Nathaniel Redmon

An unfortunate letdown. As a big fan of the crew 2. My favorite part of that very flawed game was the ability to explore a very variable and massive map. I could overlook the very awful physics and extremely lack luster graphics. It was worth it to be able to explore the map that felt alive and lived in. The crew motorfest completely rips this aspect out. Yes, the physics are SLIGHTY different (notice how I did not say better). The cars now want to either extremely understeer or snap oversteer. All cars drive identical to each other now. But the worst part of it all, Is this absolute joke of a map. To begin, the graphics really don't help it. Im playing the game on the highest settings on PC and the map along with the road textures looks so plasticky and fake. The worst part is the color grading. The map is always a shade or orange drowning out every possible color into the same orangish mess. There are no crowds or npcs like there were in the crew 2. There are extremely annoying completely fake and 'on rails' ai cars that are racing at full speed past you every few seconds, that only switch to 'ghost' to let you know they wont be colliding with you head on at the last millisecond. Oh and they also look absolutely terrible graphically. This game isnt even as good as horizon 1. I have hope that if they continued this series it will be decent on the third or fourth game. But this is a complete disaster. And I say this as a massive fan of the overheated previous crew games. The crew series has lost all its previous titles charm in favor of a poorly executed replication. Atleast they didnt disrespect the series by calling this the crew 3.