Need for Speed

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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. SpyderSeven
    Mar 24, 2016
    6
    Always online. Nothing quite like latency in a single player race. Customization options are slim. None of the first 4 cars I bought had parts available for every option, and many of the options have only a single part. You can't remove stock spoilers, what? Besides that, almost every aftermarket spoiler in the game is a hilarious bosozoku park bench. The only good spoiler I found was theAlways online. Nothing quite like latency in a single player race. Customization options are slim. None of the first 4 cars I bought had parts available for every option, and many of the options have only a single part. You can't remove stock spoilers, what? Besides that, almost every aftermarket spoiler in the game is a hilarious bosozoku park bench. The only good spoiler I found was the cool ducktail on the Volvo.

    The vinyl editor is better than old NFS games, but still rotten. Still no tools to line up your decals. Just a pair of racing stripes is stupid hard to get, and you STILL have to make separate stripes for the top and both bumpers. The interface is hair-pullingly frustrating.

    Wow, I can tune my car to handle like a real one with the Grip setting? Doesn't matter, because more than half of this game involves drifting and it's absurdly difficult to drift a Grip car. Besides, who would want to race a car that has to use the brakes against cars that can whip into any corner at any speed by dumping momentum into a drift?

    Manual shifting is junk. Double-tap the shifter to drop 2 gears, and you will drop one. Every shift forces you to clutch, shift, and declutch through each individual gear, including if you crash and need to reverse. It will take you at least a good 5 seconds to change from 6 to R. Also, you need to choose manual trans for every single car you buy. For some reason transmission is a tuning option instead of a user preference. I can't believe how much time I spent looking for it in the options menu.

    Rubberbanding. Ugghhh, your skills still don't matter in an AI race. The AI will accelerate with Gs that would puree a human being if they think you're not looking. There is no way to gain a sizeable lead. The AI will stick to you like a burdock to a wool hat no matter how delicately you thread the corners, but a crash in some races will leave you fighting for 3rd place while the first two cars inexplicably rocket miles ahead of the pack.

    Career progression is dumb. Finish a mission, and you'll just have to drive around until you get a call from your buddies. Besides that, there is no story to the missions. Race here, drift this, hit this speed. All of that is in the context of some bizarre PUSH YOURSELF mantra kind of like the one in Rivals, and there is no visible progression until the end of the campaign. My "bae" also made fun of me over the ridiculous and plotless cutscenes. She was probably just jelly. Fist bump? Oh, and Manu's hair. What?

    Yes, it's always night time and usually raining. Looks good, but it gets pretty stale. The city is nice and it looks pretty good, but there are few real landmarks and appreciable vistas. In Rivals you'd turn a corner to see an incredible mountain range over the railing or a desert stretching to the peaks in the distance, but Ventura Bay is just a bunch of roads. The roads are laid out in a frustrating way. Highway dividers are placed in homicidal and nonsensical places. There can't be more than 5 traffic cars in the whole city, but they are always waiting in the racing line just around a corner. The road fatalities in Ventura Bay must be extreme.

    The multiplayer is half-baked. Just like Rivals, you'll spend 5 minutes chasing someone and hoping for a race only to find that they've been racing AI the whole time and can't engage you. This game is advertised as being a combination of single and multiplayer, but it's really just single with a little crappy multiplayer baked in, and the two are in constant conflict. I hated the Speed Tests and Challenges in MW'12, but at least I could just jump into a multiplayer game then.

    The cars are fun to drive, and they look great. The sound from the Viper is freaking phenomenal, and most of the other cars are no exception. Learning to thread the line is very satisfying in a gripped-up car. If only there were more opportunities to do that.

