The Crew 1 vs The Crew 2 Map Comparison - Removed and Downgraded Locations 

at 3:56 comparison you mixed up The Crew 1 and 2 logos

Ubisoft: -Adds boats and planes -Removes 60% of the world maps landmarks.

I also miss the fact that the crew 1 encouraged you to explore, if you wanted to fast travel somewhere, you had to explore it first

Add planes and helicopters to the game... Removes an entire airport and occupies most existing helipads with a grounded helicopter.

They also removed a shit ton of traffic lights, and made it so that the ones that are still there barely show up, and only last for like 3 seconds before changing. Sucks for someone like me who likes to abide by road rules sometimes.

*Ubisoft Snaps Fingers* Many of The Crew's landmarks - I don't feel so good

So sad to see The Crew 2 being that empty...

This is soooo hard to watch. Tc 2 has less content than the 1st. The point of making another crew is make it better than the 1st yet they have done the opposite. No police, no collectible number plates, recycled cars, no landmarks! So I would love someone to tell me what is the point of exploring this huge and empty map?

1:38 - Fun Fact! In Barron (a small town west of Chicago) there is a road sign directing where the military base is, despite the fact of it being removed.

Many of these were great locations man. I can’t believe that Ivory Tower removed them completely.

Before the crew 2 was even announced I always said they should add planes and boats but if I knew it meant removing everything on the map I would of never wanted it.

The Crew: Large map with many places to explore The Crew 2: Large map with less places to explore The Crew 3: Large map with terrain only The Crew 4: No map

its so fucking weird that they removed so many good locations and left theyre places blank literally where the Chicago Airport was is now a empty void

A map update with these missing locations would be fantastic in The Crew 2! This game feels too incomplete, and I prefer The Crew over the second one.

R.I.P - Today this great game has passed away - 2014-2024 =(

The little towns and cities in TC1 made the map feel alive. It gave players a reason to explore all areas of the map. These locations also encouraged cruising du fr there are so many cool little locations. I also like the airport feature. TC2 may be a better game but the map limitations are a shame.

I am still playing The Crew 1 after 3 years. The Crew 2 is just so damn dead and empty. No locations when driving, no fun landmarks anymore, all the good stuff is gone, and the worse of it all, the game looks worse than part 1.... I went back to 1 in only 2 months. Save your money folks.

Although The Crew 1 had many many flaws, it had passion.

The interesting thing about the Shoreline Fair is that its floating descriptive text thingy is still on the map. Edit: That dumpster in the tree at 20:36 though

Very disappointed here. I've downloaded the demo to buy this weekend, and just by playing about an hour already noticed how small it looks. TC1 is a great trip experience, I've spent hours not racing, just driving around the US, meeting places, and had so much fun. Now there's so few of that experience, I was shocked. That's why I've searched and found this video just to make sure I wasn't wrong. I hope Ubi makes a TC3 with an even larger and detailed map, and remove planes and boats. I'm sorry for whoever liked it, but the first game was sold as a US car tripping and racing experience, and that's what I've liked the most. I was expecting TC2 to be much bigger and complete.

Imagine unironically thinking boats and planes are more important in a racing game than graphics, map design and physics

These litle place made the crew alive now there gone :'-(

They also removed San Francisco Ferry building, ruined Downtown LA, few impovements were added - shitty version of Golden Gate park, better New York streets (especially in Lower Manhattan and Harlem), added more suburbs near some cities like NY and LA. When I heard that they gonna close down servers of 1st The Crew, I felt very dissapointed

Honestly, after playing the Ultimate Edition again, the Crew1 map kicks Crew 2's map out of the stratosphere. It has more realism, more detail, feels lived in, has more traffic, I could go on!

I can't belive they removed the military base, I remember launching myself on that ramp with a drag car. Good times

The map was the best thing about The Crew 1. It was something we have never seen before in any game. I will never understand why this was the part of the game they decided to downgrade.

As someone who sunk many hours and platinumed both games (the crew 2 twice mind you) I always thought that the crew 2 map just felt so much more empty. I could drive for hours on the crew one and still uncover new and interesting locations. And due to that lack of freedom (no planes and many invisible areas) I found hours of entertainment launching my car across rivers and trying to offroad into places I shouldn't have been able to get in. Ended up finding so many cool places and exploring for hours. On the crew two, once you drive somewhere everywhere else just looks the same, theirs not as much cool stuff and even if their is and you wanna see it, you just spawn a helicopter. And suddenly the fun of finding places only you can get too has be ruined

THEY JUST REMOVED ALL THE MILITARY BUILDINGS!

