Need for Speed

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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 399 Ratings

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  1. nyix01
    Jul 11, 2016
    4
    20 Hours Played.

    Always Online. I don't mind needing an active connection. I do mind having to play with other people for no reason. Nobody initiates races, half the time they're afk and the odd time they will drive into you mid race ruining your play experience. Crashes Randomly One of the worst Need for Speed games ever made. I literally made this Metacritic account because the    20 Hours Played.

    Always Online. I don't mind needing an active connection. I do mind having to play with other people for no reason. Nobody initiates races, half the time they're afk and the odd time they will drive into you mid race ruining your play experience.

    Crashes Randomly

    One of the worst Need for Speed games ever made. I literally made this Metacritic account because the game is so poorly made and hope to deter people from buying it.

    Tuning is awful and not representative at all of what you've changed.

    Cars will go from turning right lightly to 90 degree turns randomly. Initiating drifts is neither realistic or consistent.

    You have to buy cheap cars to complete most drift races because you have to group drift with ai that has terrible vehicles vs the most minutely upgraded car instead of scaling to your car.

    No option to save custom tuning preferences. Doing one player quest line requires you to tune back and forth between set ups constantly. I just bought 2 of the same car to tune them for each race type. Then a low level car to do other characters missions because I would blow by packs and not be capable of scoring drift points.

    Cops don't do much at all. Might as well be Midtown Madness 2.

    Not sure how anyone could give this game a rating higher than a 6 unless they were paid to.    … Expand
  2. JJthis
    May 6, 2016
    3
    With the inclusion of Manual Transmission and 4k graphics on the pc version of the game it's a vast improvement over what it initially was on consoles. Without manual transmission as an option the game was the very opposite of what it set out to be.

    The game is very beautiful, it's one of the best looking driving games I've seen. The handling, as expected, is very arcade with little    With the inclusion of Manual Transmission and 4k graphics on the pc version of the game it's a vast improvement over what it initially was on consoles. Without manual transmission as an option the game was the very opposite of what it set out to be.

    The game is very beautiful, it's one of the best looking driving games I've seen. The handling, as expected, is very arcade with little distinction between the cars. The customisation is good fun and you can spend hours in that garage messing around with spoilers and paint and decals. I've thoroughly enjoyed the game and I knew what I was getting, an arcade racer, which is what it is.
    I don't have a high spec pc and it runs beautifully with only one crash so far.

    Why the low score?
    Always online. A ridiculous function that EA has been pursuing for years on their games and regardless of all the negative feedback on it they still stubbornly try to push it on games. Then try to justify it by letting a bunch of player drive around in the same city to make it feel more lively, but all that ends up happening is you have a bunch of people who will ram into each other and generally spoil the experience. But, this, still isn't the main bad thing.
    The always online function absolutely CRIPPLES the game experience. If you lose connection for a second, you're out. Sometimes your wraps and paints that get automatically saved to the cloud (why?) won't load at all.

    In the end we all know what always online means: It means that a few years down the line you're going to sit with a game in your Origin library that cannot be played because the servers have been closed. So essentially you're not buying a game, you're renting it for a limited amount of years.    … Expand
  3. arislaf
    Aug 20, 2016
    0
    It is always online. Support the war versus the always online games, by downvoting them to 0! Nobody likes a game that will be useless after the servers will be down. I still play nfs underground 2 cause it is epic. But this is really bad...
  4. Robinjhoe
    Jun 19, 2016
    4
    Ok it is the best NFS for the past years. But its still horrible.
    First positiv points:
    + kinda good Graphics +amazing soundquality thats it. Now the bad points: - Perfomance issues (MANY) -braindead AI -braindead Cops -Always online function (and that People can sabotage your "Singleplayer" Missions) -falling through the ground -very few cars -very limited car parts    Ok it is the best NFS for the past years. But its still horrible.
    First positiv points:
    + kinda good Graphics
    +amazing soundquality

    thats it.

    Now the bad points:
    - Perfomance issues (MANY)
    -braindead AI
    -braindead Cops
    -Always online function (and that People can sabotage your "Singleplayer" Missions)
    -falling through the ground
    -very few cars
    -very limited car parts
    -flashlights everywhere from Battlefield (Frostbite Engine, i know)
    -annoying and repeatitive Missions
    -Cutscenes with People who annoy you
    -Cutscenes where People talk like no one ever does in RL
    -Cutscenes where you get Monster literally thrown into your face
    -Cutscenes where you think those People must have got 5 Dollars max as Payment
    -Cutscenes so boring, if you want to skip them you have to make a Mortal Kombat finishing Move Combo (like holding your left trigger while simutaniously pressing the y button as fast as you can)

    I glad i only paid 20 Bucks for this mess. Cutscnese still made me laugh sometimes but for the wrong reason.    … Expand
  5. Rinkk
    Jul 8, 2016
    3
    This game is just bad...It tries too hard to be edgy altrough the **** acting was actually entertaining to me. The always online feature is extremly dumb and I despise it also I despise Origin, it's a piece of **** software that never works as it should. The graphics in my opinion are plain horrible with water drops looking like glitter, I don't mind the always night setting but it'sThis game is just bad...It tries too hard to be edgy altrough the **** acting was actually entertaining to me. The always online feature is extremly dumb and I despise it also I despise Origin, it's a piece of **** software that never works as it should. The graphics in my opinion are plain horrible with water drops looking like glitter, I don't mind the always night setting but it's ALWAYS raining which is stupid. What I also hate is the framerate, on a really decent, if not powerful system (Overclocked i7-920 and HD7970) it ran pretty bad, with frame drops from 40-50FPS to 5FPS at random for absolutely no reason. If your graphics card can't run TAA, don't even consider buying this, it's plain awful without it, one of the ugliest games I have EVER seen when that setting is turnt down to FXAA or plain off, the rain-drops are UGLY under the light and I freaking hate the graphics, I think I emphesized on that enough. Also another horrible thing, and the worst of all is the bloody handling, it is SO SO BAD, my Foxbody couldn't do a **** u-turn without needing to drift.

