With the potential but remains out of the podium [FW Labs]

It was in 2014 when Ubisoft released The Crew, an open world driving game that featured things. interesting has been criticized for various aspects such as technical failures, lack of freedom and the presence of microtransacciones. For this reason, for the sequel in the hands of Ivory Tower the comments of the players were taken into account in order to solve the problems and to present a better product.

So The Crew 2 maintains the proposal of the first delivery but seeks to correct the errors and expand the experience with the addition of content, so that you will find a racing game in a huge open world which is again a recreation of the United States and with the ability to handle a wide variety of vehicles ranging from airplane cars, through motorcycles, boats and even monster trucks .

Everything sounds good, but … is he really better than his predecessor?

And as it is still a game online there is a strong emphasis on multiplayer, especially with the cooperative mode that allows the groups of friends to meet to complete the events and results. of his best elements. Unfortunately, the competitive PvP mode that is not included and will apparently be added in a future update, but this leaves for the moment a significant gap.

In this way, they will be able to compete in the tests as they want, and even relaxing with free driving which is personally where I am most amused because it allows you to switch vehicles by pressing a button, so you can go in seconds from a car to a plane, then to a boat, and then continue on the road car

Driving is one of the great weaknesses

But with everything and there is a lot of content and things to do, unfortunately the driving problems that feels old, it is rough and with a strange physics something.

The controls of this title are arcade but they are far below the other titles of today, and although it 's up to you to get used to it, you think this section could be to polish even more.

And by winning the tests, rewards are given that serve to improve cars – which by the way can be equipped very quickly and easily through the menu – but these parts do not improve driving and only make a slight increase in speed is perceived.

Another thing that I did not like very much, is that the open world seems to me that it has not been very well implemented in the races, and that checkpoints are very far apart and that it's easy to lose the road. Instead of enjoying the race there are times when you spend more time with your eyes on the mini-map.

Also, one might assume that taking a shortcut by deviating from the tagged route could give an advantage, but general results in the opposite, something sometimes frustrating when combined with the inconsistency of the ## EQU1 ## Artificial intelligence.

United States seems regular

Visually The Crew 2 seems much better than the previous episode, but nothing spectacular or so

In this way we can see a fairly steady replenishment of the United States with a variety of environments and locations, where it should be noted that the vehicle models look very good. ien (by the way they can be personalized, although in a very basic way), but other elements such as characters appear very generic.

It also happens that in some places, especially in cities, I found textures with the drawn distance, although apparently it changes depending on the type of vehicle to make it more realistic.

Some details are worth mentioning: like The Crew, this sequel must be connected to the Internet at all times and there are still microtransactions, although they are optional for buy vehicles if you do not have enough currency

Conclusion

The Crew 2 does not look like the huge improvement we've been waiting for since many elements are still perceived as in the original title .

Overall and who counts With extensive content, which visually improves and has a good soundtrack, it still has inconsistencies and sections that need a lot more work, in especially in driving and physics who feel old compared to other games of the genre. So, even though it may be fun at first, it ends up being tedious, overwhelming and hard to appreciate because of its lack of personality and too much to do.

It's a shame because we can see that the series has potential, but its failures make it fall short of expectations, and especially knowing that in the market there are other products that satisfy the players.

The Crew 2 is now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Copy of the notice provided by Ubisoft.