Release Date: Out Now
Genre: Action / Racing
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ivory Tower
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With exploration, customization, and a wide, connected experience, The Crew redefines what you know about driving games and takes you on a relentless ride all throughout the United States. Seamlessly jump in and out of a massive network of fellow drivers, and build your crew of friends to take on heart-stopping missions throughout metropolitans and natural environments all across America. Customization is the key to success, though, and an extensive tuning system will prepare your ride for any terrain that lies ahead of you.
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- Coast to Coast, On Road and Off
The entire United States is your driving playground, covering thousands of square miles, from city to suburb, county to county, state to state, coast to summit. Discover what freedom truly means, without any barriers to restrict your car to the road, in a world of unprecedented scope and loaded with exciting challenges. Crush rival crews in illegal street races in Detroit, chase down that last Colorado collectable in the snowy mountain peaks of Aspen, beat everyone on the racing track or run after a target in the water drains of Los Angeles. This is driving at its most exciting, varied and open.
- Customize Your Ride For Any Drive
Earn new vehicles as you progress and customize them, according to your style and driving preferences. Do you have the required mastery for an endurance race, or the lightning-fast reflexes to tackle and epic downhill rally? Collect cosmetic and performance parts – stickers, liveries, rims, bumpers, skirts, wings, hoods – and make your car unique and take it on any terrain – asphalt, snow sand, dirt, grass. Anywhere you go, there’s always a friend ro show it off to, and more people to beat.
- Never Drive Alone
Join a living, breathing world of car enthusiasts, where you always have someone next to you, ready to take on new challenges: take down a rival faction driver on Las Vegas Strip, escape the police patrols across downtown Chicago, or confront an opponent crew on Florida’s beachfront highways. Make new encounters, cooperate with your friends, and beat their achievements when they’re gone. Build your crew of four drivers and take them in a thrilling ride through the entire USA.
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Racing games alone may already be able to attract many people to play it; but add a huge open world to explore plus also filled by other gamers from around the world? The result is The Crew. Online multiplayer racing game is not half-hearted to hold the action. At least you can drive up to more than 10,000 kilometers of road without any restricted!
You can choose a comfortable view, both from inside and outside of the car.
You can choose a comfortable view, both from inside and outside of the car.
The charm offered by The Crew does not stop there. You will continue to be preoccupied with various activities that can be played. The numbers are so many and the types are varied. In fact, you can spend more than 20 hours just dodging in the extra activity alone, without much following the main mission!
All the elements in The Crew seem to be so perfect for the new generation of racing games. However, The Crew was also a shortage. In fact, for some occasions he can disturb directly the game that is running. What problems can cause this? Find out in our review below.
Revenge and Justice - You will play Alex Taylor, a wild racing driver who does not like being tied to anything, including the 5-10 racer organization his brother founded. At least until Alex was trapped for her sister's killing by Shiv, the mysterious racer who was after the 5-10 throne, and Couburn, a corrupt FBI agent who was eyeing the illicit trade through Shiv's help.
Alex is languishing in jail for a crime he did not commit until Zoe, a beautiful FBI agent who wants to quell Couburn's crime from within 5-10. Zoe makes a deal with Alex to arrest the person responsible for the crime. However, infiltration into 5-10 is not as easy as it used to be, because now they are turning into a brutal organization of crime.
Alex's effort starts with starting from below; become an official member of 5-10 and climb the career ladder of the organization by completing the various tasks assigned by the boss who controls one of the five states in the United States. His duties are also various types, ranging from regular races to hit the opponent's car until destroyed!
The Great Playground - It is no exaggeration to say The Crew is a great playground. The map used for The Crew is the United States, a continent with a very large size. The position of all the cities and streets in The Crew is exactly the same as the original on the map. Only, to make it easier for you to drive, its size is minimized. However, small is not like in other games. It takes you at least 45 minutes to drive from the west coast to the east coast using the fastest car!
Its size is so massive look straight when you see the game map on The Crew. The zoom scale in this game can show the entire American continent in one screen to a height of about 50 meters from the ground. When at the highest zoom, all the existing activity icons look so crowded. Though the distance between the activities of one with another ranges of one kilometer or more!
The playground is not only large in size. It is also adorned with a variety of busy cars moving and giving new levels of difficulty in playing racing games. Because, they still exist and fill the streets when you follow any kind of race! So, you can not race like any other racing game and follow the racecourse peacefully through a difficult bend.
