Ubisoft
On paper, it's a good concept: an online-based car game in which you're part of a street-car crew, speeding through the US while completing races, heists and causing general mayhem. But put simply, The Crew is a game where you race cars, rather than a car-racing game.
Like an initially inspired mishmash of Grand Theft Auto and Need for Speed, with nods to The Fast & Furious film series, you're a one-time felon looking to re-establish yourself on the street-racing/car heist circuit. Players are thrown into what may well be the largest world ever created for a game, a massive map that spreads across the whole of the continental US.
The 60-plus missions of the main story have you ganging up to control the five main regions of the country. But it's the little details that truly add to the game's character - helping out a highway stranger with cop problems say, or joining a late-night street race along a secluded beach, or even just playing bandit by stopping a massive cargo train.