Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown's first footage doesn't have a lot to show

Here’s the trailer:

So that’s a trailer that’s less than 60 seconds long, where the bit that might be deemed in-engine (is it?) happens 37 seconds in, is gone by the 46 second mark, and has a logo drawn over it for the 9 seconds it is on screen. This, it seems, was a failure of expectation setting, as the chat during theNacon Connectlivestream exploded in frustation over being teased again. (Cutting afterwards to a pre-recorded segment where the hosts seemed certain the audience loved the trailer was… ill-advised).

If you didn’t play the first two, Test Drive Unlimited games offer an open world to race around, but differs from genremates by also being a kind of lifestyle sim, where the lifestyle is “rich knobs wot likes cars.” Previous games let you buy homes and store your vehicles in show rooms… Which, it occurs to me,Forza Horizonlets you do as well, but Test Drive Unlimited treats cars as status symbols while Horizon treats them like toys.

I’m still excited for Solar Crown even if the new trailer gave me no new reason to be, because an open world driving game set in Hong Kong still sounds great.