The vehicle population in The Crew is also influenced by its location. When you drive in rural areas, the number of cars that are relatively few and more dominated by a large interstate truck. However, do not expect so conditions if you race in a big city like New York. The streets are jammed and filled with crowded yellow cabs are commonplace in the Big Apple. However, time also determines the traffic conditions. So, the night is much more lax when compared to the morning or afternoon.
at crashing accidentally. However, police patrolling American streets are a real threat. They can pursue your car with ferocity, especially if your crime rate is at the highest level! No matter how fast your car is, the police are always able to catch up and hit the car to stop. Especially if you drive straight and do not like cornering sharply. If you are stuck for a while, the capture indicator will appear and when full indicates you are caught. The penalty is paying a huge ticket!
At first, all the activities you can follow do not just look on the map. In fact, the map is still covered by a gray veil. To find the various icons, you need to find satellite antenna in the form of parabola scattered in several areas. The exact location is not explained clearly, only in the form of approximate location. So you have to find your own position by using the distance indicator when it is close enough. This concept is similar to the Sychronize function in Assassin's Creed. Brightly, The Crew and Assassin's Creed are owned by the same company, Ubisoft.
Hundreds of activities await - Once you find the satellite antenna and open access to activities in one area, then it's time to have fun starting. Activities that you can find are divided into skill challenges, Landmark locations, junky positions to find secret cars, and additional missions from faction. Every mission or skill challenge always has a level limit that you need to fill before you can play it. The level itself will increase if you successfully complete many races through point Experience. Further discussion of the effects of the Level will be revealed later.
Toggle more detail to the skill challenge. This challenge as the name suggests will test your ability to drive. They are divided into several types of activities, such as driving at high speed without getting out of the way, up the hill, slalom test, escape from an area, to jump far. All challenges are divided into four types of classification winners, namely Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum (Platinum can only be obtained after reaching level 50).
Such a medal classification certainly has a function to share prizes earned by players. In addition to some money called Bucks and point Experience, you also get different car parts in each medal. Bronze is the lowest medal and he will give standard car parts according to predetermined levels. Bronze Medals, Silver, Gold, and Platinum provide the same better performance part with additional random bonus performance, between maximum speed, acceleration, grip, and braking ability.
So, getting the best medal in the skill challenge means you will improve your car's ability well above the average. The concept of a random bonus on each part also makes you need to grind to get the desired bonus. This is more necessary once you pursue the Platinum part. Because, the Platinum part will give part with a random level between 40 to 50. Therefore, you will do grinding twice as long as just looking for the right bonus only! Now, you also have to repeat the same challenge over and over again to get the Platinum level 50 and the random bonus you want!
Other activities, such as faction missions, require more time. Once you reach a certain point in the main mission, you will be granted access to one of the five factions that control the hemisphere of the United States. Each faction will provide a mission to gain reputation points, money, and experience. The reputation will determine your position in faction and automatically the amount of "daily salary" received. Faction mission can take up a lot of your time, between 10 minutes of race to 1 hour race across America and Time Attack for 1 hour! In addition to those grueling races, you can also participate in faction through Player versus Player (PvP) challenges.
Other less intense activities in The Crew are looking for Landmarks and secret cars. Every area in America, namely Midwest, East Coast, The South, Mountain States, and West Coast has its own Landmark and secret car. Landmarks are an important area within a city, as does Monas that denotes Jakarta. You can find a variety of factual information when discovering the area and there are at least more than 200 points of Landmark in The Crew. When you manage to find all the points, The Crew will award a typical license plate for your car. What an innovative way to introduce important locations in the United States!
While the secret car from Hotrod dipencarkan be 20 parts in every area of America. How to find it just like a satellite antenna; You need to open a signal to predict its place through a satellite antenna, then look it up in one area using a radar indicator. Once found, you simply hit or just near him. Only the area you have opened its headquarters (HQ) is through story progression that his secret car can use after all its parts are found. The position of the secret car part is well hidden and requires perseverance to find it. The position of the secret car part is well hidden and requires perseverance to find it. The position of the secret car parts is sometimes very difficult to achieve. They may be at the bottom of a cliff or on a steep hill. Fortunately, you can use the Fast Travel feature to reach the area without the hassle of finding a way to get there. From the map, just point the pointer and select the Fast Travel option. However, the unopened area of the unvisited alias can not use this feature. Do not worry, your car will open a fairly large area radius, about 500 meters around it. So, simply teleport to the open area that is on the edge of the veil and it will open the veil around it. Does this make it easier to open all the curtains in the Americas? Not really, because the area that needs to be opened is huge!
