The Crew 2 - Gold Edition

Good Game. It improves everything from the first title, but I think the physics are way too arcade-y for my taste, specially in Motocross, where I didn't find it as enjoyable as other more realistic games. Still, crusing USA or racing on the cities is very fun and relaxing. If you don't like games where cars barely turn or can be damaged, you won't like this one as it isn't a simulator. It has a broader appeal, but there's fun to be had since there are a lot of vehicles and a huge map to explore with lots of tests and weather conditions.

great game overall. has enough story to keep you busy and is not boring

I wanted a driving game with rpg elements. Maybe like NFS meets Witcher. The crew delivers a driving game with basically standard "looter" elements: different categories of items (parts) with different levels and rarities, awarded at the end of a mission. It's probably the closest thing to what I wanted, but it's still disappointing for a number of reasons, which can basically sum up to: - very obviously modeled for "grind or mtx" - doesn't feel satisfying There's a ton of content, and the game has a production quality befitting a AAA title (except perhaps the Xbox controller support issues that apparently plague all ubisoft games, and a seemingly sparse and repetitive soundtrack) Having bought the season pass, I was granted vehicles in several categories that assured all base difficulty races were exceptionally easy. This is unfortunate, because I'm quite a few hours in, and it's still taking time to get to challenging content. The one change that could easily remedy that would be allowing players to select higher difficulties without having first tackled the lower ones. But that would violate the grindset 🙄 Ultimately, it's a LOT of unnecessary talking (you can straight mute the narration in audio settings and nothing of value will be lost) ; and a lot of loud dopamine fanfare, all cushioning a gameplay loop that takes a long time to stimulate the player with any real challenge.

the base game itself is incredibly fun, add the gold edition to it (on sale for less then the base game alone) and its even more fun! I temporarily do not have GPU, so I use my APU to game on and it can still push this game to a stable 1440p 30fps / 1080p 60fps with a little bit of tweaking of the settings. However as for most games I dont think you should pay $60 for just the base game, so wait for the price to drop and then get the best edition ;)