    Plain and simple, don't buy it.    … Expand
  6. Carles
    Jul 11, 2016
    0
    Always on-line, and what's gonna happen when EA turns off the servers in the future? Because it's completely normal that Need for Speed servers will not work forever. So, instead of buying a game, you are actually buying a service, and for me, it's not worth it.
    EA should take the feedback from the community, because I think the players have been pretty clear that we don't want this kind    Always on-line, and what's gonna happen when EA turns off the servers in the future? Because it's completely normal that Need for Speed servers will not work forever. So, instead of buying a game, you are actually buying a service, and for me, it's not worth it.
    EA should take the feedback from the community, because I think the players have been pretty clear that we don't want this kind of **** system in our games.    … Expand
  7. corcodicius
    Oct 2, 2016
    1
    nice graphic and thats the single good things in this so called game. no story at all, crap AI, crap gameplay, crap control, crap comunity that almost all the time ruin your race. somehow i accepted all those craping things remembered here hopeing i can at least finish this **** if i alkready buy it. no chance, drag and drift race are in best case scenario a stupid joke. crying for mynice graphic and thats the single good things in this so called game. no story at all, crap AI, crap gameplay, crap control, crap comunity that almost all the time ruin your race. somehow i accepted all those craping things remembered here hopeing i can at least finish this **** if i alkready buy it. no chance, drag and drift race are in best case scenario a stupid joke. crying for my money wasted on this ****… Expand
  8. Yoghurt4C
    Dec 6, 2016
    4
    I'm sick and tired of this game. I've clocked 26 hours into it and MAN does it take a dive (not even a dive, more like a straight down fall) in quality around 10 hours in.
    Don' even try to play it on an HDD. You're going to fall under the terrain every other race. The loading times are just atrocious. Thanks denuvo!
    Driving physics are retarded and the controls are floaty and    I'm sick and tired of this game. I've clocked 26 hours into it and MAN does it take a dive (not even a dive, more like a straight down fall) in quality around 10 hours in.
    Don' even try to play it on an HDD. You're going to fall under the terrain every other race. The loading times are just atrocious. Thanks denuvo!
    Driving physics are retarded and the controls are floaty and unresponsive - this feels like "what if mario kart had a 1,5 second selay on every input". The crash """"feature"""" doesn't help, because on higher speeds every bump has a 75% chance to send you into 4 seconds - 2 MINUTES of waiting for the game to put you back on the road. Disgusting.
    This game is insultingly bad, and if you ignore the flaws it's actually great! ...Too bad you can't ignore them because you're reminded how bad the game is every second of playing it!    … Expand
  9. sereniel21
    Jan 21, 2017
    2
    A clear and resounding no. Not worth time, money. Not worth trying via Origin Access.

    The graphics look like everything you've seen already and bring nothing special. There are older games out there that make cars and the environment look better. The story could be bearable if the cars were driveable. Considering the overuse of slang and cheap jokes and fist bumping the targeted    A clear and resounding no. Not worth time, money. Not worth trying via Origin Access.

    The graphics look like everything you've seen already and bring nothing special. There are older games out there that make cars and the environment look better.

    The story could be bearable if the cars were driveable. Considering the overuse of slang and cheap jokes and fist bumping the targeted audience must be people below 10 years old.

    Cars are undriveable. Even if cars become better with progression (not sure thats the case) driving is such a painfull and annoying experience because the cars seem to be having a mind of their own. Tuning helps a little, but not in any significant way.

    I wanted to play the game even so. But what made make this MC account were the little things that really pushed the button. Firstly its the controls. Its become intuitive to press ESC to reach a menu. Not in NFS 2016. To reach the menu you have to press Backspace. Sure... you can change that right? Nope. Cant change it... Sure there are a bunch of annoying tips jumping in your face but they never explain how to reach the phone menu which even tough you went through all your messages seems to constantly show that you have new messages.

    Let me also mention the developers endeavour to cause epileptic attacks. Each time you encounter police you will be stunned with bright flashes of light which will make you look away after experiencing searing pain in your eyes. The game is dark, flashes are bright white, red and blue.

    After all this wrestling with my car, my keyboard and the visuals I've managed to get to the starting point of a race. I drive up, want to start the race, press several keys I now know to be related to executing actions in this witty installment and all I get is a message all over the screen in bright red: "Turn your car to start the race". Turn your car around? Seriuosly??? Even though starting a race is followed by a loading screen and you dont really start at the same spot you've entered the event? So why would I need to turn my car around? Why?

    Sigh... I'm glad I've tried it through Access at least I didn't pay the full price...    … Expand
  10. alex21px
    Dec 16, 2017
    0
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Terrible story, caracters and cutscenes in between gameplay. SKIP SKIP and SKIP. Never cared about any of the characters after the intro, they got boring after a minute
    ALWAYS ONLINE Cars handle like lorries or school buses, with very little to distinguish them. Older titles did it better ALWAYS ONLINE Rubber-band AI, in 2015... ALWAYS ONLINE Night time only. Older    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Terrible story, caracters and cutscenes in between gameplay. SKIP SKIP and SKIP. Never cared about any of the characters after the intro, they got boring after a minute
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Cars handle like lorries or school buses, with very little to distinguish them. Older titles did it better
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Rubber-band AI, in 2015...
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Night time only. Older titles, aka MW2012 had night and day, but it has been a while since the NFS franchise has shown any progress from one game to another than better graphics.
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    No pause key. HAIL PROGRESS!!!
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    Loading times.
    ALWAYS ONLINE
    EA
    ALWAYS ONLINE

