The Crew 2 provides hovercraft and shifts gears for a free weekend and sale

Cars are garbage, what with their tires and grip and unlucky behavior of sinking in water – hovercraft are clearly higher, and able to experience at the moment in Ubisoft’s sandbox drive ’em up The Crew 2. In the Gator Rush free expansion – out now – Ubisoft have added three sorts of hovercraft and a brand new set of occasions to drive them in, wherever land meets water. Ubi additionally hope to get just a few extra individuals within the drivers seat over this weekend with a 45%-off sale proper now, and a free weekend beginning tomorrow morning, out there for preloading now.

It’s no shock that Ubisoft are operating this occasion now, as Microsoft juggernaut Forza Horizon 4 launches on PC in just some days. Both are open-world racing games with equally playful tones and a wide range of autos. Still, whereas Forza permits you to race in opposition to a huge scenery-crushing hovercraft in some occasions (see this clip from IGN), The Crew 2 lets gamers get behind the wheel of 1, albeit much less able to driving by means of timber. The Gator Rush replace additionally provides a brand new Ace problem mode to the game, which rewards legendary loot and upgrades, if the AI doesn’t crush you.

The Crew 2 had a tough launch. Our man John needed to review it as a purely single-player game as there weren’t sufficient individuals on the servers pre-launch to check what’s arguably the center of all of it. Even then it had technical issues at launch and issues connecting to people for some time after that. I haven’t had an opportunity to take it for a spin but, however are there any motorheads amongst us capable of weigh in on the state of the game at current? I’d be actually shocked if the preliminary issues hadn’t been ironed out by this level, nevertheless it appeared that every little thing that might go fallacious at launch, did.

The Crew 2 is 45% off on the Ubisoft Store, down from its regular £50/60/$60. I observed you should use Club Units (I bought sufficient by taking part in Assassin’s Creed Origins) to shave it down one other 20%. The free weekend begins 7am UTC on September 27th (tomorrow), and runs till 8pm UTC on Sunday, September 30th. You can preload it here in case your web isn’t as sensible as a hovercraft.