Need For Speed ​​Rivals: Worthy of 8 points

Need For Speed​​: Rivals with significant improvements compared to its predecessor Most Wanted 2012 proved worth 8 points.

Since the Criterion Games takeover Need For Speed ​​brand from Black Box after much hand version of the game causing frustration as Pro Street or Undercover, game studio from England who contributed two versions revive the series with the phase exciting chase primitive style of Need for Speed ​​is more towards illegal racing like Underground or Most Wanted in 2005. Although this is not all the fan agreement, but undeniably Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted 2012.

Trailer game

However Need For Speed ​​Rivals version of 2013 would not have done by Criterion Games, but instead is Ghost Games, a brand new studio from Sweden. This led some fans of the long game series worried whether that given the Need For Speed ​​brand on their first project will make their debut series already struggling will be going.

However, it seems Ghost Games completed their tasks perfectly, creating a version of Need For Speed ​​brings old experiences but not boring. Of course, the first product of Swedes still not on par with Most Wanted 2005.

Boundary

"There are only two kinds of people driving very fast, a police officer, another are criminals". Like with Hot Pursuit 2010 or Most Wanted 2013 of Criterion, Rivals will focus on the story between those who live outside the law, taken as speed enthusiasts, despite all the dangers, and the duty, the police have no bad blood doses, with the sole purpose is to bring order to the route.

Of course, if the police get daily patrol car to confront the notorious racer sitting in the supercar, it is an extremely limps comparison. Instead, both sides have owned their machines with remarkable speed, not inferior to the staging Gallardo of Italian police, or the cars that the Middle East oil billionaires drive everyday.

Here, differences, it creates attraction for Need for Speed​​: Rivals are expressed most clearly.

Selection

If as in the previous version, gamers will move forward in the game with the completion of the races, earn enough points to level up, but in Need for Speed​​ Rivals, things will be completely different. 

A new concept called Speed ​​List is introduced. Here, a list of the players need to do in order to level up, unlock new cars in the collection, though not huge, but all the cult names the game. Only after completing the task like this, gamers can go further in the game.

These tasks have the incredibly diverse. It can simply win 3rd or more rankings in the races, chases, or drift with a given length. However, the higher the mission or races will be more difficult because you own the advanced technology  and cars, the competitors can do so, and they will not hesitate to use them leading the race, or to hold your foot.

Experiencing the races, gamers will get yourself an amount of Point Speed ​​depends on vehicle control skills. Have the more high speed drift, or eliminate rivals hard on the track, the higher the Speed ​​Point. Speed ​​Point amount will be used to pay the cost of upgrading the car, buy new tools, such as EMP, stun mine or turbo to have an advantage in the chase, or more simply purchase the decal layer enables the vehicle becomes more vivid.

The race in game is not different than Hot Pursuit 2012. That may be the Time Trial, Race, Pursuit hell for drivers, or Rapid response or Interceptor for police. It was not much different, but the Speed ​​list make them become more important for the player.

Equally attractive 

That is the phrase used to describe the played part  by the racers if compared with the played part by the police. At first you might think that the police will get more advantages, because after completing the selected Speed ​​List (can re-select a different Speed ​​List), the cars will be unlocked directly to the officers, rather than having to buy by speed point as riders.

But the difficulty of the police is that they do not live outside the law, so their cars will be limited to a certain point and no option as the car racers. However, with the emergence of 3 versions for each car, players will become more excited when conducting unlock the side of the police vehicle.

More specifically, three speed per rank list of the police are divided into categories Normal, Enforcer and Undercover. The wagon of Enforcer version will be healthier than in the collision but also more slowly, while the vehicle of Undercover is owned maximum speed for the secret police. How to unblock them will also depending on the level and difficulty of the game.

Car upgrading comes back, but ... 

Unlike the police side, the outlaw racers have a parking system according to their own wishes. It is somewhat unfortunate for the fans of Most Wanted 2005, although car upgrading has come over Most Wanted  2012, but lacks the substance has made ​​a name of one of the most famous versions of Need For Speed ​​in history.

Number of Vinyl and decal is poor, unimpressive. There is no option to change the body kit or spoiler holes, but only the number plate (probably for the same crime asa professional). Similarly, the option to upgrade the engine, transmission, chassis parts ... are owning 5 different levels depending on the level of characters in the game, but the tuning mechanism follow liking still no go back.

In exchange, each car will have different steering feeling. For example, Dodge SRT owns high speed and durability but very hard to corner, or Lamborghini Veneno is easy to drive but also easy to be disqualified from the race because body "underweight" of it. But if the driver manually edit his car, apparently the fans will still get excited over.

A vivid world 

Thanks to the Frostbite advanced graphics engine 3, Need for Speed​​ Rivals gives an open world with lots of vast and varied roads, forcing the players take to find out if they want to "the first" in the race.

Applying new technology weather, the race will be extremely impressed with the visual effects, the rain drops clinging to the simulation screen of the windshield, sparks emitted from collision, or  blurred effects when an opponent is affected by EMP or stun the race. The collisions also have more power compared to version Need For Speed ​​2012.

In addition, the game almost no concept of "gamers play alone." In the races, the speed traps scattered around the map there are always other players to join. You can participate solo confrontation with this gamer, or compete with them in any task. 

Not to mention the racing mode where players will take turns to be hell drivers and polices. In Need for Speed​​ Rivals, following successful socialization of Most Wanted and Hot Pursuit, the game experience is still extremely impressive.

Easydrive menu on screen corner came back, but they only seem to help the gamers to play online allows creating tasks, the new race and invite other players to join.

Delicacies for gamers who love speed 

Need For Speed ​​is usually hidden defects but fortunately, in this year's version of Rivals, the cons are almost not affected too much to the player's gaming experience. Beginning with the game's framerate locked at 30 FPS on any platform, including the PS4 or PC to ensure the quality of gameplay as more gamers join a map.

This makes the gaming experience sometimes is not smooth as desired, but the quality image of Need for Speed​​ Rivals is not too bad on the machine has midrange configuration. 

Besides the car upgrading is little poor and unsatisfactory for hot fan, a small error in the  chase process raises , accidentally causing the challenge in the game to significantly reduced. Usually when the police are chasing, you will not be able to return to a shelter (often referred to as the Safe House).

But even if you're being chased by helicopter, you absolutely can run straight home and to calm things like chase never happened, and you did not lose any bit Speed ​​Point.

Ignore the junk errors like this, with the graphics, gameplay depth, as well as differences create the charisma compared to the previous versions, Need For Speed ​​Rivals can deserved to score 8 / 10. This is an excited game for the speed enthusiast gamers.http://playgameplus.blogspot.com/p/game-pc.html