After the botched NFS: Most Wanted Finally a bright spot

After the botched NFS: Most Wanted Finally a bright spot

Need For Speed ​​Rivals - Limited Edition (Video Game)

Customer Review

In Need for Speed ​​Rivals to racers and cops deliver again a fierce battle on the very considerable and varied streets of Redwood Country. Who already published three years ago, the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit has played, will soon feel at home even in the new part. To titled Rivals (in German: rivals) to give a little more respect, you will be told in the intro, and in short cutscenes when changing chapters, a little story. Granted, stories never counted among the strengths of Need for Speed ​​and even with NFS Rivals can summarize the plot in three clichéd words: rebel against law enforcers. However, this is in my view not so bad as I had expected no Tangible history and also offers simple game design no place for a proper storyline, because NFS: Rivals is just not a pure single-player game more. Of course you can choose in the options or that you wish to play alone, but the basic idea is here more in social games with other racers. This is also an attempt to integrate a new feature called Overwatch, so you can intervene by smartphone or tablet in the game or intended to friends life easier or make more difficult similar to the Commander mode in Battlefield. 4

For the fight in Redwood Country you are a speeder as well as well as very fast and expensive vehicles Cop available, which can be equipped with an ample repertoire of weapons. There are two free slots per vehicle that can fill their will with attack and / or defense technology. As Raser can you z. B. with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) Cops shoot to momentarily put their vehicle electronics out of action, or protect you against a same attack on cop-side by ESF (electrostatic field) before EMP captures. For a particularly quick escape you can fall back on a turbo, which allows you for a short time a huge boost to the front. As a cop since its not worse position and are allowed to you on this side over many gimmicks pleased. From helicopters, roadblocks, nail strips to electric weapons, everything is possible. But be careful, each weapon has its pros and cons, which applies to both sides. A Turbo on Raser page brings z. B. a tremendous boost with itself, which wants to be but also well controlled. Otherwise you end up also like in the wall or in the windshield of another vehicle. A helicopter on Cop-side, for example, good for the pursuit of one-rodders located further away, but could be a tunnel quickly lead to loss of track. Therefore, a good track knowledge is certainly an advantage.

Of course you are not on both sides from the outset all the technologies and vehicles available, but must be earned in the course of your career. This it achieved when it meets the relevant objectives. As a racer you can select different speed selection, which are categorized by race, pursuit and driving. Closes her a Speed ​​List from, a new vehicle is unlocked. In addition, sometimes one or more technologies and Technology-configuration levels (level) will be unlocked. As law enforcement officers their benefits probably of the taxpayers' money the good citizens, as you can select and run one of the unlocked vehicle directly. Previously, you have but to complete task lists here. This privilege you do not have a criminal, because the enabling you virtually only entitled to purchase. Would you like the respective Vehicle your own call, you buy this through your previously earned Speed ​​Points (SP). Speed ​​Points you gain z. B. for the conclusion of speed selection, a successful head-to-head races and events, or to turn off the cops.

Regarding the Technolgien, you must buy this on both sides (Racer & Cop) by Speed ​​Points. Here, the acquisition of expansion stages in my eyes is somewhat questionable, because you want to z. B. an EMP Level 3 in your vehicle installed, you must first turn the Level 1 and Level 2 then buy. This means that her three times expensive speedpoints invest must be a good idea to check the playing time to drive up artificially. It's enough completely that you have to start with each new vehicle technology with empty slots, what is in my eyes but clearly acceptable.
New team, new luck? Well done, Ghosts!