I could genuinely sit down for an entire day and drive around the crew 1 map. Its immense scale and varied landscape give it an atmosphere that few other open world games have.

The crew 1: Feel the speed, explore what you have left to undiscover. The crew 2: Go touch some fucking grass

Walk of fame: C1: many stars C2: *one damn star*

This explains why TC2 map feels not only more boring, but also smaller. I have been running around it and it doesn't really call me to it, I am not sure how long I will spend with TC2. The first game was more varied, and getting lost in that version of America feels more rewarding. Plus, there is the enciclopedic aspect which rewards your aimless wandering by telling you something about the places you discover. This is missing from TC2, and along with other missing content and features it makes it feel like a husk. Boats and planes don't compensate for lack of location variety, so if you're in it mostly for the cars, you might as well buy or stick with the first game instead. The story of that game is passable, plus there are police chases, which give the game a bit of an action content.

*Me:* TC2 is an improvement over TC1 in every way. I don't know what everyone is talking about. *Me, after watching this video:* Ok, now I'm pissed.

I only recently got properly into The Crew 2 as had tons of other games to play. I did wonder why it seemed so barren and I couldn't find a lot of places I remembered which I thought was from playing The Crew 2 before, but clearly were from the first game. :( I also had a huge WTF moment when I realised the weather just suddenly changes across the whole map, vs the first game where its regional and makes far more sense.

the fact that a lot of locations got ruined or removed is what pisses me off so much, I'd hang out at these a lot friends back in 2017

The Crew 1 jus looks better. The textures of roads, the lighting, the buildings and the colors don’t look so over saturated and clean. Everything actually looks solid and lively. Buildings were actually placed well on the ground unlike The Crew 2 for example: if you go to the gas stations, some structures aren’t even fully touching the ground and even worse the gas stations are placed on small hills so one side of the gas station is sunken. In The Crew 1, there are also more animals roaming around the woods and birds flying everywhere. Driving at night and seeing all the city lights made the game a vibe. The Crew 2 barely has any city lights. Hopefully The Crew 3 fixes every problem that The Crew 2 had and improved on what The Crew 1 had.

It really hurts they removed a lot of snow road. In the crew 1 you had the chance to go through the whole mountain states. Now it's gone. There are many roads that don't exist anymore

Lmao the Pentagon is just sitting in the middle of the woods!?!? Atleast the trees look better in this game.

The annoying thing is that they didn’t even need to remodel these locations, just re use it in the Crew 2. If it’s not broken don’t fix it, and don’t remove it entirely either.

Great video!how good you have taken into account places that even I knew they had removed. There are other places that were also taken out in the crew 2, Places like Madame Tussads, The Captain Theater, 6922 Boulevard Hollywood ubicated in walk of fame in Hollywood, or places like the Willis Tower, and not to mention that they took out all the stadiums discovered of great importance, such as the Dodger Stadium etc, and also many building was removed from Downtown Los Angeles, buildings that if they appeared in The Crew 1. It's a shame that instead of adding places, that is what I thought they would do, they ended up removing places :(

Anyone feeling a bit sad after watching each location get removed?

Losing all of this just to add boats and planes? Oh well Horizon 4 it is.

The first game was more detailed, one the second one they went for easy money and quick game

Hopefully the next crew just gives us good graphics, better road detail and highway detail, new cities, such as Phoenix, ect. And proper city detail, make the cities bigger, remove boats and planes, long cross country races aswell, put back in police cars and the police aspect and put in nice lighting. I'm not so bothered about a story line but if the game lacks something put one in

they removed so much of what made this map feel...American. also, i think the mystery location at 14:32 is Fort Trumbull in Connecticut.

Thank you for that great video! Am I the only one who think that the Crew 1 looks better than the Crew 2 🤷🏽‍♂️ Just the night looks great in the Crew 2. I also don‘t like the weather. Every few minutes it’s rain or snow

The annoying thing about shoreline fair being removed is that it still says it’s there on the map which is just lazy ness on their part

WHY WOULD THEY REMOVE THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE? THATS A FAMOUS LANDMARK

15:46 that sign 😂😂😂😂

Great video. Crew 2 is such a colossal disappointment on every level. I love the first game dearly, but Crew 2 is not even an expansion pack. It is just a rip-off. I hope Ivory Tower somehow make Crew 3 what 2 should have been, but after this, I am not too hopeful.

