The Crew

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  1. Eroticus
    Dec 2, 2014
    4
    The game is pretty fine =] big open world , nice graphics but pay2win is ruining everything , the game will cost you 85$ Gold edition / 60$ Normal one ... but when you will join to game you will see that you can easily buy more in game cash to boost ur car ... and it's really op if you are rich enough =O and it's pretty unfair and stupid .....
  2. J4MESOX4D
    Dec 5, 2014
    4
    Another ambitious Ubisoft IP and yet another massive letdown. The Crew is a game that promised so much as a concept but fails in the most basic sense of a racing game.

    The game takes place on a grand scale but the map and its locations look really bland and unsurprising even maxed out. The driving physics are absolutely horrendous with dodgy handling that makes even Watch Dogs seem    Another ambitious Ubisoft IP and yet another massive letdown. The Crew is a game that promised so much as a concept but fails in the most basic sense of a racing game.

    The game takes place on a grand scale but the map and its locations look really bland and unsurprising even maxed out. The driving physics are absolutely horrendous with dodgy handling that makes even Watch Dogs seem acceptable. The story is cheesy and extremely dull plus you'll be driving around participating in pointless races and events that just become a chore. Even against fellow players in this MMO-oriented game; you just get the sense of dissatisfaction from everyone when competing. Everything feels really bland and tedious. Always online, uPLay and unreliable servers just add to the dissatisfaction as the game never feels truly stable and I've already seen my progress lost after being kicked out of races for no reason also.

    Overall; The Crew is another dismal delivery from Ubisoft who 16 months ago seemed untouchable. The game fails on a number of levels, uPlay also causes breaking issues and for £50 plus a 'pay to win' structure; it'll cost you a fair whack even to remotely compete even if you can get over the severe technical and conceptual problems. I'd avoid and wait for Project Cars. This is merely a ported console game riddled with flaws and lackluster design.    … Expand
  3. Talnoy
    Dec 12, 2014
    4
    *Sigh* The Crew.

    I've played about 10 hours of the game and thank Carl Sagan I got it on the Nvidia deal this holiday season or I'd be asking for my money back. I've broken my review into a few sections: - Technical (Covering graphics, performance, and interface) - Social (How the online integration works, feels, and how interactions with other players work) - Feel (How the cars    *Sigh* The Crew.

    I've played about 10 hours of the game and thank Carl Sagan I got it on the Nvidia deal this holiday season or I'd be asking for my money back.

    I've broken my review into a few sections:

    - Technical (Covering graphics, performance, and interface)
    - Social (How the online integration works, feels, and how interactions with other players work)
    - Feel (How the cars drive, what upgrades feel like, etc)

    Technical:
    The game is commonly full of lag and with an MMO-Racing game this is simply unacceptable. 'co-op' drivers rubberband all over the place, I commonly lose connection to the game servers and get stuck on random objects and invisible walls in the environment.
    From a graphic performance standpoint, there is no reason why this game should be capped at either 30 or 60fps when my GTX 670 with AA off can EASILY lock 60fps with no trouble. What about people with 120hz monitors? It doesn't look anywhere near as good as NFS: Rivals even maxed out which is almost 2 years old if I'm not mistaken.
    In terms of interface, the game is nothing to write home about. All pertinent information is displayed where it needs to be, and the wiki feature is welcome. The map is...difficult to navigate smoothly, and the fast travel feature once unlocked kind of defeats the purpose of free-drive, as earning points that you don't buy with your credit card comes VERY slowly. The lone chat box that is your connection to other people appears in the bottom middle of the screen, obscured by pretty much every other interface element....and nobody talks. Nobody.

    Social
    Unless you have a lot of friends who play the game, prepare to feel absolutely alone. You NEED friends to play this with, because making them online is very unlikely.
    Dropping into 'co-op' races puts you against other people - and doing this in story missions is next to useless, because most of the time as a new player, you can't come in first (since you're fighting the broken, rubberbanding players and AI when racing online), and because you can't come in first, the story doesn't advance.
    In PvP modes, the player with the highest level car wins. No matter what. Unless of course they crash due to rubberbanding, or just randomly disconnect.
    The 'social' environment of this game is hugely disappointing, mainly because there IS no social environment to the game. It's just bland, empty and relies on you to have a 'crew' to run with before the game is purchased.

    - Feel
    This is where the biggest disappointment for me came through.
    Every car no matter what you drive feels like a floaty 30-ton dump truck being driven on the moon. If you make a slight course correction, you WILL fishtail in a matter of seconds, spin out and immediately lose control no matter your skill. It's not simulation grade driving. It's not arcade driving. It's just plain bad.
    The different 'specs' of cars you can get are seemingly random and have no different feel to them at all. I noticed zero difference when driving street spec to dirt spec to raid spec. They all felt the same - wobbly, uncontrollable, floaty and just...yuck.

    Conclusion
    In conclusion, I'll say that one day, The Crew MIGHT become a decent game. There's a hint of awesomeness behind all the bad design choices and being billed as an MMO, maybe Ubishaft will push out some content patches to tighten things up, and make the cars handle like they're being driven on earth instead of the Moon.

