History VideoGame / TheCrew2

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Much like the first game, ''The Crew 2'' has some... questionable geography with the United States. Las Vegas is further east and north than its real-life counterpart, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is misshapen and Detroit is further north than it is in real life, and Florida looks downright tumorous. Many cities lack famous landmarks, with the distinct Chicago skyline being reduced to mostly generic in-game buildings, with no Sears Tower in sight, and most of the country's topography is totally wrong. All of this is excusable, of course, given the sheer size of the map and the manpower it would've taken to recreate it all faithfully. One particularly baffling example is how Bar Harbor, a known Maine tourist destination popularized by [[Videogame/Fallout4 a certain open-world RPG]], is featured yet the larger Boston and Massachusetts aren't in The Crew 2's version of USA.

** Yet again ([[PropRecycling while recycling cars featured from]] [[VideoGame/TheCrew2014 the first game]]), [[NoExportForYou real-life cars that were only available in Right-Hand Drive form]] are incorrectly depicted as Left-Hand Drive. Worst offender is the TVR Sagaris where the roof bubble for the driver's seat hasn't been moved to the left.
** Subverted with the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic as well the Mazda Savanna RX-3 (introduced in Season 6 Episode 2: ''Dominion Frozen''). Both are correctly depicted as Right-Hand Drive, though the RX-3 was also available in LHD form in United States.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Much like the first game, ''The Crew 2'' has some... questionable geography with the United States. Las Vegas is further east and north than its real life counterpart, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is misshapen and Detroit is further north than it is in real life, and Florida looks downright tumorous. Many cities lack famous landmarks, with the distinct Chicago skyline being reduced to mostly generic in-game buildings, with no Sears Tower in sight, and most of the country's topography is totally wrong. All of this is excusable, of course, given the sheer size of the map and the manpower it would've taken to recreate it all faithfully. One particularly baffling example is how Bar Harbor, a known Maine tourist destination popularized by [[Videogame/Fallout4 a certain open world RPG]], is featured yet the larger Boston and Massachusetts aren't in The Crew 2's version of USA.
* BaitAndSwitch: The Offroading family. When you pass your initiation, you are introduced to a mentor figure - in this case, Wade - and told about the leading paragon of the discipline; the one who usually stands as your rival. However, [[spoiler: the further you go through the Offroad races, the more Wade becomes disillusioned with Tucker's "hippie" lifestyle and his love for offroading purely to see the landscape's natural splendour. When you hit 70% completion, you unlock the "boss mission". As well as being called ''The Switch'', the opening cutscene features an irate Wade, now sick and tired of you buddying up with Tucker and challenging you to a race. After you beat Wade - sending him packing - you and Tucker finally have the one-on-one showdown you expected, though on far less antagonistic terms than Tio and Clarence.]]
* [[BattleInTheRain Battle in the Snow]]: "Beat the Duke" takes place duing a relentless blizzard in the Mountain States, and is the only Champion event with forced weather. Conveniently the nearby river isn't frozen over, allowing for a Powerboat battle in the second leg.

* BlandNameProduct: Almost anything that isn't driveable vehicles and Red Bull. Highlights including Live (Go-Pro), Motorflix (Netflix), Everyzon (Verizon), WKZ (CNN), Spearhog (Sparco), Staroger Coffee (Starbucks Coffee), Stormx (Fox Head Sports), Swediysh (IKEA), Division (Benetton), Free USA Airlines (American Airlines), Chaebung (Samsung), Yohmhoy (Yokohama Tires), and many others.
* BookEnds: The New York Hypercar coast-to-coast race starts with you leaving New York City from the George Washington Bridge and it ends with you entering San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each of the four motorsport families are identified with a color: yellow for Street Racing, magenta for Freestyle, orange for Offroad, and light blue for Pro Racing.

** The game will make no attempt to stop players from [[https://youtu.be/Uyo5Aupvlgo?t=2m51s swapping into a boat while on land or in the air over land.]] On the flipside, switching from car/boat to aircraft will normally force the game to spawn the player somewhere clear of obstacles, but sometimes that can fail and can result in the aircraft insta-crashing into terrain or obstructions.
** Pedestrians can still be found crossing roads, despite there's an officially-managed race going on.

