Need for Speed Heat Review - again on course

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Surprisingly, Need for Speed ​​is good again.

The Need for Speed The franchise business has been in a disappointing phase for several years. After Ghost Games had taken the reins of Criterion and belonged to the leading racing companies in the industry, the production of the franchise company was highly inconsistent. 2013 is rivalen It was a solid debut for the developer, but since each game was worse than the last until 2017 the series reached the low point Rückpahr.

However, this year NEED for Speed ​​Heat is fortunately a remarkable return to the form. It is not the best arcade racer you will ever play, and there is still improvement potential, but Hitze seems to understand what the most important components of an open-world arcade racer should be, and creates the greatest focus on the Proper implementation of these components. Need for speed heat has a story, and as expected, it is only more wannabe- nell and angry trip - with tricky font, uninterrupted chatter of characters and ridiculous scenarios - but even the story is emphasized here much less than in, Let's say, rob payment. Hitz understands that it is primarily a game for quick driving.

Need for Speed ​​Heat understands that it is primarily a game of fast driving.

The coin has two pages NEED for Speed ​​Heat- Tasin - if you participate in legal, sanctioned events where you earn money for upgrades and new cars - and aftertride - if you are in illegal races with the traffic and laws In conflict, race through the streets to make more money to earn your representative to unlock more upgrades and vehicles for purchase. Strangely, there is no day / night cycle, and switching from one to another must be done manually, which means that everyone has their own activities and resulting rewards.

On the paper it is a system that sounds too mechanically, but actually works very well. The clear separation between the two gives you a lot of control over not only the progress, but also about the type of race to participate. You have little money and want to earn some money? Take part in a few daily races and earn some money. Are you looking for more carefree high-speed thrills or the ability to unlock a better set to upgrade components? Go out at night. Need for Speed ​​Heat lets you say that.

It also helps that day and night feel very different as you should. Although Palm City looks a bit boring during the day (unless it rains), it will be awakened at night to life, and it is a blessing if you drive through the streets throughout the streets with a speed of a hundred and fifty miles per hour, or Watch the whole city in front of you with thousands of lights, which sparkle like stars, if you race a hill down.

Palm City is brought to life at night, and it's a blessing when you watch the neon-flooded streets fly over with a hundred and fifty miles per hour, or if you see how the whole city sparkles with thousands of people in front of them sparkle lights Stars when you run down a hill.

Day and night feel at different ways separated from each other. At night to race is an absolute blast due to need for speed heat's interventional risk / yield mechanics. The more events you visit in one night and the more problems you have with the law, the higher your heat level increases. Superficially considered their heat level is their desired level, with policemen with increasing level become more aggressive, but their heat level also acts as a multiplier for all rewards, which they have accumulated until the end of the night. Finish the night by sure in a garage with high heat. Thanks to your multiplier, you will receive enormous rewards. However, go too far and will be attacked by the bulls or destroyed at a high speed hunt, and they lose everything. It is a very well thought-out and well-implemented system that ensures that it is a thrill every time a thrill to leave at night.

Driving itself is also solid in need for speed heat. In this game is a great feeling of speed, and when racing with neckbrokeric speeds through the city, the adrenaline is definitely launched. The game also has a unique drift mechanism in which you have to drain the gas instead of pumping the breaks while sliding in the corner, and then need to pump it again immediately while you turn. It is getting used to getting used to and still need for speed heat gives you the opportunity to switch to regular drift mechanics, I stay with the default system. When I got used to it, I became really grateful for the balance that it was between simplicity and the Requirement of a certain ability offered. More importantly, it was still so well fueled the perfect drift while turning into curves at high speed.

Something disappointing is the damage mechanics. In contrast to ausburn and several previous need for speed games, in _ heat, _ You can not just get the bulls or your opponents going to rate your rides. Instead, they and the bulls have both health ingots, and every impact eats a part of this bar away. It takes the thrill of the car vaccine, which is so important in Arcade racers of this kind, and although persecution hunts with police officers still have fun HITHS Due to the aggressiveness of the cops and the joy of driving I had the feeling that they could have been much better if I only collide with police cars and watch as they are destroyed.

Driving itself is also solid in NEED for Speed ​​Heat. In this game is a great feeling of speed, and when racing with neckbrokeric speeds through the city, the adrenaline is definitely launched.

Need for Speed ​​Heat is of course an open-world game - why not? Palm City is great to see, with a lot of visual variety and some well-designed areas in the city that some really entertaining activities stimulate. In contrast to the map in, we say, The crew 2, _ it also has the perfect size and feels neither too blued nor too small. However, as with most open-world racers, the topic is the _HITZE it's not about size or visual diversity, but about how many exciting open-world activities it offers.

In this area, need for Speed Hitz stumbles a little. In the opening hours, there is not much to do, except for trapping by speed traps or smashed by advertising boards - as usual - but the game fortunately adds more activities when it continues. Finally, you can also find driving challenges, stunts, flamingos and break and much more. Most of these activities can start a lot of fun at first, especially when they ask them to think about the world and their environment and to use them in an interesting way, but they will lean pretty quickly. When I played more than a dozen hours, I had started to start the Open World activities red and repetitively, and I had lost the will to deal with them. Sure, driving through the open world is fun, but it can only be fun until long.

Although the open world does not manage to employ the players in the long term, need for speed heat's profound adjustment mechanisms make up for it. There are a variety of customization options - cosmetic and others - and it is very satisfying to start based on basic level and transform it through constant improvements to an absolute monster. Even more impressive is that the variety of components and parts you can acquire ensures that you can equip your car depending on the type of event on which you participate at will be equipped with events or road races. Double earning rep to unlock better upgrades and earn money for their purchase works very well with the variety of available customization options. The very best thing is that at the time of writing there are no terrible skilled maps, random beieboxes or microstransaktions in the game that could neutralize these systems.

Double earning representatives to unlock better upgrades and earn money to buy them works very well with the wealth of customization options that are available.

Need for Speed Heat is easy the best and most comfortable need for Speed game in years. It reduces the unnecessary crap to which its predecessors have put so much value, and eliminates the paralyzing monetization ruined _rob payment, _ and instead focuses on the things most importantly - good driving, exciting chases and many, many Adjustments. It will not be on fire the world, but it's a great comeback for the franchise. This is hopefully a direction that Ghost Games and EA will continue to go in the future. _ This game was tested on the Xbox One. _ ## THE GOOD Driving is fast and fun. The risk-benefit ratio of aftertride is constantly exciting. Thoughtful and implemented progression system; Many adjustment options; Palm City looks great at night.