This is a bad, ugly, broken and sometimes borderline unplayable port. I really wanted to like this since I'm a racing game fan that is starving for even decent games to play on the 360. This has a lot of potential but just squanders all of it. Here are the actual issues that this port of The Crew has :
- The framerate drops constantly to unplayable levels of 15-20 at most. This makesThis is a bad, ugly, broken and sometimes borderline unplayable port. I really wanted to like this since I'm a racing game fan that is starving for even decent games to play on the 360. This has a lot of potential but just squanders all of it. Here are the actual issues that this port of The Crew has :
- The framerate drops constantly to unplayable levels of 15-20 at most. This makes the performance so choppy, cornering through the races or skill events becomes uncontrollable
- The game doesn't look like a standard 360 racng game, everything looks like a really ugly polygon, and even the traffic can pop in out of nowhere in front of you. As an example a "round" Nissan logo on the cars is actually a star with ten points since the game cannot create a "circle"
- The bugs are *everywhere*. The game freezes approximately once every 2-3 hours and often it hits a hickup area that causes it to freeze three times in 15 minutes, including the time it takes to restart the console. This issue especially makes this game practically unplayable.
- The missions lack variety and creativity. On top of this, there is an especially infuriating mission type that involves trying to catch your target car and ram into it, until it's life bar goes down. Problem is the controls are so bad, they just can't hack the precision needed to actually *accomplish* this.
- The controls feel weird. It's hard to explain, but it feels like there's a wooden plank in between the controller and your car, and the car is about three inches above the ground so the controls are at the same really floaty and incredibly stiff and imprecise. It makes most of the skills challenges hard in all the wrong ways, since the car just doesn't respond to your commands.
- It cannot be played offline, and there is nothing you can do if as*holes in xbox live choose to ruin your day by ramming into you. You can't even report them because the game doesn't register them as gamertags you've "met".
Instead of creating a needlessly huge empty world, the designer's should have focused on the actual car control and ironing out the millions and millions of game-braking bugs this travesty has. I even ran into a glitch in the story where it would freeze always at the exact same moment over and over again, preventing me from progressing. Broken game that cannot be completed, due to a game-braking bug. No points. I want a refund.… Expand