The Car Is Your Identity! - The Crew has a similar concept like a Role Playing Game Online (RPG Online). In RPG, you will create an avatar or character developed through adventure and quest. Same also here, the difference is you will strengthen the car. You can choose one of 40 cars (with notes you can afford it), dress up the car, and strengthen it with the leading car parts of the skill challenge.
The part you can not just buy at the store. To gain access to a part for use in another car, you must win it first in a skill challenge! So, the more you get random bonuses for one part at a certain level, the more you can choose for another car. There are at least 11 types of parts for your car and all you have to win to get the best car!
However, the part of the car you won does not necessarily work for all your cars. First, your car is broken into five types based on performance, ie Street, Dirt, Performance, Raid, and Circuit. All that could have come from one car or several different cars. Therefore, not all cars can be converted into all types. Well, certain cars, such as Nissan Skyline with type Street partnya can not be used for Nissan Skyline type Dirt! So you should search again by using the car of the desired type.
Okay, the case was for a car of a different type. However, what about the same type of car, for example Nissan Skyline Street type with Chevrolet Camaro Street type? The same type, is not it? Apparently, you still have to find more parts for the car, with the exception you can buy parts that have been obtained in the store. Only part of the same type and has been obtained from solve challenges that will be sold in the store!
Performance of each car part is promised to be arranged in more detail by using additional applications for your mobile device. Unfortunately, Ubisoft is still promising the existence of this apps and planned to be released in 2015 later. Not only that Ubisoft promise, an important part of the game, namely Drivehub whose concept is to bring players in a community of drivers still not running alias offline when The Crew was released. Drivehub should give players access to challenge other players.
Switching to other functions affecting the game, you can use a facility called Perks to improve driving skills. As you level up, you will get some benefits, namely the increased level of your vehicle - which is more influenced by the part used, and the Perks points. Perks are of different kinds, depending on the extra character in the story you've found. Each character in the story has a special Perks, such as improving car control, brakes, acceleration, even able to accelerate the price of the car!
Looking for Crew Mainstay - As the name implies, The Crew asks you to find other players to be crew racing. This is important, given the challenges that exist in this game becomes much easier when played together. For example, when you want to destroy another car on a mission, it's much easier to finish off with coordinated action from multiple cars. In fact, it would be very difficult to get a medal over Silver when playing alone in the story mission!
Fortunately, you can invite other players in a session via the Quick Coop option when choosing a mission. However, it does not mean other players will participate in your mission. Because, they are always preoccupied with the challenge of skill to get the best part in his car. This reason also makes the players in The Crew more concerned with prizes than skill challenges rather than prizes from the story's mission.
The presence of other players on the same street as you also provide new challenges in The Crew. They sometimes become a deadly obstacle when you are solving a skill challenge or other mission. Once upon a time we were grinding to get Platinum level 50 part in Jump skill challenge. On this challenge, we had to race the car fast and jump off the sloping platform. Until there is another player's car blocking the runway and making the car fall apart! Not just once, but repeatedly from different players!
The necessity to interact with other players also provided another problem for The Crew. You must continue online to play this game, even if you only play alone. In addition, Ubisoft servers also often experience problems, especially disconnect (disconnect) and server errors. Once upon a time we were running a faction race 1 hour and in 45 minutes the server broke up! The server also experienced an error so that all vehicles other than the property does not move. Finally we use this situation to solve all the chased police challenges in all cities! The hardest challenge becomes so easy.
Conclusion - The Crew has a concept that must be recognized is a wet dream of all gamers race in the world. When else can you have tremendous freedom across the vast American continent, at the same time being able to interact with other players easily? The huge number of challenges that can be encountered also ensures you will never be bored exploring this game.
However, the need to continue online on the Internet found the problem, especially since Ubisoft servers were impressed not ready when the game was released. There is also a feature that still can not be used. In addition, Ubisoft's qibla to continue using the credit-card replacement system in-game via online stores has a love-hate relationship among its players. One side of the credit makes it easy for players who do not have long playing time and raise money to buy the best car; the other hand it lowers the efforts of other players who can only buy the game only and can not shop online.
Advantages
- A huge open world
- Many secrets to discover
- Can teleport easily
- There is a level development system
- Easy to find other players for coop and pvp
- Vehicles are easily controlled
Deficiency
- Must always be online
- Server is less stable
- The need for long grinding
- Number of cars a bit
- The level of difficulty of playing alone is quite high
- Suitable for gamers: Racing enthusiasts, like grinding gameplay, have plenty of time
Not suitable for gamers: Impatient, like racing simulation
