The simple online component and the ability to just drive across the USA - experiencing glitzy Las Vegas to San Francisco to New York and everything in the middle - is undoubtedly the best part of the game, and quite the sublime experience.
Add to that some spotty guides to mark out your race path, and you’ll be seeing that annoying ‘Wrong Way’ sign way too often. The water sequences are sublime, with every frame, desktop wallpaper-worthy. In cities, it just feels like buildings are made of papier mache, with realistic roads. Grass moving in the wind and mountains in the distance, provide a picturesque setting to race in. At some places, especially in the wild, open spaces, the detail is incredible. The boat racing has great eye candy, but feels too slow and sluggish. On the flip side though, offroading seems to work really well with these controls. There’s no effortless flow into a corner drift, like Forza Horizon allows you to do - even though both share the arcade style controls with simulation-like looks. The cars, while they look appropriately gorgeous, feel heavy and weighed down, making it incredibly hard to control, especially with that handbrake that seems to work like a drift button. Just wish it carried that consistency throughout.Ī racing game is as good as its racing, and The Crew 2 does not excel in that department. The menus and interstitial loading graphics too are just plain rad. What it also does neatly in the intro is the way that it uses the environment to bend cinematically, as the city folds like in Inception. Using a mechanic called Fast Fav, the game actually lets you switch amongst your favourite plane, car or boat any time. In addition to driving, you can also fly a sports plane or drive a jet boat. The best part of The Crew 2 is the way it uses its ideas on the game world. The overtly happy-voice actors ham their way through all their voice lines, appropriately grating your nerves to dust, and making you just want to get the initial parts of the game over with and get to the racing.
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There is a threadbare story connecting the dots, which has you select a driver and race to the top of the American motorsports food chain. With a lot of similarities to the latest Need for Speed Payback.
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This is not necessarily a bad thing it actually makes The Crew 2 a lot better than its predecessor.Īt its core, the game resembles the popular Forza Horizon series a lot more than the other games. Then assembled together into The Crew 2, then glossed over with a shiny coat of paint. The best parts of the most popular games out there cut down to their bits and pieces, in a development chopshop. Think of The Crew 2 as a frankengame of sorts.