The Crew

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  1. Quink666
    Dec 2, 2014
    5
    BIG open world, Patethic storyline. Decents graphics. Forced online play.

    But the 2 things that ruins this game is the car handling with and without upgrades, It feels like you are driving a car in micro machines, and the 2nd thing is pay2win. this early in the game you wonder how another dude with the same car can go 34235 times faster then you and never starts spinning in corner at    BIG open world, Patethic storyline. Decents graphics. Forced online play.

    But the 2 things that ruins this game is the car handling with and without upgrades, It feels like you are driving a car in micro machines, and the 2nd thing is pay2win. this early in the game you wonder how another dude with the same car can go 34235 times faster then you and never starts spinning in corner at full speed.

    The answer is pay2win. Ubisoft did the same thing with ACU where you could buy "Helix points." This will be the last Ubisoft game i will ever buy. 5/10    … Expand
  2. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    5
    Mediocre game, that has an amazing map, but nothing besides that. The driving is awful, music is a joke, story looks like a cop tv-show gone wrong... I'm very disappointed by this one... don't waste your time on it even if it's not a total disaster. Pickens condemns
  3. Leo4211
    Jan 4, 2015
    6
    Well, the crew is sort of mediocre. For the good side, the map is very very big with various land forms and landscapes, which is a big plus. The cars have adequate customization options (except the Maserati I think) that you won't see random players driving the same Nissan as yours. The storyline and the main missions are fine.
    Unfortunately, the number of cars in the game is too less    Well, the crew is sort of mediocre. For the good side, the map is very very big with various land forms and landscapes, which is a big plus. The cars have adequate customization options (except the Maserati I think) that you won't see random players driving the same Nissan as yours. The storyline and the main missions are fine.
    Unfortunately, the number of cars in the game is too less (like 40 something). Of course, the "kind" and almighty "U-not-soft" knows this problem and decided to "help" by publishing EXCLUSIVE 14 cars with the very "low" price of $24.99. Sounds cheap, isn't it?
    Not only that, the AI is very annoying at times. In races, AI can suddenly activate "hyper speed boost" option and pass you when you're in last 500m or so. The traffic is so awkward that sometimes you just slide the traffic cars when you hit it head to head, and sometimes they just go "f___ you!" and let your car crash. When you're doing skills, there are chances that AI are blocking you way to weave through the slalom or get through the gate, and you just get raged and restart it again.
    The main failure of this game is the concept of multiplaying. You can hardly invite your lobby players (if you can connect to one) to join your co-op missions, unless they want to do the exact same thing. Also, the PvP lobbies are extremely broken that you can hardly enter any faction wars. If you are lucky enough, you may be able to play "free for all" and have races with others, but you need to be ready for stupid rubber banding. These makes the game quite boring after you finished the whole story.
    When I was playing story missions, I find the game extremely fun. And now it's covered in dust in my computer and I rarely play it now, unless Ubisoft fixes the PvP problems.    … Expand
  4. BIISTI
    Dec 29, 2014
    5
    I've played The Crew for about 40 hours, and i thought i'd tell you my opinion on the game.

    The Crew can be really annoying. The game has bugs which will make you really mad. In these ''end game races'' you will have to win races which last like 1.5h-2.5h. These races give really good cash and exp rewards, but the AI of random traffic and the racing cars is so trashy that you will end    I've played The Crew for about 40 hours, and i thought i'd tell you my opinion on the game.

    The Crew can be really annoying. The game has bugs which will make you really mad. In these ''end game races'' you will have to win races which last like 1.5h-2.5h. These races give really good cash and exp rewards, but the AI of random traffic and the racing cars is so trashy that you will end up crying. I have done many of those races and i keep getting messed up by the AI and bugs. The cars on highways might turn randomly even tho there's no exits around. This will basically wreck your car and make you lose a lot of time in the race. The other racers may fail a lot during the race but they will get this bs boost where they can drive a lot faster than the car should actually be able to without slowing down on turns because i think there's a set time where they have to finish the race. Usually the enemy cars might pull you into the crash but because they have the set time they will be a lot faster than you when they respawn and basically outrun you even tho they failed. The biggest annoyance yet i've come to find out is the back on track feature bug. Sometimes during those big races if you have to use the back on track feature to continue the race it might just mess you up completely. Just the other day i was in 1.5 hour race i was just a few checkpoints away from victory at 1st place, but then i had to use the back on track and it basically teleported me 10 miles away from the last car in the race. So basically i played for more than an hour to lose it all thanks to a bug. The story in the game isn't anything new or original it seems to me like it's the exact same story stolen from Nfs - Undercover. I let the story part slide because i don't usually pay attention to the stories in games. Pvp or Co-op in the game is bad (to me atleast) since every guy seems to have a laggy computer or the servers are trash because when you join a crew then race with the guys the chances are the host has the only good connection to the game and the other racers are just teleporting around for the guys in the crew.

