$29.99The Crew™ 2 Cars, boats and planes, one map
Swap from car to plane mid-race and tear across a scaled-down America, alone or with up to seven friends.
Is The Crew™ 2 worth it?
The Crew™ 2 is worth it if…
- you want one racing game that also lets you fly and drive boats
- you like arcade handling over strict simulation
- you enjoy chasing leaderboard times and beating your friends' ghosts
- you would happily spend an hour just driving coast to coast
- you want a low-pressure game to mess around in with friends
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Land, air and sea, one button apart
The big trick here is the swap. You are flying a plane over the Rockies, tap a button, and you drop into a speedboat on the river below; tap again and you are in a car on the highway. The whole country is one continuous map with no loading screens, so a trip from San Francisco to New York takes about an hour and a half of actual driving. Weather changes as you go, and rain genuinely changes how the road grips.
A discipline for every mood
This is not one racing game, it is a dozen in a shared world. Street racing, drift, drag and hypercar events on the asphalt. Rally, motocross and hovercraft off the road. Freestyle covers monster trucks, demolition derby, jetsprint boats and aerobatics planes. Pro racing adds touring cars, powerboats and air races. Each discipline handles differently, so switching from a drag strip to a motocross course feels like starting a different game. Hundreds of vehicles are waiting, and you can test-drive them before committing.
Grab your crew
Everything here is better with company. You can play online with up to seven friends, joining the same open world and running events together, and the game is built around that easy lobby-and-go rhythm: meet up, pick a race, go. There is a competitive edge too, with leaderboards and ghost rivals to chase, so even a solo session is spent racing other people's times. And if the servers are not your thing, the new Hybrid mode lets you play offline, your call.
What should you know before buying?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. The new Hybrid mode lets you play offline or online, whichever suits the moment. The single-player side is a long set of events across all the disciplines, and you race against AI and ghost times rather than a live grid. One honest note: the story framing is thin, so come for the racing and the country, not the plot.
Is it realistic?
Not really, and it does not try to be. The handling is arcade: fast, forgiving and built for fun rather than accuracy. Drag cars can approach 700 km/h, traffic lights change constantly, and damage is limited to scratches and scuffs. If you want a strict simulator with realistic physics and damage, this is not it.
How big is the map, really?
It is the entire continental USA, shrunk to fit but still huge. Driving from San Francisco to New York takes roughly an hour and a half, and some long-haul events run 15 to 40 minutes each. Cities, deserts, mountains, rivers and open sea are all reachable, and the natural landscapes are the part that looks best.
