Instead, the performance of each vehicle is determined by loot you can earn and equip yourself with after each event. Country Roads. I played all the way through it in about 10 days ( a few hours here and there during the week, and like 3-4 hours on the weekends), and I didn’t even finish all of the little side things. Play 100 hours to get another vehicle = no thanks. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. My gaming is done exclusively on the Xbox One these days, but my gaming history goes all the way back to the Atari 2600. Another obstacle is the cost of the vehicles you're required to purchase to be able to participate in certain disciplines: Buying a vehicle in order to gain access to an advanced discipline like air racing or grand prix is expensive, and will typically empty out your in-game wallet completely. on July 4, 2018 at 9:17PM PDT. Another game my son played for a month and hasn't touched. I especially enjoyed the newly implemented motorcycles, which not only control brilliantly but allow for a multitude of absurdly rad tricks to pull off. No PVP until December, FAR fewer skill activities than they introduced with the "Wild Run" DLC, and literally NO reason to drive from point to point. Funny enough now I have Forza Horizon 2 at my house from Gamefly waiting to be played. By ... a league below those of contemporaries like Forza Horizon 2 or Driveclub, The Crew struggles to shake the look … Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. And, like the original game, The Crew 2 does a great job at building a seamless and recognizable version of America to drive through, whether it's a designated top-to-bottom endurance race or a self-assigned recreation of a road trip you did a few years back. That's on top of being able to assign a favorite ground vehicle, boat, and plane to your right analog stick to allow for instantaneous switching during free-roam exploration, which provides its own kind of fun, for example, flying into the stratosphere with your plane before switching to a boat and careening back to Earth. It makes me think The Crew 2 should have gone down the Burnout Paradise route and abandoned in-game humans altogether. It takes far too long to get your bearings, and in a world so big, this proves to be an even bigger problem. What next? Being a member of Gamefly means that I don’t normally play the latest games out there, but it does give me an opportunity to play games that I’d want to play through, but don’t necessarily want to buy. Includes online features that may expose players to unrated user-generated content, Language, Mild Blood, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence. You likely won't notice buildings when you're zooming past them at 200km/h, but any slower and you can't help but notice how plain they are, especially in broad daylight with clear skies. Why the New Titles Look Crazy! We use industry standard tests in order to compare features properly. I mean, the game even has a “get back on track command” to get you out of impossible situations. Edmond Tran I'm usually too intimidated by grand prix racing to give it a shot in other games, and I would never have even considered the idea of playing a power boating game. You do this by inviting people to your “crew,” of course, at which point you can drive around the open world together (the actual fun part) or tackle the various races cooperatively. However, playing The Crew 2 with open-world exploration as your primary means of moving from activity to activity reveals the game's major downfall: it's too big, and all the activities and interesting locations are too spread out. Well, The Crew 2 doesn’t really try to find a balance, instead opting to just do both at the same time. Sadly, despite encompassing the entirety of the US, everything just feels a little empty. There's a problem loading this menu right now. There’s so much to do in The Crew 2. Starfield Engine Rewritten for Next-Gen, Disney Postpones Films, More PS5 Hardware at Launch, Rowling Uninvolved with Potter RPG, PS5 Price and Release Date, Final Fantasy XVI Announced, World of Tanks Blitz Launches for Nintendo Switch, Fall Guys Matches Cheaters, Gamer Sues Nintendo, Nintendo Reportedly Talking 4K, Series S Details Revealed. Live event races seem to rotate in The Crew 2 through, to give players unique challenges, but it’s just more racing against the dreaded AI.