Didn't played that much because I can't fully enjoy the game with a bad GPU, but from what I've played looks like a worse Heat. Anyways, at some point I will try giving it another chance.
stutters like hell, unplayable even at the lowest settings with GTX 1660Ti and 9th gen i5.
nfs is back baybee
The customization is great. Burst NOS is an engaging mechanic. Sense of speed is good. The art direction is stunning. And while the narrative can be really jarring with it's "criminal negligence? oh yeah? well the mayor is corrupt!" scapegoat whataboutism, and being talked at in interview form by ASAP Rocky phoning it in as hard as possible, there are genuinely wholesome moments. I'd be lying if I said if it wasn't fun but it just does not reach the glory days of this franchise. OG most wanted had more organic car chases, more ways to interact with cops, to not aggro them, to give them the slip. Wipeout wasn't nearly as aggressive causing you to take more risky and in turn fun maneuvers to further incentivize cop chase craziness. The open world here is tacked on and vapid. The multiplayer is filled with bad balance, and as the meta develops, the game will suffer. People that are hyping this game up have either forgotten how good 2000s era of street racing was or just haven't played it. We're suffering from a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome. Master has finally thrown us a bone and we worship them for it as we completely neglect what we had beforehand.
Further iterations of video games are supposed to get better. Not worse and more expensive.
Further iterations of video games are supposed to get better. Not worse and more expensive.
i think my ideal racing game would completely do away with any sort of voice acting and wouldn't bother with a overarching story as a way to motivate the player into the various races and challenges. of all genres i think racing titles have to potential to make really compelling gameplay loops that are enhanced by a lack of explanation or justification. wanting to go fast and make a cool looking car is its own motivation. cutscenes, phone calls between races, an end point to a story, distractions that pull focus from everything that actually matters. so many games in this series alone are made worse for just trying to explain themselves instead of letting the driving systems speak for themselves.
unbound at least makes the narrative into a gameplay concern. kinda dead rising in how it asks you to work within a set timetable which i really love. the first racing game in a good long while that's really broken out of the traditional open world racing structure and attempts to force new playstyles and ways of thinking about very traditional racer activities. i want to revisit this title someday and see if i can't crack it open.
unbound at least makes the narrative into a gameplay concern. kinda dead rising in how it asks you to work within a set timetable which i really love. the first racing game in a good long while that's really broken out of the traditional open world racing structure and attempts to force new playstyles and ways of thinking about very traditional racer activities. i want to revisit this title someday and see if i can't crack it open.
its not often ill beat a game and play through it immediately afterwards. this is the best NFS game in a long time. heres some of the things id change tho
1) fine tune drifting a lil more, its serviceable but not amazing
2) after you beat the game there's not a ton to do, maybe add a NG+ and let you do the grand finals at the end of the week instead of just tallying up all the cash you collected
3) customization in this game is really good, but more is never a bad thing
4) more features for photo mode, like being able to place your character and have them pose with whatever your current car is
1) fine tune drifting a lil more, its serviceable but not amazing
2) after you beat the game there's not a ton to do, maybe add a NG+ and let you do the grand finals at the end of the week instead of just tallying up all the cash you collected
3) customization in this game is really good, but more is never a bad thing
4) more features for photo mode, like being able to place your character and have them pose with whatever your current car is
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NFS Unbound infelizmente é um jogo que entrega que foi feito as pressas e que não teve tempo suficiente para ser entregue de forma satisfatória.
O jogo sofre desde problemas de desempenho, física e até progressão. A EA cagou o estúdio botando eles para ajudarem no desenvolvimento daquela BOMBA do Battlefield 2042. Infelizmente esse é de longe o pior Need for Speed desde o início da era Ghost Games. Eu admito, sou um ♥♥♥♥ fanboy de NFS e mesmo assim o jogo não me convenceu. Eu já não esperava muita coisa por conta do anúncio em cima da hora, a falta de vídeos de gameplay entre outros detalhes de pré-lançamento. Quando joguei as primeiras horas o jogo até parecia agradável, mas depois de jogar mais de 70 horas do jogo vejo que é um jogo medíocre mesmo.
A história do game é horrível, não faz sentido algum e o protagonista é um(a) baita de um bundão.
Enfim, queria deixar registrado aqui minha decepção com esse game e espero que a Criterion nunca mais toque em um NFS na vida dela.
