I drove from New York to LA in The Crew, and this is how long it took

GameZone's Mike Splechta: "Since this was officially my first time getting my hands on The Crew at my own leisure, and not constrained by a time limit on the E3 show floor, the one thing I always wanted to do was to see just how big the map of the US is in the game. Given that it's a scaled down map of the US, instead of a direct recreation, I was curious to see just how long it would take me to drive from one major city on the East Coast, to another on the West Coast."

[user7402931]

39 min? meh it should take at least 15 hours

[TheEnigma313]

more like 36 hours, in real life that is. 39 minutes is a lot for a game though.

[NewMonday]

the next big driving game will be the one that turns any Google map into a driving track.

or is there a game like this already?

[ZodTheRipper]

I'd rather know whether it was fun... of course it's not 1:1, how boring would that be?

[Destrania]

I wonder if there's any northwest cities in The Crew... *cough*Seattle*cough*

[blakstarz]

I agree 39 mins is a lot for a game...can you imagine if it really took "15 hours" in a game to get to one location...do you realize how bored and frustrated you will be..LOL!

[Fangrim]

@NewMonday: Google Street View? ;o)

[rawz]

Not only playing would be pain in the ass but streaming it.

"In this 24-hour stream we will be driving to LA... I make sure I will have a few breaks on the way so you viewers won't miss a single road sign..."

[andyboy13]

@ newmonday

Check out outerra/anteworld

[minimur12]

the guy said he went 159mph through all of it, if you calculate it so he went 30mph for all of it it'd take you 3.3 hours

[DragonKnight]

@Anyone complaining about the time, you could always play this...

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[BlackWolf12]

It would be cool if it was longer, and you could do it in stages, with small races along the way.

[XB1_PS4]

36 hours if you're going around the speed limit. I'm sure if you're going almost 200 it would be about 15 or so.

[Fluke_Skywalker]

It's defo not long enough, I drove from one end of the Just Cause 2 map to the other (I didn't allow myself to use planes or helos) and it took me over an hour. So to drive from New York to LA in that time, is a bit poor.

[Starbucks_Fan]

lmao

[ThatOneRiggaNob]

lol idk why but you make me laugh dude.

[OhReginald]

haha at least 15 hours this guy says......New york to chicago is 16 hours minimum, Chicago to LA is like 36 hours....

[AndrewLB]

New York City to Los Angeles is just under 2800 miles via both the north and south routes and if you drive the speed limit, it takes about 40 hours.

The current record for the NYC to LA trip is just under 32 hours and was set in the 2007 "Bull Run", beating out the previous record which was set in the 1970's "cannonball run", in which a movie was based.

And good luck getting anywhere near 32 hours, those Texans who broke the record got at least half a dozen speeding tickets between the two of them. I admired their determination, but that's too rich for my blood. We completed the race in 36 hours, had 3 speeding tickets between 3 of us, and a high speed flat tire. The Brabus "rocket" CLS65 AMG was truly a beast to drive but at least it was comfortable.

[a08andan]

Yeah I agree. Driving in over 3700 miles per hour sounds somewhat unsafe.

[PickAShoe]

hold my beer, i got this

[thisismyaccount]

As with Test Drive Unlimted in 2007? this game will suffer or share similar symptoms i fear. Meaingn that the best action to be had, is either on highways or in/around) the cities.

Once you leave the city and drive from coast to coast it gets fast boring and tedious. They obv. had to make the cities/strees look nice and enjoyable/fun, but their countryside streets/roads are/feel empty, like in TDU they only served one purpose, to connect you from a hub to antoehr hub.

A track needs to invite you to race on it and 90% of the TDU streets/roads were bad, they only were there for quest purposes, deliviering a car-quest and the like. People formed "hubs" around certain spots in TDU (long straights, highways etc..) and not around countryroads to battle with tractors.

Will be the same with the Crew, people/community will congregate around certain areas to battle against other clubs, only because those areas offer everything they seek, long straights, highways and so on... at least that´s what happened in TDU 1.

Based on that, why not to split up the map in few maps and leave the painful drive on ugly, empty, void streets out of the game?

Question:

In a Tokyo Extreme Game, would you prefer to

A) race on highways from City to City (Tokyo to Osaka?)
B) race on empty, boring to look, country roads...

.. most will answer with A.