    I really like the map in the game it's quite large and there's alot of variety and the graphics are good so the scenery is really beautiful. The car customization in the game is quite decent. The specs in the game make you have to buy multiple cars because the better cars can only use like 2 of the 5 specs. The visual customization in The Crew is lacking. You can only choose 1 sticker on the car. So you can't place multiple stickers and move them around the car to make it really personalized. There are like 41 cars in the game and there's a lot of variety in the cars. Yet i think they should add Bugatti Veyron in the game. The driving physics in the game are quite good if you turn the driving help off and turn on hardcore settings so it's more realistic. The snow areas on the map are really annoying to drive on without driving help tho because the roads are like ice there's no grip whatsoever on the car and that's not realistic at all.

    The Crew is a beautiful and large game but these bugs annoy me too much to give it a better score.    … Expand
  5. Jay_Pickens
    Jul 25, 2018
    5
    Mediocre game, that has an amazing map, but nothing besides that. The driving is awful, music is a joke, story looks like a cop tv-show gone wrong... I'm very disappointed by this one... don't waste your time on it even if it's not a total disaster. Pickens condemns!
  6. JJthis
    Aug 29, 2015
    5
    The Crew is a great concept. It's an immense, diverse environment with some great cars (though very few - with Nissan being the ONLY Asian manufacturer).

    The customisation is good, and honestly the best we have at the moment in a racing game. There's manual transmission which you don't find in modern NFS titles anymore. The gameplay is arcade, as you would expect, so no surprises    The Crew is a great concept. It's an immense, diverse environment with some great cars (though very few - with Nissan being the ONLY Asian manufacturer).

    The customisation is good, and honestly the best we have at the moment in a racing game.
    There's manual transmission which you don't find in modern NFS titles anymore.
    The gameplay is arcade, as you would expect, so no surprises there.

    Should you buy it? On sale, yes, I think it's definitely worth it.

    Why the low score?
    It's simple...Uplay.
    It's unstable, unreliable and will often just lose connectivity for no reason while at the same time Origin and Steam will still be running perfectly. It's also always online, which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for Uplay.
    If this game used only Steam I'd have given it 8/10, because Steam actually works.    … Expand
  7. Tomle1202
    Jun 22, 2018
    5
    Ivory Tower's intention may have been something good. But at the end of the day, The Crew is as deep as a pond. A badly-rendered, microtransaction-filled and always-online pond.
  8. Robinjhoe
    Feb 14, 2016
    6
    Ugh. Not this again. I have a love-hate relationship with this game.

    In its basics its pretty good. Huge world. Some decent cars. Many customization options. And thats it! The ingame physics are god awful. Cars are alway trying to face ground with their bottom. Obsticles you hit fly through the air at an amazing speed then suddenly stabilize themself with some magic and suddenly come    Ugh. Not this again. I have a love-hate relationship with this game.

    In its basics its pretty good. Huge world. Some decent cars. Many customization options. And thats it!

    The ingame physics are god awful. Cars are alway trying to face ground with their bottom. Obsticles you hit fly through the air at an amazing speed then suddenly stabilize themself with some magic and suddenly come down like a leaf in the wind.

    The NPC cars. Omg the NPC cars. They are just there. They only react to you by honking. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes pretty annoying, they glitch everywhere. And they are often placed to distract you if you are first or whatever. I could count on.

    To get the needed money so you can get the nice looking shoping cart you want, you either do PVP, which is very repetitive at time. Or you make the long races either alone or with friends. These are so frustrating. The longest races there are last like 4 hours sometimes. What happens? One f*king Checkpoint before the goal Server crash. Or you are 2 hours first, do one mistake and all your progress is gone. The best thing is, that the NPC Cars in these long races have several advatages, like when they are afar from you render distance there are no traffic cars for them. Its funny when you actually look at the distances. You get ahead of them and at some point behind you they somehow make a ruberband flash and are suddenly behind your butt again.

    So much about the World. But what about the crews? When my friends aren`t on I sometimes try to drive with some people in the Openworld. Like the Trailer always said, you can drive with them and feel like an actual crew and find new friends! Especially when you just drive them, and they just want you to get away. Or they sue you. Or they dont stop ramming into you and vanish. But to be honest. I had also my good times with some random people on the street.

