The Crew 2

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The Crew Motorfest
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hello people! hope you have the day you deserve. i would like to talk about this game... you know what let's get straight to the point and not waste anytime
good stuff:
1- a lot of cars.
2- map is huge.
3- a lot of good cars and bikes planes boats and hover boats.
4- a lot of free cars (you need to finish races or do challenges and its not that hard) unlike the old version of the game you have to work your ass off to get a single car imo.
5- a lot of crazy customization like you can have underflow and change wheel colors etc.
6- crazy cars.
7- drifting cars are easy.
8- you can get free battle pass or motor pass for free which is really good imo.
9- you can farm cars for the crew motor fest :).
what else...idk.
bad stuff:
1- you cant change your character.
2- you cant reset your game progress in order to change your character.
3- my character is ugly.
4- the handling of some cars or maybe all cars is bad comparing
to forza horizon 5.
5- you get kicked after few mins and you get kicked randomly
what else...idk.
the game overall is good for me.
cant wait for the crew motor fest.
and yeah that's my review.

i already spent 500h on forza horizon 5, and who can resist the crew 2 being on summer sale with that price and the game still update supported, go for it mate its good, graphically not as stunning as FH5 but its a decent game full of content

game is good
but there is a concerning lack of subarus

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Free Fire
---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ All
---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulty}---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Really short ( 0 - 2 hours)
☐ Short ( 2 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours ( 8 - 12 hours)
☐ Long ( 12+ hours)
☑ Endless
---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Cyberpunk 2077
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{87/100}---

The Crew 2 is an open world arcade racing game with the map being the literal entire USA, downscaled to videogame size obviously. Also, i'm hyped for Motorfest even though i'll have to wait another year because Ubisoft, once again, decided to go to Epic Games. They already did come back crawling because Epic didn't work as good as they thought and yet here we are looking at them doing the exact same mistake again missing out on tons of sales because of the selling platform ONLY. Anyways.
I have done every single peace of Content this game has to offer, from races to photo ops but "skills" too and i can tell you i hated almost everything about this game; special hate goes out to every single Boat and Plane activity. I loved playing it, i mean it made me play for 200h+ but i will not ignore how bad of a videogame it actually is
People complain about the Crew 2 but i think its for the wrong reasons; most of the critism is about the grindy aspect of this game and yes they are right it indeed is one of the grindiest racing games ever but to be absolutely honest.. i bought a racing game to win races, if the grind is based on racing then why would i complain? anyways, theres seemingly endless content to be played, most of it feels either the same or really really alike but i really appreciate the cheer amount of content Ivory Tower came up with, set peaces and special events really look and feel cool to go through but it is obvious that most of it were simple instagram filters being put onto your screen to make it feel different even if it mostly isn't.
Graphics are OKAY, it does look outdated compared to even older titles and the antialasing is basically non existent, the backmirrors do not work and your headlights are literally looking like transparent yellow JPGs to make it look like there was light but it actually is no light source at all inside the game engine, the steering wheel barely moves at higher speeds. It definetily has its moments though, it can look pretty and sometimes i had more NFS Underground Vibes than the past 5 Need for Speeds were able to get me but the fact the night time got literally massacred in order to cover up non functioning headlights really bothers me
Heres what i think is important to know before getting into it
Anything you do, wether it be menu navigation or real time gameplay, it feels like a mobile game with PC features. Theres so many decisions made in design which simply go all against the user experience to make it as annyoing and uncomfortable as possible and i will have to give you a couple examples to make some sense of what i actually mean:
Every time you finish a race theres an unskippable animation playing telling you that you won, how much XP you got and how much money you earned, it takes almost 10 seconds every single time, right after that you'll see some funny colorfull packages spawning in front of your car so you collect them, these are literally random generated tuning parts which also have (feelingly) hundreds of additional passive effects besides pushing the cars perfomance. Once your inventory is full and you tuned up your car, you gotta dismantle the stuff you don't need and that.. takes way too much time. I could guess that 1/3 of my playtime was dismantling tuning parts only.
This entire process is what you get for playing the game. The Tuning is based on RPG NUMBERS and STATS, its no new super duper new engine you build into your car, its literally the same thing now being purple instead of blue (rarity=quality) and the number goes up from 245 to 247.
Other than that the Visual Freedom of your car is astonishingly huge, less for the GT and Hyper Classes but more than ever in street race cars, generally the car selection is almost as impressive as Forzas is.
The AI in your races also base their difficulty on those RPG like "Perfomance Numbers", meaning your car has to have a "220-Stat" to be able to compete in that specific race; this system leads to the AI being either entirely broken or not existent at all. One side of the game makes you want to own as many cars and have as much variety as possible, on the other side theres really obvious differences in cars in same classes. Almost every Muscle Car feels underpowered as hell while other "meta-cars" will have no problems whatsoever; Some cars really do struggle a ton to keep up with the AI, others will make you simply drive the course to the finish line making it a personal time trial.
But wait! theres more! The Crew 2 has an RPG like Skill Tree. It enhanced passive things like "slipstream power", range, effectiveness, it enhanced your nitrous in 7 different ways and makes competing against other lower level people a joke; actually the PVP section of this game is dead since release because of the slipstream mechanic which is absolute BS, you can literally hear your car gaining +100HP as you drive behind your mate. This is a racing game, no MMORPG and most certainly no MOBA, i genuinenly do not understand how one could implement such things into a racing game, making a skill set almost obsolete (of course you still have to know how to drive lol)
Also, there is an ingame real-money shop for you to buy cosmetics, car bundles and battle pass though you can buy the battle pass with ingame money you get from playing
On the plus side though, i really like how easy accessable the multiplayer is. You invite your friend to the party, you choose a race and there you go, no overcomplicated crap needed for this.
I love playing this game but i seriously hate everything that comes with it.
In sale for less than 15 bucks, its a good deal for the amount of content you get.

This game is simply amazing!
The graphics are great.
There is a ton of content.
Great progression too, you are always advancing, but little by little, making for interesting game play over time.
It is definitely worth its standard 50$ price tag but I bought it when it was on sale for 10$.
Thank you for reading my review!