History VideoGame / TheCrew

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified in the ending; Alex says that shooting Shiv will just kill him, but if he beats Shiv in a road race, just like how the 5-10 solve issues, he will take his crown and Shiv will be left with nothing.

* MeaningfulName: The 5-10 motor club gets its name from the California Hundred Code ([[CaptainObvious 510]]) for speeding or racing vehicles (in other words, illegal street racing).

** The "Silver Screen" Awards are this by definition: [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000 "Stolen"]], [[Film/TheItalianJob2003 "Small Packages"]], [[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift "Drift King"]], [[Film/VanishingPoint "Vanished"]], [[Series/{{Supernatural}} "Unnatural"]], [[Film/BackToTheFuture "We Don't Need Roads"]], [[Film/CasinoRoyale "Covert Casino"]], [[Film/TheMatrix "Down The Rabbit Hole"]], [[Film/JurassicPark "Jurassic"]], [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard "Hazardous"]].

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can drive on places where people walk around, such as the beach, sidewalks or parks. They will evade you, but sometimes it's still possible to smack them, although thankfully without any gory result.
** By the way, scaring them to move out of the way is required for some awards.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Apart from the US being [[SpaceCompression condensed]] and slightly simplified, a FreezeFrameBonus shows that Shiv was apparently born in "Austria, Germany." UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} is a sovereign country, not a city in Germany.

A sequel called ''VideoGame/TheCrew2'' [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/16/15647196/far-cry-5-pc-ps4-xbox-one-ubisoft-the-crew-2 is currently in the works.]] It will add [[CoolBoat boats]] and [[CoolPlane planes]] to the gameplay and will also feature a "fully redesigned" United States compared to the first game.

** Dirt: Unlocked in New York at Level 10, this spec is best-suited for dirt roads, but can also handle asphalt- essentially, the JackOfAllStats. The Dirt Tuner can be found along the shores of west Brooklyn.

** Raid: Unlocked in Las Vegas at Level 30, this spec makes the car near-godlike off-road, and makes it a MightyGlacier for better or for worse. The Raid Tuner can be found next to the Ringmaster Hotel and Casino (a CaptainErsatz of Circus Circus) on the north end of the Strip.

* JackOfAllStats: Dirt cars, which can handle dirt and asphalt roads equally but excel at neither.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first game was a street racing gane in the vein of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed''. ''2'' resembles ''VideoGame/ForzaHorizon'' set across the entire Continental United States, with planes, boats and bikes.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the Calling All Units DLC you get to control Clara whose accent is a really poorly acted, stereotypical, vaguely English mess.

** Massachusetts is only Cape Cod, Provincetown, and [[SalemIsWitchCountry Salem]] (UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} is {{egregious}}ly left out).

** This is arguably worse with the fact that one of the cars available is a Pegassi Lotus which is an electric vehicle. Talk about eco unfriendly.

* RareVehicles: Among the additions to the car list via the ''Wild Run'' expansion is a left-hand drive Mazda [=RX-7=] Spirit R. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQvwlsSvOWY Only one such vehicle exists in the entire world.]]

* DirtyCop[=/=]TheDragon: Bill Coburn, whom Zoe suspects to be in league with Shiv. He helped Shiv become the 5-10 "V8" by covering up his murder of Dayton and throwing the blame onto the victim's brother and looks the other way on their various trafficking operations in exchange for being paid off.

* WarpWhistle: Players can teleport to anywhere in the United States they've already visited. However, this feature can also be used to visit unexplored areas quickly. Players can also take trains and airplanes to get to cities they've yet to visit in the game for a fee.

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Shiv murdered Dayton in order to become the 5-10 motor club's "V8", which he does in the intervening five years that Alex wrongfully spends in prison for the crime. It helps that he has a crooked FBI agent on his side to help him leverage illegal trafficking activities that no doubt contributed to his rise to power.

Taking place on [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates the continental United States]], players play as Alex Taylor (Creator/TroyBaker), an aspiring street racer from UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} who wishes to join the ranks of the 5-10, a racing crew formed by his brother Dayton. After Dayton gets betrayed and murdered by a fellow racer by the name of Dennis "Shiv" Jefferson (Jason Spisak), Alex gets [[FrameUp framed]] for the crime by corrupt FBI Special Agent Bill Coburn (Creator/DCDouglas). After spending five years in prison, another FBI agent named Zoe Winters (Amy Rosoff) frees him to use him as an undercover agent, sending Alex back into the 5-10 to infiltrate the organization and bring the two men responsible for Dayton's murder and Alex's subsequent false imprisonment to justice.

** Dirt: Unlocked in New York at Level 10, this spec is best-suited for dirt roads, but doesn't fare particularly well on tarmac. The Dirt Tuner can be found along the shores of west Brooklyn.

* LighterAndSofter: ''The Crew 2'' will take a far lighter and more colorful aesthetic compared to the original, much like ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' compared to the first ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Platinum-level car parts are by far the rarest car parts available in the game, only being accessible after reaching the Driver Level 50 {{cap}}. They are awarded by beating a score in Story Missions and Skills that is a notch higher than the Gold one, and are available from Level 40 to 60, picking one of said Levels through a mini-roulette. While all these parts give ''massive'' performance boosts to the vehicle, obtaining all then-Level 50 car parts for one spec were definitely a LuckBasedMission until ''Calling All Units'', which thanks to its improvements to the Smart Loot system, now involves a lot of grinding to get the Level 60 parts.

A sequel called ''The Crew 2'' [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/16/15647196/far-cry-5-pc-ps4-xbox-one-ubisoft-the-crew-2 is currently in the works.]] It will add [[CoolBoat boats]] and [[CoolPlane planes]] to the gameplay and will also feature a "fully redesigned" United States compared to the first game.

A sequel called ''The Crew 2'' [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/16/15647196/far-cry-5-pc-ps4-xbox-one-ubisoft-the-crew-2 is currently in the works.]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Platinum-level car parts are by far the rarest car parts available in the game, only being accessible after reaching the Driver Level 50 {{cap}}. They are awarded by beating a score in Story Missions and Skills that is a notch higher than the Gold one, and are available from Level 40 to 50, picking one of said Levels through a mini-roulette. While all these parts give ''massive'' performance boosts to the vehicle, obtaining all Level 50 car parts for one spec is definitely a LuckBasedMission.

* SceneryPorn: The graphics might be inferior compared to other current-gen racing games, but that doesn't stop the game from being truly gorgeous in some places, especially the bigger cities (e.g. Miami and Las Vegas), the forests in the East Coast, and the West Coast's Big Sur and Yosemite National Park. The graphics update set out for ''Wild Run'' is, from the looks of it, going to take this trope UpToEleven.

*** Dragsters: Ridiculously fast, but obviously meant to be driven in only straight lines. [[DrivingStick Manual transmission]] is mandatory for this spec's events. The Drag Tuner can be found in San Francisco, of all cities.

* DownloadableContent: The game originally shipped with a Season Pass, that would enable access to four packs that could also be bought separately (the Extreme Car, Speed Car, Vintage Car, and Raid Car packs). It also had some free updates. Later on the ''Wild Run'' was released, which added three new car specs, more cars, motorcycles, a big monthly meet-up called "The Summit", and a new graphical engine/weather system (that part was free for everyone).

* HotPursuit: Police cars and chases against other players were added in ''Calling All Units''. Before then, players could only be chased down by AI cops. Police cars can be bought in Chicago in the South Loop district.