This comes to show that they get rid of something every time. The Crew into Wild Run they get rid of a lot of traffic cars. Wild Run/Calling All Units into The Crew 2 get rid of police and several areas. I was hoping they would add more cities like Atlanta and Philadelphia. But clearly that’s not what’s happening.

Adding planes/boats is probably the most stupid decision ubisoft ever came up with for the sequel. Nobody cares about them and a lot the map got butchered as the result probably to accommodate this.

15:16 MY BRIDGE!!!!

11:55 the terrain is still there for the mine but it's strange how they just changed it into grass terrain and leave the rock formation on top with a put of place hole.

My guess as to why the map in Crew 2 is like it is. They wanted to make a sequel, but didn't want to spend another 6 years on it. So they take the data of the first game's map layout and typography, and put that data into the new engine. But, because it's a different engine, they needed to remake all the assets, and had to cut corners by removing many large landmarks and details. To make up for this, they tried to add in planes, boats, and more off-roading, so you could go through the map faster and not notice the lack of detail. In my opinion, they should've just set Crew 2 in a different country. Where do you think they should've set Crew 2 in?

its like The Crew 2 used a beta map version of Crew 1

I don't want to be that "DID YOU KNOW?" type of guy, but what most people don't know is that for TC1 Ivory Tower developed an engine that procedurally generates vegetation (foliage, grass, trees etc etc) in the game world for TC1's HUGE map. It's both to save up on storage space and ease of map creation. They obviously made many manual adjustments, but for the most part all vegetation you see in the game is procedurally generated as you traverse the world (so kind of like minecraft, but only for vegetation). So hypothetically, someone who has access to TC1's code could just change the seed, and all vegetation in the game would generate in different places. Also I think it was named "babel engine" or something like that, but I'm not sure. You can even break out of bounds (by going in/out of photomode every ~3 sec) and no matter how far you go, the vegetation just keeps generating until you reach the physical end of the map. In regards to TC2, I imagine it uses the same system, just probably dumbed down because... you know... they kinda didn't care much about the world in TC2. Also it might be using incorrect geographical data unlike TC1 but I'm no geographer so don't take my word for it. Real fascinating stuff, I'm surprised this isn't talked about more! (Note: I got this info from an old pre-release 2014 interview I found, that was only available through web archive I think. I'm not sure if I can still find it easily, but it's out there)

What ruins it for me in the Crew 2 is that all the roads in the major cities look EXACTLY the same. All have the same color and same green bike path, it’s like they didn’t even try with the crew 2 to make the cities feel different from each other

I was right saying that the crew 2 map is empty, thanks for making this video i subbed :)

Ubisoft: Ah yes let's add boats and planes into a CAR game. Everyone else at the studio ok what should the story be about... Just copy Forza or something. Ubisoft again: Also just remove some towns and make the graphics worse

Everybody when & if ya'll have time keep post'n the link to this video on their blog-site & to their social media pages! As a Crew 1 Fan that still plays it cause i cant stand The Crew 2 in the shape it's in now ... Thanks for doing this GREENY!! I knew i wasn't tripping!!

well this is depressing, I do enjoy the both but TC1 takes the cake of having so much more mini cities and landmarks. They just didn't care carrying it over to TC2 which is saddening to see after watching this video. thank you for the awesome efforts you have done in this vid.

15:02 Even the whole mountain at the background is gone

I got both Games and i really can't say which Game is better. On Crew 1 i like how much Detail have the USA in the Game. On Crew 2 i like the new Features which i missing on the first Game but the USA feels so empty...🤔😞

but the main thing is we can have snow in miami, LA etc., superbright and supershort nights.. and see rocky mountains from miami.. Unbelievable map downgrade...

To me crew 2 was rushed still a good game but some textures were lazily put in places or not finished and that.

I have both TC1 and TC2 and I am still playing TC1 since it doesn’t feel empty and and I actually love how it’s make me feel reminded off all the old racing games like NFS, burn out, etc. I just hope they fix this with another dlc like before 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Do a part 2, I liked watching this and there’s a few other locations that aren’t included in this video.

Wow just wow. How did you find these details though is it by accident or do you know the full crew 1 map by heart? Because it's such a gigantic map. Makes me think how much more removed stuff you might have overlooked.