* GuestFighter: GT by Citröen from ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' series appear as part of November 2019's "Blazing Shots" update. However, the GT logo on it has been removed.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The first game was a street racing game in the vein of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed''. ''2'' resembles ''VideoGame/ForzaHorizon'' set across the entire Continental United States, with planes, boats and bikes.

* HarderThanHard: MAD Skills, introduced in the final Motoflix update, are harder than the normal Skills before now. Lara makes it clear that these skills can take multiple attempts before succeeding. Additionally unlike normal skills that allow you to use different disciplines, MAD Skills won't let you use another vehicle type than the one requested.

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:The climax of the Ghost Writer story has the narrator being so stressed out at being followed by a ghost across America ([[DisproportionateRetribution that just wanted her to complete the fanfic she wrote in high school]]) that she explictly mentions wanting to kill herself at the Ghost Town graveyard. While we don't see what it entails, the next segment of the story implies that members of LIVE stopped her from going through with it to turn her story into a documentary, and she's happy with that better outcome.]]

* LevelEditor: Added in the American Legends Part 2 update in July 2023. The Race Creator shares similarites to the first game's, but adds in even more customization options such as weather effects, ambience, and even screen filters! Another update added the ability to place checkpoints anywhere allowing for more creative opportunities.

** Endurance versions of the US Speed Tour events are available, which ramp up number of laps of each race to lengths longer than usual, ala typical endurance races. After an update, Community Races can also become this by setting the lap counter to a high amount, on a course that is ''already'' long.

** Tucker, the Offroad "rival", could be considered one of these. Rather than pursuing the discipline for fortune or fame, his sole motivation is that, by doing so, he gets to see parts of the world that would otherwise go unwitnessed. In fact, one Rally Raid race has him directly challenging you, explaining that ''"win or lose, the race would be worth it"''. In a big characterising moment for him, what ''makes'' the race worth it... is [[SceneryPorn the epic view of a mountain valley at which you just arrived.]]

* NotTheIntendedUse: Invoked. Several photo challenges require the player to perform unorthodox actions with the fast fav feature. These include flying a Jetsprint vehicle off of a ski jump, landing a Demolition Derby car on top of the Freestyle sculpture, and placing cars on top of various buildings and landmarks.

** The final Motorpass, American Legends Part 2, adds several stories that features many [[CallForward Call-Forwards]] to ''Motorfest'', with characters mentioning Hawaii and what they plan to do there.

* SceneryPorn: In spite of slightly reduced graphical fidelity compared to the first game to allow the seamless addition of gameplay features, the game is still beautiful to look at.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Sebring International Raceway, which appeared in the first game, has been replaced by the more generic "Miami Race Track". Thankfully, the other real life track from the first game--Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca[[note]]now named [=WeatherTech=] Raceway Laguna Seca[[/note]]--appears here intact.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: The Motorpass rewards change with each update, consisting of special cars, cosmetics and outfits. Happen to start the game late? Too bad! All the previous rewards are no longer obtainable once a new episode begins. Zig-Zagged with Live Summit rewards. Vehicle cosmetics can be bought at any time and Legendary peformance parts can be obtained from prize crates and races, but you could be waiting for a while for another attempt if you fail to score high enough to earn a rare cosmetic or vehicle.
* TheThemeParkVersion: Of the entire United States, also known as the Motornation. It wasn't even clear in universe whether the game is set in the actual United States or inside an artificial island / virtual reality rendition of an abridged United States.

** Each class has a fixed upper level, and finishing a race gives you upgrade performance parts that can be applied to another vehicle of the same class. It just happens that cars like VW Kombi and VW Beetle are the same class as high performance muscle cars and sports cars (Street Class), take a guess what will happen...

* WorstAid: The Street Racing event "The Accident" has one of your opponents suffer a bad crash during the race. Rather than, say, calling an ambulance, you physically drag their unconscious body across the road, push them into your car and drive them to the hospital yourself at breakneck speed. It's {{Hand Wave}}d with Hiro remarking about how 'an ambulance would never make it in time'.