    As I said this game has its flaws. But I just cannot stop playing it. even more with friends. But seriously Ubisoft should shutdown Uplay or rework it completly.    … Expand
  9. ikereview
    Dec 16, 2014
    5
    this game is pretty boring no one played this gitchy buggy mess of a game this game just proves how pathtic ubisoft is they don't make any good games of this year
  10. Xevon
    Apr 1, 2015
    7
    The Crew is a hard game to review for the sole reason that your enjoyment of it is based solely on what you're looking to get out of it. It features one of the largest free-roam maps in any racing game with a drive straight through the middle taking a good hour to complete - not to mention a run around the perimeter! The map is scattered with mini-challenges called 'Skills' which you canThe Crew is a hard game to review for the sole reason that your enjoyment of it is based solely on what you're looking to get out of it. It features one of the largest free-roam maps in any racing game with a drive straight through the middle taking a good hour to complete - not to mention a run around the perimeter! The map is scattered with mini-challenges called 'Skills' which you can enter seamlessly. These keep you busy, and are worth doing considering they offer fairly decent upgrades to your cars. Skills can be found just about anywhere, which is impressive considering how huge the map is. What's more impressive is that, despite the maps massive scale, the level of detail is consistently high right through. Not to mention just how pretty much of it is, which brings me to the visuals. I found The Crew ran very well on my system, Ultra detail at 1440p and 60fps with only a few drops - this is impressive, because The Crew is absolutely gorgeous. I likely spent more time with my jaw on the ground taking screenshots than I did actually playing the game. The games driving physics are fun, a fairly realistic driving model but still very accessible to casual players. There's also plenty of content to keep you busy, expect to be playing this for a while! Unfortunately, now we come to the low points. Firstly, the games story. The story itself isn't terrible, I found it somewhat reminiscent of NFS: Most Wanted. However, it made a few crucial mistakes. It's biggest issue is that it rushes through the opening scenes which set up the ENTIRE GAME in a matter of a few minutes. The story is, a dude named Shiv kills your brother who you knew for all of two minutes (In which he called you an **** and then frames you for it. You're going to spend the whole game getting revenge for that. Because the game fails to set itself up, it falls flat on it's face right off the start line and drags itself along for 10 hours or so trying to convince you to care. But you don't. And you won't. The plot serves it's purpose in keeping the game moving forward however, and it certainly does a great job of showing you the world in the timely manner, having you dart from place to place every few missions. As far as the plot goes however? Total failure. Another flaw is the games list of cars. A large amount of vehicles are locked away as paid DLC, and those that aren't are quite few. Without having counted them, I daresay there's around 30 - 40 cars included in the price of the game. Make no mistake however, the roster is a strong one, quality over quantity you could say, but even so, it's not a great amount to choose from. Above everything already stated, The Crew has one more flaw - the biggest flaw of all. That's that it lacks an Offline mode. Being able to play The Crew relies on having an internet connection. It also relies on The Crew's servers being online, which occasionally, they aren't. It also relies on uPlay's servers being online, which, to my surprise, are frequently down. In short, the planets need to align for you to be able to enjoy The Crew and when they do, it may not be for long. In addition to availability frustrations, the game lacks any kind of 'Private' mode. In short, if you're playing the game, everybody else can see you. Everybody else can ram you off the road. Everybody else can spam you with race and crew invites. And god forbid you have friends with the game, because they'll be hassling you to play with them regardless of whether you want to play with them or not. So really, there's no being antisocial with this game. Despite being able to complete the game without any interaction with other players whatsoever, the game will offer you no way out of having to put up with them anyway. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if the online features were good, but they're really not. They're very cookie cutter, 'seen-it-before' stuff. It more or less lifts Test Drive Unlimited's multiplayer features and does nothing to modernize or improve upon them. So in summary, the multiplayer isn't really all that new or fun, but you have no choice but to put up with it anyway. So, back to the first sentence of this review. The Crew is a hard one to rate because it largely depends on what you're wanting to get out of it as to how you're going to enjoy it. If you enjoy open world racing games with pretty and detailed scenery and lots of open road to cruise, you'll probably love The Crew. But if you're looking for a highly complex single or multiplayer driven racing game, or a highly realistic one for that matter, you're going to be disappointed. Put simply, The Crew is open world porn. The kind of game where you can drive for hours in with no real goal in sight. Beyond the open world appeal however, it can be somewhat lacking although not morbidly so. The Crew isn't a bad game, just some parts of it are mediocre. Some of the other parts however are simply exquisite, so don't discount The Crew because of it's luke-warm reviews!… Expand
  11. Allexio
    Dec 7, 2014
    6
    First of all, as this seems to be the issue around these parts: has the Crew got some bugs? yeah! of course it does! Are these bugs game breaking in any way? no, they most definitely aren't!
    I spent about 15 hours in game approx and I have had to crash my game once because of a mission load bug while I was in a crew.
    The missions are a LOT of fun and the events (or skills, or whatever    First of all, as this seems to be the issue around these parts: has the Crew got some bugs? yeah! of course it does! Are these bugs game breaking in any way? no, they most definitely aren't!
    I spent about 15 hours in game approx and I have had to crash my game once because of a mission load bug while I was in a crew.
    The missions are a LOT of fun and the events (or skills, or whatever they're called) in the open world are very well implemented, for example one could mention the fact that they actually took the time to make each event work on both ways to make sure that you get the best experience possible. (of course not the jump ones as those ones are quite specific).
    The story is a bit cliched but I wasn't expecting anything great.
    Honestly the single player for this game is nearly flawless. It really is.

