Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown launches September 12 on XBS, PS5, and PC

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Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is a lifestyle and social experience that redefines the standards of open-world racing games. Alone or with friends, explore Hong Kong Island, accurately reproduced at 1:1 scale. Collect exceptional cars from dealerships, customize them in workshops, and showcase your style to reach the elite of the competition.

Pre-order now and experience the ultimate racing & lifestyle experience starting September 12, 2024, on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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Wow are we getting one of those trash racing game with cringe AF story and presentation?

Certainly look so, Horizon and The Crew are the staple of this sad genre.
 
Porticus said:
Wow are we getting one of those trash racing game with cringe AF story and presentation?

Certainly look so, Horizon and The Crew are the staple of this sad genre.
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never played test drive unlimited i take it?

first game was great, second game not so much, i have 4/10 confidence in this being good.
 
xrnzaaas said:
Always online + focus on multiplayer racing = nope.
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Yep. I loved the first TDU. Was sooo good, and i never even touched the multiplayer for that game. But this one is a pass for me.
I have GT7 for the ps5, and i only own it because a coworker gave it to me, otherwise i would have never bought that game either.
 
acm2000 said:
second game not so much
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Always happy to see the series still ticking along, got my name in the credits of one of the older entries as QA, my first out of college job.

But it's a very different series these days compared to it's origins, closer to Forza Horizon than Need for Speed.

I still reckon unlimited 2 has my favorite character select ever made.



That fucking zoom into the defualt white guy who can't dance in slow motion followed by the still moving but slow downed music and dancing is PERFECTION. Shame about the annoying as fuck voice acting, but that's not the fault of the genius that created that character select.

Depending on reviews might pick this up, but I got burned out by both Foza's and GT's recent live service push, it's exhausting keeping up with all the events etc.
 
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Hell yes, Test Drive Unlimited IS my favorite racing game of all time, truly visionary at the time, ex tdu devs went and made the crew, which basically is a worse version of Test Drive Unlimited.

Cant wait to dive back into it. IF its good, thats a big if with nacon.
 
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Hudo said:
Huh. Didn't know that.

This explains a lot.
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Ivory Towers hired a lot of tdu devs from Eden Games.

What makes me hopefull for TDU Solar Crown is that it has creative director is Alain Jarniou, he was working on the first tdu and directed the second.

Also read that higher up in Nacon where also involved in the first TDU and are banking on it being a success and giving it ample dev time. Thus why you have so many delays without it being canceled
 
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SaturnSaturn said:
Ivory Towers hired a lot of tdu devs from Eden Games.

What makes me hopefull for TDU Solar Crown is that it has creative director is Alain Jarniou, he was working on the first tdu and directed the second.

Also read that higher up in Nacon where also involved in the first TDU and are banking on it being a success and giving it ample dev time. Thus why you have so many delays without it being canceled
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I mean, I do hope that they come up with a good alternative to Forza Horizon and The Crew (which are kind of the main competitors here).
 
Physical pre-orders (XSX & PS5) are also up at most major retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.). Here's the cover art for the game:

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Demo up on Steam. ^^




The demo will have no time limit and will feature "carefully curated content" designed to give players an idea of what the full game has to offer, including:
  • 9 out of 14 districts available
  • The first 15 levels of progressions
  • 16 cars available for purchase
  • 22 additional cars available for Test Drive
  • 27 races
  • Streets and Sharps clan HQs
 
NeverYouMind said:
Hell yeah! Hopefully the always online requirement is only a rumor.
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I'm pretty sure it isn't, but I saw some broken English translation where someone on the dev team said they were thinking of ways to turn it off down the road. The implication was that it'll be always online until the game is EOL and then they'll figure out some way to make it offline.
 
U n i o n 0015 said:
I'm pretty sure it isn't, but I saw some broken English translation where someone on the dev team said they were thinking of ways to turn it off down the road. The implication was that it'll be always online until the game is EOL and then they'll figure out some way to make it offline.
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I will test it in the demo. I know that it requires linking a third party account, but that does not really faze me as long as there is not a separate launcher.
 
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64gb sigh. I mean i have 1TB Fibre so it will be like 10mins or somehting, but still i hate it with demo's these days where you have to download the whole game.
 
Demo is lame af. It's fugly, chace camera is lame and overall feel is not there, to be honest.

DualSense support is neat even on PC and that's the only positive I can think of after 1 hour with the current build.
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The cockpit animations are shite. Sterile and the wheel hardly turns past 45 degrees.

Why can't everyone just rip off driveclub ffs, the new crew game got it right.



Chase came is odd too, and the robotic sounding navigation bitch is already making me feel like Wayne Brady
 
Thick Thighs Save Lives said:
Demo up on Steam. ^^




The demo will have no time limit and will feature "carefully curated content" designed to give players an idea of what the full game has to offer, including:
  • 9 out of 14 districts available
  • The first 15 levels of progressions
  • 16 cars available for purchase
  • 22 additional cars available for Test Drive
  • 27 races
  • Streets and Sharps clan HQs
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Nice. Will download tonight.
 
I get the feeling this is bait for old TD Unlimited and will suck the same way EA used the Most Wanted for NF 2012.

I smell dead in 3 weeks.
 
DeepEnigma said:
I don't mind the ugliest Porsche, but the G-Wagon,

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The cover cars are hilarious actually. The sports wagon styling Porsche already abandoned with the ICE Panamera model and previous generation G-class despite the current gen being on the market for quite some time.

PS. Is it true you need Nacon account to play the demo??
 
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Senua said:
The cockpit animations are shite. Sterile and the wheel hardly turns past 45 degrees.

Why can't everyone just rip off driveclub ffs, the new crew game got it right.



Chase came is odd too, and the robotic sounding navigation bitch is already making me feel like Wayne Brady
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What's up with the mirrors? The fuck?
 
Demo is great so far. GOTY contender for me.

Hopefully they can iron out server and performance issues for launch.
 
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