    Seriously now, It's hard to imagine that older and wonderfull NFS titles from 10 years ago and beyond share the same name than this... thing. If NFS Payback is half as bad as this one this franchise is dead    … Expand
  11. symmetriebruch
    Oct 19, 2018
    0
    wow it´s hard to believe how terrible this game actually is. imagine somebody actually thought this was a good idea? yeah lt them be always online even if they wanna play offline. yeah great idea. and how about not beeing able to pause the game even in offline mode so it feels just like beeing online what people obviously want when they choose to play single player. and how about puttingwow it´s hard to believe how terrible this game actually is. imagine somebody actually thought this was a good idea? yeah lt them be always online even if they wanna play offline. yeah great idea. and how about not beeing able to pause the game even in offline mode so it feels just like beeing online what people obviously want when they choose to play single player. and how about putting an ugly grain filter over everything people love a grainy image. and wouldn´t it be a great idea to hire the worst actors we can find and make them put on some redicoulous soap opera style overacting. on top of that let´s plaster everything with with hashtags yeah that´s so cool these days.
    everything about this game is unappealing and uninviting the world it creats is ugly and cheap and everything seems like it was cooked up in a board meeting vy executives of whom none had actually ever played a game. to be honest i played this pile of rubbish for about ten minutes in which i sat through the awful acting. i couldn´t even finish the first race i finished first and then the others parked there and nothing happened then a timer came up and the race restartet and the same happened again. i paid 5 dollars for this stinking pile of manure on ebay because i heard how terrible it was and wanted to check it for myself. but even that was way too much. just imagine paying full prive for this **** festival. this game is hust a very bad joke    … Expand
  12. Ceziy
    Jun 19, 2019
    3
    Bad game optimization. Permanent internet connection. The world of games doesn’t get overloaded, cars constantly fall under the textures. Awful management response, sometimes the car just drives like a train. I do not recommend buying.
  13. ZedClampet
    Apr 23, 2017
    0
    Abysmal. Tried getting it to run on Dualshock. First of all, having a controller connected disconnects mouse and keyboard controls so you have to struggle through menus. Second of all, if you add your controller after starting the game, it won't recognize it, causing you to have to start over. I shut down and started over 4 times trying to get it to work. There are unskippable logos, andAbysmal. Tried getting it to run on Dualshock. First of all, having a controller connected disconnects mouse and keyboard controls so you have to struggle through menus. Second of all, if you add your controller after starting the game, it won't recognize it, causing you to have to start over. I shut down and started over 4 times trying to get it to work. There are unskippable logos, and a painfully idiotic unskippable cutscene at the beginning that I've sat through 4 times and will have to sit through it again if I decide to try one more time. My co-op partner, who was playing with an Xbox controller, didn't have any problems getting set up, but then fell through the map on the first race. Beautiful… Expand
  14. kkarote
    Nov 1, 2017
    4
    unfinished game, bad optimization for gamepad, long loading screen, bad multiplayer its already a year since its release and there are no changes.
    I want my money back!
  15. crossovokelite
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    Idk, how much was I playing this game, maybe about 5 hours. I have no words. It's 2020 and the game still has problems with texture bug. It's impossible to continue playing because of this problem. Graphics are good, tuning also, maybe soundtrack is good, but not the game. Make me change my mind?
  16. shamon
    Jun 27, 2016
    0
    forced online play congratulations no pirating.... at least you could've added a demo but you didn't... EA do you really expect me to spend 60 euros on your game without being able to test it first? you people are out of your minds
  17. Abrissbirne
    May 18, 2016
    0
    What a terrible game. I don´t know where to start with this, but Ghost should never be allowed to do another racing game again. The game has almost no content. 2 months after the PC release and there won´t be any more updates. There are only a few cars and the Upgrade options are a joke. Almost everything is locked in the beginning and later you find out that most cars have either noWhat a terrible game. I don´t know where to start with this, but Ghost should never be allowed to do another racing game again. The game has almost no content. 2 months after the PC release and there won´t be any more updates. There are only a few cars and the Upgrade options are a joke. Almost everything is locked in the beginning and later you find out that most cars have either no optical customization or only a handful parts...
    The Cars handle like absolute crap and you have to fine tune everything in order to even drive these things. Physics are the most broken **** ever. You will randomly crash sometimes and then you will see the aweful crash cam that is just there to annoy you.
    The FPS dipped in a few cases, even though i usually got 80+ FPS with a 780 ti. The Story is absolutely cringe worthy and the "actors" should feel bad for being part of this atrocity. The always online also means that you will get randomly rammed by other players in your races, when i tried to deactivate it simply bugged and didnt let me change, so it had to stay on...
    Online PVP races are also terrible because the cars are not balanced at all. The 911 SRS will dominate all the races.
    The police is not challenging at all and simply an annoyance because you can´t teleport or start races when they follow you. I was glad when the game was over, i was absolutely bored in the end and the last 2 races take up almost 20 minutes.
    This will be the last Need For Speed i will purchase. I was always a fan of the games, but this one was so terrible that i lost all trust in EA and the franchise.
    Save your money and buy a good racing game instead, this one is garbage.    … Expand
  18. palker
    Mar 22, 2016
    4
    Here are the main reasons for my rating:
    First thing that i dislike about this game is the fact that its always online. Your internet dies in the middle of the race you get booted to the welcoming screen for being a filthy pirate i guess.
    Then there the controls which are sluggish cars feel like you are driving tanks. I played with the XBox controller so i do not know how it plays with    Here are the main reasons for my rating:
    First thing that i dislike about this game is the fact that its always online. Your internet dies in the middle of the race you get booted to the welcoming screen for being a filthy pirate i guess.
    Then there the controls which are sluggish cars feel like you are driving tanks. I played with the XBox controller so i do not know how it plays with keyboard or wheel, but controller was horrible.
    You can change handling of your car with the tune-able parts to drift focused or grip focus. Drift focus mean that it will be near impossible to drive straight while grip means you will have turning circle of a supertanker a middle road means that you will start drifting but next second you are driving dead straight into the wall. Anyway handling is absurd is what i meant to say.
    Next on the list AI and difficulty. There are races with three difficulties easy medium and hard. Depending on the race it is more like extremely easy somewhat easy and almost challenging. AI cars are super dumb and thanks to the fact that races take place in the open world you will often smash into AI racers that are just driving around getting in way. Also other human players can come over and ruin you races with no consequence to themselves so that is fun too.
    Cops in this game are utterly pointless they never catch anyone all they do is annoy you with sirens flashing lights and when you will inevitably escape you will get blinding blue flash to let you know. Also getting chased by cops prevents from restarting events.
    On the point of restarting races if you do restart you will be teleported to the event starting place and will have to watch loading screen and unskippable race intro again.
    And a 1000 more minor annoyances like interface some controls are remapable some not etc all add up to make game with great potential into frustrating mess.
    Anyway when my internet dropped i played NFSMW (2005) and it was so much better than this how is it possible they could not make a decent NFS in 11 years?    … Expand
  19. joeuser42
    Mar 21, 2016
    0
    This game is unplayable.
    After 5-10 minutes of play the game just stops with this message:
    "Your connection to the game server has been lost..." and then returns to the main menu.
    This is unacceptable when online gameplay is mandatory.
  20. super-mpm
    Jul 7, 2016
    0
    Game is absolutely unplayable, while racing it freezes constantly all time (really annoying), extremely long loading time (4-5 minutes for each race wtf?), it's bugged (my car fell through the floor to "nowhere" under the map), keyboard is barely supported (it only shows xbox controller controls wtf????).

