muddy and plain, the car handling is agricultural, the frame tears and stutters and the human characters all look like weirdly sarcastic shop mannequins. It wobbles on what was then new hardware, stretching the limits of what the Eden team could achieve with it. Revisiting the game on Xbox 360 now, it's almost hard to believe it launched on the same platform that hosted the first Forza Horizon in 2012. Inspired by the original 1987 Test Drive's winding ribbon of cliffside tarmac, this would be a game about the glory of the open road about exploring exotic, sun-kissed landscapes about freedom and danger as you weave through traffic about cruising as well as going flat out.

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Released so early in the last generation that it beat the PS3 to market, TDU dreamed of a different kind of real-world road racing to the studious lapping and tweaking of Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. Forza Horizon simply wouldn't exist if it wasn't for 2006's Test Drive Unlimited.

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It is, however, only fair that the French series returns to try to grab a slice of this pie: it wrote the recipe. Now, a new TDU would be going up against a game that has taken its rough frame and polished it to a gleaming finish: Playground Games' Forza Horizon. Test Drive Unlimited was something of a scrappy underdog in its day, too, of course, but back then its only competition in open-world racing was Need for Speed, a very different beast. Kylotonn is a small studio owned by a small publisher.

Did you know that they're making a new Test Drive Unlimited? It's true! Kylotonn, the French studio behind the well-regarded WRC and Isle of Man TT series, has acquired the Test Drive licence from Atari, and there are veterans of the Eden Games team that made it working at the studio.