Need for Speed: Rivals is the latest twitch-racer from Electronic Arts, following on from last year’s Most Wanted. The Need for Speed franchise has been around for twenty years now but much of the noughties saw forgettable entries from various studios until EA tasked their leading racing light - Criterion Games - with reviving the series and taking it back to its roots in 2010. That year saw the release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, a return to the series’ staples of fast cars, police chases and just stunningly good arcade racing. This year Criterion has handed over to Ghost Games. In-between Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted we had The Run from EA Black Box and whilst it looked as pretty as the games it was bookended by, it didn’t match the exhilaration and total enjoyment of Criterion’s propositions
After nearly three decades of NFS games, here's a list of the best Need For Speed titles that have ever been released in the past years, ranked by The Nerd Stash.
Paul writes: "Without further ado, here is my list of the best and worst Need For Speed games in the history of the world! I'll run worst to best, so if you want to know which is the best ever Need for Speed game, you’ll have to read on."
Most wanted 2012 imo was awful, on PS3 the graphics are dreadful, and the crash cam was very annoying. Rival is the worst imo, hated that game. My favourite is Hot Pursuit, great game. Also Shift 1&2 are really good.
High Stakes will always be my favorite. Great cars, great music, and you could see through the windows which was pretty mind-blowing at the time. Best of all it was ricer-free.
Lame. The list doesn't even include any of the originals. NFS 1 and NFS hot Pursuit 1998. Must be a youngster who created the list.
He clearly stated that being this was an Xbox centered site he was going to limit his list to games that released on some form of Xbox. He also stated he had been playing them since OG PLaystation, so pretty sure he's not a "youngster"
From my personal experience NFS I personally don't like.......
The Worst : Underground 2 , Carbon, Prostreets, Undercover, Porche unleashed, Nitro, NFS World, 2012 Mostwanted, Rivals, 2015 Reboot last but not least Paycrap.
Best NFS I personally like :
All ps1 NFS : HighStakes (the best) including NFS 3 Hotpursuit , ps2 Hotpursuit 2 (Excellent game ) ..Underground ( Best so far)
2005 Mostwanted ( Excellent game) Shift 1/2 (Spectacular) remind me of GT , 2010 Hotpursuit Great game but race Waaaaaaay to long in my personal opinion . Last but not least The Run . these are my favorite NFS titles .
After The Run in my personal opinion NFS went down hill fast with Open world mapping crap, always online, multiplayer crap, alldrive, drifting in every freaking corners, no gripping anymore,autolog. None of this crapfest is NFS original formula. until Ea contract Ghost Games to return the original formula back in NFS it will always be Shitty game.
For 25 years now the Need for Speed series has kept its fans glued to their seats, but what are the standout titles?
NFSU2
NFSU
NFSMW
NFS(3DO)
Those are my favorites. Anything released recently is a big steaming pile of hot garbage.
My favs in order: NFS 3 Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit II, Both Undergrounds, Carbon, Prostreet, Shift 2 is a masterpiece
NFS MOST WANTED wiiu go buy it the game is a master piece wow yes i have access to rivals ps4 and Mostwanted wiiu/pc and Mostwanted wiiu beats it in all areas.....
NFS rivals ps4 scores a 80 on metacritic but users score it 69
NFS Mostwanted U scores 86 on metacritic but users score it 72
So lets add both main score and user score
ps4 rivals 149
WiiU MW 158
Enough said......
Most wanted U textures destroy rivals.....Criterion are just the best.
Same reviewer gave Most wanted U a 9/10 so pow.....he also states that Mostwanted U is better in sound and graphics...basically says the wiiu game is aggressive and much more fun.
Where are the city scapes in rivals ??? all i see is deserts which is alot easier to render....
Got Rivals and really tried to get into it, but it just doesn't click. The world feels empty and boring and that I can only play one path instead of replaying the others afterwards is annoying. I would have preferred an open world game that has a normal progression like Most Wanter or Burnout Paradise.