    I'm giving The Crew a 4/10. There is simply too much that feels unfinished, unpolished, buggy and a mess.    … Expand
  4. OfficerMike
    Dec 14, 2014
    4
    Before writing this "review" I have completed the story and reached level cap. I don't have gamepad or a steering wheel, so I had to use keyboard (cockpit view, hardcore handling).

    - Handling. Oh, boy... If you enjoy driving soap on ice, this game is definitely for you. Choosing "hardcore" handling type doesn't help much, driving is still not enjoyable; - Terrible AI (Rival cars    Before writing this "review" I have completed the story and reached level cap. I don't have gamepad or a steering wheel, so I had to use keyboard (cockpit view, hardcore handling).

    - Handling. Oh, boy... If you enjoy driving soap on ice, this game is definitely for you. Choosing "hardcore" handling type doesn't help much, driving is still not enjoyable;

    - Terrible AI (Rival cars going off the road or crashing into a train and then respawning right in front of your vehicle);

    - Incredibly ridiculous story missions (Escape from police Crown Victoria's and Ford F150's with weight of 50 tons and ability of reaching a top speed of more than 180 mp/h in less than 10 seconds; take down vehicle that is faster than yours, but you only have 3 minutes, otherwise the world is going to end; crash into dozens of crates, but you only have 3 minutes, just because; take your performance spec ride to a race on an icy road, because AI is not affected by the environment, but you're and that's how the things work in virtual USA, etc.);

    - Mediocre open-wold racing game using basically the same M.O.O.R multiplayer component (Does it work properly? Na-ah. Don't even hope for it to function as intended) introduced in Test Drive Unlimited (2006) and re-advertised as a revolutionary MMO that's all about social gameplay (Channels with 8 players each, no way of a proper interaction between players (Text chat is surprisingly uncomfortable to use);

    - Waiting time of getting into a PvP-lobby may go up to 50 minutes. There're only 2 options in PvP-lobby for you to choose from: you can turn off traffic and you can turn off collisions (Which is useless, because rival cars don't become even a little transparent, so if you're playing with a cockpit view you can't see ♥♥♥♥ because of another car model moving into yours). You can't turn off nitro for all players and you can't restrict handling type to "hardcore" or camera view to a certain one (Because why would somebody need that, right? Nobody cares, anyway). There's no balance between players (You may be connected to a lobby with max lvl players who have maxed out cars, so be ready for your ♥♥♥ to get kicked). No penalty for cutting corners or collisions with other players;

    - You're forced to do story missions until you reach certain level and get a Dirt-spec car before you're allowed into PvP (1-2 hours of gameplay);

    - You can make a Performance-spec Hummer or any other SUV with a top speed of over 180 mp/h, but you can't make a Raid-spec Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) or a Circuit-spec Mustang 2015, which totally makes sense;

    - You can't just purchase new performance parts from tuning shops, you're forced to do skill challenges to get better ones (However, if you win parts for your first certain-spec car, you'll be able to purchase them for another);

    - All the cars featured in The Crew are RWD (Even ones that should be AWD);

    - No reflections in rear-view and side mirrors when in cockpit view, but not when using 3rd person vew. There's also some weird bug that changes level of detail of your car's interior after cutscenes or fast travelling (Getting out of the cockpit view and back in returns level of detail back to normal);

    - NPC cars don't use blinkers when changing lanes;

    - Inviting session players to complete story mission with you is Ivory Tower's revolutionary social experience;

    - Horrendous radio soundtrack. My ears are still bleeding. By the way, you won't find any mention about the keys answering for changing radio stations in the control settings, it's just not there;

    - No dynamic weather;

    - No support of 4:3 display aspect ratio;

    - 60 FPS cap.

    "The sCREWd: Always Drive Alone" is a bright example of false advertising. If you're thinking of purchasing the game, wait until it goes on sale. It's not worth 60 dollars or even half the price, in my opinion. Still unfinished, without a good optimization product even after SIX years of development. Also no significant improvements have been made since beta.

    System information:
    CPU — Intel Core i7-3770k 3.50 GHz;
    RAM — 8GB;
    GPU — Palit® GeForce® GTX 560 (1024MB, GDDR5);
    OS — Windows 7 (64-bit).    … Expand
  5. ColmW
    Sep 18, 2016
    4
    Rarely works correctly, generic storyline, freemium construction, and less than adequate car customization. On the plus side, the cars are cool, the graphics are alright, and it's a big world. I'm almost surprised that they haven't worked the bugs out in the 2 years that this has been out, but after all, this is ubisoft.
  6. Blackcompany
    Dec 2, 2014
    3
    Every player has the same role in the same story. Thirty minutes to drive across an entire nations. Five minutes for each city. Over an hour of tutorial. Rubber banding. This is basically the always online version of Need for Speed.

    Probably the developers wanted to do something fun and unique. But in came the suits, and before you know it, all we get is more icon chasing, a scripted,    Every player has the same role in the same story. Thirty minutes to drive across an entire nations. Five minutes for each city. Over an hour of tutorial. Rubber banding. This is basically the always online version of Need for Speed.

    Probably the developers wanted to do something fun and unique. But in came the suits, and before you know it, all we get is more icon chasing, a scripted, linear narrative and almost no focus on the cars, racing or driving. Ubisoft has to make the same game over and over again, regardless of genre, and this time, its to their detriment.

