End of Life: March 31, 2024
A sandbox racing game developed by Ivory Tower Studios in cooperation with Ubisoft Reflections. The Crew was tailored for the fans of spectacular racing video games. The players become drivers racing across the American roads and cities. There are over 100 car models, whose appearance and performance can be modified as you see fit. The Crew offers several play modes – both single and multiplayer.
The Crew for PC, PS4 and etc. is a car game with a fully open world, allowing the player to compete with other drivers in the area of the United States. The title was produced by French studio Ivory Tower, founded by former employees of Eden Games (responsible for the series of Test Drive Unlimited) with the support team developer, Ubisoft Reflections.
As befits a racing game, the players have the opportunity to assume the roles of drivers and try their hand at exciting race through the streets of American cities. The developers took care of a wide selection of cars available, many of which are licensed models of leading manufacturers. In total, the game offers more than a hundred carefully mapped cars in five diverse categories.
The developers’ ambition was, just like the promotional slogan said, to make sure that the players never raced alone, thus the emphasis on the presence of extensive social features, allowing a smooth transition between single and multiplayer modes. The Crew offers a bunch of modes for, inter alia, individual competition, or team competition with one’s friends or randomly chosen players. One of the key features of the game is an open world – the creators prepared nearly 5,000 square miles of land located in the United States, intended for exploration, filled with a variety of attractions: hundreds of missions, races, and tasks. The role-playing campaign offers about 10 hours of gameplay during which the players participate in history of six different characters.
One of the most characteristic elements of the game is an extensive system of car modifying. The players can make a number of changes not only in the appearance of the body, but also in the technical parameters, adapting the vehicle to individual tastes and preferred driving style. The possibility of creating your own vehicle using parts acquired during the game is also an interesting options. The developers tried to accommodate both the inexperienced players and the lovers of simulation-style gameplay with different driving models.
The Crew for PC, PS4 and etc. is characterized by a high-quality graphics and sound. Carefully mapped car models and varied route surroundings where battles between drivers take place also attract attention.
Platforms:
PC Windows December 2, 2014 March 31, 2024 (EOL)
Xbox 360 December 2, 2014 March 31, 2024 (EOL)
PlayStation 4 December 2, 2014 March 31, 2024 (EOL)
Xbox One December 2, 2014 March 31, 2024 (EOL)
Developer: Ivory Tower / Asobo Studio (X360)
Publisher: Ubisoft
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System Requirements for The Crew Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5 GHz/AMD Athlon II X4 2.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce GTX 260/ Radeon HD 4870 or better, 18 GB HDD, Windows 7(SP1)/8/8.1 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5 2.6 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 580/Radeon HD 6870 or better, 18 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/8.1 64-bit.
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Racing
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Expansion
November 17, 2015
Racing
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DLC Speed Car Pack February 16, 2015
DLC Street Edition Pack January 27, 2015
DLC Extreme Car Pack January 21, 2015
DLC Ferrari 458 Speciale December 2, 2014
DLC McLaren 12C Carbon parts December 2, 2014
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GamesRadar+: 3.5 / 5 by Justin Towell
Take away its vast environment and The Crew is decidedly mediocre. But the enjoyable story and great sense of actually driving, whether alone or solo, means there's plenty of fun to be had all the same.
GamesBeat: 55 / 100 by Rory Appleton
I wanted to like The Crew.
PlayStation LifeStyle: 7.5 / 10 by Paulmichael Contreras
If you've been clamoring for a new open-world racer the likes of which we haven't seen since Burnout Paradise, I am happy to report that The Crew fits the bill. A mixture of MMO and arcade-sim racing, you better ensure you have a steady Internet connection, or else face frustration. Hopefully a patch in the future will enable offline play, because to see all of the game's terrain will take a long time, perhaps even longer than Ubisoft will keep the game's servers online. All of the United States' major landmarks are here and wonderfully detailed. Vehicles' handling lay somewhere between arcade and simulation, though you can tweak this. Online play is very rewarding, but is over-emphasized at times. With such a massive world to explore, and an addictive leveling system, fans of this genre will be busy for months to come.
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