BeefJack: "It’s taken EA six years to prise Criterion away from their beloved Burnout and onto Need for Speed, but it’s more than worth the wait. They’ve smashed the two into one another with glee, wrapping the best elements of both in a joyous explosion of sparks, spikes and spectacular speed. It’s cops and robbers writ large on four wheels, absolutely beautiful throughout, and the mayhem that ensues is a thrill to partake in. The series’ days in the FMV wilderness are dead, buried in the Seacrest desert where we’ll hopefully never see their like again."
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 - "EA know a good thing when they see it, and for multiple years November was Need for Speed month. In a break from the usual routine, I'm going to be looking back at two games here, released in 2005 and 2010 respectively. The earlier game is Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has the distinction of being one of the very best in the franchise. The second game comes from 2010, and is Need for Speed Hot Pursuit; which I'll talk about just as the Remastered version of the game has hit the stores."
I completely adore this game! In fact its probably my favorite racing game. I recently dusted off my xbox 360 to play Most Wanted 2005. Still a great game, though I do not remember there being such horrible performance. Like massive frame-pacing issues. screen tearing, latency. If any game ever truly needed to be remastered, it this one for sure!
A pulled retailer page previously listed a November release date.
No NFS released since Hot Pursuit (2010) has came close. The Ghost Games NFS games were just dreadful (to me they were anyway, 2015 was okay I suppose). Would love to replay this and I hope it has an update for next-gen as well.
I loved Most Wanted as well (on PS3, I think it released in 2012). After that, it has gone downhill, but the latest games are slowly coming back up. I loved NFS Heat, but it needs to get better before it comes back to same level as NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted.
Then again, NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted were likely better because they were from Criterion (in fact, those were the last 2 games from criterion in nfs series).
I would be excited but NFS is basically dead in the water at this point, a shell of its former self.
... this could have been a nice follow-up to the Burnout series, but with the DLC-scamming going on, there's no way in hell I'd ever pay full-price for this.
Maybe next year when they release a complete version for 20 bucks or something, I might still be interested.
this one is killing gt5 in reviews!
I know is an arkade game but it got real good reviews.
This game is a beast... this plus gt5 I'm set
this is racing game of the year(period)and im a PS3 owner.i just picked up the new DLC car pack in the PS store.its ONLINE MADNESS!!PSN:ROCCOZILLA
I am thinking about getting NFS:HP tonight. But with playing GT5 I cant see me playing it much just yet. It has been getting some great review scores so it will be another game to add to my collection.