    Perhaps one day Ubi will release a game with real innovation. The Crew is not that game. 3/10 for wanting to be something special. Deducting seven points for linear story where it makes no sense, always online requirement for what is basically a need for speed game, bugged launch, poor handling and small "open" world.    … Expand
  7. Chaython
    Jun 16, 2017
    3
    60fps lock, bad graphics, terrible voice acting thanks to the all too common Nolan North operating with his generic voice... Boring story, with a bunch of cliches, not interesting, even annoying cut-scenes that often are very illogically placed. Poor menus and UI. Poor driving mechanics, very unrealistic, crashing has no real impact, racing always feels slow, there's no enough effects to60fps lock, bad graphics, terrible voice acting thanks to the all too common Nolan North operating with his generic voice... Boring story, with a bunch of cliches, not interesting, even annoying cut-scenes that often are very illogically placed. Poor menus and UI. Poor driving mechanics, very unrealistic, crashing has no real impact, racing always feels slow, there's no enough effects to make it appear as if I'm going fast....… Expand
  8. tpapas1
    Dec 12, 2014
    3
    Stay away from this. The fact that there is an "open world" was the catch for me. If only I knew that this would be so ugly... Well lets say TDU2 was more interesting and had much better graphics.

    I am trying to play this full of bugs game. Crashes , freezes and again crashes. I got an 295x2 AMD, sometime the game plays some others not.. When it plays it is a dissapointment. :) I    Stay away from this. The fact that there is an "open world" was the catch for me. If only I knew that this would be so ugly... Well lets say TDU2 was more interesting and had much better graphics.

    I am trying to play this full of bugs game. Crashes , freezes and again crashes. I got an 295x2 AMD, sometime the game plays some others not..

    When it plays it is a dissapointment. :) I mean I was expecting graphics at least of dirt 2. Still these are something like nfs 3-4 . So now its Dec 2014, and the graphics are something like 2006.

    I would prefer a smaller game if that would mean better graphics and less freezes. but then again its UBIstop...    … Expand
  9. DustinOrion
    Dec 5, 2014
    3
    I knew this game would be average the moment Ubi announced they would withhold all reviews until release day. It plays like a glorified NFS underground. The vehicles handle like Watch_Dogs, the damage engine isn't that great, and the graphics don't look next gen. Story and voice actors are a bit cliche if not douchey.
  10. Ted_Tris
    Jul 9, 2016
    3
    Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.Boring. Boring. Boring.
  11. Judqment8
    Jan 2, 2015
    3
    One of the biggest disappointments I've had this year. Where should I even start? What I was hoping for was a marvelous co-op open world car game where you would have fun just by racing around the world, earning money and customizing your car. The reality hit me hard when I finally started playing this game. It was pretty much nothing like I would have wanted it to be. Let's make a simpleOne of the biggest disappointments I've had this year. Where should I even start? What I was hoping for was a marvelous co-op open world car game where you would have fun just by racing around the world, earning money and customizing your car. The reality hit me hard when I finally started playing this game. It was pretty much nothing like I would have wanted it to be. Let's make a simple cons and pros list since those are clear and simple:

    Cons:
    - AI is atrociously bad. Opponents will catch up with you no matter how big is the car level difference between you and the bots. They IGNORE laws of "physics" that apply to your car. They can smash everything and not lose any speed at all. They can drive well on any terrain with any car spec. Police cars will be terminators with their own physics. You can't push them at all and they will catch up with your uber speeder car no matter how fast you are.
    - Physics. The cars feels utterly wrong not to mention the "physics" of the objects. You sometimes drive straight into a metal fence just to bounce off from it. Drive almost straight to a car or a tree? No worries the game just bumps your car to the left or right and avoid the whole crash. And the non-destroyable fence? They are a real pain in the ass. Physics just simply suck.
    - Car performance customization is a lie and a joke. There simply is no customization. You do missions and get a part as a reward. You choose to install it to your car and you have it on. You can't buy the parts, you just have to keep repeating the same boring "side-missions" to get better quality parts. Not to mention that Platinum parts are a gamble. They vary from level 40 to 50 and what you get as a reward is completely RNG. Have fun trying to "achieve" the level 50 parts from all categories.
    - Car visual customization is lacking. There are "decent" customization for the starter cars for Street, Dirt and Perf specs, but Raid and Circuit don't really have anything apart from the rims. Not to mention that NONE of the other cars have all the specs available than the starter cars. Most of the cars can be build around few specs like for example Street and Perf.
    - Car list is nothing as promised. Only a handful of cars are in the game and there isn't really much variety. Have fun paying for more cars in the upcoming DLC packs. So much for "lots of cars" to choose from. I don't want to pay a 10€ just to get one car from the pack and leave the rest unused.
    - The story is simply disappointing and bland. Characters are shallow and boring. The NPC yelling at you in races is darn annoying and I wish there was an option to mute it. All women look like whores and the men all sound way off from their appearances.
    - The Crew server are crap. "The crew servers are currently unavailable". You will get that message a lot. After a month of playing this game you would think that this would be fixed already, but it's not. You will get multiple disconnects per few hours of playing. And the best part of it? It will NOT save your progress when you get DC'd. So have fun replaying your crappy missions over and over again just to get the game save your progress. I shouldn't even mention how frustrating this is when you are doing a "perfect" run. A nice salt to the wound is that it will only DC you AFTER you have done your mission. So you will not get instantly thrown away, you can still continue to do your ******* long 3-part mission without even knowing of the DC. Then when you are supposed to get the "reward/statistics screen" you will be kicked out and progress flushed out of the toilet.
    - Graphics don't reflect the "next-gen" at all. There is not even a decent anti-aliasing option to go with it. The change of weather/time is really awkward and doesn't blend seamlessly.
    - The co-op aspect of the game is more hindrance than fun. The co-op works really well when you are free roaming, but when you get into missions the other guy will be just "ruining" your race. He will steal your points for being the 1st or taking the checkpoints or he can just accidentally ram you and take the "adaptive" AI with him so that you will be left to the bottom. The how scores gets distributed is just ridiculous. This game feels more like competitive racing than actual "co-op". Have fun retrying the mission over and over again just to get you both the gold medals etc.
    - The radio channels in the game are crap. Nothing even half decent to listen and there is NO option for "independence FM" to listen to your own music. Only way is to simply turn off the music and keep WMP or winamp etc. running in the back.

