The Crew

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  1. 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.
  2. Phynex
    Dec 4, 2014
    9
    I don't really understand where all the hate is coming from.
    There is so much fun in this game with a steering wheel, I don't know any alternative to this genre right now.
    Sure the online feature is not really good right now. But the size of the map and the fun with driving around is making up for it. I hope they fix the "mmo" part and allow more players on the world map. Until then I'm    I don't really understand where all the hate is coming from.
    There is so much fun in this game with a steering wheel, I don't know any alternative to this genre right now.
    Sure the online feature is not really good right now. But the size of the map and the fun with driving around is making up for it. I hope they fix the "mmo" part and allow more players on the world map. Until then I'm sure I will be pretty occupied with the racing missions. Didn't had such a big scale feeling for a while in a game. And to bottom it up, it's just fun to drive on realistic setting!    … Expand
  3. spindoc
    Dec 4, 2014
    8
    First things first: I loved Test Drive Unlimited 2. I loved the combination of exploring a beautiful, open world with the occasional race or mission. Yes, the cutscenes were cheesy. Yes, the race schools were difficultly annoying. And, yes, a lot of the missions were ridiculous. But... driving around the open world and taking in the sights kept me coming back again and again. I onlyFirst things first: I loved Test Drive Unlimited 2. I loved the combination of exploring a beautiful, open world with the occasional race or mission. Yes, the cutscenes were cheesy. Yes, the race schools were difficultly annoying. And, yes, a lot of the missions were ridiculous. But... driving around the open world and taking in the sights kept me coming back again and again. I only stopped playing TDU2 when The Crew launched.

    The Crew is very much the spiratual successor to the short-lived TDU series. The cheesy cutscenes are back (albeit with less cheese and more cliche). The annoying racing challenges to progress the story are back. And exploration of a large, beautiful open world is back.

    If you're going to get this game, get it primarily for the open world exploration. As you've heard, the map is HUGE. There is so much to see and the game is structured so that you'll need to see it all if you plan on getting all the collectibles. Along the way, from Point A to Point B, you'll encounter racing challenges, car parts and vistas that give their own rewards. However, in my mind, the real reward is simply driving the open world, taking in the sights and getting an appreciation for the work that Ivory Tower has put into this game.

    The racing is mediocre. The range of cars is limited (expect several DLC packs with additional cars). And the car handling takes some getting used to (I spent a lot of time mucking about with my wheel settings). It's cool seeing other drivers around you and there are lots of opportunities to team up. Just don't expect a high-end racing game with realistic physics and damage simulation.

    I should add that The Crew has online DRM. Unlike TDU2, if the servers go down, there's no offline mode to play. That was an issue on launch day and I cringe at the thought of it happening again.

    Overall, The Crew is a thoroughly enjoyable exploration game. Get it because you love to drive, not because you love cars.    … Expand
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. Orhunkk
    Dec 3, 2014
    8
    First part is for the people who are afraid of the crew because of ubisoft glitches, well...the online servers are functioning, and stable. When you’re driving, you don’t fall through the world or you don’t see cars convulsing.And the game is a unique racing MMORPG like none other,the whole of North America is in the game, gorgeous, and varied open world to explore.A lot of playersFirst part is for the people who are afraid of the crew because of ubisoft glitches, well...the online servers are functioning, and stable. When you’re driving, you don’t fall through the world or you don’t see cars convulsing.And the game is a unique racing MMORPG like none other,the whole of North America is in the game, gorgeous, and varied open world to explore.A lot of players everywhere.Every story mission can be played co-op,nice PvP. Lots of different and varied missions/quests all over. Since it is a mmo and a racing game surprisingly it has a decent story. Tons of things to level up and customize.There are specs for everyone as well(Street,Dirt(rally),Performance,Raid(off-road),Circuit).… Expand
  7. xXx_007
    Dec 3, 2014
    8
    After TDU2, in The Crew uzhastnaya support rudders Logitech G25 / G27. And the small nuances of the darkness , even the turn signals do not work in cars colliding .
  8. Jackbookpro
    Dec 3, 2014
    10
    The only working Ubisoft game this year, the Crew is an incredibly fun open world racing game with an incredibly. Large map and unique driving experience.
  9. TheLooseHunter
    Dec 3, 2014
    8
    My personal opinion about this game is pretty good. The game is good optimized and it has some good visuals. I like the gameplay and the customization that you can have in the game. The story is decent but not boring. Ofcourse there is Uplay but i still enjoyed the game and if you're looking for a racing game that gives you a new sort of gameplay, try The Crew. It's worth the money.
  10. Hokanu
    Dec 3, 2014
    10
    Exactly what I've been waiting for an RPG but with cars! Still plenty of different activities to use your cars in and the customisation is extensive. Combine all that with a massive open world and an excellent soundtrack to drive to and you won't see me playing anything else for weeks.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. joao12021996
    Dec 2, 2014
    8
    GOOD: map, details, optimization, story, handling (in hardcore we have a more real handling, but still not a simulator)

