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Written by Mike Channell
We feel like we"ve been had. The first The Crew game was incontrovertibly a driving game, offering up a scaled down version of the entire USA for street racing, offroading and multiplayer road trips. For The Crew 2, which is out now on Xbox, Playstation and PC, Ubisoft has snuck in other modes of transport, including boats, planes and even a rogue hovercraft. Congratulations to the sole hovercraft enthusiast who"s reading this; finally, someone listened. Depending on your militancy towards four-wheeled transport, the addition of water and air vehicles either adds welcome variety to the game or cruelly forces you into performing an aerobatics routine or manhandling a jet boat when you"d rather be smoking tyres in a supercar. To be clear, if you want to progress and earn in-game cash in The Crew 2, you will at some point have to dip your toe in those other disciplines. That variety"s necessary though, to make up for the areas where the game hasn"t changed at all. The map of the USA for the sequel is almost exactly the same as the first game. It"s still an impressive achievement and perfectly scaled to evoke the feeling of a road trip as you cruise between cities, but if you spent any significant time with the original, it"ll be as familiar as your morning commute. Particularly if your morning commute happens to also be between New York and Los Angeles.
Date written: 2 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12404
We feel like we"ve been had. The first The Crew game was incontrovertibly a driving game, offering up a scaled down version of the entire USA for street racing, offroading and multiplayer road trips. For The Crew 2, which is out now on Xbox, Playstation and PC, Ubisoft has snuck in other modes of transport, including boats, planes and even a rogue hovercraft. Congratulations to the sole hovercraft enthusiast who"s reading this; finally, someone listened. Depending on your militancy towards four-wheeled transport, the addition of water and air vehicles either adds welcome variety to the game or cruelly forces you into performing an aerobatics routine or manhandling a jet boat when you"d rather be smoking tyres in a supercar. To be clear, if you want to progress and earn in-game cash in The Crew 2, you will at some point have to dip your toe in those other disciplines. That variety"s necessary though, to make up for the areas where the game hasn"t changed at all. The map of the USA for the sequel is almost exactly the same as the first game. It"s still an impressive achievement and perfectly scaled to evoke the feeling of a road trip as you cruise between cities, but if you spent any significant time with the original, it"ll be as familiar as your morning commute. Particularly if your morning commute happens to also be between New York and Los Angeles.
Date written: 2 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12404