TDU had great highway battles, noone was doing a battle on shabby roads, with no traffic what so ever. A Racing game needs to have great tracks to race, if they can not deliver, the game will be weak on certain areas (like with the forza series and more the grid series, all those fantasy city tracks are plain terrible to drive, they do no have the same aura of a knwon or good closed circuit track, another example of a "blargh" track is EL CAPITAN in GT4, just terrible...).

People want to battle on highways, avoiding incoming traffic, you know like in Tokyo Extreme/BO Paradise but bigger, remember?

Driving around just to kill time is bs in this game, you will do it once to unlock every fast travel (like in TDU)... but then NEVER do it again...

My point being :

With been there with TDU, just make few Tokyo Extreme Maps with variations, lots of highways connecting cities and some maps with coast to coast battles a la true Need for Speed manier.

It´s very simple to achieve, they have wasted hours on making a stupidly big map, they wasted twice as much to fix bugs on this map... only for a one time playthrough or until you have discovered every "vista/travel to point".

BUT MY MAIN ISSUE WITH THIS POS! FOR FAK SAKE ADD BIKESSSSSSSS!!!!! GIMMIE BIKES (TDU had 2 sick bikes... and few shittier ones, but man those 2 bikes were the sole reason why you kept loggin in, tremendoulsy fast bikes, they really made you believe you were the real ghost rider ;)

just my 43 cents ;)

If there arw sick fast bikes, ignore the rant... until then FU The Crew.

[ICANPLAYGAMES2]

But the Crew seems to be more in line with what Rockstar's Smuggler's Run was (they've even stated that themselves in an interview). Sure it will have some of what you are talking about, for those seeking that, but I'm sure there are just as many people looking to take advantage of those Raid spec. vehicles to battle off the roads, too.

[Linsolv]

Please note, however, that Initial D is set entirely on backwoods mountain roads. And quite a few people are a huge fan of the Initial D touge concept.

[elninels]

@thisismyaccount

Way too many words. Hurts whatever your argument is before its even been read.

[Name Last Name]

Nice essay

[AgentSmithPS4]

It takes 15 hours if you're not using the microtransaction toll roads.

[ATi_Elite]

If you were to drive that same distance in Euro Truck Simulator 2014 it would of taken you 44 hours.

It takes about an hour to drive across Arma 3's map

OK so The Crew is a not a simulator and 39 minutes to cross it's map does show how large the map is.

[Akarogg]

Really? I want Euro Truck Simulator!

[ThanatosDMC]

Cant wait to see The Crew flop/fail articles next.

[ZodTheRipper]

Yep, it's concept is just something I'm not interested in.

[iSuperSaiyanGod]

@zod then don't get it . Simple as that .

[elninels]

Why? What would that bequeath you?

[hkgamer]

they said 71 miles from the start. troll properly fool

[Future_2015]

Im playing the closed beta on PC, its really fun and addictive with excellent multiplayer integration and a nice massive map to explore and race

[ICANPLAYGAMES2]

With lots of speeding tickets, and the worlds greatest luck (considering you would need to have practically no traffic). Who knows though, if you could do it as the crow flies, like the game allows, lol.

[SinisterKieran]

well you can fast travel. to make it less boring.

i would like to say that at the moment..the multiplayer us working horrible for me. it keeps making my game crash...or at least i think its that. :/

[Perjoss]

39 mins of driving and no repetition is awesome. Unless of course they built the world in a cheap way using lots of copy and paste instead of hand crafting it.

Reminds me a bit of when I used to drive around the edge of the whole island in TDU1, used to take me around an hour I think, that game had truly lame handling but it had a very nicely built game world for its time.

[YoungKingDoran]

I think you might want to play Desert Bus.

"The objective of the game [Desert Bus] is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45 mph. The feat requires 8 hours of continuous play to complete, since the game cannot be paused.

The bus contains no passengers, there is little scenery aside from an occasional rock or stop sign, and there is no traffic. The road between Tucson and Las Vegas is completely straight. The bus veers to the right slightly, and thus requires the player's constant attention. If the bus veers off the road it will stall and be towed back to Tucson, also in real time.

If the player makes it to Las Vegas, one point is scored. The player then has the option to make the return trip to Tucson for another point, a decision which must be made in a few seconds or the game ends. "

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[ATi_Elite]

Desert Bus is one of the most BRUTAL Games ever.

You have to SIT there for 8 hours with NO breaks No pauses but luckily there are a few bus stops.

No scenery No cars No people just 8 hours of continuous repetitive sand and a Sega CD player that gets very hot after playing this for 8 hours.

[truefan1]

Man The Crew sounds impressive.

