No genre has suffered more within the past two generations of gaming than racing games. Need for Speed is a shell of its former self. Burnout is dead. Namco seems to have forgotten Ridge Racer, and Sony has abandoned MotorStorm and seems hellbent on ruining Gran Turismo. Sure, there’s other racing games out there like Forza, Project Cars, and The Crew, but they all feel so utterly inessential, coming and going without much fanfare except from the most hardcore of racing game fans.
Need for Speed: Unbound is fine. It’s better than Payback and Heat, but that’s the faintest praise I could possibly offer it. I just can’t get excited by it because Need for Speed used to be better than just fine. It used to be that a Need for Speed game would come out and it would be one of the best games of the year. Now a new Need for Speed game comes out and it feels like hardly anyone cares.
Need for Speed: Unbound is fine. It’s better than Payback and Heat, but that’s the faintest praise I could possibly offer it. I just can’t get excited by it because Need for Speed used to be better than just fine. It used to be that a Need for Speed game would come out and it would be one of the best games of the year. Now a new Need for Speed game comes out and it feels like hardly anyone cares.