    Pros.
    + Co-op is fun when it works and free-roaming can be enjoyable.
    + Scenery is not so bad and the map is pretty big

    So all in all a really crappy experience with this game. I'm glad me and my friend didn't have to pay for this crap since we got it for free with our new GPUs. We are really disappointed with the product we got. I'm running low on writing space. NOT RECOMMENDED.    … Expand
  12. nickmariasi
    Apr 17, 2015
    3
    I had so much high hopes for this game, I even preordered it which I rarely do to any games if that means anything. The game itself is bland, the graphics, the characters, the story line, etc. which left me feeling like they just did not try. Races are near impossible to win, if you're doing good, the computer is doing better, if you pay attention it's very clear that they have one reallyI had so much high hopes for this game, I even preordered it which I rarely do to any games if that means anything. The game itself is bland, the graphics, the characters, the story line, etc. which left me feeling like they just did not try. Races are near impossible to win, if you're doing good, the computer is doing better, if you pay attention it's very clear that they have one really 'good' racer and then the rest absolutely suck. The way every race goes its that the person in first is 1 - 2 miles ahead of you and everyone else is 1 -2 miles behind you. If you come in second, you lose so really in all honesty you're screwed with every race.

    Don't even get me started on the take down missions, the cars are so hard to handle while the computer seems to have the perfect car. it seems like they could take 90 degree turns on a dime and go from 60-120 in 2 second just to get away from you. It's ridiculous, the ONLY way to beat them is to play the same mission 20 times just to find out their pattern and then you can take them down. I don't know about you but that's not fun at all for me.

    I must say, the main reason I bought this game was because I bought the logitech g27 and i honestly did not have that much racing games that i could play with it. I took the leap and bought this heap...of stinking, rotting, and fermenting garbage and i regret my purchase 100%

    On the the pros of which there are very little. A lot of the cars look nice, the fact that they have a somewhat nice looking interior is what really brought my in and the customization is enormous. That is until you find out that getting money and these parts are nearly impossible and you'll end up spending all the blue credit things you get right in the beginning on a new car and now you're left to either spend 20 bucks or waste 20 hours of your life saving up money.

    Just as a side note, this game isn't really for the huge car guys as they make it out to be, you don't really need to know what the parts do, just equip anything that brings up your car rating, how disappointing. equally disappointing is the amount of cars there are that aren't even out. if you wanted to drive your dream car you're probably out of luck, there are a lot of concept cars in this game and any good car will require you grinding for hours to get enough capital. And this may be nitpicky but the voice of the ominous girl that talks to you throughout the game criticizing you will really get on your nerves.    … Expand
  13. davidpowers300
    Mar 31, 2018
    3
    This game look like a super game, better than Test Drive Unlimited 2... Just look beautiful. But driving is juste awful : I have impression that cars are aerocraft (lol!) and same on road (wet/dry), in water, offroad... and collisions... no comment, this is totally unrealistic.
    I think this game is as zero and boring than all the last Need for speed also...
    If you want a good driving    This game look like a super game, better than Test Drive Unlimited 2... Just look beautiful. But driving is juste awful : I have impression that cars are aerocraft (lol!) and same on road (wet/dry), in water, offroad... and collisions... no comment, this is totally unrealistic.
    I think this game is as zero and boring than all the last Need for speed also...
    If you want a good driving game, don't by this one.    … Expand
  14. ChaosSloth
    Jun 7, 2016
    3
    I can only describe this game as a "Desktop Mobile game", in the sense that, much like mobile games, you literally cant afford any of the higher end cars unless you spend countless hours grinding races beyond the main story line. Maybe I expected too much of a single player aspect from this game, but many other arcade racer similar to The Crew usually let you progress by allowing you toI can only describe this game as a "Desktop Mobile game", in the sense that, much like mobile games, you literally cant afford any of the higher end cars unless you spend countless hours grinding races beyond the main story line. Maybe I expected too much of a single player aspect from this game, but many other arcade racer similar to The Crew usually let you progress by allowing you to buy a new car every time you advance in the story, but in this game you can do the whole in the starting car and are pretty much stuck doing so if you want the nicer cars that are offered at the end game. And again, like mobile games, instead of grinding, you can just pay for it with real money instead. The entire game feels like it is centered around that ideology of "grind or pay" and it feels incredibly scummy for a game that you have to pay for in the first place.