Se quiser testar esse jogo, ele vale no máximo uns 80 reais.
OBS: Fique atento pq o jogo é muito mal otimizado no PC e pode não rodar de forma satisfatória mesmo em máquinas mid-end.
5/10
NFS Unbound infelizmente é um jogo que entrega que foi feito as pressas e que não teve tempo suficiente para ser entregue de forma satisfatória.
O jogo sofre desde problemas de desempenho, física e até progressão. A EA cagou o estúdio botando eles para ajudarem no desenvolvimento daquela BOMBA do Battlefield 2042. Infelizmente esse é de longe o pior Need for Speed desde o início da era Ghost Games. Eu admito, sou um ♥♥♥♥ fanboy de NFS e mesmo assim o jogo não me convenceu. Eu já não esperava muita coisa por conta do anúncio em cima da hora, a falta de vídeos de gameplay entre outros detalhes de pré-lançamento. Quando joguei as primeiras horas o jogo até parecia agradável, mas depois de jogar mais de 70 horas do jogo vejo que é um jogo medíocre mesmo.
A história do game é horrível, não faz sentido algum e o protagonista é um(a) baita de um bundão.
Enfim, queria deixar registrado aqui minha decepção com esse game e espero que a Criterion nunca mais toque em um NFS na vida dela.
Se quiser testar esse jogo, ele vale no máximo uns 80 reais.
OBS: Fique atento pq o jogo é muito mal otimizado no PC e pode não rodar de forma satisfatória mesmo em máquinas mid-end.
5/10
Criterion are the masters when it comes to racing games (outside of Mario Kart). The last great Need for Speed game (MW 2012) also happens to be their last contribution to the series. Huh, weird. The art style here is incredible. It's one of the best looking games ever, if not my all time favourite in some ways. The driving is perfectly smooth. The only knock against this game that I really have is that the police chases tend to get old pretty quickly. I wish there was a better way of adding a sense of "pressure".
Alrighty, after completing this game, I don't know if I can say it is better than heat. But I can say it just manages to be on par.
This game has one of the SLOWEST openings I've ever seen. It took more than an hour for things to finally open up and get into things. I felt like freaking dropping it.
But then once things open up, it is a freaking great game.
The gameplay, is what carries this game so hard. It's so fun. It's addicting, and you just can't stop playing. The new visual effects are so unique and enhance your cars and make them feel so powerful and fast and look so cool. And the gameplay, it feels so so good. Just like the old need for speeds. It gave me nostalgia of carbon, especially since they brought back light trails. I was hooked. Much better here than heat, a huge step up and feels like a throwback to the old nfs racers we loved, not to say heats is bad but this is a clear improvement and what makes the game worth it, as it should.
The graphics, performance, car models, are all better than heat here as it should be.
Car customization, and audio design is on par, if not better, it was already so good in heat and it's all here as well.
The soundtrack is amazing, just as good as heats and better. So many good tracks, a few bad ones it is a modern ea game, but overall very nice.
The story, it's a step up from heat I feel, but that's a low bar. It's cringe and bad but it's more fun here than heat. I liked the characters, not at the beginning they're terrible but as the story goes on u kinda like Tess, Rydell, and even Yaz near the end. Still overall as a whole it's pretty poor and kinda just gets the job done and gives u some enjoyment. However, the plot itself is more nfs than ever, your cars get robbed, you gotta rank up get cars and win your cars back. You become a legend. And man some of the missions are very very fun. Like the ones where you steal cars and one of the missions you get to drive the freaking iconic M3!!! So yeah, on the right track hopefully the next one is actually good and not just meh okay good. I also liked how npc racers were given more personality but not that much better here hopefully they can find a way to improve that.
The grind and pacing of the game, excluding the first 2 hours is very good. Earning cars, doing pink slips, and just racing feels fun and fair. You win so many cars and get to try out a different variety of them and it encourages you to. Some of the cars are a bit pricey, but it's still fair for the most part.
The night and day system are very much here, and they are just like heat. Super fun, and night starts off not being that exhilarating, but ends up being as good as heat if not better. I will say I had more fun in some of the chases in nfs heat, but I also had so much fun here. It's great, the cops still rubber and and have crazy catch up but it's not that bad here. Honestly I kind of miss the nfs heat cops lol.
The world is also great, pretty much as good as palm city, but it's better, filled with so much life. And overall just fun to drive in.
