Test Drive Unlimited 2 review written 100% by me, Mark Brown

We’ve seen other endeavours to make bigger the perspectives of the online racing pastime: Forza Motorsport’s vigorous souk of customisation and warm-lap war, Gran Turismo 5’s stumbling stab at a more discreet autoaficionado’s alliance, and Criterion publicly networking its way around the online/offline split in Requirement for Haste: Scorching Chase.

Each has delivered ingredients of Experiment Steer Limitless’ audacious pledge: a booming, linked hamlet of gas-skulls; a larger-than-life bodily struggle between bloke, apparatus and boulevard; a free-roaming sovereignty of swiftness. They’ve done it with more buff and flamboyance, better pictures, more tinged and rewarding knobing, more steadiness and, most vitally maybe, additional dramatis personae.

But they don’t have its myogenic muscular organ, and they don’t have its gulp of air taking horizons. On the cosmic Hawaiian land mass of Oahu, Eden dared to hallucinate an online racing dreamland that was set in something dreadfully to the highest degree similar to the bona fide earth (1500 four-sided figure kilometres of it). Bumpy and organized as it was, that nightmare wasn’t given and taken for anything; Analysis Manoeuvre Boundless remains the final worship correspondence to the open dual carriageway in diversion.

In case you were wondering, this is a parody of The Examiner’s David Garfield, who unceremoniously plagiarised Eurogamer’s review, and changed a few words in the hopes of getting away with it. The scamp. Read all the gory details here.