    The problems start with the multiplayer aspect of the game with huge problems in terms of connection stability. I have been able to make friends and hook up with crews online though, the problems are mostly linked to the open world 7 player system. This system is fundamentally stupid and broken.
    First of all I think 10 would have been a much more appropriate number (or maybe even 15?) as actually meeting someone else on the road is rare and only lasts half a second until you take the next turn.
    You can invite people from your session into events but its rare for that system to actually work, it wont work if the person is already doing a mission (which makes sense) but it also wont work with people on the map for some obscure reason I cant really explain.
    I didn't try any faction missions yet because they seem to be very long. I'm about level 25. So I already have my Dirt and Perf specs. Ill be honest, outside of real urban racing where I might prefer the P, the street spec is definitely way better than the two others. It may not go as fast, but it's the only one that's actually controllable. Dirt is so slippery it's scary and Perf just goes so fast, you cant make any 90 degree turn without slowing down to about 60km/h first. Whereas with my street spec I stay at >110 at all times even in tight turns.

    So yeah, I don't think the game is perfect but it DEFINITELY deserves some praise for trying to do something a bit special. The world is quite beautiful and the game is well optimised, I have not had any FPS drops on ultra with my 870m (so desktop standards approx 660) and like I said in 15 hours, the game crashed once and it wasn't even on single player.

    It's good fun but it still needs a few patches made to multiplayer elements.
    I played this game with a mouse and keyboard, so I didn't really get the controller or wheel feel about it. Also, Im not a big fan of racing games so apart from the dirt cars being too slippery, I don't really know what to say about actual physics. The street racing spec feels right and it does give a sense of badassery to whiz past the cars on the high way by slaloming through them and then go for some drifts and pack up combos. Then again, there are some bugs on overtake counting, I am under the impression that only one car out of two that I overtake is counted. The game also stops overtaking when I am in the opposite lane.

    Anyway, all in all, this game is addictive and fun. its maybe not made for pure racing players but more the casual gamer who wants to have a bit of fun without it being too competitive and serious :)

    I gave it an 8 on metacritic but I think it deserves around 7.5, I could've rounded down to 7 but I think that the reviews here are a bit too harsh so I decided to round to 8 instead.

    Proof of purchase -> my name on Uplay is AllexioRigins (because Allexio was already taken), my games should be public.    … Expand
  12. sphoenixp
    Dec 6, 2014
    5
    The whole concept idea and the dream is real. But the is not optimized for PC. If you have a console buy it don't buy if for PC. A lot of bugs have to be fixed. This game requires support not because it need new content but to better what is already there.
  13. TomatsuppenDK
    Dec 2, 2014
    5
    This game has been very hyped up on the internet.

    Today it came out - I bought it.

    The last month I've played Testdrive Unlimited 2 again, to warm up for The Crew.

    All I can say is. I've been more happy with TDU2 , better gameplay, graphics .. well everything seems better than The Crew.

    Another overhyped Ubisoft game title.
  14. nidvar
    Dec 4, 2014
    5
    Played for a few hours. Went to NYC in the game. City looks half decent but has a population of 3. I understand its a driving game but the cities look empty with a dozen cars occasionally at the traffic lights.

    The world is massive but 90% of the world is just farm lands / crops.

    And of course the story line is total rubbish from some C grade movie.
  15. Pudenfuhrer
    Dec 5, 2014
    5
    Old Detroit. Motor City Industrial Park.

    Leaving the main road I coast around discarded drums and the piles of rubble picking my way through the abandoned redbrick site. The lights of the car moodily casting shadows into the interior where boards are missing or walls collapsed. Just then I round the corner into a graveyard and I come to a stop. I didn't expect this. I'm feeling    Old Detroit. Motor City Industrial Park.

    Leaving the main road I coast around discarded drums and the piles of rubble picking my way through the abandoned redbrick site. The lights of the car moodily casting shadows into the interior where boards are missing or walls collapsed.

    Just then I round the corner into a graveyard and I come to a stop. I didn't expect this. I'm feeling things.

    I look back through the graveyard, through the broken buildings, and far away I can see the remaining towers of the Brewster housing projects standing completely abandoned, a place where people like Diana Ross grew up, the kind of project that serves as the go-to archetype for any ghetto cliche. I wonder at how, in the 1950's, the creators of these monoliths imagined them, how they were as they stood in their lifetime, how brief that lifetime was compared to all these years standing as ghosts, eerie. As one person put it; "places I had known my whole life, but that had never known me". Most people alive here now never knew these buildings as they were intended. Soon they will be gone completely.

