The Crew 2 was Ubisoft's answer to Forza Horizons, with hundreds of vehicles, events and challenges spread across a (slightly condensed) map of the whole USA. It's an online, massively multiplayer world with other players showing up for races, but you can effectively play it as a single player game if you want. It follows the classic formula of driving to icons on the map (or fast travelling in the menu) and competing in various sorts of races, time trials and stunt challenges. As well as cars, there are also motorbikes, monster trucks, off roaders, speedboats, hovercraft, and stunt and racing planes.
I picked this up as part of my PS+ sub, and as well as the base game there are literally hundreds of free DLC events and extra content drops, but in the end I mostly stuck to the story missions which are effectively scavenger hunts where you are given a postcard style clue to a location and tasked with working out where it is and driving there to unlock the next stage. After twelve or so stages, you are rewarded with a shiny new car. These missions give you a good excuse to criss cross the USA and take in all of the iconic locations across the vast map.
The graphics are pretty good on the whole - perhaps the cities aren't quite as detailed as those in the Watchdogs series, but the wide open landscapes, small towns, mountains and woods can be spectacular as the day/night cycle progresses and the weather changes in real time. The driving/flying model is mostly arcady but feels satisfying enough, especially from the in car cockpit view.
I think that I'll keep this one installed for a while, just as something to drop into when I fancy a drive.
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