    All in all, it's a decent game. It took a few of the good parts from the old games, all of the flaws, and added a few new headaches like always online to boot. The first few hours were a lot of fun but, in true EA fashion, the crap comes out of the woodwork as you play. I found myself more disappointed than thrilled. There was never a moment that I got caught up in the game - there is always some detail waiting to break the immersion. Really glad I paid the $5 for the All Access trial, because this game is worth closer to $30 for me than 60, or even worse 70 for the package that spoils the game by putting every 3rd driver in the Most Wanted BMW. (also, do you remember when demos were free? I do)    … Expand
  4. szogyenyi
    Jul 17, 2016
    5
    I didn't have high expectations about this game, but hell... we cannot speak about any expectations since Most Wanted (2005). Still, i was interested about this game and now that EA offered a 10 hour trial access to the game, i finally had the chance to try it. I pretty much got what i expected. The visual part of the game is a ten out of ten. the Frostbite engine is pretty as always. OfI didn't have high expectations about this game, but hell... we cannot speak about any expectations since Most Wanted (2005). Still, i was interested about this game and now that EA offered a 10 hour trial access to the game, i finally had the chance to try it. I pretty much got what i expected. The visual part of the game is a ten out of ten. the Frostbite engine is pretty as always. Of course there are some effects i could live without, but my eyes easily get used to them. The handling is ok, nothing outstanding like TDU2 or the Forza Horizon series. It needs time to learn it properly, but it's really not a challenge. Maybe drifting is a bit hard, i tried to avoid it as mush as i could, because i was very suck at it. The car selection is ok, but i think supercars like the Ferrari or Lamborghini has nothing to do in this game. It's about street racing. The customization is really gives the player much freedom, i was satisfied with it (i mean the amount as i could see) The city is well builded, the always raining anomaly didn't annoyed me as so many others. Do you remember Underground 2? Just play an hour with it, you'll see how often raining in that game too. But there are some issues with this game which are still refuse me to give a god damn euro to this game. Fist thing first, the non-stop online connection requirement is nothing but a backward to this game. YOu ALWAYS need to be connected to the internet, and it just only make things worse if you have a kinda slow connection. It not going to screw up your races or anything, but you will experience performance problems and lagging even in a SINGLE PLAYER RACE! You also cannot bring up the world map or the menu properly, the game will still run in the background. How am i suppose to scrape my head in the middle of the race? Of course you can go solo which means you don't have to share your map with random people who park in the very same racing spot where you just want to teleport, or place a marker. But it still requires internet connection of course... the AI is as braindead as it can be. I don't know how it was when the game got released on consoles... i heard people complaining about the horrible catch-up system, maybe it was fixed or spoiled, because for me it was almost impossible to get beaten, even if i screwed up a corner or missed a checkpoint. In the very few times when they somehow managed to overtake me, they just randomly crashed into the wall, without reason. And it not happened just one or two times... no. At least in every second or third race. Very depressing. I still wouldn't buy it even if it had a 90% OFF sale, because the online... just call it DRM; ruins the fun for me. Let me decide whenever i want to cruise with other players or not, don't force your **** on me. But it has the potential. Maybe if they would listen a bit more to the player feedbacks and rethink the game design, it could be an ok Need for Speed game. Until then, it's nothing just a kinda medium strenght shot.… Expand
  5. 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...
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. 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!
  17. 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?
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. IGA_Painkiller
    Apr 4, 2016
    10
    Running R9 270 On medium graphics I get around (50fps-60fps) sometimes It drops to 30fps in some parts, but that's okay, considering the graphics in the game are amazing even on medium settings, tried it on max settings and was getting 23fps to 15fps, I would say the optimization for it is good.
    time to upgrade people!
  28. michaelrediger
    Jun 6, 2018
    10
    This game is actually AMAZING. As someone who was obsessed with Need for Speed underground 1 and 2, this game WILL NOT disappoint. You have to buy this game if you liked those two games. It feels exactly the same but way newer. The driving feels great and the customization is insane. The races are short, which is nice because it doesn't feel like it takes forever to complete a race. ThereThis game is actually AMAZING. As someone who was obsessed with Need for Speed underground 1 and 2, this game WILL NOT disappoint. You have to buy this game if you liked those two games. It feels exactly the same but way newer. The driving feels great and the customization is insane. The races are short, which is nice because it doesn't feel like it takes forever to complete a race. There is a great mixture of drifting, racing, and other stuff.… Expand
  29. icete21
    Mar 18, 2016
    10
    Anything we ask for is being delivered by ghost games on every single update, and for free. Sure there are anoying things like constant night time or always online, but if you have no apreciation for this game you are no car enthusiast... If you think Rivals was a good game... you have no passion for cars what so ever.
  30. 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
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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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