    I slip my shifter to first and let the clutch up with a satisfying mix of ingame and out-of-game sounds. Over the low purr of the engine I hear the ambient, sorrowful music of the 24 hour ambient radio station "sine waves".
    I feel like Stalker, peering out across the Pripyat skyline, wearing the dashboard and interior of the car like a claustrophobic gas-mask.

    Earlier I'd watched the people of this ersatz town going about their daily grinds as I sped up and down the 8 mile. These bizarre insects struggling over each other, that too had been oddly moving in a way. I'd placed myself like a barricade in their path - but they just pushed me aside, swore and went around. How separate I feel to them as I head towards the intersection and back towards Central Detroit. That discord, that feeling pretty much evokes the real world to me, or at least the worst of the cities I've lived in.

    But as I approach the intersection, towards the big floating mission marker I am jolted into Ubisoft's reality. I can no longer move the camera, a mandatory accept or decline screen appears. I release the controls to find the enter key, or to click with the mouse.. Then, once accepted: "Surprise!" birthday balloon animals floating in the air. Instructions and numbers fill the screen. Time limits, medals, ghost cars and incremental improvements and 'EXP'.
    Now the game designer has me drive through targets, crashing through the world I was enjoying so carefully observing moments before. An abstracted world that uses the game-world as wallpaper and apparently likes to throw food at parties.

    I finish this fairground attraction, there is another mandatory accept/decline screen, but the gameworld is still live and unpaused in the background. Reaching for the mouse to accept confusing options about incremental upgrades of different colours I rear-end a car at the lights. The car sits a little oddly now, but continues waiting for the lights to change. There is no consequence, no one gets out or calls the cops, and my car is perfectly fine, not even visual damage. I sit too now, cursing the game for making me behave so out of my own character. Then, with something *anything* clicked and the menu finally gone the screen fades and inexplicably comes back up. My car is in a similar but not quite the same location to as it was before.

    It's over. And it feels like I've just been mugged, or taken advantage of. Like a nighttime stroll that went bad. I feel like I want a shower to wash away the stain of the balloon animal nonsense. I look at the world and try to see it how I did a moment before, the industrial wasteground, the locational storytelling. But instead I see an npc, an office everyman, walking into a wall like a fly trying to escape a glass window. I just sit thinking about what's next. How am I going to meet this game halfway and make a fist of it?

    Perhaps my character is insane?

    This is a game where I have more control over the cars look than my own. I know I am "wearing" a Challenger SRT in black. So perhaps I am the car, perhaps I am a dormant sorrowful Transformer robot trapped in car form. I'm certainly not the occupant, Alex is it?, the person in the Fast and Furious cutscenes that I have to watch sometimes whenever I approach the terrible glowing orbs that tell me a fade out is about to happen and I'm about to see things that never happen in the gameworld ever, which will, nevertheless, occur in a cutscene that is passed off as being part of the world.

    So what is this game? What is left?
    It's as tender as a first kiss outside a club in the rain - shortly before a car tries to run you over for standing in the wrong spot. Where cutscenes presume who you are and how you behave, in a world that allows you freedom yet doesn't count it.    … Expand
  16. Garfoodle
    Dec 9, 2014
    5
    I think it should have been $15. Don't get me wrong, The Crew is an ok game. But the only fun I found in it was driving across the U.S. of A for hours on end. It really was fun to drive around. It was a sense of adventure that I haven't felt since Skyrim. After playing for an hour,I could drive from LA to NY, stop at the Grand Canyon, The Rockys, MtRushmore and eveywhere in between forI think it should have been $15. Don't get me wrong, The Crew is an ok game. But the only fun I found in it was driving across the U.S. of A for hours on end. It really was fun to drive around. It was a sense of adventure that I haven't felt since Skyrim. After playing for an hour,I could drive from LA to NY, stop at the Grand Canyon, The Rockys, MtRushmore and eveywhere in between for fun. But that's all I was doing. I hated having to go back to story quests, grinding for Xp and Cash. I hated everything that wasn't driving around for my fun. That's why I so it should've been $15.… Expand
  17. Venialowl510
    Jan 3, 2015
    7
    The crew is a very fun game, the map is very large and I found it very fun to explore. The story line seems pretty basic for most racing games it is not that unique. Although the map is large the gameplay is not too enjoyable in the missions are very difficult. The map is the good part of the game but bigger is not always better, the story mode is not fun. For half of the missions itThe crew is a very fun game, the map is very large and I found it very fun to explore. The story line seems pretty basic for most racing games it is not that unique. Although the map is large the gameplay is not too enjoyable in the missions are very difficult. The map is the good part of the game but bigger is not always better, the story mode is not fun. For half of the missions it seems like it's nearly impossible to complete one on your first try. I would've rated their game higher if the missions would be more enjoyable and the gameplay would be more smooth. Also if you were trying to race beware because if you a pedestrian car it will most likely Wreck you and you and you will spin out and automatically lose the race.… Expand
  18. Amitashi
    Mar 14, 2015
    6
    To be honest Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 looks better. Reason of poor graphics is hugeness of the world. Anyway world exploration makes me curious.
  19. emrahoz
    Dec 25, 2014
    7
    Pros:
    +Modifications,customizations
    +Above average driving dynamics
    +Big Map