In January 2023, a third game in ''The Crew'' series, titled ''VideoGame/TheCrewMotorfest'', was announced by Ubisoft, and takes place on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. This was first released on September 11, 2023 for Ubisoft+ players, and September 14 for everyone else.

* InvisibleWall: Again, you cannot enter Canada or Mexico, even though you now have access to aircraft. Likewise, you will not be able to go far off the East or West Coasts through either air or sea. ||That said, you do get an achievement if you travel far away enough from the game map until you respawn facing back towards the land.||

''The Crew 2'' is the 2018 sequel to ''VideoGame/TheCrew'', developed by Ivory Tower with help from Ubisoft Reflections, for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows. It was released on June 29, 2018.

In January 2023, a third game in ''The Crew'' series, titled ''VideoGame/TheCrewMotorfest'', was announced by Ubisoft, and takes place on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. This was first released on September 11, 2023 for Ubisoft+ players, and September 13 for everyone else.

** The Endurance Mode can ramp up number of laps of each races to lengths longer than usual, ala typical endurance races.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The final bonus LIVE Xtrem Race, Road to O'ahu, ends with the player and other racers leaving in helicopters to head to Hawaii, leading directly into ''The Crew Motorfest''.

* LevelEditor: Added in the penultimate major update in July 2023. The Race Creator shares similarites to the first game's, but adds in even more customization options such as weather effects, ambience, and even screen filters!

* {{Retraux}}: The theming used for the Flashback Sakura and City GP races. Also later used for the final Motoflix episode, Flashback, which focuses on retro racing games and pixelated assets.

* ArtisticLicenseCars: Yet again ([[PropRecycling while recycling cars featured from]] [[VideoGame/TheCrew2014 the first game]]), [[NoExportForYou real-life cars that were only available in Right-Hand Drive form]] are incorrectly depicted as Left-Hand Drive. Worst offender is the TVR Sagaris where the roof bubble for the driver's seat hasn't been moved to the left.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Much like the first game, ''The Crew 2'' has some... questionable geography with the United States. Las Vegas is further east and north than its real life counterpart, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is misshapen and Detroit is further north than it is in real life, and Florida looks downright tumorous. Many cities lack famous landmarks, with the distinct Chicago skyline being reduced to mostly generic in-game buildings, with no Sears Tower in sight, and most of the country's topography is totally wrong. All of this is excusable, of course, given the sheer size of the map and the manpower it would've taken to recreate it all faithfully.
** One particularly baffling example is how Bar Harbor, a known Maine tourist destination popularized by [[Videogame/Fallout4 a certain open world RPG]], is featured yet the larger Boston and Massachusetts aren't in The Crew 2's version of USA.

** GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler:With exceptions to the American Petrol Special Event, Wolf Territory, and The Switch. The former two being story missions where Wade appears in cutscenes, and the latter being part of the first phase of the champion event.]]

** The Endurance Mode in the recent updates can ramp up number of laps of each races to lengths longer than usual, ala typical endurance races.

* NewAgeRetroHippie: In contrast to the other three families, which put more emphasis on competition, the Freestyle family emphasizes having fun and expressing yourself above all else, making them a motorsport equivalent of this.

* WorstAid: The Street Racing event "The Accident" has one of your opponents suffer a bad crash during the race. Rather than, say, calling an ambulance, you physically drag their unconscious body across the road, push them into your car and drive them to the hospital yourself at breakneck speed.
** For what it's worth, an in-game explanation is at least attempted, as Hiro makes a quick aside about how 'an ambulance would never make it in time'.

** GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[spoiler:With an exception to the American Petrol Special Event and The Switch. The former being a story mission where Wade has to appear as an opponent, and the latter being part of the first phase of the champion event.]]

In January 2023, a third game in ''The Crew'' series, titled ''VideoGame/TheCrewMotorfest'', was announced by Ubisoft, and will take place on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu.

* LevelEditor: Added in the final major update in July 2023. The Race Creator shares similarites to the first game's, but adds in even more customization options such as weather effects, ambience, and even screen filters!