There’s only one slight problem with constant night racing and that’s visibility. The weather may be limited to rain, but when the streets are dappled with puddles, reflecting the streetlamps’ light and the craziness of your car’s wrap as you speed through the city, you’ll remember why you loved Need for Speed in the first place. With some utterly photorealistic graphics, the Need for Speed reboot almost puts Forza 5 and Project Cars to shame visually.
Need for Speed Rivals got so far away from that, with its midday racing and player controller cops that the reboot would have to be seriously messed up to move any further away from the series’ origins.īut thankfully, Ghost Games has gone for dusk until dawn gameplay cycle with the setting in a fictional version of Los Angeles known as Ventura Bay. When it comes to reboots, the question is how far back do you go? When the Need for Speed series started back in the 90s, it was a game about night-time, underground racing with fast cars and streaking streetlights. On the one hand you’ve got excellent underground night racing with plenty of challenge, but on the other you’ve got a cast of underperforming “bros” that become so irritating you’ll wish you were flying solo on this one. Aware of this developer Ghost Games decided to skip its regular annual release strategy and spend two years creating and refining its latest Need for Speed title.Īnswering whether the the extended development time has paid off is a bit complicated. The most recent title, Need for Speed Rivals was financially a success, but it didn’t resonate with long-term fans of the series like myself. It’s a franchise that’s been around for over 20 years, with a release schedule seeing a game arrive annually for almost the whole of that time. Now it’s time for Need for Speed to get the reboot treatment. But there have also been some that I and thousands of other gamers would have preferred never existed – like SimCity and the numerous Sonic games Sega seems hell bent on rushing to market. There have been a few really notable ones in the past few year – Tomb Raider and DmC: Devil May Cry for example. Available on PS4 (tested), Xbox One and PC
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