    Gameplay wise, majority of the racing is solo checkpoint to checkpoint racing, and it gets boring real quick because there's no competition. When there is competition, the AI is so atrocious that you will often see them crashing and swerving wildly across your screen. There's only a handful of actual races. Near the endgame they force you to play some stupid "destroy the boxes" mini game race which just feels stupid because it's not even racing. The default controls are pretty bad because I assume they were going for the half-baked semi realism thing, but the game is much funner if you put all the sensitivity, linearity, etc to max at which point the game becomes fun and arcadey which suits this game a lot more than whatever they were going for.

    The graphics are honestly quite mediocre even with all the setting at max. The story and script are clearly targeted towards edgy ten year olds because it's ridden with stereotypes and cliche one liners that one can't really take it seriously. But then again, I never really expected a good story from a racing game so kind of a moot point.

    Overall, this game leaves a sour taste in my mouth, and can't really recommend buying this unless it is on sale/ bundle for a REALLY low price and your looking to waste a couple of hours with mindless arcade racing.    … Expand
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    Mar 12, 2021
    3
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  16. Mascalzone
    Dec 2, 2014
    2
    Well... where to start? Maybe from the handling model, the most important thing in a game like this. Forget NFS Most Wanted, forget Test Drive Unlimited. This is much worse. It has absolutely no consistency with all the cars and all the specs and you can try with any setting: the car just bounce all around with that stretchy steering I can't suffer, ruining all the game experience. That'sWell... where to start? Maybe from the handling model, the most important thing in a game like this. Forget NFS Most Wanted, forget Test Drive Unlimited. This is much worse. It has absolutely no consistency with all the cars and all the specs and you can try with any setting: the car just bounce all around with that stretchy steering I can't suffer, ruining all the game experience. That's the worst part in terms of gameplay to me. The rest is just tons of more-of-the-same missions like all the games of this genre we've already seen in years with the usual end-game based on farming even more of the same.

    The storyline has a nice concept bur a ridiculous development: no details, no continuity, no characterization: definitely deep as a 8 year old baby made plot. It's just an excuse to keep you driving as long as you can sustain.

    Pros: huge map, but with poor traffic, and the aesthetic tuning part. That's all. Considering all the hype and the "next-gen" promises in a 2/10 for me. 50€ thrown in the toilet would have been more satisfying.    … Expand
  17. ThomasSchulz
    Dec 2, 2014
    2
    The Crew. To sum it up in one word: disappointment. Extreme disappointment. The core element of the game, around which all other elements, whether they be racing, customizing, roaming, etc, is the physics and handling of the cars. And it is horrendous. You may as well have drank a whole bottle of J&B Scotch ("The antidote to roadrage!"), because you will be swerving like a madman. There isThe Crew. To sum it up in one word: disappointment. Extreme disappointment. The core element of the game, around which all other elements, whether they be racing, customizing, roaming, etc, is the physics and handling of the cars. And it is horrendous. You may as well have drank a whole bottle of J&B Scotch ("The antidote to roadrage!"), because you will be swerving like a madman. There is no road feel. It is not even close to simulator quality handling. If you so much as lose a hair's breadth of control, your force feedback will give up, you will spin-out, and you will get frustrated. Pretty fast.

    That Ubisoft shackles the player to a terribly cliche, uninspired revenge plot just adds insult to injury. I want to skip all the bland voice acting (we all love Troy Baker, I'm sure he's a good guy, but I've had enough!). I wouldn't mind us being able to have different gender/race driver avatars. And don't get me wrong, I'm no "social justice warrior" looking for a soap box-- I just think that in this day and age, dammit if every single person playing the game is going to be a white 35 year old male with a Mumford and Sons beard. Variety is the spice of life.

    The graphics are lackluster at best. Your car looks about the same as a car from NFS Hot Pursuit. That's a 2008 game. This game should have better looking cars than what comes out of a 2008 game! Not marginally better -- a LOT better. Curvature of chassis is simplified down to single polygon lines.

    The interface is so cumbersome and intrusive that it is almost impossible to play the game without having to pause, press a button twice, just to get the game to stop congratulating me on driving two miles.

    Somewhere between the concept and execution, something went wrong with this game. It's just very...underwhelming. There is no sense of speed the way you get in a game like Assetto Corsa. Yes, it's a simulator being compared to an arcade game, and I suppose that's the main source of my disappointment. I was hoping for high fidelity racing and instead got a NFS game that drives with the subtlety of one of those hot wheels remote control cars.

