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Thankfully, it’s mercifully unintrusive compared to the last game’s cops-and-robbers nonsense, which injected laborious police pursuits to keep the narrative chugging along. The story framing all this is-well, it’s bad. If only the game gave you something structured to do that took advantage of it. But it’s still entertaining to, say, divebomb a speeding train in your air race plane and swap to motorcycle just to see if you can land safely on top of the boxcars. It almost never comes into play to accomplish any specific objective, outside of a few showpiece races that force you to make changes at prescribed points. The ability to switch between vehicle types on the fly is also a treat, though you’re only really going to use it freely if you’re goofing off in the open world.

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It’s also true of events like Monster Truck, which sets you loose in an arena full of ramps and half pipes to smash point pickups and pull off tricks, and Drag Race, which mixes up its sprints with a series of timing-based minigames that are true enough to the real-world version. That obviously extends to the boats and planes, both of which control well and offer a surprising amount of mechanical depth. By splitting everything up into distinct disciplines, the game is able to provide events that feel quite different from one another. If anything, the biggest change in The Crew 2 is the variety of event types, which feel directly tied to the variety of the map. In scope, in diversity, and in flow, it’s still unrivaled among open-world racing games. Yes, if you slow down, you’ll start to notice some silly decisions and a few cut corners, but it remains one of the game’s greatest strengths. Ivory Tower has a knack for capturing the feel of the country in a way that works beautifully when you’re speeding past landmarks at 100 miles per hour. The list of regions and cities is identical to my eyes, as are the way they mesh together.Īnd that’s fine. There are more ramps and verticality in the urban areas, some of which seem to have shifted layouts a bit, and more waterways to accommodate boats, but the big picture stuff is the same. more or less unchanged from the last entry. Though I didn’t pore over every detail, developer Ivory Tower seems to have kept its funhouse version of the contiguous U.S. Nothing in The Crew 2 is more lavish than that delightful map. And, heck, why stick to just automobiles? This time around, planes, boats and motorcycles-the last of which made it into the first game as DLC-are available almost right from the start. Pick the style of racing you want and the car that suits your tastes.

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The first dozen hours or so are all abundance and generosity as you’re set free in the sprawling, glorious open-world map of the United States with almost no limits.

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