Need for Speed™ Heat Reviews

Absolutely don't buy this game because you will lose your nerves over cops, they are overpowered so much that I think development team didn't even test them, they just wrote that they should be THIS much powerful and just decided it was good. There are no pursuit brakers or anything and plus you have health which you have to make sure that they dont damage, which they will in just ONE MINUTE if you are in a chase on 3+ heat level. Just don't buy this game and save yourselves some money. I want to say one more thing, you have NO CHANCE of escaping cops when you achieve heat level 3. Don't buy it!

The cops in this game are invincible. You cant ditch them. This makes gaining rep a chore, instead of a game. Would not recommend!!

A 100+ hour review, since i played the game with steam in offline mode just to clarify If games such as NFS Most Wanted 2005 and Rivals are your benchmark for the NFS franchise, this game can often under deliver on those expectations. The story campaign is short so take your time playing the game doing side activities as well. Played the game on hard difficulty. The soundtrack the very first time you start playing is exciting but soon becomes stale whether free roaming or in events. At night there is a different playlist though that is also limited to a few songs that become repetitive soon. Compare this to games like most wanted and rivals where each soundtrack actually got the adrenaline flowing and are still in my Spotify playlists Yes the graphics in the night time reminds you a lot of NFS Underground and Carbon but the roads are majority of the time wet and dry being very scarce, even during the day which sometimes looks ugly, but could be a more of a preference. Overall the game is a pretty looking game however a lot of graphic settings must be tweaked and even after that there are certain artifacts and shimmering present. Need For Optimisation. Equipping engine, tyre, differential and suspension parts to make the car equipped for road, race, off road, drifting is a tedious process with a very rigid equipping and de-equipping system that takes away the fun of choosing a car and going full beans with it. Not that user friendly. On that point even the Map does not have a filter to choose races that give you the most money or rep at the night but you have to manually keep hovering over the map to see which race or event is best, another not so user friendly approach, takes away the ebb and flow of a NFS game. Also if a certain event is giving you the most bank or rep, you keep doing those races which makes it even more repetitive which in turn leads to you not doing other variety of races. The map size is decent and there is a decent variety of roads highways etc. Cops are both stressful sometimes in certain areas of the map and at the same time very much easy to shake off, particularly when you get a good 250+ rated car. So early gameplay its very exciting getting into cop chases however later on it looses that feeling unlike most wanted or rivals, best cop mechanics in those games. So to sum it up if the game is available in sales its a good deal but keep your expectations in check with the fun you will have,

The campaign runs for around 10 hours and you can reach max level in around 15. The campaign itself is short and bland, it has nothing beyond "go here and do this race you do anyway in the overworld" - there's no unique elements or fun differences in the campaign. It's quite literally the regular overworld races with occasionally some unique dialogue. Everything I've done since that is just...the same repetitive races again and again. There's no incentive to keep playing or do more beyond the fact that the racing is very fun and very well done. It's just that I would hope to have incentive to play it for more than that 15 hours that's other than, "do a collect-a-thon to be able to buy the 4th most expensive car in the game that's objectively worse than the one you got in your first 20 minutes" At least a longer time to reach higher level, or more max level missions, or just SOMETHING more than what feels like a day 0 release game that came out two years ago.

engine start no problem tdn tdn tdn tdn motor engine kaput btw forza fans dont tend to get along with nfs fans.. so if you dislike cop chases this game is not for you.. :)

Good story, Fun race, Bad Cops

don't touch this garbage ridiculed by the ea launcher and dx errors. goodluck even launching this game, you're gonna need it. f u k you ea

Sadly I can't recommend this game, the cars drive like boxes and it's a huge downgrade to other arcade racing games like forza horizon. I really tried enjoying the game and after playing it for a while I have to admit that I definitely started to have some fun with it... well until I had to make night races and during the race I start to get followed by cops. Thanks to the wonderful system during the race it already gets up to heat lvl 2 and at the beginning of the game you literally can't escape them if they get to lvl 3. So either you directly are able to lose them by fcking jumping in the water, or you find a good normal jumping spot to get away, otherwise the heat lvl directly ends up on lvl 3 and they stick like glue to your back thanks to the rubber band. If I compare the cop chases with games like most wanted back then, then I'm just questioning myself how they can't add any additional ways to get rid of the cops as they did back then to make such a key part more fun. Sadly like this it ends up as a major flaw of the game. I personally just couldn't get warm with it, so if you just want to play a fun racing game focusing on the races instead of strange cop chases, then I would rather recommend a forza horizon title then something like this. 4/10

i am admittedly not a huge car guy, and racing or car-based games like this have never done much for me, but this was a pleasantly surprising racing game that i thoroughly enjoyed attaining 100% completion in. this isn't some absolute banger that changed my perspective entirely, but it was serviceable. i will say the game had even more potential left on the table, but the story and gameplay both just felt a little too arcade-y and not as satisfying as both could've been. the gameplay is more of a clear & intentional choice while the story just fell flat imo and was really bland and generic. visually i enjoyed the world and art style, but that was one of the clear standouts while playing the game, and it magnified the flaws i found throughout my almost fifty hours of playtime.

EA launcher was having issues so I couldn't play the game. I just wanted to drive around a bit offline. I don't like needing to use third party apps to play my singleplayer game.