    BAD: number of car models, random bugs (hit a tree still stupid), no mirrors

    i test this game whit Logitech Drivng Force GT and it's simply amazing.

    With some modifications, like a free tuning mode (for paintjobs), this game will be almost perfect
  14. Snippe
    Dec 2, 2014
    10
    Epic. It's NFS Underground 2 on Steroids ! And MORE. Beautiful on PC.
    Solid effort from Ivory tower, a lot of time has gone into the cars themselves. and adding or changing a part can really make all the difference in the world, the map is gigantic I mean really big, driving from city to city you can get the sense that every thing feels different depending where you are, Physics done    Epic. It's NFS Underground 2 on Steroids ! And MORE. Beautiful on PC.
    Solid effort from Ivory tower, a lot of time has gone into the cars themselves. and adding or changing a part can really make all the difference in the world, the map is gigantic I mean really big, driving from city to city you can get the sense that every thing feels different depending where you are, Physics done right, Handling done Right, customization done Right, End Game Content done Right, Take My Money !    … Expand
  15. 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.
  16. 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 .....
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. MacheteChochete
    Dec 2, 2014
    8
    I buy this game for PC because i have been waiting this game since 2013. The graphics aren´t good but i prefer bad graphics than the game doesnt have a lot of bugs like Assassins Creed Bugnity sorry Unity. This game is good optimized and the fps doesnt descent of 60 fps on a GTX 760M in a laptop with 1600x900p low settings. The map is big and looks incredible. The only problem of this gameI buy this game for PC because i have been waiting this game since 2013. The graphics aren´t good but i prefer bad graphics than the game doesnt have a lot of bugs like Assassins Creed Bugnity sorry Unity. This game is good optimized and the fps doesnt descent of 60 fps on a GTX 760M in a laptop with 1600x900p low settings. The map is big and looks incredible. The only problem of this game is the car mecachins. It´s not like at gta v first person but its not good at all.

    In my opinion I recommend this game and there were lots of change respect the beta    … Expand
  20. Whippyice
    Dec 2, 2014
    8
    Solid effort from Ivory tower, a lot of time has gone into the cars themselves. and adding or changing a part can really make all the difference in the world, the map is gigantic i mean really big, driving from city to city you can get the sense that every thing feels different depending where you are,

    the modes are fun and there are so many different challenges going on. The story    Solid effort from Ivory tower, a lot of time has gone into the cars themselves. and adding or changing a part can really make all the difference in the world, the map is gigantic i mean really big, driving from city to city you can get the sense that every thing feels different depending where you are,

    the modes are fun and there are so many different challenges going on.

    The story is pretty weak to be fair very obvious but i think they knew that themselves when they where making it all the effort has gone into the drive and the cars, the places and the atmosphere,    … Expand
  21. 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
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

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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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