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This was my first Xbox game and it was worth it. It has all the fun of your favorite Off Road games from the past, plus several unlockable features and an awesome soundtrack featuring Metallica among other hard-rocking bands.
Someone said the physics are terribly unrealistic on this game. That is not true. The only places where liberties are taken with physics is when the game will let you roll your truck over in midair or when you're upside down, which is good because then you can do midair flips ;) and don't have to wait too long to recover from a bad landing. Contrary to their claims, you will get jarred around often (in accordance with reality), especially when driving the Unlimited Chevy Blazer.
The Xbox version offers smoothed graphics (no jaggies whatsoever) and a new truck (the Chevy Avalanche). Multiplayer is as good as in other games, and free roam mode allows you to just romp around and have fun (especially on the moon!). There are 16 trucks total and 27 tracks.
It doesn't quite take enough advantage of the Xbox's power, which is why I didn't give it 5 stars. That's the only bad thing about it though.

This game is a great game if u wanna chalenging, hard to beat racing game. This game has awesome graphics and its not so easy to beat it took me about 30 MINUTES to beat one of the races. Although, sometimes you may get frustrated when you race, and sometimes you're in 1st and then someone comes and knocks you out-or spins you out-you end up in 5th.

Good Things-
Awesome Cars (Stock cars in speed and power, Modified cars in speed and power, Pro cars in speed and power, and Unlimitied cars in speed and power)
NOT easy to beat
good graphics
ALOT of races
A GOOD GAME
Good music, and sound
once beaten still really fun to play
really good with multiplayer
free roam is fun

Bad things-
Frustrating at some points
when selecting things have to push the button awfully hard
easy to win once in front of everyone kind of alot

so overall, A PRETTY GOOD GAME RIGHT(...)

I'm a big fan of arcade style racing, and Test Drive:Off Road took it to the next level. (If you prefer more "realistic" racing where you buy parts & make money see my review on 4x4 Evo2 instead.)

Test Drive delivers the one thing I have wanted from a racing game for years, the ability to choose your own way through a course, AND still win. In '98 Microsoft came out with Motocross Madness, where you rode dirtbikes and did tricks for points, but when you were in racing mode, if you left the track, you didn't stand a chance of winning.

Test Drive is different. There are tracks that you can use, and finish, and win on. But you can choose to go off road and win also. You choose your vehicle based on what you want to do. There are power vehicles and speed vehicles. The speed vehicles do well on the relatively flat dirt tracks that lead to the finish, while the power vehicles that have lower top speeds do better leaving the beaten (longer) path and taking the shortcut over the top of the mountain.

That said, there is still a downside: There are a relatively limited number of races, so if you are like me and tend to finish games quickly then this one won't take you long. It can also be frustrating, because when you play in the hardest mode, the other vehicles will attempt to bump you and make you spin out. That is really annoying when you managed to stay in first place through an entire race, and then get spun out 10 seconds before you hit the finish line and you end up in 5th place.