The Crew™ Motorfest | Year 2 Pass (DLC)

My honest reaction to the Year 2 Pass is: the Chase Squad mode is the only reason to seriously consider it, and whether that's enough depends entirely on how deep into Motorfest you already are. The pass drops two distinct buckets of content. First is the Chase Squad playlist, a cop-and-racer pursuit experience set across Maui and Oahu, where you hunt down rivals in heavily modified police vehicles, with kitted-out cars sporting underglow, massive wings, and sirens that feel more Hawaiian street festival than precinct garage. Complete the playlist's nine main events and 25 challenges and you unlock seven exclusive Chase Squad vehicles, including six cars and one helicopter. That helicopter alone will get a reaction out of your Saturday night crew. The whole thing plays like a Motorfest-flavoured take on classic Need for Speed pursuit mechanics, which is exactly as chaotic and fun as it sounds for a session or two. The second bucket is 13 additional vehicles delivered via monthly drops throughout the year, starting with two at launch including the BMW M5 CS (2022) and Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 (1989), with names like the Maserati MC20 Cielo (2023) following later in the calendar. Here is where the value proposition gets slippery. All 13 of these non-Chase-Squad vehicles will eventually become available to every player for free through the in-game shop. Buying the pass nets you each car one week early and skips spending in-game currency, but patient free players get there regardless. Two of those monthly cars arrive simultaneously for pass and non-pass owners anyway, which makes the early-access angle feel thinner than Ubisoft probably intended. Steam community sentiment on this pass sits around 49 percent positive, which tells a pretty clear story. Players who love Motorfest and want the Chase Squad content as a fresh activity tend to find it worth the asking price at launch alongside the Gold or Ultimate Edition bundles. Players who already own the base game and are looking at buying the pass standalone tend to feel the content volume versus price ratio is awkward, especially given how rarely the DLC discounts separately compared to the base game itself. If you are jumping in fresh and the Gold or Ultimate Edition lines up on a sale, the math suddenly gets a lot friendlier. Solo players and online co-op squads who have already exhausted the base playlists will get a solid extra burst of content from Chase Squad. Casual couch racers, though, should know this is online-focused PvE content, not split-screen fodder. Bottom line for active Motorfest players: Chase Squad is a genuinely different activity that earns its place in the rotation. For lapsed players or those on the fence about the base game, the pass alone is a hard sell unless it comes bundled. The monthly car drip is real, but so is the knowledge that patience will get you most of those vehicles without spending a thing.

Riley · Scout Team

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