Cautious recommend. This is a five year old game, so reviews are definitely too late, so I'll keep it short.

First and foremost, the biggest downside for me is the third party launcher. Nobody likes that. Stop it.

Secondly, the soundtrack is pretty mid, especially for racing. Contemporary pop-slop is what it is.

Story? Not much of it, and it feels like your character is just a sidekick who does all the work. This is Need for Speed. We don't want story-rich, and we didn't get it. Which is good. In terms of quality however, it barely makes the cut. Unsurprisingly, there's a bit of woke stereotyping (white men bad, people of colour good), which is depressingly unsurprising these days, and exactly what I'd expect from a big corpo game. I'm too blackpilled to even consider this a downside, just par for the course. If you're an activist rightoid, this is an crucial element, however.

All the stuff the community wants from an NFS game is here, more or less. Sometimes executed really well, sometimes it's a bit meh. Customisation and tuning is good and pretty fun to figure out. The map is a fair size, and I have zero complaints regarding that. The progression system is interesting. It gets quite challenging in the mid-game, but as soon as you get an end-game car (or put a high tier engine on your mid game car) the cops go from threatening to push-overs. By that point, you also work out how to avoid them too.

Late game is also the point where I lost interest, because the main story is over by that point, and the side stories aren't particularly interesting. The only thing left to do is to work on getting the highest end car parts, but there's not much point to it, aside from making car go more vroom vroom.

love it

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