Your vehicles, environmental objects and roads look more natural depending on the lighting. One look at The Crew: Wild Run, especially next to the original release, makes this more obvious. The overall effect comes across as more natural and works better for artists since they can simply specify how light should react with a specific material rather of creating multiple diffuse textures and specular maps. For instance, the way light behaves with a car’s hood will be different from how, say, it behaves with the car’s windshield. What makes Wild Run so different? Using physically based rendering, The Crew: Wild Run relies on physics, material types and how light behaves in different situations (both through diffusion and reflection) to essentially make objects, characters and environments look more realistic. This isn’t your simple yearly content update – Wild Run significantly overhauls the original game’s visuals with Ivory Tower opting for a full physically based rendering (PBR) pipeline and introducing a range of other visual improvements. That was until Ubisoft announced The Crew: Wild Run at this year’s E3. Sure, the developer improved things over time but there didn’t really seem much reason to recommend The Crew as an open world online racing game, especially when there were plenty of better looking offline racers to be had. The game’s anti-aliasing solution was extremely poor, textures were buggy for the most part and that’s not counting the numerous glitches, connection issues and terrible gameplay aspects that dogged it.
If you were one of the few players to experience it at launch, then The Crew didn’t offer much by way of compelling visuals. Ivory Tower’s The Crew released last year in December for Xbox One, PS4, PC and oddly enough, Xbox 360.
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