[Codewow]

Wow, that is impressive given the guy was going at about 150mph for almost the entirety of the travel.

[youndamie]

His tires should've been glue lol..

[nope111]

That was quick!

[Applejack]

In a videogame, driving for 39 minutes straight at a constant 150mph is hardly quick.

@Fireseed I was referring to how long it takes to drive the entirety of the game map, not the speed of the car. Sorry for not being clear on that.

[Fireseed]

Actually I'm fairly certain that 150 mph is by it's very definition; quick.

[uth11]

The crew doesn't simulate the US to scale. It's a map based off the US. But to listen to them talk about it, you'd be lead to believe they simulated the entire USA!

[ramiuk1]

71 miles
most of time 150mph
took 39 minutes

how u get to 15 hours it should take?
if he drove 71 mph it would take him 60 mins,taking 39 mins is pretty accurate to the scale.

who wants to drive a game that would take 15 hours to travel from one side to another?

over half an hour from 1 side to other is more than enough imo.

if it was released it took hi m10 hours,people would still complain

[combatcash]

I agree I would say that length of time gives it some realism well at least for a game.

[Zichu]

I can understand that people want to have big open worlds, but I would rather have a reasonably sized world that has a lot of content packed in.

Don't make a big world for the sake of it, pretty sure Fuel was like that. I had never played it, but watched some videos of it and it looks barren.

Not saying this game is going to be barren.

[iceman06]

From the closed Beta stream that I watched, it's not that bad. Sure, it's not always as action packed as a game that is focused on one city. But, when you reach one of the major city hubs, it is pretty full. The good thing is that this type of travel isn't a necessity. You can fast travel to the city hubs without having to spend 30 min. to travel there. There IS a bonus for doing the actual driving in that you can find hidden, junked cars that can eventually provide you with a new car. Plus, there are speed and slalom challenges as you drive to help you rank up. (it is still rpg inspired)

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Sounds similar to Forza Horizon, the junked cars I mean. The whole thing kind of feels similar, just larger. I wonder how it will compare to FH2?

[VonSchtook]

lol, Why is Florida shaped so funny in the linked map?

I suppose they added a lot of content and space around Miami.

[TRS_Gear]

I know, right?

The whole thing is jacked.

[smolinsk]

The bigger the better for me. Doesn't have to have a lot to do, it's just fun to get lost in a crazy big world.

[Psychotica]

That sounds great, I hope they have a multiplayer race based on that route..

[heisenberguk]

Is that it? (the length of the article)

[Muzikguy]

71 miles between the two?! Ouch! That map of the US is also ouch! It's a "resemblance" but do far off from reality. I know it's just a game though so at least it's something. Could be much worse!

[thejigisup]

This just definitely piqued my interest. I'll be watching this game closely

[MysticStrummer]

Why bother simulating the entire country if it's going to be that quick from coast to coast?

Better to just simulate a part of it that's a more realistic scale, imo.

[hkgamer]

the gimmick is the whole usa thing. iif it wasnt for that i would not be impressed at this game at all.

its the whole road trip thing that makes it interesting and i am obviously from outside us. people in us may find it stupid.

would like to add that they did whole usa thing for different kind of stages feel. different terrai, different streets, road width, hills etc i think.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Well did anyone expect anything more?
I never understood those who say "Omg the Crews map is the whole of the USA" because really, it isnt...but who actually thought it would be?

[hkgamer]

i wonder how big each city is.

i mean i understand that they wont have the whole usa. but being able to drive from one city to another gives the whole road trip feel for us outside of the us.

[iceman06]

That's very true. In reference to your question about Forza Horizon, the streamer was actually making the very same comparisons as he played. The only thing that I saw was that there are little side mission type things to do as you traverse the map. Some are just quick races. Others have you avoid traffic at high speeds or slalom between the 2 sides of traffic. Each one collecting XP along the way or unlocking car parts that can be used to upgrade cars.

[Meltic]

need my beta fking code hate ubisoft. Pre ordered this game long time ago..

[Sp1tfireXM]

PM me for a code

[OculusRift]

Are you cereal?

[TRS_Gear]

Why has nobody mentioned the one thing that is bugging me the most? He drove from New York to LA on a map that looks like a blind 5 year old's attempt at drawing the United States. I'm kind of confused on this design direction....Real life city names, near what is there real locations, but the shape of the country itself is so morphed, that its nearly unrecognizable, had it not been for the major city names, you'd be hard pressed to identify what you're looking at.