    Cons:
    -Strange color palette for environment,
    -Below average environmental virtuals(even in ultra settings)
    -Fps issues(there can be random slow downs,sometimes)
  20. Thehudthestud
    Jan 7, 2015
    6
    an above average racer game with a large ass empty feeling map and aged graphics with a lot of pop in from time to time. the story is boring and at times youll feel like its not even there. the racing mechanics arent improved on in terms of if you were expecting something new and improved. the customization is a warm welcome and the cras look like years were spent into making them. thean above average racer game with a large ass empty feeling map and aged graphics with a lot of pop in from time to time. the story is boring and at times youll feel like its not even there. the racing mechanics arent improved on in terms of if you were expecting something new and improved. the customization is a warm welcome and the cras look like years were spent into making them. the real meat the gameplay is whats ruined here with pay to win. the game is better optimized than the disaster released by ubisoft earlier *cough*unity*cough* . racing against your friends is fun unless the game crashes on you which has happened 4 times to me atleast. the dynamic weather has yet to be properly seen and please correct the map by adding the missing cities .… Expand
  21. tmaaan54
    Jun 21, 2015
    5
    Pros: large, open map. Lots of cars. Unique features.
    Cons: it's an MMO with a max player count of 16. Finding a race is virtually impossible, and makes GTAO look good by comparison due to the amount of rubber banding and glitching. AI is terrible, speeding up to catch you and slowing down so you can catch it. Instead of actually hitting traffic, it just blows it out of the way. Physics    Pros: large, open map. Lots of cars. Unique features.
    Cons: it's an MMO with a max player count of 16. Finding a race is virtually impossible, and makes GTAO look good by comparison due to the amount of rubber banding and glitching. AI is terrible, speeding up to catch you and slowing down so you can catch it. Instead of actually hitting traffic, it just blows it out of the way. Physics are mediocre at best. Picture this: you're in a circuit car with slicks on all 4. You are going 250mph. You hit the nitrous shot worth about 300hp. The tires spin and you fly out of control.    … Expand
  22. CelestialFox
    Dec 14, 2014
    5
    I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to give this game a higher score but after playing it... I just can't haha! Every mission in the game is nearly impossible or hard as hell to get gold on. Call me whatever you want but every race or event infuriates me sooooo much in this game. I've played Midnight Club before and THAT gets annoying but this game... It just pisses me off.

    Although the map    I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to give this game a higher score but after playing it... I just can't haha! Every mission in the game is nearly impossible or hard as hell to get gold on. Call me whatever you want but every race or event infuriates me sooooo much in this game. I've played Midnight Club before and THAT gets annoying but this game... It just pisses me off.

    Although the map is huge in this game it is so BORING! There is absolutely nothing to look at besides VERY flat hills and the obviously copied and pasted trees/foliage along the way. The maps need to look more natural and have a lot more trees and bushes.

    The mechanics and physics in this game are pretty bad. Hitting cars or trees often times just bounces you off of them like a bumper car. Objects you collide with don't leave appropriate dents, marks, scratches, etc. I really regret purchasing this game and UNFORTUNATELY once it's registered you can't return it as far as I know.

    AI is also bad. Vehicles don't turn smoothly, they jerk around corners. This is the 21st century. Ubisoft acts as if this is their first line of games released. I'm glad to know that they are doing everything right now to fix these games BUT they REALLY needed to push these projects back further.

    In my opinion, I would wait to purchase this game until it is patched a little.    … Expand
  23. ProvostKHOT
    Dec 9, 2014
    5
    Great game... maybe someday, for now just wait until it's fixed. As of December 2014 don't bother buying it, The Crew is broken in so many ways, You can never imagine. Or maybe You could if You were playing some other Ubisoft games recently, but that's not the point.

    The scenery is really great, even though the graphics are not as good as they should be, especially considering the    Great game... maybe someday, for now just wait until it's fixed. As of December 2014 don't bother buying it, The Crew is broken in so many ways, You can never imagine. Or maybe You could if You were playing some other Ubisoft games recently, but that's not the point.

    The scenery is really great, even though the graphics are not as good as they should be, especially considering the performance of the game, and if You like just cruising through the big, open map, You won't be disappointed.

