Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Review (PlayStation 5)

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Review, TDUSC is a lifestyle and social experience that redefines what an open-world racing game can be. Explore a fully recreated Hong Kong Island. Take to the road behind the wheel of exceptional cars and live the ultimate life of luxury.

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 43.67GB Download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• HDR support.
• Graphics mode – performance or graphics quality.
• Nacon community integration.
• Streamer mode will mute licensed music and hide custom liveries.
• You can remap and tinker with the sensitivity of all the controls.
• The character creator has you pick an avatar and then use the extensive cosmetics and options.
• Racing gameplay.
• Opening tour and race.
• Cutscenes are in the game as are the character interactions.
• Six driving views.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• Place your own markers on the map to create a line on the map to show directions.
• The driving feels really good, it’s the haptic feedback and subtle vibrations that make driving feel good.
• Earn reputation and level up to unlock new cars and events.
• Full photo mode integration with a simple button press to bring it up.
• Fast loading times.
• You can skip cutscenes.
• Discover points of interest and shops to get fast travel, you can also (if applicable) choose to be inside or outside.
• After the first event, you get to pick your starting car from three choices.
• You can always test drive any car available to you.
• When buying a car you get to pick the color, interior color, and wheels and color if applicable.
• Radial menu for – headlights, wipers, indicators, hazards, roof, window up and down, and spoiler.
• Many Breakable objects like signs, small walls, trees, decorations, etc.
• Day and night cycle.
• Play how you want.
• It’s a living world.
• Has the best Test Drive activity! Fill in roads by driving down them and filling them all in. Absolutely brilliant and a huge fun time sink.
• A handful of radio stations covering retro, pop, etc.
• Earn a reputation when driving for things like burnout, speeding, drifting, and driving the wrong way. The reputation bar comes up as you fill it.
• Wreck meter is back which is when you near a wreck you get. A beeping icon that beeps faster and louder the closer you get to the wreck.
• Full 3D world of Hong Kong Island on a 1 to 1 scale with a futuristic spin with neon lights, and high-tech travel and buildings.
• You can view 360 degrees regardless of car view.
• There are times when you are out of the car.
• Collectible cash and reputation deposits. They show on the map.
• Clans are in the game as in the story, you choose one and represent them, and they have their own unique rewards and clan level.
• You get pop-ups for road discovery, new locations, new events, and anything you do that earns an exp or reputation.
• They have streamlined the events cutting out a lot of faff that was in the earlier games.
• The map is 3D.
• Every car keeps track of how many miles you have driven.
• Car wrecks need X amount of them found within an area to earn it.
• The game has maintained a lot of what makes Test Drive, Test Drive.
• The reputation bar gives you an option to cash out at every level so it adds a layer of danger and risk as the cash and reputation keep going up but one hit and it’s over.
• Workshops let you customize your car from the cosmetics to the performance parts to upgrade your stats.
• Different weather types can happen.
• ALYSS is your AI assistant that will generate your routes and events.
• On your radial menu, you also have radio control, emotes, and real player interaction options.
• In the race setup screen, you can change the car, adjust the car setup, and set driving assists which affect how much money you make.
• Online leaderboards for every event.
• Daily events.
• When in the garage you can fully interact with your car, open doors, honk the horn, examine the interior, etc.
• You can drive in and around construction sites and car parks etc.
• It has stations that let you repair and clean your car and change cars if needed.
• Speed traps are located around the island and hitting them will save your best speed and a rating of 1 to 3 stars.
• Tasks will populate and you can do them in any order, and track them to help.
• Cars and car parts all have rarity levels.
• You can unlock many different levels of upgrades.
• Very in-depth livery creator, you can add layers, invert, and spin decals, etc.
• You still see other players in the world when you do not have a Playstation Plus subscription.
• At level 20 you can get access to car setups where you can pick pre-installed sets for things like speed, handling, circuit, sport mode etc.

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Review Cons:

• The Nacon integration is not optional.
• No foot traffic so the world just feels staged.
• Requires PlayStation Plus subscription. More an FYI.
• The game didn’t have decent beard options.
• It’s hard to judge the wreck meter.
• At times the game puts you into situations that you have to do there and then.
• Ai can get a bit crazy.
• Reset to track is slow and is not good when racing.
• Races and events are tricky as the signs look like barriers but they are not so you can easily fly off the track.
• The soundtrack is not good so bring your own music or podcast.
• A lot of the race events are very boilerplate basic with no real flair.
• It’s annoying that you start back at your house every time you launch the game and then have to go into the garage and then into a car to leave.
• Tracking a task doesn’t always set your GPS.
• You see the same cars over and over.
• Getting lobby disconnected errors when playing solo with no PlayStation Plus sub.
• It is insane that no subscription and play solo and I still cannot pause a race.
• Has events bug out and does not load properly.
• What cars can you buy that are locked behind your reputation level?
• The game doesn’t have the more obscure Test Drive events like delivering a car without damaging it or random Crazy Taxi-style events which is a shame as it is a type of world-building.
• I found the music on every station to be very lacking and instead opted for the Podcast approach which worked.
• Cars would disappear and appear in front of me a lot.
• Had it where if the servers were acting up then you would get a cannot save retry pop-up happening a lot or getting kicked from my offline events as I disconnected from the lobby which is weird.
• I am as of writing on 96 percent road discovery and I am having major issues finding the missing roads more because so many don’t show on the big map even when zoomed right in.
• Slowdown happens a lot more when in a built-up area no matter the graphics/performance setting.
• You don’t have a lot of game settings to tinker with race difficulties.
• You cannot buy houses in this game.
• It is amazing how many cars are not available until you hit at least level 20.

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Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown:

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Developer: KT Racing

Publisher: NACON

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