This makes those epic-scale, multi-hour races so frustrating I don’t even want to play them, which is a huge shame because they seem so damn cool. Think about what an amazing feat that is. No single place in The Crew is as detailed as Grand Theft Auto V ‘s Los Angeles, but they’ve captured the essence of each city and region of the United States. Like Grand Theft Auto, The Crew‘s strength for me is in recognizing real-life places more than in actually playing the game. It’s an accomplishment though, and despite all my qualms-why do all the signs say eleven miles to the “Great Canyon” but the map uses the correct “Grand Canyon” terminology?-I want to applaud Ubisoft at the sheer audacity of this game. The United States of The Crew also exists in some bizarre fantasy world where the nation is made of enormous cities surrounded by miles and miles of lush wildlife and parks punctuated by quaint villages, instead of the real-life morass of suburbs and strip malls that line most major highways, especially in the coastal regions. It’s like someone handed a child a sheet of paper and a crayon and said, “Hey kid, draw the United States.” Why is Pikes Peak in Kansas? Why is Texas so fat? Why do Boston and Denver not exist? I’ve spent a lot of my time with The Crew being irrationally annoyed with its map. It’s a tribute to the packed city streets of Manhattan, the broad highways of Los Angeles, and everything in between. It’s a tribute to road trips, to roadside attractions and long drives at night, to exploring every single inch of this country in search of some weird landmark or experience. It’s the same reason Assassin’s Creed needs some ridiculous science fiction frame story-because in 2007 the idea of an action game set during the Third Crusade wasn’t “viable.”īut The Crew is a video game tribute to American car culture. I have no doubt it was pitched as a racing game, and I know why it’s being sold as a racing game, and it’s because a racing game is something people can understand. Hell, there’s a race in this game that’s four hours long (more on that later). ![]() I know! It’s an assertion that doesn’t make any sense! Ubisoft has sold The Crew as a racing game, and there are certainly plenty of parts where you drive your car really fast.
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