Tons of PS5 footage from Ubisoft’s upcoming arcade racer The Crew Motorfest is leaking ahead of Ubisoft’s big livestream next week. The gameplay videos – which we won’t be reposting here for obvious reasons – include one showing over 25 minutes of uninterrupted footage from the release’s latest closed beta, which is taking place now and is scheduled to run through 9th June.
We’ve watched the videos and it certainly shares similarities with existing game The Crew 2, although crucially it looks like the PS5’s horsepower has sped up the user interface, which was notoriously slow in the previous title. Visually it looks tidy, even in this pre-release state, with the Hawaiian backdrop of O‘ahu adding some brighter, more vibrant scenery to the release.
There’s no firm launch date for the sequel just yet, but presumably we’ll learn more about that during the aforementioned Ubisoft Forward broadcast later this month. The French publisher had previously promised that the title would launch later this year, so expect a date to be locked in over the coming days.
[source videogameschronicle.com]
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Played some of the closed beta and really enjoyed it much better than the Crew 1 and 2.
Enjoyed The Crew but couldn't get into The Crew 2. I think for Crew 2 it was the generic characters and story rather then a continuation of the first Crew.
Friend got in closed beta, so I watched more than enough yesterday. The size of map was rather disappointment. Only takes 5 minutes to fly over with planes from northeast point all the way to the bottom of island. Island itself is very narrow too. The gps showed 20km drive from top to bottom, but only 9km from left to right on the island. So it's a massively smaller map overall compared to previous The Crew games. There is a volcano on island too.
The mountain range going along the island in the middle of it takes a huge chunk of map. Makes sense, because it's an island, I guess. The urban area is located east shore with few villages, one being at the very top and one on the west, opposite of mountain range.
There is one 'bigger town' and few villages, also lots of mountains with limited roads.
However, there are 2 islands in the distance with like watch towers or so. Could be unlockable in the future?
The game resembles NFS heat a lot during the night, but overall car lightning is very very old gen. It does go for 60 fps tho, but don't maintain it very well in this build.
The car handling on his words was very arcade. But I think that was to be expected.
He didn't like it from 1.5 hour he was playing the game.
Also, despite he playing it on Xbox series s, knowing it probably is 1080p, the game doesn't look that good at day time. Night time is really shiny tho.
Another conveniently timed “leak”
Imo these leaks are just part of companies marketing plans as they know they get so many hits.
Modern arcade racing games like Grid Legends, NFS, The Crew and similar are so "fun and well made" that I ended up playing Burnout 3: Takedown.
Looks pretty good to me but I'll buy pretty much anything with cars in.
Saying that whoever is playing that leaked footage appears to have never driven before
I cannot confirm nor deny if i've been playing the closed beta, HOWEVER, I confirm that I own both the previous iterations of the game and any steps taken in the direction of horizon are welcome. Also, not sure but if a certain feature from the beta translates to the main game, then I'm a day one buyer.
Ive always wated to like crew games. But tgeres always been something in the handling of the vehicles that hasnt quite gelled with me.
I'm hopegull this will buck that trend and I'll enjoy it. This and test drive are my big hopes for ps5 racing 😁
Yeah I've been playing the closed beta, obviously I am under NDA, but it's good. I like it! Never played the first but it's very much like Horizon for sure, just bigger.
Played the closed beta and thought it was dreadful tbh.
Incredibly boring with a tiny map in comparison to previous entries.
As far as arcade racing games go, NFS did it better with Unbound.
Crew 2 performance mode was terrible. Is this game 60 FPS and 4k?
@Jacko11 Sad to read this...
Played about 8 hours of the beta over the weekend. Has potential but not quite there yet. Hopefully they can make some improvments for launch!
@Tr3mm0r they fixed the performance mode on the crew 2. The resolution is now 1440p.
Can we get a motorstorm remake???? Asking for a friend!
I'm a little more excited about Test Drive, assuming that shapes up well and doesn't end up in development hell. I've heard this game is more of an expansion type deal with TC2, including most of the same vehicles and allowing a transfer of your vehicles from that game.
I thought The Crew was quite revolutionary back when it was announced but, like most Ubisoft franchises such as Far Cry, Trials, Watch_Dogs, Rocksmith, Assassin's Creed, etc., it ended up becoming quite derivative down the line. Right down to the whole racing festival thing.
@Bamila Thanx will try that. Dunno when coz i am sucked into Diablo 4 atm
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