It's impressive as the whole picture, I just can't wrap my head around why the U.S. looks like that.

[hkgamer]

a stupid question, but it got me a little curious.

can a car go 150mph for 39 minutes and still have petrol?

[OculusRift]

Hkgamer, asking the real questions.

[creeping judas]

In a video game, hell yeah. In real life no. The best thing to remember is that a video game is not real, and you should never attempt the things you see in video games, as they can be potentially hazardous to your health.

SMH!!

[Jaqen_Hghar]

also it would be a boring realism feature. Some realism helps create immersion. Filling a gas tank realism is just a drag (pun intended) on a racing game.

[Meltic]

can someone pm me a europé beta code please. I really want to play this game.

[D3ATH_DRIV3R_777]

Been watching the beta on youtube and been liking it so far! each car dealership offers different variety of vehicles depending on what city you are in, along with different specs. Plus, it has alot of life in it! ppl walking on sidewalks, crossing the streets, construction workers, farm animals, wildlife for when you in woods or mountains, construction vehicles, passenger & freight trains, building fires, ambulances and fire trucks sirens blaring by you, helicopters & planes flying, and the co-op play is pretty cool to. My favorite mission i liked was the drag race, so there'll be drag racing in the game as well, along with escaping the cops. I'm looking forward to the drag racing with friends on here.

[masterfox]

I thought this game would be geographically accurate, no buy then :P

[porkChop]

"My final time from Midtown New York to Downtown Los Angeles took me a whopping 39 minutes.

That's impressive on many levels."

Actually, that is far from impressive considering the devs originally said it would take and hour and a half to drive from coast to coast going full speed in a high end car. This is between 2 to 3 times faster than what the devs claimed. It's still a big world, don't get me wrong, it's just disappointing compared to what was promised.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

This game is the most excited a man has been for a racer since Burnout 3! A man doesn't like sim racers and loves co-op and open world!

[jaymart2k]

Bad news , its more like Forza then Burnout when it comes to handling. I'm in the beta & not too impressed. Also them graphics are trash.

[mochachino]

That's pretty cool

[spoonard]

They have already talked about how long it would take to do this, way to break new ground here! Now, instead of trying to diminish the game, do something that hasn't been done already and tell us how long it takes to drive every stretch of freeway in the game.

[annus]

The devs said 2 hours, it clearly isn't anywhere near as long.

[jaymart2k]

He drove straight through the middle

Now how about 1 full circle, bet that would take alot longer.

[annus]

Yes, of course it would, the perimeter of a circle is clearly longer than the diameter...

The devs still claimed it was 2 hours coast to coast, this guy did the same thing in 1/3rd the time, which is all I was pointing out. I'm not hating on the game or anything, I can't wait to play this with my wheel.

[Madderz]

Circumference*

[gemini2]

looks good

[jaymart2k]

Update: Bad impress at 1st but after playing it for 3 more hrs I got use to the handling & really loving the game now.

While the graphics don't impress me right now(still have 4 months till release) the environment feels very alive compared to other open racer.

Planes flying overhead, cops , cows, people at park doing yoga , horses , construction workers, boats sailing , trains.

Oh did I mention the Map is Huge.

The amount of content alone is behind crazy.

[HaHa_Ostrich]

Kudos to game world size. But honestly, Im tired of America, too many open world games are set in Americas environment. Burnout, Need for speed, Forza, Driveclub, The Crew... Where is Europe? Africa? Asia? I would like to drive from Amsterdam to Dubai, from Moscow to Capetown. Now that would be awesome.

[cell989]

This is pretty cool, and for people that complain "oh its too long, bore fest" you can always just fast travel

[bez87]

Looking at that map I can see all the places you can go to, what exactly is imbetween all them, surely there is more cities, or is it one big wilderness until you reach a city in the game??

[victorMaje]

Was it fun?

[MadLad]

Was sent a code from Ubisoft PR this morning.
Downloading the thing now.

Certainly has me interested.

[WishMeWell259]

mapquested
from LA to NY
44hrs 12 mins
Miles 2889.34
going 150mph average 19 hours
game took 39 mins
The Map of the US has been scaled down about 70%
Still to play a map thats about 30% of the US is pretty god damn impressive.

[boing1]

How do you get into the beta? Is it from pre-order?

[modesign]

that map looks like a kindergartner made it.

[noregrets726]

I think we need a new Tokyo Extreme Game. Those were the Best and Funnest racing games i have ever played hands down.