Recent reviews by WingZ

Title of this could be "The missed opportunity".
TDU SC is a fun game, no question. As a huge fan of the TDU series I was waiting for this for 13 years.
Some short cons: does not fully have the TDU vibe, bad performance, lack of gameplay variety and wtf is that alien story.

I like the driving physics and if your PC can run it it is a fun game. There we are at the first IF.
My old PC had a GTX 1060 and a i7, could only run it at laggy 25 FPS on every graphic setting on low. Wanted to upgrade anyway, runs smooth on Ultra with 60 FPS on a 7700XT.
Second if, the gameplay variety. Game progression doesn't feel natural. I like that you don't just get scrolled a Ferrari in your first 5 hours of gameplay like in Forza. TDU DNA is grinding for such a Ferrari if you want to have it early, so this is fine. Progression feels unnatural meaning that after doing every race 1 or 2 times you can't reach the next milestones of new car classes or tuning equip. Sometimes you are not even close, which would mean that you need to grind 2-3 hours of racing just to get to the next gameplay step. There is a shortcut of normal achievements which give many XP, but the game isn't quite pointing at them. You can look at them when you are in the map and press Q on keyboard or RB on XBOX, but the game should point more towards this. After discovering this the progression feels more natural, but the game should point towards this more. Back to buying my Ferrari, you can't until the later mid game. Even if you have the money, you need to be level 40 earlier you simply cannot buy such a car. Also goes against the way I played TDU2. You can just grind for the cars that are appropriate to your rank, you cannot buy others.
This and missing houses add up so it doesn't really feel like a TDU type game.
Then the backstory. Racing game typical there normally is not a big story, which is fine. But why did they put aliens in there at the beginning? Until the later mid game (my current status) they don't appear again, so why introduce this bs?! Feels super unnatural and would fit Forza more than TDU. I liked the backstory of TDU2, this from rags to riches feeling of working in a hotel, the going into racing and being able to buy those supercars after mastering each category.
Then we talk categorys. Sadly there are less car categorys than in TDU2, i liked the way the divided it also into classic cars and had a narrow distribution with the asphalt classes. Now the classes are really big, you just skip the Alfa Mito e.g. because you can start in an Alpine, which would come after 4 or so classes in TDU2. There is no reason to drive the classic cars, another missed chance with the car classes there and no driving schools. Tuning on the other hand is okay, not as weird as in Forza where a van could gap a Ferrari.
Houses are not in the game, you cannot enter clothe stores, no mini missions, more missed chances that made TDU stand out.
All in all, it is not a bad game, the exploring is fun, there are TDU elements in it but it is lacking major TDU DNA features that made TDU2 such a great game. For me as a TDU it's a 7/10 currently, it could be a 11/10 if the devs made some other decisions and focused on the hardcore TDU features, and for people not familiar with the TDU story it is propably only a 5/10 which hurts me as a TDU fan. But it is what it is, better we got this than that we never got anything from the series. Let's just hope this is not the finale nail in the coffing of the TDU series.

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