    Don't ever buy this game on PC.
  21. daetee
    Aug 7, 2016
    1
    Well I turned it off and uninstalled after first few minutes:
    - I wasn't sure if "play" in menu means play campaign or play online and I had to wait like 5 minutes for loading and some.. well.. cinematics to discover it's actually single player eventhout saying "looking for players" on the beginning.
    - then I wanted to just drive around - well I couldn't. Gas+brake on WS, turning on    Well I turned it off and uninstalled after first few minutes:
    - I wasn't sure if "play" in menu means play campaign or play online and I had to wait like 5 minutes for loading and some.. well.. cinematics to discover it's actually single player eventhout saying "looking for players" on the beginning.
    - then I wanted to just drive around - well I couldn't. Gas+brake on WS, turning on arrows and AD for cameras... Yeah .. way to go!
    - So I wanted to change the setting in the menu - well Esc.. nothing Wait, what ?! F10 - nothing, wth?! Slam the keyboard.. O is for map ?! seriously???
    - At least ALT+F4 was working..

    Yep I know. Too short to review. Well you can't play anything that is just stupidly designed from the beginning + not being able to skip cutscenes? Hell no. :)    … Expand
  22. 808Stat3
    Mar 15, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bought the game 5 days prior to release. Digital Deluxe. 72$. Was able to play a 10 hour trial. Devastating.
    After watching Trailers I was excited to be able to play "5 DIFFERENT WAYS" .. you are NOT. You will play one way and earn XP in 5 categories plus you will be able to play mission after mission after mission in each category.
    The game looks amazing but that's about it. After my 10 hour trial I had already 72% accomplished. I wasn't able to stand those phony characters in the Video sequences either. Fake and totally overdoing it. Who talks like that in the real world ? EA and Ghost had a good idea but simply didn't follow through with their promises.
    Why do I have 5 million options to make my car look good if it handles the same way anyways with a simple "OVERALL" Slider bar for "DRIFT" or "GRIP" ... sad.
    After finishing the story I am left with a world that only contains "already played" events to make more money and useless REP points. I reached REP Level 52 and basically everything was unlocked for the few cars I was offered to purchase. 97% percent of game completion after 14 hours in game time don't justify a 72$ price tag. 30 spots to find to take a picture and 30 spots to find to do a stupid DONUT is the tip of the melting Iceberg. Obvious hiding spots and non existing shortcuts including Police AI that seems never be able to catch up with you make this game totally worthless. I can't even pause the game while in a race to take a leak or answer a Phone call. On top of that fake social network tweets and idiotic cell phone calls ingame that stop the second you passed the story make this game one of the worst NEED FOR SPEED titles in its entire franchise history.

    Sorry EA and GHOST .. you didn't convince me and I returned the game successfully to buy my Kids and my wife a visit to the 3D movies tonight.    … Expand
  23. manos20082
    Jun 17, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well optimized game for pc... that's all.
    But it has terrible graphics even on Ultra settings, the car graphics is like previous nfs most wanted.
    The environment graphics are good enough but isn't on the CAR ? Seriously now ? I played a lot of games but this mess with the nfs is the first time i saw. Thanks EA for paying much money to get a game of 2009!