I wish they went more in with the effects, but the effects offered here are great and have a good variety.
Very good ui design and solid UI, looks very nice easy to get to where u need to go like heat. I like the aesthetics here more but heats was also great. I really enjoyed the colours and the way things look and transitions and etc here.
Now we get into the bad.
Multiplayer. Absolutely awful. Awful. Probably the worst multiplayer I've seen in the modern day a complete step back from heat.
Here's the problem with the game, story and multiplayer are SEPARATE modes and your progress is NOT synced. In nfs heat it was seamless. Invite your friend, boom done. Play missions change cars and you progress and are not penalized. And it's super fun, because you can do story missions whatever and you keep your cars and yeah, it's multiplayer.
Here, you start from 0 in multiplayer. None of your progress is synced, and the cars u have in story u don't have them in multiplayer. Why would I do the same thing twice. Also there's no story in the multiplayer LOL. It's a joke.
The crew system is completely scraped here as well. Why? Why is it gone? It was a perfectly good system and you could level up and look forward to rewards with friends and the community but it's just gone here. What a stupid decision.
And the garage system is also scraped. What a joke. It was nice displaying your cars and stuff and it's just gone here.
But overall here, there's lots of fun to be had here as a SINGLE player experience. Definitely would not recommend this if you wanna play this with your friends, just play heat. And honestly, because of that heat feels closer to full price than this game, but like heat unbound went on sale fairly quick. And no mtx, bs marketing, just a release date and they dropped the game so fair play. It's a great game, the core gameplay, customization, soundtrack, story, almost everything here is a step up. The gameplay is so addicting.
Another, good step forwardish? For the franchise, hopefully their next one they figure out all the issues and learn fully so we get a masterpiece.
This game has one of the SLOWEST openings I've ever seen. It took more than an hour for things to finally open up and get into things. I felt like freaking dropping it.
But then once things open up, it is a freaking great game.
The gameplay, is what carries this game so hard. It's so fun. It's addicting, and you just can't stop playing. The new visual effects are so unique and enhance your cars and make them feel so powerful and fast and look so cool. And the gameplay, it feels so so good. Just like the old need for speeds. It gave me nostalgia of carbon, especially since they brought back light trails. I was hooked. Much better here than heat, a huge step up and feels like a throwback to the old nfs racers we loved, not to say heats is bad but this is a clear improvement and what makes the game worth it, as it should.
The graphics, performance, car models, are all better than heat here as it should be.
Car customization, and audio design is on par, if not better, it was already so good in heat and it's all here as well.
The soundtrack is amazing, just as good as heats and better. So many good tracks, a few bad ones it is a modern ea game, but overall very nice.
The story, it's a step up from heat I feel, but that's a low bar. It's cringe and bad but it's more fun here than heat. I liked the characters, not at the beginning they're terrible but as the story goes on u kinda like Tess, Rydell, and even Yaz near the end. Still overall as a whole it's pretty poor and kinda just gets the job done and gives u some enjoyment. However, the plot itself is more nfs than ever, your cars get robbed, you gotta rank up get cars and win your cars back. You become a legend. And man some of the missions are very very fun. Like the ones where you steal cars and one of the missions you get to drive the freaking iconic M3!!! So yeah, on the right track hopefully the next one is actually good and not just meh okay good. I also liked how npc racers were given more personality but not that much better here hopefully they can find a way to improve that.
The grind and pacing of the game, excluding the first 2 hours is very good. Earning cars, doing pink slips, and just racing feels fun and fair. You win so many cars and get to try out a different variety of them and it encourages you to. Some of the cars are a bit pricey, but it's still fair for the most part.
The night and day system are very much here, and they are just like heat. Super fun, and night starts off not being that exhilarating, but ends up being as good as heat if not better. I will say I had more fun in some of the chases in nfs heat, but I also had so much fun here. It's great, the cops still rubber and and have crazy catch up but it's not that bad here. Honestly I kind of miss the nfs heat cops lol.
The world is also great, pretty much as good as palm city, but it's better, filled with so much life. And overall just fun to drive in.
I wish they went more in with the effects, but the effects offered here are great and have a good variety.
Very good ui design and solid UI, looks very nice easy to get to where u need to go like heat. I like the aesthetics here more but heats was also great. I really enjoyed the colours and the way things look and transitions and etc here.
