Vehicle modification, sadly enough, has gone back to the currency system from the street racing games. The multiplayer has some good ideas, but doesn't execute them very well Compounded with the fact that it doesn’t have the instant teleportation stuff we saw in Most Wanted’s multiplayer last year, it often feels like you’re just racing against yourself. The open world in Rivals is just simply too big for only six players, who are more often than not spread out across the entire world. While it is a great idea, and the execution is pretty good, there are some problems that make it almost pointless. If you’re connected to the Internet, you’re dropped into a game with five other players already playing. One of the biggest new features of Rivals is the multiplayer mode. Both the police and racers can use Pursuit Tech against each other. These can range from a simple shockwave-like area-effect which pushes cars back to more exotic stuff, like the homing EMP shot. Pursuit Tech essentially lets you carry around two “weapons” that can be used on other cars. Rivals also brings Pursuit Tech back into the series. The cops’ side of the story just wouldn’t be fun if takedowns were as easy as in Most Wanted. This plays into the ability to play as the police quite well.
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If your car is too heavily damaged, you can drive through any of the repair shops, bringing it back to full health. Taking this bar down results in a takedown, which makes the car completely unusable. Instead, every non-civilian car has a health bar. Takedowns have been more-or-less taken out. This isn’t to say that Rivals is just a reskinned version of Most Wanted, though. Little compares to the feeling of drifting along a cliff side in a race while being chased by cops in supercars. Driving feels more-or-less the same as it did back in Most Wanted, albeit the cars feel a bit heavier this time around.
If you wanted a driving simulation, you’re better off sticking to either Shift 2 or going for Forza or Gran Turismo.
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On the gameplay side of things, Rivals continues the series tradition of having incredibly arcade-like controls. Rivals brings back a major mechanic from the Hot Pursuit games-the ability to play as a cop-and there are “story” sequences for both sides of the law. Thankfully, it stays out of the way, so we can completely ignore talking about it here. It is extremely vague and doesn’t really amount to anything, but fans of cheesy and over-the-top voice acting will certainly appreciate the effort.
Rivals reintroduces a storyline to the NFS franchise. We absolutely loved Need for Speed: Burno-I mean Most Wanted, which was the last game in the franchise made by Criterion. With (relatively) new studio Ghost Games at the helm, we expected some radical departure from the work of Criterion, which was majorly in charge of the franchise before Ghosts came into the picture. If Wikipedia is to be believed, we’re currently on the fourth generation of Need for Speed games with the release of Need for Speed: Rivals.
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