#NEED FOR SPEED 2015 PC REVIEW INSTALL#
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The main slider adjusts all settings, nudging your car towards a drift setup or a grip setup, but you can dive deeper and massage certain steering, tyre pressure, and braking power settings individually to fine tune your ride. It’s still good to have customisation of any sort back in Need for Speed, and with it comes several basic tuning options you can use to alter your car’s driving characteristics. It seems at odds with the game’s philosophy.

You can’t modify everything, though after I completed the story mode I splurged on a classic Ferrari F40 but was disappointed to discover I could barely do anything to it. There’s also a freeform livery editor, which definitely beats having to make do with simple, pre-set designs and wraps.

#NEED FOR SPEED 2015 PC REVIEW INSTALL#

You can sweep around your car, swap external panels, add flair to fenders, install canards, adjust stance, and more. Performance customisation is the basic kind (bolt in everything you’re eligible to purchase and your car will go faster) but there’s a little more to visual customisation. I completed most of Need for Speed in a single car, constantly cramming upgrades into it to keep it ahead of the competition. Garage spots are limited to five but the focus here isn’t collecting it’s perfecting. The eclectic roster of cars is only a fraction of what’s on offer in, say, Forza Horizon 2, but it has a little something for most gearheads. The cars glisten with beaded water droplets and the streets gleam, a shiny tapestry of mirror-like asphalt. These transitions seem to be baked into parts of the environment so they can actually happen multiple times over the course of a single race. However, the sudden, jarring transitions from the dead of night, to pre-dawn, and then back to night again are horribly ill-conceived.

Need for Speed also sounds nearly as good as it looks the throaty burble of performance-tuned engines is well-realised and the crackle of exhaust overrun and the ker-chunk of slamming gears is similarly respectable. The cars glisten with beaded water droplets and the streets gleam, a shiny tapestry of mirror-like asphalt reflecting artificial light from all angles. There are dark and gritty instances where it feels a little like the whole thing has been shot on Michael Mann’s iPhone, but racing at speed through the soaked streets here (particularly in bumper cam) is really something else. It is immediately extremely pretty, though. However, the single-player component is over too soon, the multiplayer underdelivers, the cut-scene dialogue often had me wincing, and the game is stung by the side-effects of being online-only. It looks incredible, sounds fantastic, and while the handling is still standard arcade fare developer Ghost Games has added a welcome dose of nuance by letting us tune our cars for either grip or drift. It is, at least, a more clearly distinct game than the last few NFS instalments were from one another.

#NEED FOR SPEED 2015 PC REVIEW SERIES#

You can have a few different cars in your garage at any one time, but I found that I just stuck with two as I kitted these things out to be freaking supercars! It was a lot of fun to do and many of the cars let you tinker with pretty much every aspect of them.After a year off, Need for Speed has the series coasting back over familiar turf, resurrecting the spirit of 20’s successful Underground games. Need For Speed 2015 has a great amount of customization for you to play around with. The only downside to the “presentation” is the sound, I got royally sick of the soundtrack after about an hour! Check Out, My Ride Man! It sounds like a strange thing to get excited about, but I love the way that the road looks when rain is pounding off it. The car all look amazing, even if the selection is a little limited compared to a Forza or Gran Turismo game. The way you can glide around corners is really cool and I like the way the game lets you decide if you want more focus on the grip or the drifting. The fictional city of Ventura Bay is massive and has three very distinct locations that you can race on.

On the road, this is a fast and furious arcade-style racer, and the most like the Underground series we have ever gotten up to this point. Not many games use FMV these days so it is cool that this is a series that loves to do just that. Some of it is downright cringy, but I love it. The game plays it straight, but you can just tell that these actors were having a great time doing all this stuff. One of the things that I love about Need For Speed 2015 is the way the story is told. The multiplayer flat out sucks! The always-online thing just did not click for me as I would much prefer being able to play against who I want and when I want. The single-player aspect of this game is way better than the multiplayer mode if you ask me.

Need for speed 2015 pc review