    I give it a 1 because I was looking forward to an open world racing sim with some NFS styling. Instead, I got NFS and drunk physics. I don't recommend anyone buy this game unless he or she absolutely LOVED the NFS series, because that's all it is. For some that's a bad thing (myself included), and for others, it's exciting news. But at the end of the day, NFS + MMO = The Crew

    It wasn't worth my money or my time, and I regret purchasing it. In my opinion, 2 star.    … Expand
  18. MatadorVoraz
    Aug 18, 2020
    2
    Average graphics, gameplay and history. You have to be online which is pretty bad. Mechanics are often frustrating. The game is quite repetitive and does not have a good influence on changing and tuning a car, or changing a car. Can't even beat games of the past decade.
  19. GPReS
    Dec 4, 2014
    1
    This is the greatest lye of the last time:
    The game is a really expensive MMO, no offline will be ever given. Usually such games are given out for free, but not this one, correct PR and messing with "story" can distract you from understanding that you're actually buying MMO. Season Pass is nothing more than just a prepaid of cars that will be added in the future update, etc etc etc. The    This is the greatest lye of the last time:
    The game is a really expensive MMO, no offline will be ever given. Usually such games are given out for free, but not this one, correct PR and messing with "story" can distract you from understanding that you're actually buying MMO. Season Pass is nothing more than just a prepaid of cars that will be added in the future update, etc etc etc. The game's only unique feature - is "whole" USA :) LoL, not that whole as you could see. I bet that in a year the game will be given out for free, damn - it's already is, but now it's masked as "apologize offer" :)

    This games is nothing, I repeat NOTHING but a replica of NFS The World, but also a very bad replica I must admit. In NFSTW you can control your car, in The Crew - you are driving bricks sliding on oil.
    The graphics suck deeply, the game can and should be better, but nope - it looks like a game from 2007, the year when the dev company was created.
    Patches, patches, patches - funk yeah! Welcome to the Ubi world, the worst publisher ever, I think this year they've beaten the record, earlier only EA was such a looser.
    Servers are down - sure, all the time, why not? Can't log in? Sure. Eternal loading? Sure. Tell me why the hell there were so many betas and they ARE NOT prepared? :) LoL, nice eye-washing technique, Ubi, way-to-not-go!

    I am happy I was smart enough not to buy the game, as I knew it would suck, the betas never showed a thing that would attract me, and, unfortunately, thx to my friend who bought this **** and now tearing his hair off his head :) Due to his purchase I was able to have the review of the "final" release of The Crew :)

    It sucks = 1. Farewell.

    PS. IT has never participated in the development of TDU2, that's why the game is much more better, a way much more better.    … Expand
  20. Riva
    Aug 8, 2017
    1
    The game is so bugy it's unplayable.
    Game was released in 2014 - Bought it with my brother in middle of 2015 - The game is still FULL of bugs and the servers are lagging unbelievably.
    -Frequent freezing -rubberbanding AI and PC cars -multiple different "connection issue" screens, that simply dump you from your game into menu -desynchronisation issues causing cars being suddenly 10    The game is so bugy it's unplayable.
    Game was released in 2014 - Bought it with my brother in middle of 2015 - The game is still FULL of bugs and the servers are lagging unbelievably.

    -Frequent freezing
    -rubberbanding AI and PC cars
    -multiple different "connection issue" screens, that simply dump you from your game into menu
    -desynchronisation issues causing cars being suddenly 10 times faster then the other cars of the same model
    -unable to join crew with other players
    -unable to join mission together in a crew
    -unable to receive invitations to random missions (chases) while in a crew with anybody or even alone
    The list goes on and on.

    All those issues are still not fixed in 2017 !
    The devs / publisher apparently don't care to fix this game at all.

    ..and Ubisoft support will tell you to check your game files integrity :[
    After 3 days of waiting for reply.

    The game's 3d engine is really slow compared to other, better looking car games.
    The world in game is very undetailed.

    I am sorry I cannot really review the gameplay since for both me and my brother the game is so broken we weren't able to really enjoy a single mission out of about 15 we suffered thru.

