History VideoGame / TestDrive

* OptionalTrafficLaws: The police won't mind if you drive in the oncoming lane, barrel down at over 200+ or lose control of your car and slide all over the road but they will only take notice of you if you hit them/other cars, hit signs, blow past a red light/stop sign or take a turn without indicating.

** What helps is that the par time is really high, it can take around 46 minutes on the mentioned tour. The real challenge is making sure your internet does not go down during these races, booting you back to the title screen [[DarthWiki/WallBanger even though it was a single player race]].

* AllJustADream: Part of the intro starts out as your birthday, Tess has gotten you a Ferrari California as a gift. During your drive of it, you hear her voice telling you to wake up and... turns out you're ''her chauffeur'' who had fallen asleep in ''her'' California. That being the last straw as she was about to fire you but not before atleast giving you the chance to join the Solar Crown racing series.

* BribingYourWayToVictory - Preordering the game from Walmart gives you the most powerful car in the game, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which blows all the other cars away in the majority of competitions (however, a patch not only buffed the Koenigsegg CCXR to make it compete with the Veyron, it also imposed multiplayer restrictions on cars).

* DownloadableContent: Certain cars, bikes and the ability to enter a casino requires Atari Tokens, bought with [[{{BribingYourWayToVictory}} real money]].

* JokeCharacter - [[http://jalopnik.com/5727675/the-cars-of-test-drive-unlimited-2 For some reason]], you can unlock the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV Citroen 2CV]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle Beetle Type 1]] in ''Unlimited 2''. [[spoiler: The Beetle is actually the [[LethalJokeCharacter best car]] for [[BraggingRightsReward F.R.I.M]] because the gauge filling speed is relative to the car's top speed. Since it is rather slow but incredibly easy to drive, driving at little over 60 MPH against the traffic in the freeways makes maxing F.R.I.M ''ridiculously'' easy.]]
* LuckBasedMission - {{Timed Mission}}s with randomized traffic.

* CoolBike: The trope image is available in the game, along with two Ducati's, you do need to unlock it with [[{{BribingYourWayToVictory}} AT]] though.

* MarathonLevel - Eliminator races tend to be much longer than classic ones. The Island Tour timed races put this UpToEleven. To give you an idea of how long they are, the Ibiza version, which is the shortest, has a par time of '''''54 minutes''''', and is around 71 miles long.

** Pre-ordering from {{Steam}} gave you an exclusive Pagani Zonda Tricolore (that you had to unlock by getting the required license through regular gameplay).

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]/MaleGaze - your avatar will only and always flirt with the (female) Top Model hitchhikers, whichever gender you picked.

A DrivingGame series by {{Atari}}, VideoGame/TestDrive has seen races across the globe, in almost anything with wheels. The latest installment, ''[[WideOpenSandbox Unlimited]]'' set players loose on the island of Oahu, with the upcoming ''Unlimited 2'' adding the island of Ibiza. It's a [[VideoGameLongRunners Long Runner]], as the series has been around since 1987.

* MarathonLevel - Eliminator races tend to be much longer than classic ones. The Island Tour timed races put this {{Beyond the Impossible}}. To give you an idea of how long they are, the Ibiza version, which is the shortest, has a par time of '''''54 minutes''''', and is around 71 miles long.

* FirstPersonSNapshooter - You'll have to take photos of specific places of Ibiza and Oahu to complete certain missions.

* AmateurPhotographer - You'll have to take photos of specific places of Ibiza and Oahu to complete certain missions.

* RubberBandAI: Especially flagrant in the 2001 game.

* GottaCatchThemAll - many of the [[HundredPercentCompletion final]] [[CharacterLevel Achievement Points]] you earn are of this type. Most notably, the points for "finding all roads". ([[GuideDangIt Hint]]: they mean ''all segments'' of all ''major'' roads.)

* DiscOneNuke: Most classes of vehicle have one, but none play this straighter than the Chevrolet C6 and [=Z06=] Corvette coupes. Due to their stable handling, they also can function as JackOfAllStats.

* JokeCharacter - [[http://jalopnik.com/5727675/the-cars-of-test-drive-unlimited-2 For some reason]], you can unlock the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV Citroen 2CV]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle Beetle Type 1]] in ''Unlimited 2''.

A DrivingGame series by {{Atari}}, Game/TestDrive has seen races across the globe, in almost anything with wheels. The latest installment, ''[[WideOpenSandbox Unlimited]]'' set players loose on the island of Oahu, with the upcoming ''Unlimited 2'' adding the island of Ibiza. It's a [[VideoGameLongRunners Long Runner]], as the series has been around since 1987.