It’s a shame because The Crew 2 is one of the most feature-rich racing games I’ve ever played.

It’s not only a missing feature, it’s confusing. You can never race against a stranger unless you get them to join your crew. Likewise, you can only race against friends if you’re in a crew, and even then it’s against AI instead of other online players. It feels like a big oversight in a game where the world is so impressively grand. To do that, you both need to set the exact same waypoint and stay in communication to see who gets there first. You can drive around America with your pals, but you can’t carve out a route and race them along it in-game. The Crew 2 is lacking the features it sorely needs. This isn’t what I mean by emptiness, however. Only the major cities towards the edges of North America exist in this world - the middle of the map is full of empty roads, fields, mountains, hills, deserts, salt flats, and other procedurally generated terrain. These impromptu drives are the best thing about The Crew 2, but they are always accompanied by a nagging feeling that something is missing. You are free to drive, fly, and sail between Los Angeles and Las Vegas before cruising and nitrous-boosting all the way to New York. The Crew 2 is its most expansive map yet, rendering the entirety of North America. Ubisoft is one of the best developers around when it comes to creating a world, condensing a real place down and capturing its essence, whether it’s the raw nature of Bolivia or the teeming tech hub of San Francisco.

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