Harley-Davidson details accuracy of bikes in The Crew 2

The Crew 2 is all about making use of a number of air, sea, and land vehicles in a big open world, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and we caught up with Harley-Davidson's Tom Martin and Dan Darrow at Gamescom to learn a little bit about why the manufacturer and this game are such a good fit.

"Customisation and personalisation are two really important parts to Harley-Davidson, and that was why The Crew was such a natural fit, because they put so much energy into letting you personalise your vehicle and make it your own," Darrow explained. "And we wanted to make sure Harley-Davidson motorcycles were carried through into the game and represented accurately, so we made sure that Ubisoft had our CAD data [Computer-Aided Design] of our actual bikes, we went through a lot of effort to make sure we had great sound for each ones of the bikes that will appear in the game as well. So we did both closed-course and in-studio recording - we probably had about 15 different microphones on each bike to get the sound exactly right - so that when the rider is riding the bike in the game it sounds exactly like it would in real life."

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