The Crew

The Crew
Developers: Ivory Tower, Ubisoft Reflections, Asobo Studio (Xbox 360), Ubisoft Shanghai (Xbox 360) Publisher: Ubisoft Platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One Released internationally: December 2, 2014 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article

This game is defunct. Do note the game no longer works at all without modifications. This is most likely due to the game's servers being shut down. As a result, further official developments with the game are unlikely to happen.

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This page or section needs more images. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures. Please fix this. Specifically: Graphics comparison between the original game and Wild Run, aswell with the closed beta and initial release

This page sucks. If you could make it suck less, that would be awesome. Specifically: The Crew has had various betas & far more undocumented/unused areas that are yet to be featured here, any additional information about these topics is highly suggested to be added.

The Crew focuses on you exploring the very large map with your friends (your crew) in many different types of vehicles divided into 8 specifications (9 if you count Fullstock) like Street, Dirt, Performance, Raid, Circuit, Drift, Monster Truck and Drag.

On December 14, 2023, The Crew, its microtransactions & its expansions were delisted on all platforms & Ubisoft made an official announcement that the servers for the game will be shut down on March 31, 2024, rendering the game unplayable without third-party modifications to the game.

Unused/Unavailable Cars

Chevrolet Impala Drag Spec

This car is seen in promotional images, in-game (in the salt flats Drag trial completion menu background) and even for a few seconds in the Wild Run launch trailer, but it cannot be bought or used. The reason for it's not being obtainable is unknown, but could be due to licensing issues or time constraints.

The Drag Spec in-game	The Drag Impala in the Wild Run trailer

(Source: PsuPepperoni & nfsrookie)

Subaru BRZ

The Subaru BRZ was added during the Wild Run expansion and was available in the Street, Dirt, Perf and Drift specs. On November 27th, 2020, the car was made unobtainable, players who bought it before November 27th can still use it.

Unused Graphics

Audi

An unused Audi logo was left in the game. This, along with some promotional images featuring the Audi TT, suggests that Audi pulled out at some point during development.

(Source: ashthenyan)

Land Rover

It seems like Land Rover was cut at an early stage of development as none of their cars appear in concept art nor promotional art. The only thing that remains in the game files is their logo.

(Source: ashthenyan)

Lexus

Lexus was most likely cut from the game at an earlier stage of development as the logo is the only remaining asset referencing the brand in the game files.

(Source: fart23#6229)

Miscellaneous

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  Man in a suit smoking a large cigar.

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  Red circle icon, unknown what this could have been used for.

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  Placeholder (and quite colorful) CCTV Icon

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  Potential placeholder for body icon?

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  2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS

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  2013 Nissan 370Z (Z34)

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  Tire Icon, most likely an earlier iteration of the one used in-game.

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  Swipe icon, unknown what this could've been used for in-game.(Probably leftover from The Crew Road Empire or a scrapped Wii U port)

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  Potential placeholder for headquarters?

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  Most likely a placeholder of some kind for Street Tuner icon.

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  Most likely could have been used for obtaining a gold medal in-game.

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  2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 63 AMG (R230)

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  Some kind of blurred imagery

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  Image of a snake

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  Most likely a placeholder icon with something to do with police.

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  Artwork of a rose

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  Image of a fictional muscle car.

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  Trademark logo, it most likely could have been used under The Crew logo.

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  Icon of the number 9.

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  Unused icon of cross.

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  Unused icon of a jeep.

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  Unused/leftovers PlayStation icons (again).

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  Unused/leftover PlayStation icon.

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  Potential placeholder image of test drive icon.

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  Unused front fender image, most likely placeholder or previous iteration of current front fender image.

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  1999 Nissan Skyline GTR (GF-BNR34)

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  Random texture of salt plains.

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  Dune Buggy

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  2006 Lamborghini Murciélago LP640

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  2010 Ford Mustang

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  Cut artwork of a 2012 Ford Boss 302 Mustang

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  Unused model of a fictional sports car.

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  2006 Hummer H1 Alpha

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  2007 Ruf 3400K

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  Texture of a number.

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  Texture of a suited man.

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  Unused hard drive texture.

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  Xbox Live logo from Xbox versions of The Crew.

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  PlayStation Store logo from PlayStation versions of the game.

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  Unused Xfinity logo.

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  Generic Error Texture.

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  A calibration image or a Phone UI test?

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  A tire graphic that says fake for an unknown reason.

(Source: ashthenyan & fart23#6229)

Unused Monster Truck Arena

There is an unused monster truck arena found in the Wild Run Beta, but it appears to be untextured and only for testing purposes. It can be seen at 14:59 in the video below:

(Source: Paragleiber)

Revisional Differences

The Crew went through many updates throughout its life cycle, starting from its original beta to its controversial Wild Run expansion that improved upon the games graphics, altered & updated hud and so on.

When the game was in beta it had a slightly different attract screen compared to the final game. Notably the build number and generic beta jabber at the bottom left corner at all times.

(Source: Keralis)

New HUD is at the bottom while old HUD is at the top.

(Source: StormSim)

The Wild Run update included 3 new specifications (Drift, Monster Truck, Drag) and bikes but you had to buy the Wild Run Expansion pack to get access to them while the graphics revision, more specifications support for cars and bug fixes were released for free as an update.

The Calling All Units update added police cars, new police missions, crates that would give you money and random cars/bikes (police or street race), but the police missions and police cars were locked behind an expansion pack also called Calling All Units.

There are also different title screens for each update.

Note: The title screen changes with every major update and doesn't require the expansion packs.

The Crew	The Crew Wild Run	The Crew Calling All Units

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Hidden Offline Mode

There's a flash variable (game uses adobe flash for HUD) called "_root.ProdOnly" (_root meaning global variable), which is always at false/0,however if set to 1 the game will reveal its hidden offline menu, choosing to play online will function as normal but selecting offline won't function due to the game built-in DRM (VMProtect) prohibiting the player from proceeding any further, although the games prologue & partial parts of normal free roam is completely playable offline after logging in online.

(Source: Whammy4)

Platform Differences

The Xbox 360 version never got the Wild Run and Calling All Units expansions due to hardware limitations.