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Xbox X|SWe've documented 34 accessibility features for The Crew 2, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Select Difficulty, No Button Combos, No Repeated Pressing and Remap Buttons. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Navigation but it also has features in Reading, Getting Started, Audio, Difficulty, Visual and Communication to reduce unintended barriers.
This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.
Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Crew 2 accessibility 9 months ago. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 9 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
Text is all high in contrast, but can often be very small and can't be adjusted.
When searching for loot drops in the open world, a sonar-style ping helps you locate it once you're close to it. This is accompanied by a visual indicator on the minimap. You can enable a racing line to make the way to go clear, but can't use any sonar or audible cues to help you navigate during races. Additionally, when driving on a road, incoming traffic can be hard to see. Although there's no motion blur, there is a very significant depth-of-field effect applied on occasion.
The game automatically saves progress you make in the open world, but if you quit during a race you have to start it again. This can mean losing over half an hour of playtime.
Game Details
Release Date: 02/12/2014, updated in 2018
Price: 62% off
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Players: 1 (8 online)
Genres: Action, Race and Narrative
Accessibility: 34 features
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Developer: Ivory Tower Offic (@IvoryTowerOffic)
Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass
Controls
We've documented 10 accessibility features for Controls in The Crew 2 which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Gamepad
Can play with the following:
Multiple Buttons & Single Stick: Can play with multiple buttons and a stick.
Mouse And Keyboard
Can play with the following:
Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.
Remap Controls
Can customise the controls for the game as follows:
Remap Buttons: Can re-map all buttons so that you can use alternatives that better suit your play.
Remap Mouse and Keyboard: Can remap mouse and keyboard key bindings, on systems that support these controls.
Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Controller Vibration
Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.
Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates events or interactions in the game, echoing visual and audio cues. This can provide additional information about progress, approaching enemies or hitting a target.
Sensitivity
You can adjust
Adjust Mouse/Stick/Touch Sensitivity, Deadzones and Thresholds: Adjust how sensitive touch/mouse/stick controls are and the related deadzones and thresholds.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Pacific Drive (13 Controls Features)
- The Crew Motorfest (12 Controls Features)
- Forza Horizon 5 (12 Controls Features)
- Forza Horizon 4 (12 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in The Crew 2 which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.
Difficulty Options
Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.
Adjust After Setting
Adjustable Between Levels: You can adjust the difficulty between levels/rounds. Although you have to restart your checkpoint or level, this enables you to adjust the difficulty after selecting it at the beginning of the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (3 Difficulty Features)
- Dirt (3 Difficulty Features)
- Forza Motorsport 7 (3 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Getting Started in The Crew 2 which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Practice Area: You can practice freely without opponents or time pressures. This can be a specific practice option, or the ability to play levels with the easiest opponents to improve understanding and skill.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Assisted Progress With Boosts: If you fail frequently the game automatically gets easier to ease the likelihood of failure. Or there’s an option to start this happening, like giving more health, lives or power each time you fail. Sometimes called Rubber Banding.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Forza Horizon 5 (8 Getting Started Features)
- Pacific Drive (6 Getting Started Features)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (6 Getting Started Features)
- Gran Turismo (6 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in The Crew 2 which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.
Text Visibility
High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.
Subtitles
All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.
Captions
Speaker Indicator: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
Voice Acted
All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Forza Horizon 5 (7 Reading Features)
- Space Wave Race (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 8 accessibility features for Navigation in The Crew 2 which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.
Clarity
Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.
Clear Mission Objectives: The game provides clear, structured missions with directional guidance and advice on which can be attempted next. This also indicates (ideally on maps where they are provided) which missions can't be attempted because you do not have the appropriate items yet.
Visual Directional Cues: Additional in-game visual cues that signpost where to go next and how close you are to arriving. This can be with camera movement to focus on your destination or important items. It can use light, breadcrumb trails, in-world pointers to identify your mission's target location.
Head-Up Display
Head-Up Display Navigation: Indication of where to go next with overlaid arrows, minimaps and waypoint markers. This supplements in-game visual and audible cues with additional guidance about where you are and where you need to go.
Adjust Head-Up Display: Resize and adjust the content of the head-up display. This enables it to be made more visible. It can also enable the removal of too much information that can be distracting or confusing.
Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.
Menu Navigation
Digital Menu Navigation: Menu choices with Gamepad can be made without using an analogue stick to guide a cursor to a selection. For example, using D-Pad, buttons or the Stick to change menu selection in a single action.
Menus Don't Wrap: Menus don't wrap and stop the cursor at the bottom of the list if you press down. Or menus do wrap but make it clear that you are back at the top of the list with sound or narration.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Navigation accessibility:
- Forza Horizon 5 (10 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in The Crew 2 which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Audio Cues for Visual Events
Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.
Colour Options
Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Pacific Drive (9 Visual Features)
- Space Wave Race (9 Visual Features)
- The Ramp (7 Visual Features)
- The Crew Motorfest (5 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Audio in The Crew 2 which deal with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Adjustable Audio
Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.
Audio Events
Visual Cues for Audio Events: Text or other visual indicators of audio events. This mirrors audio indicators of progress in the game with a corresponding visual indication.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Audio accessibility:
- Inertial Drift (4 Audio Features)
Communication
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Communication in The Crew 2 which deals with how you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction.
Online Communication Assistance
Ping Communication: Send quick preset messages to teammates as safer alternative to open communication.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Communication
If you want to play The Crew 2, but it doesn't offer the Communication accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Communication accessibility:
- Need For Speed (5 Communication Features)
- Forza Horizon 5 (4 Communication Features)
- Forza Motorsport 7 (2 Communication Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
PC
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators.
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).
Stadia
Stadia offers some system accessibility features. Tandem enables you to use two controllers to play one character. This also enables you to connect other controllers like the Xbox Adaptive Controller.
Xbox One
Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall and Andy Robertson