And now its all gone...😢 The Crew 1 was trully underrated. Had much fun in this game....

I feel like I wasted my money the crew 2 is the driest most boring game I’ve played in 2018!

mexican border removed lmao, what's the next DLC? drug smuggle

It’s sad how much stuff they removed. Part of the fun is driving past all those sights. Also another place that was removed is the Las Vegas Station in The suburbs

What bugs me is that they're adding all these racetracks now instead of actual detail, which means that these stuff may not have been removed for performance reasons. While i must admit, that the racetracks are well made, they really need to focus on adding more detail one of these days. The minor visual update once again gives me hope that they might, but knowing their focus on the battlepass and monetization in general that hope is still very little. I just wish they'd return the map into its former glory. Cause i honestly still don't get why you would take away features and details on a sequel instead of adding to it. They already had a good foundation, they already had the models and textures from TC1. Most people were okay with them reusing the same map. But damn, did they somehow fuck it up. Mind you, the map as it is still delivers some impressive sights. But looking at this just makes me sad at what we're missing.

Oh man these downgrades hurt my soul

I'm really mad that they removed the monster truck arena on the coast of The South. It was one of the only arenas that were asphalt-car friendly.

They need to just remove boats & planes and focus on cars. Improve gameplay and the map. Make the summit & cops a staple in the game. Improve customization and tuning (please add a livery editor and custom paint wheels). Drip feed new story content into the game, add back landmarks & fast travel locations such as airports & train stations. Make the map larger in some areas, like the Florida keys and Tampa for example. Add property that players can purchase for income and special unlocks. Perhaps even let players fly to a different map such as hawaii like we could in TDU2. Add a casino, social areas that players can interact in. The crew 1 felt like TDU2 with customization minus the social spaces. Regardless it’s such a good game. So many missed opportunities in the crew 2.

The Crew 2 a.k.a. The Crew: "nature is healing" Edition

TC2 feels like they thought it would be a great idea to release the TC1 Beta. Never gonna buy one again. RIP The Crew.

Lol always see the sign for the military base in crew 2 and never found it now I know why.

I play The Crew 1 after years just to look the direct comparison for myself i cant play The Crew 2 anymore. The Crew 1 looks so beautiful after this years! The shaders, textures, the whole map looks soooo MUCH BETTER in The Crew 1. I was driving from Santa Monica Pier to Malibu in both games but The Crew 1 with the map, graphics the shaders and color grading it's such a different feeling (better). The Crew 1 just needs a little more vegetation in nature and better vehicle sounds. edit: + all Cars from Crew 2 ;)

I don't get why they even did this??? The assests were all there, all they had to do was leave the map exactly how it was, then create a new story and add more vehicles.

1:45 Man they removed KI Sawyer? That was the only UP location they had too... Also, 14:32 that's Fort Independence in Boston I think.

To play the crew 1 on xbox 360 do you have to have a hard drive inserted

The Crew 2 looks depressing and lifeless, and the xbox 360 version of the The Crew 1 was nothing more then a abandon child to Ubisoft. They literally forgot about that game and left it broken.

You just saved me some money - thank you!

I first noticed a downgrade when I saw that the Willis Tower in Chicago was missing

14:27 is a prison. 16:18 reminds me of a hotel in Misquamicut, Westerly, Rhode Island.

That driver at 14:34 needs glasses. 😆

That ending though 🤣🤣🤣

I got the Crew 2 and very quickly i started to get bored, then I just started playing The Crew and it was so fun! But I can not believe they took out a lot out of the Crew 2. FYI the Crew is better!

what settings this run on ? is it console ?

Noooo, they removed "???", now this is personal... >:(

I never forgave that they added planes to TC2 but _took out the entire Chicago airport in favor of generic forestry._ Like goddamn not like anyone would want runways for these planes or anything-

If the crew 2 gets worse then when the Crew 3 comes out ( if it dose ) Then soon they are going to take out New York City!

Instead of adding more cars to the game they should add more places to explore

Same map size however world of The Crew is much more interesting despite it lacks airplanes and boats.

I could easily imagine a Ubisoft Watch Dogs game with the same map as The Crew 1 with a lot more stuff & Features. (I think that could be a project Ubisoft can do). That would be very interesting.

With my setup, tc2 looks straight out of the late 2000s too. But fh4 looks alright so what's the deal?

Why are the great lakes so messed up mainly lake huron