    Sorry for my bad English, is not my native language!    … Expand
  24. kagehyo6
    Aug 6, 2016
    3
    Headline: It might as well be called "Need for Speed: Drift Wars." I bought this hoping to actually have the customization options that they advertised. I prefer grip style racing but, unfortunately, at least half of the races in the game are drift point races... which aren't actually races at all, it's just point stacking. Drifting is a very frustrating experience in the game too becauseHeadline: It might as well be called "Need for Speed: Drift Wars." I bought this hoping to actually have the customization options that they advertised. I prefer grip style racing but, unfortunately, at least half of the races in the game are drift point races... which aren't actually races at all, it's just point stacking. Drifting is a very frustrating experience in the game too because other players are always online with you and will randomly crash into you, ruining a good turn here or a good drift there. You really don't have a choice, if you don't want to play drift style, this game really isn't for you. I wanted to like it, I really did. I got toward the end of the game and the RNG from the computers are completely stacked against you. One computer got a 40,000 point drift at the beginning of the race and no could catch up after that, and it seems to happen more often than not.

    Pros:

    -4k looks pretty good. Most noticeably on with the weather elements in the game.
    -There really is a lot of visual customization you can do.

    Cons:
    -Online style like GTA5 is a good idea in theory, but when the other players will ruin your races it loses its appeal quickly.
    -RNG is the most random numbers generated of any game I have ever seen. Sometimes it is just pure luck.
    -The lines on the mini-map displaying your track are sometimes off and can lead you to a wrong part of the race, making you turn around.
    -You have to drift. Some races you can play grip style but for many you have to learn how to drift. A few forced drift races are okay but when most of the game is comprised of drifting, it takes away the element of choice.
    -RNG is against you with crashes and glitches too.
    ---Sometimes the smallest touch on a wall will flip you over with a crash scene
    ---Cops have literally glitched into my track on multiple occasions. Randomly popping up in the middle of the track and either glitched in place or what seems like server lag as a car will instantly move from one spot to another.
    -There aren't really a lot of cars to choose from compared to other NFS games. And some cars you can't even do any type of tuning.

    Conclusion:
    If you're a drifter, you'll probably enjoy this game but you'll still be frustrated with the RNG this game delivers. There's nothing worse than being in the lead at the end of the race and then another player zooms by and smashes you, ending your lead at the final stretch. Don't pay full price if you want to try it, wait for a sale. You'll punch yourself in the face if you pay top dollar for this game. The 4k is nice, but the game itself has a lot to be desired.    … Expand
  25. EasternUNO
    Apr 11, 2017
    4
    I don't like this game so much, I can mostly agree with people here and when I bought this game, there were couple of things I really hate.

    1) Probably the most annoying thing in this game are those fu#*ing and annoying mobile phones and after every race you have to answer it and pay attention to it. 2) After tuning (many parts locked) when I wanted to see this car on the street, I    I don't like this game so much, I can mostly agree with people here and when I bought this game, there were couple of things I really hate.

    1) Probably the most annoying thing in this game are those fu#*ing and annoying mobile phones and after every race you have to answer it and pay attention to it.

    2) After tuning (many parts locked) when I wanted to see this car on the street, I could see s#it, because this game is permanently in dark, so if you won't put some light colors like white or yellow, you won't see nothing...

    Then I don't like cops, because AI is really very stupid, they never catch you and globally this game is not worth buying it. It might be fun for very short time, but NFSMW is still the best episode ))    … Expand
  26. ugura
    Aug 26, 2016
    0
    i miss the old game, from need for speed, i mean cockpit, good gameplay, no online with connecting, worst story on singelplay, no best tuning more. delete game
  27. TheGodZ
    Mar 22, 2016
    2
    Honestly ... This game could be awesome . BUT Once again we waited so long for a game that has one of the most retarded controls . The AI are greatly retarded to . The counter drift system is amazingly retarded to . The only good point of this game is the Blond Chick . I wish EA would of tried the game before releasing it .
  28. tomaats
    May 19, 2016
    2
    A dumpster fire of incompetence. A huge disapointment. Just go play forza horizon 1. Even the CREW is better. Underground 2 and MW 2005 are much more fun.

    Good points: the graphics are good, but nowhere near as great as in the screenshots some nice choice of cars great sound cheesy, but fun cutscenes Bad points: The handling is just **** The cars are zero fun to drive. Also    A dumpster fire of incompetence. A huge disapointment. Just go play forza horizon 1. Even the CREW is better. Underground 2 and MW 2005 are much more fun.

    Good points:
    the graphics are good, but nowhere near as great as in the screenshots
    some nice choice of cars
    great sound
    cheesy, but fun cutscenes

    Bad points:
    The handling is just **** The cars are zero fun to drive. Also drifting is obligatory. Grip setup? go **** yourself to the last place and nothing more. Without the drift stability assist the driving is even more god awful.
    The cops are useless. No joke, they are not a threat. The **** handling is more of a threat.
    The car customization is bollocks. The 240sx has some, the rest is 1 or 3 at max options. The rim choice is good though.
    The AI opponent rubber banding is terrible. I dont even want to think what it was before the supposed patches.
    No sense of progression- the game just flails around.
    Forgettable city. All the bends are the same.

