There’s some grand collecting going on in Test Drive Unlimited 2, which gets open-world caRPGing better than any other game. That’s not much of a compliment, since the only other contender is Fuel (the exquisite Midnight Club LA never did much to encourage open-world exploration and collecting; it was more of a grand playground than an open-world game).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/02/09/test-drive-unlimited-2-finely-coiffed-while-awaiting-fixes/