Ubisoft on The Crew, Next-Gen Advantages

Ubisoft had a lot of surprises at E3. While The Division stole the show, Ubisoft also announced another impressive new next-gen franchise: The Crew.

In a year with a racing game at every E3 press conference and EA touting the advantages of Need for Speed, IGN spoke with Ubisoft senior vice president of sales and marketing Tony Key about what features The Crew offers over other driving games, plus the new abilities that next-gen consoles will bring to the table.

“Saying it’s a racing game is a little bit ambiguous, because what does that mean?” Key told IGN about The Crew. “DriveClub and Forza are doing heavy simulation, where you can almost smell the leather. That’s really not what The Crew is. The Crew is open world. What we’re saying is that it’s really an MMO. You really need to be connected to get the most out of it. We do think that it’s a genre-bender, because the best way to play The Crew is online with friends. Hands down. I don’t think that’s necessarily going to be the case with these other games on the market, so we think we have a unique spot there. By the way, for an open world game, it’s actually quite beautiful.”

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DriveClub and Forza are doing heavy simulation, where you can almost smell the leather. That’s really not what The Crew is.

That beauty is possible thanks to next-gen consoles, which Key says will allow Ubisoft to offer significantly better looking games.

“There’s so much that the next generation is offering,” Key said. “One of the things that we will see with the next generation is the density it can offer to open worlds. We make a lot of open world games. There are more people. The environment, the leaves blowing on the ground, the whole density of the thing. All that power adds to that. That adds visually, to some degree, to the eye, but it’s really that immersion factor. It’s that much more real. That’s what next-gen really brings. It’s more immersion. Until you experience that, it’s hard to explain in words.”

For more on The Crew, read our impressions from E3.

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