there's a lot of news on eden studios' sequel, test drive unlimited 2, coming out of spain today. vg247 attended the event and spoke to the game's director, alain jarniou -- he had a lot of new information to impart. as you may have guessed by the title of this post, three very juicy tidbits were dropped.

first, players will not longer find themselves bound by their automobile. in the sequel, it will be possible to run around on foot and interact with the game world ''''''in specific places.'''''' an example given by jarniou is the pre-race: in the first game, there was simply a lobby for players to interact in before they got down to business. in the sequel, it's an in-game place where avatars stand around and interact.

but jarniou didn't stop there. he also revealed that plans are underway to offer an open test drive unlimited 2 beta. ''''''right now, the plan is to have an open beta of tdu2. the difficulty of having a demo for a game like this is the fact it's a huge island, and a huge amount of data. it's not the best way to show the game. so yeah, for now the plan's an open beta.''''''

finally, jarniou promises bikes will be available in the game -- just ''''''not for the day one version.'''''' he says that the developer rebuilt the way cars handle from scratch, as eden studios wasn't totally pleased with how that worked in the first game. ''''''so we decided to start from the beginning,'''''' he said, ''''''and we now have a new handling for the cars, and we want to, of course, [do the same] for the bikes.''''''test drive unlimited 2 director reveals plans for beta and bikes originally appeared on joystiq on wed, 12 may 2010 20:00:00 est. please see our terms for use of feeds.




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