Sony’s systems have become notorious for their lack of legitimately great arcade racers, but The Crew Motorfest could be about to plug the gap. The Ubisoft open world racer – which has clearly been inspired by Forza Horizon – potentially represents the best the genre’s going to get on PS5 and PS4, so it’s exciting to see development cross the finish line ahead of the title’s 14th September launch.
Developer Ubisoft Ivory Tower revealed the milestone on Twitter earlier this week, confirming the game “has gone gold”. For those not familiar with the industry lingo, “gold” is the phrase used by game makers when a build has been finalised and submitted to digital storefronts and Blu-ray manufacturers. The team will likely now turn its attention to a day one patch, but the core code is complete.
We’ve been waxing lyrical about The Crew Motorfest for a few weeks now, and you can read a couple of our hands on previews through here and through here. Will you be getting behind the wheel of this one? Boost into the comments section below.
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This looks very good, but even if I'm starving for a top arcade racer, I am not spending 70€ on it. I am willing to wait for some price cuts.
Great news! Im very keen on what we have seen of this title so far, and as long as it reviews well, I'll be happy to pick this up on release date and demonstrate to publishers that we want more of these type of games on the PS platform.
This is definitely on my list but dunno if it will be a day one for me, got a few other things I wanna pick up come October and there is BG3 in a couple of weeks.
Might need to be a Christmas game for me.
Really wish PlayStation had more Arcade Racers really miss the Motorstorm series especially,tried this in the beta enjoyed what i played though the changing into planes and boats like Crew 2 still hasn't grabbed me enjoyed the plain ole racing of The Crew more,i would have liked the handling to lean a little more towards Horizons handling in this one but still going to pick it up.
@Pixel_nme Yeah, the original Motorstorm is great to play even today, I also really miss that series.
@Pixel_nme I still keep my ps3 plugged in for Motorstorm (and guitar hero).
Amazing how well that game holds up, even today!
The Crew games were well liked, so hopefully this will be another strong entry into the series. Guess we'll find out soon enough!
True about racers (and a few other genres) being under-represented for current gen, though. I still boot up the PS3 for those because I'm spoilt for choice - Ridge Racer 7, Burnout Paradise, OutRun Online Arcade, the massively underrated Blur and of course Gran Turismo 6 which is still my favourite series entry (Sport and 7 just didn't work for me). That was a great canon of titles. Forza Horizon 4 and 5 on One X/Series X get closest to the vibe of those games (where it's a good arcade/sim mix)
Plus recently a lot of Burnout 3: Revenge via my BC PS3 which looks great scaled to 1080p if you boot the game then hold triangle and X to put it into 480p which sorts out a lot of the jaggies/shimmer especially with Smoothing enabled.
They beat TDU Solar crown to the finish so they will first capitalyze on this lack of such games. I hope TDU is also good so they do not get lazy.
@Titntin Mine's still plugged in for Motorstorm (Pacific Rift especially!) and Worms 2: Armageddon - probably the finest Worms game of all time (DC on the Amiga 1200 comes close!)
Ugh I do not have space in Sept for this. BG3, PL
@Titntin Sadly i don't have the space to keep any consoles and games from my many many years of gaming,Guitar Hero 3 was fantastic.
@Gbarsotini Twas a sad day when Evolution was shuttered sad times i still hold out faint hope Sony will do something with the franchise as long as it's not mobile or something daft,i can dream...
Will check this one out. I wonder why SEGA hasn't made a new Outrun.
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