The Crew 2 lets you fly in planes or ride in boats.
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The Crew 2 hands-on: Flying, boating, and driving through NYC

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft unveiled The Crew 2 earlier this summer, and now it has unveiled hands-on demos of the gameplay that takes you into the skies, the waters, and the roads of New York city. Ahead of Gamescom, I took The Crew 2 for a spin, and I had some funny times trying to stay on course.

The new open-world driving game has morphed into a place where you can fly and drive your speed boat. The game is coming out in early 2018 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox One X, and Windows.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.