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June may be the month of E3, but it’s also the starting line for the gaming year to truly kung-fu chop its manual stick into top gear and start firing on all cylinders. No matter your taste, budget or platform, June is a reminder that video games are an all-encompassing force whose power could be harnessed to take over the world. I mean, let’s play some video games this month.

The Crew 2 may have had hundreds of hands guiding its development, but not all of them belonged to Ubisoft. In fact, a lot of its design is the end result of thousands of fans adding their input to the upcoming caRPG.

For The Crew 2, it’s about more than just looking good on the streets. It’s about finding genuine moments of shock and awe when you’re racing or exploring.

Is The Crew 2 the kind of game that you’d want to drop a substantial amount of coin on? Maybe the beta can answer that question for you. A beta which you’ll be able to jump into from May 31 to June 4 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Just as RPGs have drifted into the mainstream, to the point that games such as Horizon: Zero Dawn and even Wolfenstein share a similar grind-oriented approach to levelling up, MMO presentation makes more sense for an open-world vehicular adventure than it did a few short years ago. The Crew 2 concept might seem quite a leap in theory, yet in practice we found the vehicle switching made sense, and could almost be treated as an alternative social space to so many fantasy worlds or science-fiction shooters.

The more things change they more they stay the same however, as E3’s block of press conferences will still remain a popular attraction as a pre-show extravaganza. Ubisoft is sticking to its tried and tested guns once again in 2018, as they’ve date their annual E3 press conference for June 11.

The development oven has just gone “DING”, as The Crew 2 will be out on June 29 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. If you just can’t wait that long, then Ubisoft’s Motor Edition will give you three days early access. Here’s what’s included inside of it, beyond a needy speeding ticket.