    This game is a waste of money. Its just plain bad. It might be okay if it was made some 3rd rate dev at a 3rd world country jungle clearing, but no, ghost games had the money, and they have the skill somewhere, but this game is just a ****ing piece of **** DO NOT BUY IT. DO NOT BUY IT.
    **** EA.    … Expand
  29. Darksilver78
    Mar 15, 2016
    0
    Tried the Pc version, simply put I'm moderately tech savvy, spent 30 minutes solving issues related to Origin, partly my fault (don't cut/paste origin around), partly Origin for this even being a problem, unrelated to the game, figured it was worth mentioning. To the point though, its online only and I was completely unable to join. I can tolerate online only (although I do dislike it),Tried the Pc version, simply put I'm moderately tech savvy, spent 30 minutes solving issues related to Origin, partly my fault (don't cut/paste origin around), partly Origin for this even being a problem, unrelated to the game, figured it was worth mentioning. To the point though, its online only and I was completely unable to join. I can tolerate online only (although I do dislike it), but there was no solution for me. Allowed it through my firewall, wasn't anti-virus, and there was no way I'm going to port forward a modern, AAA game; It shouldn't be necessary imo. If you can play it, good on you, but i only have these problems with EA. Buyer beware is all you should take from this. If you don't want to pay the full price, origin access has a 10hr trial for it, i highly recommend testing it through it first.… Expand
  30. ragindo
    Mar 20, 2016
    4
    Anche questa volta ci sono cascato !
    Need for Speed è ancora una volta un gioco insoddisfacente troppo troppo arcade, statene alla larga perche acquistare un gioco di guida del genere è buttare via i soldi.
  31. zari90
    Jun 20, 2016
    0
    one of the worse games the need for speed franchise has ever produced can't believe I actually paid for this B.S I hate playing this game and worst of all its online so you in a sandbox world where everybody tries to be annoying by deliberately driving into you while you racing and they in free roaming, I would really love to know what the programmers and developers were on when theyone of the worse games the need for speed franchise has ever produced can't believe I actually paid for this B.S I hate playing this game and worst of all its online so you in a sandbox world where everybody tries to be annoying by deliberately driving into you while you racing and they in free roaming, I would really love to know what the programmers and developers were on when they decided to put these features in the game the last really good game that has free roam that came from need for speed would probably be undercover.… Expand
  32. alpm
    May 27, 2016
    3
    I read several reviews and I couldn't believe EA would mess this big on this game. I deeply regret buying this. It is an always online game, restarting an event can only be done if you haven't finished it yet, when you restart it simply takes you to the racing event point on the map. The cut-scenes are dull and, man, bad, simply bad. Did they forgot the glorious physics from Most Wanted,I read several reviews and I couldn't believe EA would mess this big on this game. I deeply regret buying this. It is an always online game, restarting an event can only be done if you haven't finished it yet, when you restart it simply takes you to the racing event point on the map. The cut-scenes are dull and, man, bad, simply bad. Did they forgot the glorious physics from Most Wanted, Underground and Carbon? Seems like it.
    The menu and controls are something out of this earth bad. They simply ditched the mouse, why!? For PC, at least, this game is a complete waste of money. Well, it is pretty, the sound track is great, but they really messed up on the rest.
    Long story short: pretty game with zero to none usability in mind.    … Expand
  33. Succinate
    Sep 26, 2019
    0
    Невероятно плохая игра, в которой плохо все: начиная от графики и управления и заканчивая обычной ездой по городу. Я бы поставил отрицательную оценку, но такой нет. Очень жаль потраченных денег!
  34. DonkDavid
    Aug 29, 2020
    0
    THIS GAME SUCKS! The controls don't even work and the cutscenes are too long. The game is not even fun.
  35. BestNoob
    May 7, 2020
    1
    Ich bin echt geschockt gewesen, als ich das die letzten Tage wieder gespielt habe.

    Auch hier weis ich gar nicht wo ich anfangen soll, bei meinem Unverständnis gegenüber EA und deren Studios, dass sie nicht in der Lage sind auch nur ein gescheites NFS raus zu bringen, oder dem Spiel selbst welches ich als Billig Trash ohne Inhalt und mit viel Bugs bezeichnen würde. Ich spare mir die    Ich bin echt geschockt gewesen, als ich das die letzten Tage wieder gespielt habe.

    Auch hier weis ich gar nicht wo ich anfangen soll, bei meinem Unverständnis gegenüber EA und deren Studios, dass sie nicht in der Lage sind auch nur ein gescheites NFS raus zu bringen, oder dem Spiel selbst welches ich als Billig Trash ohne Inhalt und mit viel Bugs bezeichnen würde.

    Ich spare mir die Mühe einen ausführlichen Test zu schreiben.

    Rate aber jedem davon ab, das Spiel für zu viel Geld zu kaufen.

    Meine Empfehlung ist NFS:UG1 & NFS:UG2 oder Most Wanted 2005 mit HD Texture Mod, Widescreen und LAN Patch Gameranger als VPN Software für den Multiplayer.

    - Haufen Bugs, die nie behoben werden

    - fehlender Spielspaß

    - fehlende Balance

    - fehlender Fahrspaß

    - Keine Herausforderungen

    - Zu viele Effekte auf dem Bildschirm    … Expand
  36. Hoerli
    Nov 8, 2017
    1
    Das schlimmste NFS aller Zeiten.
    Die Story ist grottig, die Schauspieler peinlich und das Handling erst ….
    Ich brauch einen Eimer! Die Story ist ein reiner Witz. So peinlich und vor lauter Fremdschämen nicht ertragbar. Daher hab ich alles übersprungen, was möglich war. Zwar sieht es ganz gut aus und der Ton ist auch toll, das war es aber auch. Das Handling ist unter aller Kanone.    Das schlimmste NFS aller Zeiten.
    Die Story ist grottig, die Schauspieler peinlich und das Handling erst ….
    Ich brauch einen Eimer!

    Die Story ist ein reiner Witz. So peinlich und vor lauter Fremdschämen nicht ertragbar.
    Daher hab ich alles übersprungen, was möglich war.
    Zwar sieht es ganz gut aus und der Ton ist auch toll, das war es aber auch.
    Das Handling ist unter aller Kanone. Die Steuerung ist so schwamming, das man in jeder Kurve richtung Wand fährt und diese auch des öfteren näher kennen lernt.
    Das Auto versucht dich immer zu unterstützen, um auf der Straße zu bleiben. Das hilft aber beim Spiele nichts.
    Zusätzlich schaltet die Steuerung automatischen zwischen Grip-Modus und Drift-Modus um. Das regt tierisch auf und kann NICHT abgestellt werden. Das umschalten geht dann auch mehrere Sekunden. Wer also von einem schönen drift in den nächsten will, landet an der Wand.

