It must be noted, however, that I hadn’t played the base game until it was released bundled with this expansion, so the many graphical and gameplay tweaks and subsequent patches probably mean that I was playing a very different game than the reviewers experienced at launch. Personally, despite the horrendous rubberbanding of your A.I opponents, I quite enjoyed the game, particularly how it tied the racing sections into an actual narrative, even if it was simply a cheesy crime tale along the lines of brainless film fodder like the Fast & Furious franchise and Gone in 60 Seconds. The Crew was an open-world racing game that was released in 2014 to middling reviews.
