![]() There is noticeable texture pop-in when travelling at high speeds, but exploring the countryside and cities is relaxing and fun. It’s a testament to the developers at Ivory Tower that the world they’ve created looks and feels fantastic at a macro level. In a car, however, driving across America is often exhilarating. That’s not the case with planes and boats, the first of which lack the feeling of speed you’d expect and the second of which do not feel like watercraft at all. Not great mind you, as they lack the weight that you’d find in other driving games, but the controls are responsive and handle well. It’s fortunate then that driving cars feels good. Unfortunately, you need to grind events if you want to purchase new vehicles, meaning you’ll be stuck playing through many bland missions if you want to have a vehicle of every type available, which are slowly unlocked as you play. Yet the most frustrating problem is the rubberbanding AI, which seems to immediately pass you the moment you make a single mistake, and otherwise seems to be right behind you even if you have a fully upgraded car. Handling on motorcycles is notably poor, and I avoided their respective challenges like the plague. ![]() Acrobatic challenges are boring as a result of requiring the same tricks over and over again. Except for a few rare cases, the layouts of the tracks themselves are uninteresting, with little in the way of creativity or proper pathfinding. The events themselves are perfectly OK to start with, but quickly grow tiresome due to a wide variety of issues. ![]() This is a huge missed opportunity, one that would have made the game stand out and less reliant on the boring, by the numbers races we ended with up. While interesting, it is also only really used while free roaming, as there are only a handful of events where you swap between vehicle types in the middle of a race. ![]() It is an intuitive mechanic, and it takes only a few seconds to switch between the different types of vehicles. Much touted is The Crew 2’s ability to swap between land, air, and sea vehicles with the press of a button. The Crew 2 – Review gameplay images courtesy of Ubisoft ![]()
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