It hasn't toppled Forza Horizon, but Need for Speed Unbound is still full of style and high-speed thrills.
There was a time when Need For Speed was as guaranteed a Christmas number one spot as a Simon Cowell reality show winner. Before there was Forza Horizon, all festivals and physics, there was this. A Fast and Furious analog with spoilers on its spoilers, every year exactly the same super-accessible arcade racer about underground tuner culture and corrupt cops. And we didn't care that it was as formulaic as the aforementioned contest winner's carefully selected Leonard Cohen cover.
For the first time, Need For Speed looks the way it drives. It doesn't entirely wash its hands of reality, but instead exaggerates and augments it. These aren't cars as they would behave if you actually flung them into a 90-degree turn at 120mph with nary a dab of the brakes, they're cars as you want them to behave. Cartoonishly compliant, twitchy things that don't make use of a sim racer's skills any more than a 4X player's.
Not that there isn't skill in going fast. The margins between decent and good driving are all about boost generation and management. A slightly confusing double-layered NOS boost system fills up as you do dangerous stuff—driving into oncoming traffic, near misses with traffic, drifts—and offers additional shots of boost for chaining these feats. If you game this mechanic hard, you can be boosting for half the race or more, and that makes a big difference to your times.
What it's lost since the last game is the heat multiplier, which encouraged you to actively piss off the cops in order to raise your heat level before the end of the night. With a x5 heat multiplier on your rep, you'd bank huge XP and unlock new cars and parts that were previously out of reach. That's gone now, and it feels like a step backwards.
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