Thoughts after a months of playing, it's a solid game in terms of the core gameplay, the physics are spot on for all vehicle types, and it's just a blast to play with a fun factor of 10/10. I could honestly stop right there because the core gameplay makes or breaks a game. There are a few minor bugs but nothing notable. Minor gripes would be the rubber-banding and not being able to set the waypoint to an event directly from the Activities tab. Instead I have to back out to the map, find the event and then set the waypoint from there. I like discovering the Live Loot rewards but they could've fleshed out the map with more activities on than just racing, in fairness they do have the photo-ops and the skills but there should be something else, like an exploration-based wreck finder that was in the crew and TDU. Delivery missions are yet another thought.
That being said, Ivory Tower's MO seems to be adding a plethora of content over a long period to keep people playing for as long as possible, so I would not be overly surprised if they held content back to be released later (for free) to keep people playing.
To close this, I want to say something that I experienced over the weekend that highlights the very first sentence of this post. My 11 year old son had a birthday party with 5 friends on Saturday, after they went to a jump center (think trampolines but far more extravagant than that), they came back to our house and had pizza, birthday cake. I just happened to fire up The Crew 2 and one of the kids sat by me watching, so I handed him the controller and asked if he would like to play. Next thing I knew I had a line of 5 kids waiting for a turn. None of them wanted to put it down when their turn had ended, all of them exclaimed how much fun they were having. They all picked it up very easily (I switched the gearbox back to Automatic for ease of use) and pretty soon they were all switching between boats, planes and cars easily and having so much fun. The laughter, the smiles said it all. The Crew 2 is a very fun game at it's core.
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It's always interesting to watch other people play your game because they often give you an idea that you haven't thought of, in the case of Saturday, it was Sky-Boat Diving. One of the boys flew a plane to a high altitude, switched to a boat and dove out of the sky towards the water, amazingly he landed the boat on the water without getting the crash screen, the boat bounced pretty high after hitting the water, it was hilarious. All the kids laughed and wanted to try it....kids lol. I think I'm going to try it tonight for myself just for giggles.
Especially strange that you can make Murcielago Super Veloce from Murcielago LP640...