    The problem is: the previous sentence is the only thing good in this game as for now. Even though it's an arcade style game, the handling is at best "controversial". And even that I could live with , but what I absolutely cannot bare is the rubber banding. You'll see this term a lot when reading about The Crew, and it only shows how big of a problem it is. Don't get me wrong: I do like challenge, and I do think it's bad if a game let's you "one shot" everything. As long as the challenge is fair. And here we go: The Crew doesn't even try to pretend that it is fair. It's difficulty is not based on the real skill of the AI drivers obeying the same rules as the player, which would've been fine, instead it's a scripted mess of unreal catching up, cars that defy every law of physics that's available, indestructible police, and unreal pacing that forces You to always be on the edge of loosing, no matter how good or bad You are as a driver.

    Yeah, some might say: "but You can beat the game, just try harder", and they'd be absolutely right: You can. But what's the point in beating the unreal script? Really there's no joy, or pride in winning in The Crew by figuring out where are the holes in the script and exploiting them.

    That's the main complaint about the game: it doesn't even try looking real.

    Verdict for me: absolutely DO NOT BUY NOW. Wait. At least wait until the major bugs are fixed, and then maybe think again. You won't miss much, at best You could call it a late beta version, with still much to fix. And when it gets fixed probably it's gonna be discounted on the steam sale. Just not now, You won't enjoy it anyway.    … Expand
  24. KittyWhisky
    Jun 13, 2017
    6
    In theory the game should be great. At first glance this is true, but physics machine is killing everything!
    The map covers the Americas, and she is really great! The game looks good, the scenery varied, to ride across America very nice! The game even has a plot n for the record. but it is commendable that even though this is. Nice videos, well put. On the main missions often something    In theory the game should be great. At first glance this is true, but physics machine is killing everything!
    The map covers the Americas, and she is really great! The game looks good, the scenery varied, to ride across America very nice! The game even has a plot n for the record. but it is commendable that even though this is. Nice videos, well put. On the main missions often something happens around the world is alive and not boring to pass the mission.
    Your car can be strongly customized. This is executed perfectly! You literally retirees the car and replace the part. With your car you really cherish.
    But the game has a huge problem that is catastrophic for the racing game is piiska machines. They are ruled awful! As the irons on people. The game was released in December 2014 and physics are not fixed. To drive the car really hard. hard to turn and sometimes. when you dial the speed, then the car starts to go in zigzags, even if you go in a straight line. In a racing game just do not comfortable to ride!
    If physics would have been different, then The Crew would be a wonderful game. All the same, the open world is beautiful and nice to ride across America. On the road are scattered various tests you can pass the race. The game does not get bored. Especially on this ride obshirnom the world and other players. You can ride with your friends. But because of the terrible car physics you will not want to return to the game.    … Expand
  25. Chrisracer8903
    Dec 23, 2014
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Crew: Great ideas with a poor final product.

    Pros:
    The entire U.S. in one open map.
    Some of the cars (Discussing this later on).

    Cons:
    Awful car physics and controls.
    Constant online connection needed.
    Graphics with some ugly textures.
    Weak story.
    Slim variety of cars.
    Difficult to have online matches, races, and missions.
    Very limited single-player content after finishing the story.

    I was one of the many players that was excited for this game because of the open world being the entire US and it's pretty awesome to drive across the country and see the scenery change from forests to deserts. However, despite the fact the map is huge, the city sizes are not consistent with each other. Many major cities such as Denver or Atlanta are missing and instead included 3-4 city blocks to represent smaller, lesser-known cities which I found very questionable. Compression in some areas of the map also look weird such as mountains seen from Chicago which in real life is non existent because of the 800+ miles of Iowa and Nebraska that is nowhere to be found in this game.

    In conjunctions with the graphics, some areas of the map look amazing, especially the deserts at sunset, but many areas of the map are littered with ugly, repeated textures, trees looking lifeless and look like they are made of metal, and many recycled objects in the cities including parked cars with no shadows or reflections that look bad. It literally looks like your driving around on a map created in Sim City 4 - all copy and paste with lack of variety in many ideas which I was afraid of finding in a game with an open world like this. There are racing games that are over 5 years old that have better looking graphics than this.

    The story is weak, it is pulled straight out of a Need for Speed title with hardly any thrills. Many of the CGI cut scenes look great and others are just dull. Missions are dull and many times do not work well with the situation in the story. Many of them are not even races.

    The AI in this game is garbage! There is no consistency at all! Cars constantly pull ahead of you regardless of car class. I had a race where a Ford Raptor was constantly pulling far ahead of me and I was driving a Ferrari. You don't need to be a car expert to know that a pick-up truck can't beat a Ferrari no matter how much customization there is. Cops are annoying in this game as well. I love police chases in any racing game, but this one has no thrills but full of frustration. They will block your car like a tank. You can push them out of the way, you can hardly outrun them, and if they block you - your instantly busted. When you try to take down a fleeing car in certain missions, they constantly stay in front of you and nearly give-up when there is 30 seconds left on the clock. Worst AI system I have ever seen.

