Buggy partyl broken and even with loads to do. It feels empty. This game conflicts so many and especially me. It's got the opposite problem of 2015 need for speed. Massive open world but lacking character with a few highlights. Tons of cars but I feel over half of them are old models from many years ago. Customisation is great for only very few cars. Also progression is a literal slot machine. The game tries to keep you interested with constant free shit and a map with a bajillion activities, annoying and highly consistent chattering with dialogue that is constant lampshading. Honestly prefer the live action cutscenes in NFS of old. There's a few events that are cool set pieces and a YouTube channel that I'm a fan of donut has a handful of events that are fun. There's ultimately a lot to do but it's odd having to find motivation to do much even if you're so heavily rewarded doing anything. Praying the next improves rather than steipping more features

This game gets a bump from its previous rating only cause upon revisiting I realise that we've gone backwards. An utter incredibly beautiful game. The art and tech is almost timeless. This definitely was gonna be a killer underground 3 but unfortunately it got hit with that live service stick and playing it nowadays requires fixes to get controller support working and such. But man the atmosphere alone gets the rating so high for me. The car selection although low blows my mind on how detailed they are for how old they are as well. Camera is beautifully cinematic and although physics are a bit wonky at times. I could vibe out to this game for a long time. If it didn't keep breaking on me. I wish we lived this more when it came out cause I really think NFS has regressed