And the time has finally come. The team behind the mod that basically revives Ubisoft’s online-only MMO CaRPG, The Crew, has released it. The Crew Unlimited brings back to life the first entry in The Crew series, and you can download it right now.
The Crew was supported for 2 years after it’s launch, the game received 2 expansions each year. The first expansion came out in 2015, and it was called Wild Run. The second was the Calling All Units expansion, which came out in 2016. By around 2020, the game had over 12 million players total. However, in 2024, Ubisoft pulled the plug. For those unaware, Ubisoft shut down the game’s servers on March 31st, 2024. As such, the game became inaccessible and completely unplayable to everyone.
At its core, The Crew Unlimited brings the game back online by swapping Ubisoft’s servers with new community-made ones. This means all the MMO features are working again, like free-roam lobbies, co-op missions, PvP races, and faction challenges. Players can team up, race across the U.S., and build their own crews just like in the original game.
On top of bringing the game back online, the modders also made it run better and more stable. They fixed problems with lag, matchmaking, and server crashes. The Crew Unlimited also adds a bunch of helpful improvements that weren’t in the original game. For example, it has smoother matchmaking for lobbies, stronger servers for today’s player counts, and it brings back old events and faction missions that were missing. There are also bug fixes and small tweaks to make the game more fun overall.
In short, this is one of the best mods ever made. The modders brought back an online-only game, and that’s really impressive. This shows why devs should give players tools to keep their games alive when they decide to stop supporting them. Sure, it’s not always easy, but it’s the best choice when a company no longer wants to support its own game.
You can download The Crew Unlimited from this link.
Have fun. And here is a video from 10 years ago, when I had a dual-shot GPU. I believe that was on an NVIDIA GTX 690. Ah, the good old days of the dual-slot, dual-chip SLI GPUs!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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