Now we get into the bad.
Multiplayer. Absolutely awful. Awful. Probably the worst multiplayer I've seen in the modern day a complete step back from heat.
Here's the problem with the game, story and multiplayer are SEPARATE modes and your progress is NOT synced. In nfs heat it was seamless. Invite your friend, boom done. Play missions change cars and you progress and are not penalized. And it's super fun, because you can do story missions whatever and you keep your cars and yeah, it's multiplayer.
Here, you start from 0 in multiplayer. None of your progress is synced, and the cars u have in story u don't have them in multiplayer. Why would I do the same thing twice. Also there's no story in the multiplayer LOL. It's a joke.
The crew system is completely scraped here as well. Why? Why is it gone? It was a perfectly good system and you could level up and look forward to rewards with friends and the community but it's just gone here. What a stupid decision.
And the garage system is also scraped. What a joke. It was nice displaying your cars and stuff and it's just gone here.
But overall here, there's lots of fun to be had here as a SINGLE player experience. Definitely would not recommend this if you wanna play this with your friends, just play heat. And honestly, because of that heat feels closer to full price than this game, but like heat unbound went on sale fairly quick. And no mtx, bs marketing, just a release date and they dropped the game so fair play. It's a great game, the core gameplay, customization, soundtrack, story, almost everything here is a step up. The gameplay is so addicting.
Another, good step forwardish? For the franchise, hopefully their next one they figure out all the issues and learn fully so we get a masterpiece.
The writing is abysmal
I liked the Drew Gooden "road work ahead" Vine reference.
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not interesting story, you could know what will happend, but good mechanics and exiting game
Took a while to get all of it's more fun multiplayer features, pretty grindy, and the racing mechanics feel alright.
Tankei nem 40 minutos dessa ♥♥♥♥♥ NFS unbound kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkjk e olha que tive coragem de platinar o heat que ficava bom dps de um tempo pelo menos, bando de personagens chatos pra kct nesse jogo e direção que faz até drift premeditado kkkkkkkkkkkjk se fude bixo se fude EA para de fude minhas franquias favoritas, oque salva nessa coisa é pelo menos o estilo do gráfico é bom 👍 coringuei fdc TE ODEIO EA
Another boring, bland modern Need For Speed release. Graphics are pretty though.
Too many repetitive races, repeating tracks, boring takeover events without any skill requirements and horrible main story.
Not worth your money or time. Do not buy the full price! Consider EA Play Pro subscription if its deal better for you. At least you can play something else after this game is done.
(Sidenot: They better bring The Blacklist after foreshadowing it with the M3 GTR rescue. They better be! and fix this goddamm repetitive races, its horrible!)
Not worth your money or time. Do not buy the full price! Consider EA Play Pro subscription if its deal better for you. At least you can play something else after this game is done.
(Sidenot: They better bring The Blacklist after foreshadowing it with the M3 GTR rescue. They better be! and fix this goddamm repetitive races, its horrible!)
After years of middling entries and the rest of the racing genre being dominated by sims, Need for Speed Unbound shows that the series, especially under Criterion, isn't out of steam. It's basically a better NFS Heat at its core, with some clear Midnight Club 3 shit thrown in, but thanks to amazing customization, an incredibly well done betting system, and really tough races (as well as cop encounters once your heat gets too high), Unbound towers over all and is my personal Game of the Year.
The best NFS in over 15 years. It borrows elements from every title since Underground 2 and blends them all together to make a title that has the most satisfying gameplay and progression in uh, maybe the whole franchise? The story is appropriately goofy and corny, as it's an exaggerated love letter to modern car culture. The devs have clearly been keeping up with Gen Z tiktok tuner clout culture and poke fun at it while still keeping its better elements intact. As a longtime NFS fan and a car person, this satisfied an itch I've had for almost 20 years.
Criterion has done it. A comeback to the golden era of NFS. Fantastic racer that really sets the foundation for a new generation of Need for Speed. The aesthetic changes just hit the spot, and the focus on characters really works well in the game.
One of the most divisive aspects of the game has definitely been the soundtrack, but not for me. A$AP Rocky did a terrific job curating the soundtrack and is definitely one of the best in the entire franchise, full of hits.
And finally, after god knows how many games, grip driving is doable and competitive. Just a great work overall.