    I don't care much for car customization in games, but compared to other racing games, there's nothing that stands out in this game from others.

    The soundtrack in this game is dull. The only good songs I briefly listened to where songs found in other past racing titles. The dramatic music score during missions is bland and feels no emotions. Car sounds are ok, not "mind-blowing", but they work.

    Now this biggest problem with The Crew:

    WORST DRIVING PHYSICS EVER!

    The cars drive like boats. You can never keep them in a straight line and always lean to the left or right. This gets even more frustrating with the high-end circuit cars. Even worse is that many vehicles do not feel different from each other regardless of what pointless upgrades you applied. Some drive faster than others and that's it. There is no element to the sense of speed either like many other games. Blur effects are weak and the camera doesn't shake, just HUD (which looks fake). The cars feel bulky at times. You can also swipe cars and trees and your car will simply slide around them with no collisions or damage. When you do crash, the damage on your car is not consistent to the crash. Cars also take off on a dime with no screeching tires or spinning unless you bounce off the guardrails. I could go on forever about the driving.

    Online on this game blows. There is hardly anyone online to compete in events which is a big problem because when you complete the story, there is very few single-player races to compete in leading to an open world that is virtually empty. I don't care for the online set-ups and I never will. Did I also mention you need constant online connection to play The Crew? Guess Ubisoft didn't learn from EA's big failure of Sim City, did they?

    Overall: The Crew has some cool cars and a big map with some cool areas to explore, but the outdated graphics, bad design choices, forced online, weak story, and horrible physics - there is just too many problems that make this game worth playing after exploring the map.

    This is a $60 incomplete beta.

    Back to the old NFS titles that look and run better.

    Score: 5 (For the map)    … Expand
  26. CoreGamer1408
    Oct 12, 2020
    5
    Lets face it street racers are street scum. This was a free giveaway on PC Uplay. Looks fine, runs fine, sounds fine. Street Arcade racers have been done to death. So more of the same really. Kind of reminds me of the old Test Drive series. I do credit the crew with one thing. At least they put people on streets. Nothing weirder than racing around a city that is devoid of total life beyondLets face it street racers are street scum. This was a free giveaway on PC Uplay. Looks fine, runs fine, sounds fine. Street Arcade racers have been done to death. So more of the same really. Kind of reminds me of the old Test Drive series. I do credit the crew with one thing. At least they put people on streets. Nothing weirder than racing around a city that is devoid of total life beyond people in vehicles. This is not the game to bring me back into the arcade racer fold. The always online is BS for this type of game. The Test Drive series did it all on a huge map and offline.… Expand
  27. Luka1998010
    Jun 30, 2018
    5
    I am a huge fan of open world racing games and racing games in general.If i take a look at The Crew,the game is good.It has a fun arcade feel to it,nice cars and a map suitable for everyone`s taste.
    But the thing is,its not perfect.It has a lot of flaws.
    First of all, i understand that playing with others is fun but does this game seriously need to be a always-online title ? No, it does    I am a huge fan of open world racing games and racing games in general.If i take a look at The Crew,the game is good.It has a fun arcade feel to it,nice cars and a map suitable for everyone`s taste.
    But the thing is,its not perfect.It has a lot of flaws.
    First of all, i understand that playing with others is fun but does this game seriously need to be a always-online title ? No, it does not because it has enough features to be considered a great single player experience,not to mention that it has a freaking story line!
    Well,at least when entering solo events,you can pause and even continue playing if somehow the internet connection goes down.
    Second thing i have to point out is the rubber banding AI,which ruins the whole racing experience.
    Why ? Because the game has a system of upgrading your rides where you get them by completing skills,events or buying them in tune up shops.But the problem is, those upgrades don`t mean s*it when a 100 lvl slower car can magically get passed you in a race and leave you in the dust!
    Seriously ???!!!
    Another thing,the crash physics.They are terrible.
    When driving 300 km/h,after colliding with a car,my car does not slow down,it feels like the traffic are a bunch of balloons! Hit a tree ? No problem ? You can easily move past it , no sweat.
    I also noticed some modeling fails.While driving my Dirt spec Camaro on a wooden bridge during a race,it suddenly "trips" and starts to roll at the finish line!
    I said enough,its a fun game but it feels very unoptimized at the same time.
    5/10    … Expand
  28. Tilt1k
    Nov 11, 2019
    6
    At first i thought this will be the new underground 2 with incredible graphics, after few hours it becomes rather boring and the multiplayer races dont save it at all, pity :(

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  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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