Ubisoft Ivory Tower has announced that both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest will receive support for offline play in a future update, meaning they will remain playable long after the servers are eventually shut down.
To mark this announcement, Ubisoft will have both games on sale for the next two weeks. The Crew Motorfest has been reduced by up to 70% – it’s cheapest on PC at £18, while the Xbox Deluxe Edition costs £22.50, and PlayStation apparently hasn’t introduced any discounts yet. But do you want an absolute bargain? Well, you can buy The Crew 2 for just 79 cents!
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Patching in an offline mode is hugely important for game preservation, and it will also help Ubisoft regain some good will after the original The Crew became completely inaccessible to play when that game’s server was shut down earlier this year. Now The Crew 2 was a much better game than The Crew, but it’s still sad to see games effectively disappear.
Motorfest owners have a lot to look forward to as Ivory Tower announced plans for Year 2 during the game’s post-release support. It’s getting its biggest update yet on November 6, with the game map getting 50% bigger as they add the entire island of Maui… for free!
This will be seamlessly integrated, so you can travel to the new island by sea, air or over a connecting bridge, without any loading screens.
Once again, the team will attempt to honor real life with an abstracted recreation, although it will feature real roads and locations such as the Road to Hana, bamboo forests, waterfalls, the red sands of Kaihalulu Beach, Haleakalā National Park and more.
Year 2 still has a seasonal content plan, but with three seasons instead of four. This kicks off with Season 5 and a new Made in Japan Volume 2 playlist. There will also be a new PvE mode included in the Year 2 Pass called The Chase Squad, which unfortunately doesn’t feature Bradley Walsh, but will have you chasing racing rivals across the island.
The Year 2 Pass is included with new versions of the Gold and Ultimate editions of The Crew Motorfest, or sold separately. A further 20 vehicles will be added, nine of which will be present on the first day and the remaining eleven in monthly drops throughout the year.
At launch last September, we said in our The Crew Motorfest review: “The Crew Motorfest offers plenty of fun arcade racing, although it does very little to break new ground for the genre. There’s plenty to sink your teeth into, but there are some annoying design decisions and a few technical issues that take the shine off. Still, I can see it finding a lot of fans, especially on PS5, where the only competition from a ‘Horizon’ game involves robot dinosaurs.”
Source: Ubisoft