Let's roll, 5-10s
Welcome to a Ubisoft experience that takes a lot of good things from as many games as possible but somehow neglecting some great old features from Crew 1.
Let's start with some good
This game is gorgeous. Weather looking like they borrowed the snowdrop engine from MASSIVE entertainment.
This game's world detail is intense.
But it comes with some bad, they center around player models but they aren't that fantastic. as well as car destruction taking a step down.
SECOND: driving has been fine tuned for EVERYTHING.
Just like how the LIVE EXTREM series levels test all your driving skills.
HOWEVER
no more "tutorial missions" on how to drive them The Crew featured levels where your first time in a dirt car a character would give you an idea of how it would work.
not here, and i still can't drive a hypercar to save my life
THIRD: The sheer amount of vehicle types is astounding, now with all these vehicles. collecting seems useful. But this is good and bad
The Crew 1 allowed you to buy a car then apply different perf kits to it essentially turning one car into 6 copies. and while I miss this level of customization, it's good to entice collection. AND fullstock cars are gone, so no worries there
Fourth: performance part picking has been made simpler with the menu and added some RPG mechanics behind the faux-lootbox system it has for drops which now have improved on quantity per race.
The Not so good:
STORY really took a hit, the main thing that made The Crew special was it's story of revenge and of a street gang out of your hot wheels dreams. Now we have remnants of that. We don't get a lot of story, it's generic.
Side menu has been made useless basically only radio and quit features. picking out which car and such to switch to WHILE driving was a great feature.
Useless races: The entirety of the Crew was story missions of some sort. With the boring and long one hour races reserved to faction races and such.
AND lastly: for as many planes and boats as there are and could be there's far too few race types for planes and boats compared to cars.
Overall this game is still the Crew It's fun, and it takes great stuff from Wild Run and adds to it. no pvp, and i hope it gets readded with Calling All Units. and this is a great racing game and a living breathing open world that begs to be explored.
But the Crew 1 is still better.
My early review (at icon 3) what's my score
763/1000
BRING BACK THE 5-10s
This game is gorgeous. Weather looking like they borrowed the snowdrop engine from MASSIVE entertainment.
This game's world detail is intense.
But it comes with some bad, they center around player models but they aren't that fantastic. as well as car destruction taking a step down.
SECOND: driving has been fine tuned for EVERYTHING.
Just like how the LIVE EXTREM series levels test all your driving skills.
HOWEVER
no more "tutorial missions" on how to drive them The Crew featured levels where your first time in a dirt car a character would give you an idea of how it would work.
not here, and i still can't drive a hypercar to save my life
THIRD: The sheer amount of vehicle types is astounding, now with all these vehicles. collecting seems useful. But this is good and bad
The Crew 1 allowed you to buy a car then apply different perf kits to it essentially turning one car into 6 copies. and while I miss this level of customization, it's good to entice collection. AND fullstock cars are gone, so no worries there
Fourth: performance part picking has been made simpler with the menu and added some RPG mechanics behind the faux-lootbox system it has for drops which now have improved on quantity per race.
The Not so good:
STORY really took a hit, the main thing that made The Crew special was it's story of revenge and of a street gang out of your hot wheels dreams. Now we have remnants of that. We don't get a lot of story, it's generic.
Side menu has been made useless basically only radio and quit features. picking out which car and such to switch to WHILE driving was a great feature.
Useless races: The entirety of the Crew was story missions of some sort. With the boring and long one hour races reserved to faction races and such.
AND lastly: for as many planes and boats as there are and could be there's far too few race types for planes and boats compared to cars.
Overall this game is still the Crew It's fun, and it takes great stuff from Wild Run and adds to it. no pvp, and i hope it gets readded with Calling All Units. and this is a great racing game and a living breathing open world that begs to be explored.
But the Crew 1 is still better.
My early review (at icon 3) what's my score
763/1000
BRING BACK THE 5-10s
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