Looks kinda bland to me, to be honest. I'm sure a basic race mode like that won't be the main reason I'd play it, but that doesn't inspire me. However, I do like the stats system, the fact that it's always alive and updating, so here's hoping this one turns out well.
I remember the old PS1 Need for Speed without the powersliding and boosting and with lots of winding tracks, different weather, heaps of cop cars and helicopters.
Is this the Criterion NFS game? It looks like Burnout with crummier car damage because they're all licenced, which is pretty much what everyone expected.
I haven't played a Need for Speed since High Stakes, and I think the series peaked with NFS 2, so I'm probably not the marked for this game. Back in the 90s the kind of exotic cars they had in these games were actually exotic; there weren't TV shows devoted to them or millions of websites with thousands of pictures. And maybe it's just because I was younger back then, but the old Need for Speed cars were mysterious beasts. Now it's just Lamborghinis and Porsches and stuff you see out on the road.
The setting itself brought back fond memories of the desert tracks in Need for Speed 3. I loved the rock formations in the middle of the road and the open highway feel of it all.
Though admittedly it looks less complex than the twistier, narrower tracks in Hot Pursuit.
I assume that's to allow for Criterion's trademark sense of blistering speed. Sadly it does look a little bit too much like Burnout at times.
Now I love Burnout, but it's no Hot Pursuit. Hot Pursuit needs weighty cars and dogged chases with the police, who shouldn't be disabled with a "takedown" style crash.
Looks nice and fluid but have to agree with kartanym.. it's very bland looking. Also, I am assuming poorly implemented rubber-band AI will be again in this one, just like every other NFS before it.
As you can see, I have lost my love for this series.. they need to do something groundbreaking before I will consider paying for another NFS and I am just not seeing anything even close to groundbreaking in this trailer.
Going to be interesting, also saw a different trailer for it the other day at GAME, seemed far more impressive there.
For me it feels like the design team are struggling to throw off their BURNOUT origins with this though, looks like the best NFS since MW, but that may not be saying much?
I definitely prefer Outrun's more fantastical scenery and chilled out music... i guess thats just the difference between american and japanese audiences.
The thing Ive always felt is that they've always got the sense of speed right in their games. Im not a big fan of rubber band AI which they used a lot in Burnout 2 and 3. I haven't played enough of paradise to know whether this is the case. Paradise was let down by a case of mundaneness...
My favourite NFS game is still NFS2... playing knockout over a number of races splitscreen with my brother was epic.
Loading...