One of the most divisive aspects of the game has definitely been the soundtrack, but not for me. A$AP Rocky did a terrific job curating the soundtrack and is definitely one of the best in the entire franchise, full of hits.
And finally, after god knows how many games, grip driving is doable and competitive. Just a great work overall.
Playing multiplayer only. Put in backlog for now
Complete Story Only
Platform: PlayStation 5
Release Date: November 29, 2022
Genre: Racing » Arcade
Finished in: 31 Hours
Pro version of Need for Speed - Heat with anime style. A good decision to put same features on previous entry was genius and lazy at the same time. Criterion made it perfect with a little bit touch, i.e day / night cycle and cop chase sequence. There's no official on-road racing on the day, every day and night you're street racer!
A generic story they're putting here, how we're getting back a traitor in our gang and made her out alive from cop. Also Yaz's taking our car and we want it back.
Criterion force players to make our decision right when betting money on some races you good at. For me I am bad at drifting, so I can skip that all the time. You also need to have a decent car for every classes that divided into 5 classes from B to S+. SO you better save your money to max out every classes you want to participate races.
✔ Loading rendered objects much faster than previous entry (in this case I was testing them with SSD for both)
✔ The animations are so good, like teasing rivals or even in cut-scene love it!
✔ Catchy soundtrack easily pump up adrenaline
✔ Some people hate VFX (not me) for dirt and smoulder that come from exhaust. Criterion heard it and be able to turn off
✔ There's Most Wanted 2005 iconic car in side quest
❌ There's still no physics for wall objects that can be hit, only 2 types: destructible or not.
❌ The last race should be more intense and memorable to get our car back. The car should be an icon for NFS - Unbound the Mercedes one (it shows on the cover)
Verdict: 8/10 ❤❤❤❤❤
Platform: PlayStation 5
Release Date: November 29, 2022
Genre: Racing » Arcade
Finished in: 31 Hours
Pro version of Need for Speed - Heat with anime style. A good decision to put same features on previous entry was genius and lazy at the same time. Criterion made it perfect with a little bit touch, i.e day / night cycle and cop chase sequence. There's no official on-road racing on the day, every day and night you're street racer!
A generic story they're putting here, how we're getting back a traitor in our gang and made her out alive from cop. Also Yaz's taking our car and we want it back.
Criterion force players to make our decision right when betting money on some races you good at. For me I am bad at drifting, so I can skip that all the time. You also need to have a decent car for every classes that divided into 5 classes from B to S+. SO you better save your money to max out every classes you want to participate races.
✔ Loading rendered objects much faster than previous entry (in this case I was testing them with SSD for both)
✔ The animations are so good, like teasing rivals or even in cut-scene love it!
✔ Catchy soundtrack easily pump up adrenaline
✔ Some people hate VFX (not me) for dirt and smoulder that come from exhaust. Criterion heard it and be able to turn off
✔ There's Most Wanted 2005 iconic car in side quest
❌ There's still no physics for wall objects that can be hit, only 2 types: destructible or not.
❌ The last race should be more intense and memorable to get our car back. The car should be an icon for NFS - Unbound the Mercedes one (it shows on the cover)
Verdict: 8/10 ❤❤❤❤❤
The game looks cool but it's pretty grindy and the story is really silly so please ignore it.
me lembrou most wanted
I said it in my Heat review I'll say it again; words cannot describe my hatred for "press gas and brake to switch the car to drift mode" in this game. How Criterion managed to copy a feature that made me hate modern NFS handling from Ghost Games is beyond me. You can't even straighten the car without pressing the same keys again. Oh, again, cringe campaign and ass soundtrack.
While the racing itself feels great, the game still feels like it's a bit lacking in content, it just becomes a huge grind with not much else to do if you are looking to get all collectibles and expensive cars.
I didn't enjoy having police coming out of nowhere crashing at me from all direction at once when I was just trying to win a race to progress the fucking campaign. I felt like playing Mario Kart except I was given absolutely nothing as compensation whenever fucking bad luck happens.
heat was better
really charming world and an admirable attempt to mix underground 2 and most wanted, but some things really fell apart, absolutely HATED the checkpoint system, i think the heat system / police needed to be worked on better (shaking off the helicopter shouldn't be this easy lol) and i wanted to outrun the NPCs considering they talk a lot and have real personalities. anyway for anyone picking this up they should get a lamborghini or similarly super-fast car as early as possible that made the game so ridiculously fun to play