The Crew - Xbox One (RESTART)

It's hard to divide a console racer. Some try to do it with laser-focused realism, some go crazy, extraordinary race antics. With The Crew , Ubisoft is trying to stand out from the masses with ambition.

First of all, the plot. Yes, this is one of those racing games with a plot. Your task is to infiltrate and overtake the 510s, a gang that has arrived from Detroit's illegal street racing scene. To do this, you need to build a rep while secretly wreaking havoc on their business in cities right across the United States.

And there's a LOT of the United States to go to. The locations are everywhere from New York to Los Angeles to Miami Beach to Monument Valley. The terrain ranges from the tight corners of downtown to the outskirts to cornfields to Canyons.

The Royal Guide of The Crew, However, it’s the multiplayer status that’s huge. It’s a world populated by other real-world racers. You have to build a crew of four with an interface that’s designed to be seamless. You could be leading a convoy, dodging the cops, or just racing non-stop, but you never have to do it alone.

The style is very much on the arcade-y end of the spectrum, but The Crew It also offers extensive customization tools to optimize and perfect your authorized machine.