    Please take my advice and don't make a stupid mistake we made, of buying this game.
    (It's MAYBE worth $5 in sale.)    … Expand
  21. Redaxe13
    Apr 5, 2015
    1
    I own a fast car in real life. My desire to own a fast car stemmed from playing games such as the original racing arcade games and the first Gran Turismo. I must have played Gran Turismo for hundreds upon hundreds of hours. I had no idea what torque was, I just knew oh HP = Good. The crew actually takes my child level intelligence and dumbs that down to the point where your car justI own a fast car in real life. My desire to own a fast car stemmed from playing games such as the original racing arcade games and the first Gran Turismo. I must have played Gran Turismo for hundreds upon hundreds of hours. I had no idea what torque was, I just knew oh HP = Good. The crew actually takes my child level intelligence and dumbs that down to the point where your car just has levels. Its beautiful really, that you can condense every variable of a car into one simple number. It really allows for a high level of customization. I also really love driving on ice, so the crew is perfect for me, no game has ever quite satisfied my desire to attach ice skates to a car until now. The crew had ought to be renamed to ice skating cars, and then the car level could refer to your cars overall scores for figure skating. There was also a plot and cut scenes added for you to skip every time you skate out of the rink into a dead end. Its also really cool how when you go into first person mode so you can drive your car like you would normally, ALL OF THE MIRRORS ARE JUST BLACK, as we all know black is the color of carbon fiber, so that carbon fiber glass is probably adding about 40WHP in total. Luckily in the crew you will spend about half of your time facing backwards anyhow so you can still see everything. The game, although being mechanically perfect in every way, has a FEW bugs. Just a few, I swear. The crew however stays true to its superior racing game roots and carries on the tradition of physics not actually existing and trees being the ultimate life form. We also all know that what an object looks like has no real relation to the amount of space an object takes up. I hate it when I'm driving to work and I think I'm clear to go around the side of a building but to my surprise its actually 6 feet farther out than visible. Good thing, just like in the crew, my car regrows my intercooler and engine on my way to work. Its also awesome that I got this game for free buying my new graphics cards to do 4k, and it looks just as good as Gran Turismo 2. The crew also has such a good selection of cars, American Muscle cars are really the only ones that matter, lets face it. No one likes that ricer crap. I would have paid $450 +$75 per DLC like ubisoft wanted, but unfortunately I had already gotten the game for free. I would recommend this game to anyone who has ever wanted a game that allows them use their car to ice skate.… Expand
  22. consularus
    Dec 2, 2014
    1
    The main impression keywords: ugliness, wretchedness, lack of talent.
    The WORLD: impressive with scale, but in game it used not more for 2%.
    PICTURE: there are some good things, like white skyscraper in Miami, starry night in mountain desert and LA view, but generally this is an image of past millenium type. Colour gamma cruelly dirty, offend eyes and cause depression, especially in    The main impression keywords: ugliness, wretchedness, lack of talent.
    The WORLD: impressive with scale, but in game it used not more for 2%.
    PICTURE: there are some good things, like white skyscraper in Miami, starry night in mountain desert and LA view, but generally this is an image of past millenium type. Colour gamma cruelly dirty, offend eyes and cause depression, especially in nord-east including mid-west (game beginning). Trees bristle themselves, taunt eye - just like in TDU2, somewhat metal brush. Unnatural feeling of all. The main - asphalt: it covered with whitish spew with stains. Simply impossible, force you to sick.
    DRIVING: eatable, but not moreover. Oversteer and overforce - Watch Dogs model. Became worse then in beta.
    STORY and character: stupid, banal, brute. We must see again stamped FBI agents, and deal with geeks, see their disgusting mugs and hear their disgusting voices. A propose, all voices made very poor, stupidly, unnatural, in Russian version as in English. Story, from the one side, too primitive, for minor schoollboys, but, from the other hand, too brute for them. Fail.
    GAMEPLAY. As mentioned, world used very bad. No long races or test drives (taxi, delivery). Annoying stunt challenges. Cheatting AI (as usual), strange feature of you won race with great advantage and recieved bronze medal. Again idiotic feature of "dynamic" difficulty: if you made good advantage, traffic and all the world begin war against you. The same with restarts: very difficult to improve once obtained result. So, I shall not fight for records with somebody.
    The most idiotic feature: NO MULTIPLAYER IN THIS GAME. No enough usual words for it. You forced to play with "friends" in career regime.But no friends you can find at this immense space. Not friends needed for multiplayer, but RIVALS, which we can meet in somewhat stated area, ideally - in lobby. Without lobby its practically impossible to organize game. as we just saw in NFS MW and especially NFS Rivals. I absolutly cannot realize, what about developers thought and for what fight, for what they killed their game in the same way, although result of such experiment was just well known: online project without multiplayer is somewhat simply ridiculous.
    So, generally, we see total fail of ambitions. Total disappointment. And it was predetermined by fact that these, looks like, TDU2 creators are people not only untalented, but also blind and deaf: they havent even try to correct manifest deformities and ) incongruities players mentioned during beta test.    … Expand
  23. Shell_fr
    Dec 6, 2014
    1
    Conduite horrible :/

    Tout le reste peut être génial, mais un jeu de voiture avec une conduite horrible n'est pas un bon jeu.

    Dommage parce que la map est sympa.
  24. Ver
    Dec 12, 2014
    1
    Ständige Abstürze, besonders schön wenn man über eine Stunde ein „Rennen“ fährt und der Erfolg nicht gespeichert wird. Abstürze häufen sich wenn man sich in einer Crew befindet.

    Die KI ist ein Witz, man kann 10 min einfach stehen bleiben und gewinnt immer noch, im Gegenzug wenn man gut fährt kleben sie an einem. Wenn man als Crew Fraktionsrennen fährt wirkt sich das katastrophal auf    Ständige Abstürze, besonders schön wenn man über eine Stunde ein „Rennen“ fährt und der Erfolg nicht gespeichert wird. Abstürze häufen sich wenn man sich in einer Crew befindet.

    Die KI ist ein Witz, man kann 10 min einfach stehen bleiben und gewinnt immer noch, im Gegenzug wenn man gut fährt kleben sie an einem. Wenn man als Crew Fraktionsrennen fährt wirkt sich das katastrophal auf den Spielspaß aus. Da es immer nur einer schafft sich an der Spitze zu halten und die anderen werden ständig von der KI von der Stecke „geschossen“. KI beschleunigt mit Performance Ausstattung auf Schotter, Gras usw. zerstörbare Umgebung beeinträchtigt sie überhaupt nicht. Wenn man mal Mist baut wartet die KI sogar in manchen Fällen oder fährt in einer Kurve gerad aus.
    Polizeiautos halten sich noch nicht einmal an physikalische Gesetze.
    Die Liste ist unendlich….

