In an interview with Digital Trends, creative director Julian Gerighty revealed that the development of The Crew, the new racing game in Ubisoft’s lineup, started four years ago on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
This game started over four years ago. The game hasn’t changed, its just taken that long to get it working and working as well as we want it to be working.
It happened about a year and a half ago, where we realized we can push this a little bit further, we can push the personalization of the world, the non-procedural nature of the world, a little bit further if we do it on Xbox One and PS4. So our Miami is radically different from our New York, which is normal but it takes a lot of work to get it to that level of quality. And that’s only possible on this next-generation.
He also added that the development team is experienced in this kind of games.
All of the concepts that we have here are concepts that the team has been working on for the last 10 years. The massive open world that’s shared with hundreds of other players? That’s something that the team did for Test Drive Unlimited [in 2006], which was ahead of its time
The Crew, unveiled for the first time during Ubisoft’s E3 press conference (alongside The Division), is expected to release in Q1 2014 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Apparently, more information about the game’s multiplayer mode will be divulged during Gamescom; we should be able to try the game, so check back for our impressions.
