Interaction with other gamers is fleeting and mute at most. Need For Speed’s beautiful Ventura Bay setting looks amazing with a slick neon glow, but it simply isn’t teeming with players. Plus, when it does work, all of that is mostly underused. Without a connection, you won’t be playing Need For Speed at all.
Sadly, the ‘always online’ element is plagued with wee bugs and connection issues that kick you back to the menu during a race, or leave you waiting to connect to a server for painfully long periods of time. All of this is complemented by a unique, always-connected online world, where a selection of other players dash around the city on their own errands, and it’s all glamorous skidmarks and supe’d up tesoste-racing.
You’re in constant contact with your peers as your phone fills up with text messages offering time trials, tasks and challenges to fulfil at your leisure while you casually network with the city’s young, beautiful racing underworld. This is a game that wants you to believe you’re whizzing around the slick, wet streets of Ventura Bay, catching up with story-driven characters and real-life counterparts for high-octane moonlit street races. Like most reboots, Need for Speed’s overhaul is largely unnecessary. So, why not reboot the whole thing, eh? Let’s Spider-Man the shit out of it. In its latter years, it even ushered in a bit of soap opera drama, like all good racing games shouldn’t. It’s one that shamelessly flashes its arcade fangs alongside enough car porn to satiate any drooling gearheads. We’ve always liked the Need for Speed series.
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