    NPC Verkehr ist viel zu spät sichtbar. Autos entstehen direkt vor einem.

    Bei den Tuningteilen ist es schon auffällig das man zu etwa 90% entweder Grip- oder Bremsbonus bekommt (mit weiteren Spielern abgeglichen), soll wohl die Spielzeit verlängern.

    Mehr negatives möchte ich nicht mehr aufzählen.

    PvP Events
    Allgemein ist zu sagen, wenn sich einmal eine Lobby öffnet, die Rennen relativ stabil laufen. Wenn man von einigen Rucklern und hin und her springenden gegnerischen Spielern absieht.
    Bei Fraktion gegen Fraktion hat es bei mir bis jetzt immer über eine Stunde gedauert bis sich eine Lobby öffnete. Im Frei für alle Modus sieht es etwas besser aus da wartete ich „nur“ 10 bis 20 Minuten.

    Positiv ist das es sehr viel Spaß macht mit Freunden durch die Gegend zu cruisen.

    The Crew ist meiner Meinung nach zu früh auf den Markt geworfen worden und hat bestenfalls zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt den Status einer Beta.    … Expand
  25. motioz
    Mar 26, 2015
    1
    This game is really so bad, there is no physics at all, handling is equal for all cars.
    Also bad bad support, the game working with g27 wheel without force feedback.
    totaly waste of time and money!
  26. kilemal101
    Mar 24, 2016
    1
    This game is a turd. Here's why:

    - No EVO X - Cockpit mirrors don't work - No ability to play mp3's - RX7 has a V8 - Parts are points, that's it - Sound - 30 fps on ULTRA = PC is quiet, 60fps on LOW = PC is a vacuum cleaner - Multiplayer = Lagfest (got fiber and everything configured properly) - Gear changes..... painful - Littered HUD - Physics (Donuts with a Mini make it    This game is a turd. Here's why:

    - No EVO X
    - Cockpit mirrors don't work
    - No ability to play mp3's
    - RX7 has a V8
    - Parts are points, that's it
    - Sound
    - 30 fps on ULTRA = PC is quiet, 60fps on LOW = PC is a vacuum cleaner
    - Multiplayer = Lagfest (got fiber and everything configured properly)
    - Gear changes..... painful
    - Littered HUD
    - Physics (Donuts with a Mini make it look like it's RWD)
    - Currency (A bike costs 400k while a Skyline is 60k)
    - WildRun is not in Season Pass

    Do yourself a favor.. Don't buy this unfinished turd. 1/10 to compensate    … Expand
  27. Reg-Senyou
    Dec 6, 2014
    0
    Before buying, please note that "we can't restart the career from the beginning once again" because Ubi holds our saves on the cloud. If you want to do so, you have to buy a new game again! lol
    I've never heard such a stupid developer/publisher who won't care the replay value at all.
    I really regret I bought this game.
  28. E71
    Jun 27, 2017
    0
    Started off boring, difficult AF to control the vehicle they give you (poor handling). Pushed myself to play a bit further.
    Story started getting considerably more interesting but I realized the poor handling is going to require A LOT of grinding to fix -- it is a Car-pg after all.
    It made the game unreasonably difficult from the start. Things took a turn for the worst a few "tasks"    Started off boring, difficult AF to control the vehicle they give you (poor handling). Pushed myself to play a bit further.
    Story started getting considerably more interesting but I realized the poor handling is going to require A LOT of grinding to fix -- it is a Car-pg after all.
    It made the game unreasonably difficult from the start.

    Things took a turn for the worst a few "tasks" into the story when they introduced an "American" law enforcement officer by the name of "Clara WASHINGTON" (!!), who opens her mouth and belches out a thick British accent... I knew at this point this story is going to be cheesy AF to compliment the difficult AF and tedious AF, so I quit and uninstalled the game.

    Buy this game if you're into difficult games, time-consuming games, and cheesy plots such as a British voiced American presidents or female Navy SEALs, etc.    … Expand
  29. Halberd12
    Dec 4, 2014
    0
    Another ubisoft title marketed for hype. Servers don't work properly, as usual with Ubisoft services...Also, there's a poor selection of cars in the game just a couple of stupid supercars. It's just an NFS with crappier driving physics and bigger map.
  30. Jazoray
    Dec 14, 2014
    0
    This game claims to be something new and innovative (god i hate that word) but it's no different than TDU2. TDU2, not TDU1 which had an option to enable believable physics.

    A vehicle game with unbelievably silly unrealistic physics is not a vehicle game at all and has no value.
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  1. CD-Action
    Feb 7, 2015
    75
    Rating The Crew is problematic, because you can look at this game from two perspectives. In view of some simplifications and scripted moments it will not delight those in search of pure racing. Those who appreciate large open worlds however will be overjoyed. [01/2015, p.70]
  2. PC Games
    Jan 27, 2015
    74
    The massive living environment is a great thing, but inaccurate arcade gameplay and poor balanced missions pushes The Crew into the world of average driving games.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Jan 25, 2015
    68
    This ambitious attempt to create an MMO racing game pretty much failed thanks to horrible bugs and poor gameplay balance. And if you prefer playing alone, The Crew is not good enough for that, either.
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