Developer : Infogrames
Release date : July 5, 2002
Synopsis :
TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed (Released in North America as simply Test Drive) is a racing video game developed by Pitbull Syndicate and published by Infogrames for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.
Like its previous incarnations, TD Overdrive focused on illegal street racing, dodging traffic, and evading the police. It also featured real life locations for its tracks: San Francisco, Tokyo, London, and Monte Carlo. A fully playable version of Pong was also included in the loading screens. Cars from General Motors make a return after being absent from Test Drive 6 as playable cars, but the returning cars may be the same models, but are still the same generation of the models and may be different model years of the cars.
This was the first entry in the franchise to feature a story mode in addition to the arcade mode. Players assumed the role of Dennis Black, a San Franciscan street racer. Black races in an exclusive street racing club on the behalf of another driver named Donald Clark, who had been injured during a race against Vasily Raskolnikov, one of the club’s most feared drivers. As Black’s victories start to amount, he hears rumors from other drivers that Clark is simply using him to beat Raskolnikov and win his prized Dodge Viper. After Black wins against Raskolnikov, the rumors are proven true as Clark admits to Black that he had been using him just to obtain the Viper. Black then challenges Clark for everything that he has gained over his career, including the Viper. After a series of races set across all four cities, Black wins and Clark surrenders the Viper.
Source : Wikipedia
