The Crew

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. TheDahaka
    Dec 14, 2014
    10
    Game excells in evey area. Don't understand the bashing this game is copping. Largest and most dense map of any open world deiving game since Fuel. My only complaint is that it is always online and it should be playable offline. It's not really an MMO, it's more a massive open world driving game with online elements. Shame when the servers are one day switched off you wont even be able toGame excells in evey area. Don't understand the bashing this game is copping. Largest and most dense map of any open world deiving game since Fuel. My only complaint is that it is always online and it should be playable offline. It's not really an MMO, it's more a massive open world driving game with online elements. Shame when the servers are one day switched off you wont even be able to explore the map when it didn't need ro be this way.… Expand
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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 .....
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Nuhaus
    Mar 8, 2015
    0
    Very disappointed in this game even though I got it free with my video card. I played it for 4 hours today on my PC and I am just about to delete it from my hard drive. This game made me angry.

    First of all, the physics are complete garbage, making it feel like you are driving a hovercraft that goes over land, water, or road, through trees, fences and street lamps without any difference    Very disappointed in this game even though I got it free with my video card. I played it for 4 hours today on my PC and I am just about to delete it from my hard drive. This game made me angry.

    First of all, the physics are complete garbage, making it feel like you are driving a hovercraft that goes over land, water, or road, through trees, fences and street lamps without any difference or damage whatsoever. Second, the cars do the same horrible shuffle from all the Grid games where they oversteer uncontrollably as soon as you hit the brakes. Finally, as you are trying to cope with this, the AI cars drive into your lane without rhyme or reason while you are trying to do the missions. Get hit once and all the AI cars zoom ahead of you, leaving you to restart the mission.

    The graphics on a GTX 980 with all settings on max are decent enough, but the sound is utter garbage. I had to turn up my speakers far too loud to hear the engine so I could judge my RPM for gear changes, and the exterior car engines, tire squeals, and the radio (thankfully you can turn the music off in settings) still drowned it out.

    I played on both a Logitech Momo wheel and an Xbox 360 controller, the wheel made no difference in helping to control the car whatsoever. Baffling.

    I would not recommend this game for anyone. I was really looking forward to trying a social racing game that would let me put my skills up against other "real" drivers, but this is just far too annoying.    … Expand
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. boria256
    Apr 30, 2017
    0
    Haha, can't even play it, error code #0_1, now i know to never buy again from ubisoft, if You want to buy their games, open your nearest window and just throw that money away, it's the same thing. Greetings
  17. 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!
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. Trollosaurus
    May 6, 2017
    0
    Watch my video of this game and you'll know why it is zero the score!
    In short the game is unfinished and it never will be. You drive around for hours in tutorial mode for nothing basically. Glitching and bugging out on the track alongside stupid npcs and their idiotic AI. Forced always online game which haves terrible servers and you can't play with friends unless you waste hours trying    Watch my video of this game and you'll know why it is zero the score!
    In short the game is unfinished and it never will be. You drive around for hours in tutorial mode for nothing basically. Glitching and bugging out on the track alongside stupid npcs and their idiotic AI. Forced always online game which haves terrible servers and you can't play with friends unless you waste hours trying to make it work to play together. Pop-ups in your face all the time. The list goes on. Again watch my video of it you'll know what's up.    … Expand
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
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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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