Ubisoft's 30th Anniversary celebrations continue with this month's free game (on the PC): The Crew. Gather up three of your best friends and drive across the contiguous United States as you take on story missions or just see who can make it from New York to California first.
Right in the middle of Ubisoft's E3 conference, somewhere between Aisha Tyler's meme jokes and new South Park footage, we learned that The Crew is getting its first full expansion. Dubbed "Wild Run", it'll be diving into the more niche areas of car culture by introducing new events and vehicle types. As is apparently tradition at this year's E3, it'll be coming out this November, specifically the 17th.
The "Raid" is finally coming to The Crew! Unfortunately, this isn't a tie-in to the movie sharing the same name, a la Forza Horizon 2's "Fast & Furious", but how cool would that be? Even if I didn't get to control them, I would pay good money to see two Indonesian dudes' gunfight eventually turn into a full bout of fisticuffs on top of my Volkswagen.
In the pantheon of successful releases, The Crew is notable by its absence. Let's face facts, the launch was a mess. However, Ubisoft say the issues are fixed and are so confident that you will like the game, owners of a PS4 or One can download the game and try the first two hours for free.
While the previous update indicated that The Crew's players would be leading an exhilarating, no-holds-barred lifestyle from here on out, the patch released yesterday is reeling in the excitement and focusing on more domestic issues. It's sort of like when you've made up your mind and moved to the Himalayas to lead a life of adventure as a mountain guide, but then you get to your cabin and realize you forgot to buy groceries.
Ubisoft, developers of The Crew, had a rough 2014. I'm not one to make musical comparisons, but I'd be willing to bet that more than a couple employees over there considered "This Year" by The Mountain Goats to be their anthem by December 31st. Nevertheless, they survived the year and even managed to eke out a GOTY contender, Far Cry 4, in the process. If history is at all predictive, 2015 should be the year of their redemption, and a portion of that redemption should come in the form of DLC releases for their 2014 titles.
We are amongst friends here so let us all admit that Ubisoft has had some problems with game releases recently. Assassin's Creed Unity may have been fun, but had more bugs than an episode of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Hoping to learn from their errors The Crew launches today with a new trailer, but also a day one patch.
If our calculations are correct, there's just one new co-op game this week. And it's one that really is more co-op lite.
When I think of joining a crew, I imagine a group of aged London gangsters taking on one last bank job. Ubisoft's The Crew has a unfortunate lack of bank heists, or aging robbers, but it does have a season pass. Co-Optimus has already detailed this for you, but now we offer visual stimulation.
Like any AAA title these days, Ubisoft's The Crew will offer a season pass which will give players a discount on all of the planned DLC. The co-op driving game is going to offer quite a bit of content not just in a handful of packs, but for months at a time.
Ubisoft and Ivory Tower's open world racing game The Crew is about to enter a new closed beta phase. From Nov 6 -10, Xbox One and PS4 owners can get their hands on the wheel for some cross-country co-op racing!
Bad news for co-op racing fans, The Crew has been pushed back to a December 2nd release. But hey, it's not all bad. The reason for the delay? Feedback from the betas. That's right, the developers at Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflections listened to your feedback and are taking a few more weeks to work on the game. From the Ubiblog:
