Atari have made the Test Drive Unlimited MegaPack available for download.
It's about time we had some new content for this excellent driving game, and the expansion pack includes a grand total of 46 new vehicles. That's made up of 45 new cars and a single motorcycle, with a good mixture of German, Italian, American and Japanese exotica (see the full list below).
However, there's a catch - it's only available from Atari and it costs money ... real money! For Brits they're asking £9.99, which works out at a relatively cheap 22 pence for each new set of wheels.
For your money you can add the following motors to your Hawaiian garages:
Alfa Brera
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R
Audi RS4 quattro Saloon
Koenigsegg CCR
Audi S6
Lamborghini Countach 25th anniversary
Chrysler Crossfire® SRT-6 coupe
Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe
Chrysler Crossfire® SRT-6 Roadster
Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster
Dino 246 GT
Lexus GS 450h
Dodge Challenger RT
Lexus IS 350
Dodge Charger Super Bee
Lexus LS 460 L
Dodge Viper SRT-10 coupe
Lexus LS 600h L
Edonis
Lexus SC 430
Ferrari 250 GTO
McLaren F1 GT
Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole
McLaren F1 LM
Ferrari 512 TR
Mercedes CL CLK GTR
Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Nissan Skyline GTR R34
Ferrari Challenge Stradale
Noble M400
Ferrari F40
Pagani Zonda C12S Roadster
GM (Cadillac®) Cien™ Concept
RUF RGT
GM (Cadillac®) CTS-V™
RUF RK Spyder
GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® C1 1957
RUF Rt 12
GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® C6™ Convertible
RUF Rturbo
GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® Stingray™ Convertible 1971
Spyker C8 Spyder
GM (Saturn™) Curve™ Concept
Spyker C8 Spyder T
Holden Efigy Concept
TVR T440R
You can download the Test Drive Unlimited MegaPack from here.
Quite how this will work online is a bit of a mystery at the moment. Some playres will be driving around in cars that other players won't have installed on their machine, so what will they see in their game world? This needs some more investigation.
Test Drive Unlimited MegaPack Available Now
Hanging Around In Jerusalem
So today's the day that Assassin's Creed hits the PC, and I still can't make my mind up whether I'm going to buy it or not.
This month's PC Gamer dropped through the letterbox a couple of days ago, featuring a four page Assassin's Creed review. Now that I've read the review I'm in two minds whether I want to actually play the game or not, never mind whether or not my gaming rig can handle the Assassin's Creed specifications.
PC Gamer rated the game at 80%, which isn't a bad score to get and was the third highest review in the mag (behind two Sims expansions, surely that should serve as a warning).
Update - the PC Gamer review has been published at GamesRadar.
However, it sounds very much like it's a game of two halves, one brilliant, one less so. Apparently the cityscapes are huge, the scenery stunning, and the gameplay is great when the action starts with a clever game engine that allows you to make the most of Altair's ability to run, jump and climb. But there's too much faffing around in the build-up to each hit, trying to find information on the target through the missions which are a drag.
To make it worse, the ending apparently turns into a hack'n'slash affair that abandons all of the stealthy gameplay that has gone before it. As Tim Edwards so eloquently puts it in his review, 'it's a betrayal of everything the player has learned so far'.
Part of the problem is that I was going to buy Assassin's Creed on Steam, which means no refund and no chance of flogging the game on eBay.
The thing is, I'm a sucker for games like this. Sneaking about, hunting down your target in a heavily defended fortress and then timing the kill to perfection ... sounds like fun to me. But am I just going to end up disappointed if I buy Assassin's Creed?
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A Steamy Affair For Altair
Valve have announced that a number of Ubisoft's titles will be available for download via their Steam distribution network, and that includes the upcoming Assassin's Creed.
The total number of Ubisoft titles is expected to reach over 40, but initially only a handful of games will be available. You can pre-order the PC punisher Assassin's Creed for $50, in time for its launch on April 9th, or you can relive classics such as Far Cry (for $9) and Splinter Cell ($18).
Expect the additional titles to include some of the Tom Clancy and Heroes of Might & Magic series.
There's no sign of the games at the time of writing, but I'm sure they'll be on the network quite soon.
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
There's a detailed preview of LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (to give it its full title) over at GamesRadar, and this game sounds better and better.
The preview gives an idea of how the game will be split into chapters, following the same format of the LEGO Star Wars games (3 episodes with 6 chapters each). It sounds like all of the films best action sequences will be in the game as we follow Indy's travels around the world.
One question ... now that they've added 'The Original Adventures' as a suffix to the name, does that suggest they might have a go at The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles?
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is still on target for release on 6th June.
