TSA go hands on with Test Drive unlimited Solar Crown, a series revival that embraces online play to become a true car, driving & racing MMO.
"Following the announcement of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown's long-awaited release date of September 12, 2024, NACON and KT Racing are pleased to announce that a demo of the game is now available on Steam." - NACON and KT Racing.
TSA writes: Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is coming together rather well. There’s so many more individual touches that show the different attitude and tone that it has to other open-world racing games, which will make it a breath of fresh air compared to the competition.
I really need this to control well on a steering wheel. The only game that feels good with a wheel is GT 7. I have tried every racing game on PSN and nothing comes close to GT.
Push Square:
Gran Turismo and Need for Speed are two opposing extremes of a spectrum that, on the whole, isn't that wide.
Yet, Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown appears to have found a pleasing middle ground between the two. The first series entry in 13 years, the upcoming open world game blends a fairly arcadey approach to street racing with a respect and passion for cars that you'd expect out of a Polyphony Digital production.
In practice, it results in what appears to be another successful racing title on PlayStation consoles, but it's actually the philosophy behind Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown that really struck a chord with us more than anything.
Lol, really?
I'd thought its closer to Forza Horizon (or legacy TDU for the matter)
edit : oh, read the sitename now.
Yep, the analogy now makes sense.
This right here counters themselves and makes the game seem worse and it has the same car grind as forza which is a positive? f off with that
"This process of routinely enhancing the car you already have over buying new ones is what makes Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown tick, and while it doesn't have the production values of either, it does seem to have achieved a pretty happy middle ground between the Gran Turismo and Forza Horizon IPs. You'll swing your vehicles around corners and speed through red lights in an arcadey gameplay system, "
Edit here is game play it looks like a late ps3 game jut shiny like a ps4 port was done
https://youtu.be/6F8cRJioit...
The scale also seems off as soon as it starts the Ferrari looks to be one story tall.
As soon as i saw that video you linked, my immediate reaction was, “why do the cars look like they’re floating?”
@cob
Did you make it to the interior were you buy cars? its so slow along with weird scaling and there is so few npc's inside and out.
The whole game needs a few more years to fix various issues along with the floating cars as you pointed out.
Crazy Frog Racer Meets Super Skidmarks in Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown
I probably put close to 500 hours in TDU1. It's legit one of my all-tine favourite games and the reason why I love Forza Horizon so much. Now the franchise is going to be permakilled by this turd.
Its one thing to bemoan industry consolidation but when you have guff like this and LotR: Gollum from Nacon and its endless list of $hitty developers, you do have to wonder what's actually worse.
Great, another f*****g online-only racing game. As if GT7, The Crew Motorfest and the new Forza weren't bad enough. What the hell have all these devs got against adding a simple offline mode? Is it really that hard? Why are they so hellbent on forcing people into some online mmo shite? Yeah you can play solo, but I shouldn't have to be forced online at all times to do that. I won't support a game that has an eventual expiry date. Was really hoping this game would be offline. F*** them.