Lots of light, little shade and unique gameworld

For "The Crew" I had made up my mind to be less euphoric despite the trailer. Another debacle like Drive Club I wanted to really not give - but again, I have the game of course, but taken on the opening day and before the first review. It must be possible to build an awesome racing game for the PS4!

It's rather bad going - first impression: Sobering graphic, weird physics, small fonts, overloaded statistics and menus. "But let us first start driving right!" Warns the inner voice. So the gas pedal of the Nissan depressed and Detroit it's all about St. Louis to Utah, just keep driving. If the huge, making the buck! In Sunset nozzle through the desert to Las Vegas, just above the Strip and then to San Francisco, first to Fisherman's Wharf, the world-famous Lombard Street high (this can also be cross abbreviate the discounts ...) and then on the Marin Headlands look over the Golden Gate Bridge ... the Hammer.

So a game did not exist in this size simply. Once I have the Highway One toward Santa Barbara raged me, it went into the story missions, which, coupled with the increasingly better-functioning mini-challenges, are also quite entertaining. The car is better and faster, the game remains pretty entertaining.

As for the spongy Control: This can be elegantly and precisely adjusted to the start-finish on your mood in the Options menu! My Nissan reacts after a bit of trial and error now extremely precise and without delay, a change of steering behavior makes worlds - that seem to have not tried them all, the tuck, the 1-star reviews here.

Conclusion:

+ Huge, unique game world: in my opinion alone is a reason to buy. At least for anyone who has attended in the US
+ Acceptable story mode
+ Graphics auto, weather and partly countryside in order, especially morning and evening a great atmosphere
+ Entertaining mini-challenges
+ All the important monuments and areas of the USA there - even miniature monuments like the Lone Cypress Tree in Carmel-by-the-Sea
+ Hear values ​​radio stations
+ And many long-awaited tuning capabilities: both visually and technically

- Playstation Plus for many races needed: an absolute no-go, especially PC users can drive in multiplayer free
- Graphics of various houses and many textures are partly rather below average, since there are in various current PS3 games better
- Grisly default setting of the steering. The spongy drivability is however a) after a few hours of play improved tremendously and b) can be steering, delay and Co. vote very fine in the Options menu

= Therefore> not five star, but good four.

Who is not an absolute graphics junkie and corrects the vague steering, thus takes the arcade racer "The Crew" the legitimate successor of NFSU II. With smears the soundtrack, which the fantastic huge game world but absolutely makes up for.