    Das Tuning ist auch ein Witz. Erst groß angekündigt und dann kann man ein Teil nur gegen 2 – 5 andere austauschen.
    Das ist definitiv KEIN Carbon-Tuning!

    Empfehlenswert?
    Definitiv NICHT!    … Expand
  37. Tigran
    Feb 1, 2018
    3
    The only good thing I can say about this game is its graphics.
    Very much disappointed by the rest, especially the driving experience, which is awfully disgusting.
    Downloaded 2 times, played for 2-3 hours each time, got sick of it, uninstalled, tried to forget the damage to my love for the NFS game series...
  38. LaszloR1
    Apr 16, 2017
    3
    The concept wouldn't be that bad, since everyone wanted this type of game for a long time, but the game lacks cars and customization so much, a better wrap editor with better tools, eg: lining up two lines. The cars aren't that bad, but mediocre. I would love to see a more of a Gran Turismo approach where they license more cars, I don't want 9 types of Nissan Silvias, but at least haveThe concept wouldn't be that bad, since everyone wanted this type of game for a long time, but the game lacks cars and customization so much, a better wrap editor with better tools, eg: lining up two lines. The cars aren't that bad, but mediocre. I would love to see a more of a Gran Turismo approach where they license more cars, I don't want 9 types of Nissan Silvias, but at least have most of them. I would rather see 1000 cars where I don't use most of them, than not having any of my favourite cars. The best option would be somewhere in the middle, with S13, S14, 15 and skyline R32, R33, R34 and FC and FD RX7s. What we have now is not enough and sadly GT Sport is going with the less car route too, but that's a story for another day. They should put on at least 5 body kits on every car and 5 options for everything at least, even if it is not official, but make some generic ones. The map is way too small for a game like this, the next should have a bigger map, with not just the city and a bit of a mountain pass, but with deserts, rural areas, mountain roads, etc, just like in the Crew. For me the main thing that ruined the game was the handling, what were they thinking? This is the worst handling I've ever encountered in years, they should make a new one that is more realistic than this. The best would be an arcade-sim crossing in my opinion, because it gives the players a bit more realistic feel to the game, while not making it too hard for casuals to play without any racing experience. The rubber banding is just the frosting on the cake, I can't believe that this piece of junk game mechanic still exists, also make a better Ai, because this one is horrible, this game is like a worse version of the Crew, which had nearly as bad handling as this, but far more serious rubber banding. I didn't pay the full price for this game thankfully, I bought it on a sale last week, but the game just isn't worth a 60 euro price, but not even 30. The story is really bad, it is like it doesn't exist, they should try something like the NFSMW-Carbon story, or the U and U2 one if they really want one. The game has zero replay value and for the starter cars. What were they thinking? The only reasonable choice is the foxbody mustang which i can see as a starter car, but come one a BRZ? That is a 30000$ car! And the almighty Civic TypeR, a great car and all, but they are rare and usually go for 10000$, they should go back and look at the old starter cars from MW and Underground 1 and 2. In U2 you could choose a Corolla AE86, a Miata, a 240sx, Peugeot 206, Ford Focus and a regular (Not TypeR!) civic. In MW you could choose an IS300, a Golf or a Punto. These cars are supposed to be cheap, a TypeR civic and a BRZ is not.

    TL;DR: The game doesn't worth your money.    … Expand
  39. ScrewEA
    Jun 5, 2017
    4
    I have never reviewed anything on metacritic before but **** dude. this game pisses me the **** off, every time iam racing and i have the lead, the textures in the game will despawn, i tried to see if ther was anyway to fix it but all i got was either your connection or just get a ****ing better pc, iam running on a GTX 960, i7, 18GB of RAM and the despawning **** is still there. I triedI have never reviewed anything on metacritic before but **** dude. this game pisses me the **** off, every time iam racing and i have the lead, the textures in the game will despawn, i tried to see if ther was anyway to fix it but all i got was either your connection or just get a ****ing better pc, iam running on a GTX 960, i7, 18GB of RAM and the despawning **** is still there. I tried to overlook this problem by slowing down when i have the lead and letting the texture load but by the time its done, the other ****ers behind my ass already passed me miles away. This game has been out for a solid 2 years and still faces the same problem. but other then that one downflaw that breaks the ****ing game, it's a pretty good game. regardless, Go **** yourself EA.… Expand
  40. 44JAX44
    Jul 5, 2017
    3
    This game started on a solid 7/10 for me, lots of work was put in it clearly, great graphics, nice arcady gameplay with fine tunes and customizations, well executed story. Playing through the game was very chilly and easy although the world is really small but it's packed with races and events.
    Two annoying bugs in this game, the first one being achievements doesn't unlock if you had    This game started on a solid 7/10 for me, lots of work was put in it clearly, great graphics, nice arcady gameplay with fine tunes and customizations, well executed story. Playing through the game was very chilly and easy although the world is really small but it's packed with races and events.
    Two annoying bugs in this game, the first one being achievements doesn't unlock if you had connxn issues on the time of unlock and second the world sometimes takes lots of time to load although my system is good for the game, this bug isn't a big issue throughout the game since it is easy.
    The big problem of the game is the prestige mode, you replay all the story races on an extremely hard difficulty just to get 2 achievements and that combined with the two bugs I mentioned above remove the entertainment factor of the game and makes it a rage fest and a very cheap way to make you play the game if you're an achievement hunter plus support seems to have abandoned it and they are not fixing bugs anymore and that is an issue I had in shift2, most wanted, and rivals had an issue in each of these games that wasn't fixed because the games were abandoned. For me there is no way in hell I would reconsider buying a new NFS.    … Expand
  41. shiverr
    Nov 8, 2017
    3
    The game is truly awful. It's quite visually appealing, sound effects are ok, but everything else is just plain bad.

