

Over thirty smaller cities and towns line the countryside, such as Nashville, Norfolk and others. Louis, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and Seattle, are also featured in the game. Six main cities (one in each region, two in the Midwest) are featured in the game: Detroit and Chicago in the Midwest, New York City on the East Coast, Miami in The South, Las Vegas in the Mountain States, and Los Angeles on the West Coast. Each region has its own unique geographical features. The map is split into five regions: The Midwest, East Coast, The South, Mountain States, and West Coast. The Crew is a racing game set in a persistent open world environment for free-roaming across a scaled-down recreation of the contiguous United States.

A sequel, The Crew 2, was released worldwide on June 29, 2018. The second expansion, entitled The Crew: Calling All Units, was announced at Gamescom 2016 and released on November 29, 2016.

The first expansion, titled The Crew: Wild Run, was released on November 17, 2015. The game shipped two million copies by January 1, 2015. Critics praised the game's world design but criticized the always-online aspect, which created technical glitches and other issues, the difficult-to-understand user interface, and the presence of microtransactions. The Crew received a mixed reception upon release.

It features a persistent open world environment for free-roaming across a scaled-down recreation of the United States and includes both role-playing and large-scale multiplayer elements. The Crew is an online-only racing video game developed by Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with an Xbox 360 port developed by Asobo Studio.
