The entire reputation system works really well. Improving your overall ranking will open up new events as well as new parts and customization options for your vehicles. As you progress, you earn reputation in each of their respective categories, which all adds up to create your total ranking in the game. Spike is all about speed, and he will lead you to coming face to face with Magnus Walker. For example, Manu is a fan of drift and style events, therefore following his path will lead you up to a showdown with real-life rally driver Ken Block.

They each offer you opportunities to pursue a storyline based on their “area” of the racing world too it is almost as if there are five different directions that you can take the tale, each culminating in meeting up with their respective driving icons. The acting is incredibly corny at times, but the characters you meet are strangely likable, even if they’re all stereotypical and contrived for each of their roles.Įach of your friends represents a style of driving or racing presented in the game. As a newcomer to the area, you immediately fall in with a group of racing friends, who you interact with through a variety of first-person FMV clips. The experience is a lot more open this time around as you can go where ever you want, when ever you want the entire city is open to you from the start. Set in the open world of Ventura Bay, you’re given a virtual playground to explore and exploit at your own will. Just like 2003‘s NFS Underground, the new NFS is all about the nightlife of street racing.

Although the game is being called a “fresh start” for the franchise, the new Need for Speed (NFS) feels like it is an idea that we have seen before. I don’t think it is an issue of creators running out of ideas, but rather many of them taking a chance on revitalizing some of their forgotten favorites, regardless of the medium.

There are a lot of ideas and concepts being revisited with the hopes that they will catch on again. Whether you look at music, movies, toys, or even video games, everything old is new again.

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