As promissed... I rewrote this review after I completed the single player races in TDU2. Keyboard player
Kinda short game to be honest, TDU1 had more races and was a little less tadious then TDU2 when it comes to the real aspect of racing. Let me just say it, that TDU1 was more fun then TDU2.
Ok so, beside benefit of earning cars upon completing cups (which are available when you complete the single player races of an island) you get a 200 km long race (complete crap keeping you focus for 50mins+) and alot of nerves completing the tests needed to get a specific license.
There was this test I remember I couldnt complete it whatever I was doing unless I setup the gear shifter in manual mode, otherwise my car would spin like crazy upon accelerating. I cant remember which races it was exactly but it was a mercedes a3/a2 class and the race was a timed race in the mountains. Maybe it's a tip for others, switch to manual gear shifting or your car will become incontrolable.
Generaly the dynamics driving of the car should be improved to make obtaining of licences less annoying. The annoying feeling is actually the definition for the whole game, as each car you drive can go loose on a split second if you arent very carefull when you press left or right button.
I could say you could, with a bit of extra care, drive any car with your keyboard tho on some cars you should be extra carefull on the initial acceleration. For some reason some cars tend to spin even if you do not turn the wheels upon initial acceleration. If that happens you just have to let the acceleration loose a bit.
The same problem with cars randomly having delays upon green light when using automatic gear shifting remains. Very frustrating if it happens on a time trial because time trials usualy have a hard to beat time. Other races are a bit easier to win. No ideea to be honest why time trials are harder then others but here is another interesting thing I discover.
Some things have positively changed from TDU1, very little positive things but here is one positive thing. Its always better to take a corner easier than to hit the sideway slide. Generaly hiting the sideway slide will slow you even more and altough it looks to you like you are beter that way yoy arent.
Someone once said "you need time to adjust your driving style" I tend to agree with that person but I must add the fact because of the buggy keyboard control of the car the game looks a bit extreme. In other words game is too little fun and too much focus and extreme.
I vote too for the availability of the offline casino since not everyone has time to enter online and play the casino. Some people have only specific hours when they can play and for some reason game servers are more offline then online.
Overall I'm looking forward to see more new things in this game, more fun things in fact, the game is full of extreme things. Yes and then again there is those extra stuff you can do which is a bit fun, but the driving system needs to be made beter.
That being said, if you have enough nerves, will and desire to finish this extreme game rewards are nice and well diserved. I think this game could be improved to be a very good game. Untill then ... gonna rate the game just fair
p.s. Looking forward to see what DLCs will bring new in this game. With single player missions done there isnt many things to do in the game