    Gameplay is horrible, driving physics are the worst I've ever seen, even games from early 90's did better job and implemented more intuitive car handling. It seems that NFS's car can either be glued to the road or slide in counter-intuitive drift. Scratching road barrier    The game is truly awful. It's quite visually appealing, sound effects are ok, but everything else is just plain bad.

    Gameplay is horrible, driving physics are the worst I've ever seen, even games from early 90's did better job and implemented more intuitive car handling. It seems that NFS's car can either be glued to the road or slide in counter-intuitive drift. Scratching road barrier might do nothing or slow down you really a lot. AI is garbage, there is no fun in racing against opponents that don't follow the same game rules as player. Their cars behave differently, rubber banding is atrocious, doesn't matter how well you drive, if you go full speed, keep leading position for most of the time, it's still possible to get overtook right before finish line for no apparent reason.

    The next thing is track path indicator - it has too short draw range, which makes you too much focused on the blue arrows than the race itself, it shows the path that is nowhere close to optimal route, it wiggles time to time for no reason and leads to major confusions, it's often not visible due to ludicrous camera placement in TPP view.

    Visual aspect of the game is good, but often it's too dark to notice game breaking elements on the road, so you will crash on them a lot. Actually crashing in this game doesn't feel right, it's either because you didn't notice the obstacle (or couldn't see it because of camera placement), got unlucky and be struck by traffic member or other player or the game will randomly freez or lag. It never feels it was your mistake, even if you drove too fast, it can be blamed on retarded car behavior.

    Cutscenes are horrible as well, there is nothing interesting about your new "friends", the dialogues (monologues? your character never speaks, which might be actually a good thing since I won't despise him) are dull, shallow and just cringy. From technical point of view - the game runs quite well, but it often freezes and black out, I can't make it run on full screen on windows 8, always online makes game lag time to time (despite my connection being fine).    … Expand
  42. KnightThunder2
    Jun 30, 2020
    0
    Why did I even buy it? Worse than Payback. Nothing is good about this game. DON'T BUY IT.
  43. Botanistaken
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    THIS GAME IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. Cant skip cutscenes(almost 10min boring pre recorded videos). cant change the settings without going into garage lol. literally unplayable with keyboard, cant proceed to play without the windows screen keyboard thing. crashes when alt-tabbed.
  44. FRIST_008
    Jun 14, 2021
    4
    нет, нет, нет, и ещё раз нет, никогда не пробуйте эту игру, в ней нет ничего
  45. Labitoku
    Mar 21, 2021
    4
    Absolutely gorgeous game, with a complete customization system, but there isn't anything more.
    No sense of speed, a very annoying camera, flavorless driving (with both turning and drifting laborious), cringe unskippable cutscenes...
    Need for speed, sure, but after playing it. You should play any Forza Horizon game instead, this is an arcade driving disappointment. Not for driving    Absolutely gorgeous game, with a complete customization system, but there isn't anything more.
    No sense of speed, a very annoying camera, flavorless driving (with both turning and drifting laborious), cringe unskippable cutscenes...
    Need for speed, sure, but after playing it. You should play any Forza Horizon game instead, this is an arcade driving disappointment. Not for driving enthusiasts. Perhaps photography ones.    … Expand
  46. ErickPhoenix
    Mar 7, 2021
    4
    This game deservers a remaster just as much as World War II

    If you want to play a good game, buy NFS Heat
  47. Legion14169
    Jul 14, 2021
    0
    I made an account just to review this game that's how frustrating it is, not that anyone or EA in particular will care. I bought this game on PC for nostalgia and despite being advertised as fully supporting controllers, they don't work. Apparently this is a common problem since there are many discussion topics on it, unfortunately none of the 'fixes' worked for me. Not that the usersI made an account just to review this game that's how frustrating it is, not that anyone or EA in particular will care. I bought this game on PC for nostalgia and despite being advertised as fully supporting controllers, they don't work. Apparently this is a common problem since there are many discussion topics on it, unfortunately none of the 'fixes' worked for me. Not that the users should have to find workaround fixes for a game put out by such a huge company.

    I can't play the game to judge any of it's reviewed positive or negative aspects, so it's a zero from me.    … Expand
  48. FathersSons
    Oct 23, 2021
    2
    Difficult driving
    Small car fleet: why have 3 identical cars? Not an interesting plot
  49. DR77
    Oct 6, 2022
    0
    Este juego tiene toooodo lo malo, que puede tener un juego de NFS. La condiccion es horrible, la historia es horrible y sin duda alguna la edicion de vehiculo deja muuucho que desear.
  50. Kreinnar
    Nov 29, 2022
    0
    One of the Classical Electronic Arts games. 0 gameplay, 0 story, 0 modify, 3 graphics.
  51. xcale
    Mar 6, 2023
    4
    As a long time gamer I can easily say this is a Need For Speed you will be playing just not to say I didn't play. Again another **** arcade.
  52. Giero
    Jan 4, 2023
    4
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. CD-Action
    May 30, 2016
    60
    The PC version of NfS is the prettiest of them all, but it is the same game with all its flaws, including horrible AI that sucks all satisfaction out of races (even if you stop completely, your rivals will wait for you) and scarce content that leaves you with nothing to do after around 12 hours. [05/2016, p.53]
  2. PC Gamer
    May 21, 2016
    50
    The series leaves its garage looking even worse than when it went in. Decent handling doesnt save it.
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  3. PC PowerPlay
    May 9, 2016
    50
    Yeah it looks amazing but [*FISTBUMPS*] do not a good racing game make. [Issue#250, p.69]
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