You can challenge them to races or attempt to run them off the road, depending on your play style, in an attempt to steal their SpeedPoints.ĪllDrive trickles into almost every aspect of Need for Speed Rivals. Players can drop-in and drop-out of a multiplayer match with up to six players almost seamlessly, maintaining their progress through the story as well as any unlocks they’ve gained. The core of Need for Speed Rivals lies in its seamless singleplayer to multiplayer AllDrive mechanic. You won’t be tweaking any suspension or picking out fuel injectors. That said, while the intuitive handling lends itself well to beginning racers, racing game aficionados may be unimpressed with the game’s lack of specific customization. Supreme handling and simple controls enable players to start having fun from the moment they start up the game, instead of working around a bloated tutorial or fumbling with adjustments like in other racing games. Even at an entry level, I was able to satisfyingly drift and slide around turns within 30 minutes of play. The cars all handle insanely well, and I never felt like I was ever hindered because of the controls. This creates some insanely high intensity moments that you’ll want to talk about for days after. Before you know it, you’ve got cops chasing both of you in a hot pursuit as you race to the finish line. A player can be flying away from the cops and challenge another racer in the middle of their own event. One of my favorite mechanics in the game was the ability to overlap events. Cops spend most of their time trying to bust racers, smashing them off the road or taking them down with their pursuit tech (the weapons used to gain an unsportsmanlike advantage against racers,) while racers usually try and outrun cops and get into high speed races. Switching between either is a simple matter of heading back to a safehouse and choosing to swap factions. Players choose between cops or racers, and each faction has their own separate events and objectives. As you progress through the game, the plot unfolds in between races as cutscenes that are enough to pull you through the game, but don’t expect to get too invested in any aspect of the story.
The game takes place in the fictional Redwood County, where cops and racers have been battling it out, constantly one-upping the opposing faction into an insane rivalry.
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Developer Ghost Games strives to give the series a much needed shot in the arm with this most recent iteration. The franchise has been a bit lacking in recent years, and I’ve been waiting for an entry that gives me that indescribable feeling I had the first time I drifted through Olympic City in Need for Speed Underground 2 back in 2003. Need for Speed is a franchise with a long, storied history, and Rivals marks the 20th entry in the series.
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