A new title, a new team and a next-gen console That can not really go well, right? Cursed again, it comes! After the last title of the Need for Speed ​​series could hardly shine, it creates Ghost Games back to a great NFS: Hot Pursuit to socialize and sometimes even better. Already after her leaving the overview map and for the first time on the streets of Redwood Country are traveling, you can expect a great and active landscape with very different routes and passages. Even after a few hours of play, there are here and there still something new to discover. The choice of route elements can really be seen, because of small towns, abandoned roads, long straight freeways with multiple branches and winding ups and downs is everything. The various weather elements have at NFS Rivals again found harmony, so that you can look through spontaneous rainfalls, smooth ice roads and desert sand happy. But not only the chic landscape knows how to impress, but also the gameplay is again far ahead. The sense of speed is delightfully rapidly and every racing car behaves differently. Never mind whether to heat as a racer or cop, it just makes a lot of fun through the area and destructible obstacles to boards. Thanks to Kinect support, you can give some commands using voice commands instead of using the directional pad. Thus, can be set via command EasyDrive z. B. the EasyDrive menu to plan the route to the next event or to the nearest garage. However, I personally prefer the good old method.

The background music complements the dramatic gameplay in addition, at least the engine sound in NFS: Hot Pursuit was a touch more crisp. The degree of difficulty in a solo game is very demanding on both sides and no bed of roses. As Raser you make the cops with increasing wanted level life really hard and as a cop you surprise the Raser very often with spontaneous maneuvers, especially when you meet simultaneously on multiple traffic offenders. The AI ​​is on both sides, with a few exceptions, very solid, with just the few exceptions can sometimes create frustration, especially if you are traveling as a cop. Rather than proceed with you together against the Straßenraudis to your AI colleagues turn out often as a secret enemy and ram you off the road, honking like crazy and driving you Eiskalt again fully in the cart clean after you've built a crash. Accidents, pass through obstacles, jostling and attacks by technology weapons damage of course your vehicle. If your claim form in the basement, your car is destroyed. What follows is the return to the garage with the loss of all earned Speed ​​Points from the last session. Therefore, stations are your best friend, because you ride through it, not only your vehicle is repaired, but also filled the nitrous oxide as well as the number of activated technology weapons again.
A few bugs and little difference to the load-Gen version

Fortunately, I have not noticed any major bugs in NFS Rivals, however, there are always two points that could be improved. On the one hand it comes with the Xbox One occasionally disgusting pop-ups at the landscapes that can appear for a split second everything in white and the other one sometimes loses control of the vehicle. The view is switched to for a few seconds in a free camera movement and the controller does not respond during this period first. This loss of control can provide to the test during a daring bid patience. At first I had thought this an effect of a technology-attack, but since this phenomenon occurs even in pure cruising, I could rule this out quickly. In the end the problem was due to the Kinect support, which has apparently trouble all sounds reasonable from the game to filters. Thus, an occasional command is recognized, that triggers this controller problem. If you switch the support Kinect in the options from, no longer have this problem. Otherwise there are no major criticisms. On the Xbox 360 Need for Speed ​​Rivals also makes a very good figure. Apart from a few understandable compromising on graphics, especially when the vehicle models and the reduced visibility, the title plays exactly like on the next-gen console. Here me the aforementioned bugs Xbox One version are not noticed.

Conclusion

Yeah, Need for Speed ​​Rivals is finally a NFS to my taste! The times where you can buy blind followers, are all the latest after NFS: The Run over, because even as I had wondered what it had been attempted with this branch. The consumer has come not so good the idea with us, you understand at EA and you wanted with NFS: Most Wanted all do better. Did that work? No! I do not want to drive around and just get into any car to drive it, but I want to earn it myself! It can not be that we procured a huge advantage in the race, just because you have the better car found. Ghost Games has my faith in the franchise brought back again and shows in the form of a new team, as mans can do. It had the new team not easy, because in addition to a new title, this should also convince the same on the next-gen console. In my eyes, the boys and girls have done everything correctly and as a result is a title with us very handsome appearance, a great and usual gameplay with some improvements and a great sound before. Only the questionable level Politk in technology weapons, the little problems in AI and the little bugs (at least for the Xbox One version) the game enjoyment dim slightly. Those who Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit have loved, you will safely access and I'm pretty sure that will look for new arrivals in the Need for Speed ​​franchise like the debut of Ghost Games.

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