Take Alcatraz Island for example, its one of the works most famous prisons. Unfortunately it's not a accurate version of the United States, in fact it's more like a version created by a specialised group of map designers who flunked Geography. The Crew 2 also features the same graphics from the updated version of the original game but are slightly improved in several areas which I will be honest look amazing even as I’m playing this on my bog standard PS4 in 1080p, Sure I can see there are a few issues such as when I drive through fields, the crops are mostly see through and won't react to being driven over, but when you get a map well over twice the size of that in Forza Horizon 3 and Need for Speed Payback, it is a sacrifice you have to make or else i'm sure the game would be impossible to run on a modern game console, except there is one problem with the map, one big problem, being a sequel you need a whole new place, so where is it set, Europe, Africa, have we finaly got a open world racing game set in Japan? No, it's the same map, the exact same map, apart from a few small changes, the developers have gone all Saints Row 4 on us. For the boats and planes, I don't have much to say about them, they did a good job on them, in fact the physics for flying planes are reminiscent of the Ace Combat games I would play as a kid.

My best recommendation to improve it would be to call up Playground games, the guys who make the Forza Horizon games and ask nicely to use their engine, think about it, a map like the Crew 2 combined with the game engine from the Forza Horizon games, it would be the game that we had all hoped for in 2013. Especially since the games AI racers will speed up and slow down depending on your speed, once I accidentally rammed a Fiat 500 Abarth of the road and into a building, which is fairly easy in this game and less than a minute later it flew by me at well over 200 mph. The Crew 2's engine works well on the lower division races where your hardly go over 120 mph but once you start the races where you average 160 mph, it becomes carnage. As a result on this arcade focus, some of the car races are extremely difficult, mostly because a lot of them are high speed races. Unfortunately The Crew 2 still suffers from the focus on arcade racing that the developers are trying to market it as, which as a result makes almost every car handle the same, for example one of my cars is a 02 Skyline GTR which as almost ever Gearhead knows is four wheel drive, so why can I do a burnout as if it was rear wheel drive.

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