The Crew Motorfest Finally Hands PS5 Some Proper Arcade Racing | Push Square

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The Crew Motorfest races onto PlayStation this September, and recently we were lucky enough to get extensive hands-on time with a PC build of the game. With an expansive Hawaiian archipelago to explore, various racing playlists to drift through, and plenty of sweet new rides to test out, The Crew Motorfest is shaping up to be the expansive arcade racer that PlayStation fans have been waiting for.

We were immediately thrust into the frenetic Motorfest at the beginning of our preview — an island-spanning event that promises to include DualSense gripping races across a wide variety of vehicle types. Our handy in-game guide, Malu, aptly summed up the tone of it all by stating that Motorfest was all about “cars, bikes, rides and good vibes”. The vibes were certainly «good» as we whisked our way through the game’s opening montage-like level, which put us at the wheel of everything from F1 cars to stone cold classics. The comparisons to the Forza Horizon series were immediately apparent — reaffirming our impressions of the game from our first hands-on.

However, compared to our last session with the game, this time we were let loose in the Hawaiian archipelago of O'ahu for close to four hours. From the starting line, it's clear that O'ahu is a much stronger setting than Horizon's latest, and most definitely the best in The Crew's history, acting as a refreshing mix-up over the scaled-back renditions of America. From infamous beaches to the colourful fields, across our time we were still seeing new and exciting locations to race around in.

Even as we moved from one race to the next, it was a delight to just take in the sights and soak up all that majestic scenery. This was aided even more so by the ability to switch between car,