
While there are some neat things like increased draw distance, the main new inclusion is the dynamic weather system that specifically adds rain and wet conditions.

One thing that runs across the entirety of The Crew is the improved engine performance. Of course, we only had a chance to briefly try it out a street model.Īdd to this the new freeform driving stunts as well as the option of creating your own checkpoint races on the fly (very handy and easy to do), and you'll soon realise that Wild Run offers a massive expansion of the racing options available in The Crew. It reminded us of how bikes handle in GTA for some reason. From what we tried the bikes handle very differently from cars in The Crew (which you'd expect), but they retain that slight arcade feel you'll find in the game. You can restart your career with a bike and do it all again. They come in all the same categories as cars and you will be able to compete against other cars and bikes in all the events found in the game. Motorcycles are perhaps the biggest addition to the game. It will take some skill to master this, and given the extensive options for tuning available in The Crew we suspect much of your success will be down to setting up your ride to fit with your likings. You can even double back during a challenge to redo a particular stretch of road if you think it will increase your chances of a great score. It uses a particular model, but the interesting thing about this mode is that it only focuses on scoring drift points. We found that it certainly wasn't as easy as drifting through corners in Mario Kart. The most requested new feature in Wild Run is drift racing. It's a niche to some, but we can see people investing hours and hours into this detail to record near-perfect times across a quarter-mile. Then there are dragsters, and here the Ivory Tower team have created what amounts essentially to a special mode where the objective is to burn tyres ahead of the start (to get them to the correct temperature), then shift gears at the exact right time to maximise acceleration and push the nitro to reach ridiculous speeds. But we suspect players will take to the roads in monster trucks, create their own challenges and see how they behave in the hills and mountains. There are custom made arenas (I believe there are a total of five to find in the game world) that let you flip your monster truck in gravity-defying stunts in order to collect points and earn high scores.
