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Need For Speed: Unbound - Dec 02 2022

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scoobysi

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I certainly wouldn’t recommend spending £70 on this, or pretty much any game, but there’s some tactics to use with the cops.

  • If you meet one coming straight at you then use nitrous to boost past and out of range before you’re spotted. Drive in oncoming lanes as much as possible to build up blue nitrous, so it’s ready when needed.
  • If you come up behind one then slow and follow it until it turns off, it won’t spot you even if you’re on its bumper or alternatively, if it’s a patrol/4WD rather than high pursuit just boost past it.
  • Use the mini-map, often you can just drive round them, using off-ramps and on-ramps on the motorways etc. but sometimes you do just end up boxed in.

If you end up in a chase

  • Normal patrol cars can be rammed and destroyed or just outrun 
  • High Pursuit cars don’t like off-road
  • Helicopters run out of fuel quite quickly or use below street level roads in the city or drain pipes etc. to lose them.
  • Keep using yellow nitrous built up from drafting etc. as it’s use it or lose it.

I’m also playing on the difficulty one level below the top where the cops are a bit less aggressive. The difficulty can be changed whenever you’re in your garage/safe-house but seems ok for me at the moment as I’m not winning every race.

 

If you don’t like open world racers/collectibles then you won’t like this but I much prefer this over FH5. I think primarily because each day is focused on 3 or 4 events and therefore has a bit of structure whereas I felt a bit overwhelmed by FH5 from the start.

 

I think I have 52mins of my trial left and doubt I’ll get to the end of week one which is a shame. Has any one done the event at the end of the week, do you win another car at that point?

 

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That doesn't take into account that after a race you are getting chased automatically. You just want to get to another race and get on with things. 

 

Yes the cops can be lost pretty easily at lower levels but it's just a pain in the arse. 

 

It's a decent game but has its annoyances. 

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2 hours ago, Ry said:

That doesn't take into account that after a race you are getting chased automatically. You just want to get to another race and get on with things. 

 

Yes the cops can be lost pretty easily at lower levels but it's just a pain in the arse. 

 

It's a decent game but has its annoyances. 


Not every race results in cop chase afterwards but it is part of the gameplay I guess so if you don’t like it then it’s probably not for you. I quite like trying to outsmart them, just lost a 4 star pursuit by taking a last minute exit off the freeway through some barriers while the cops sailed on past, made me grin 😄.

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Metro 6/10

 

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/05/need-for-speed-unbound-review-cartoon-physics-17882358/

 

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In Short: The best Need For Speed in a decade – but that says far more about the moribund state of the franchise than it does this workmanlike new entry.

 

Pros: The driving model is great and races are unequivocally exciting. Good graphics and the anime effects are actually quite fun.

 

Cons: Boring open world and an especially dull online mode. Very few new ideas and no decent crashes. Obnoxious characters and storytelling.

 

Seventy fucking quid.

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24 minutes ago, Uncle Nasty said:

Metro 6/10

 

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/05/need-for-speed-unbound-review-cartoon-physics-17882358/

 

 

Seventy fucking quid.


I’ve just finished the 10hr trial and this game has grabbed me far more than FH5, Grid Legends and Hot Wheels ever did so it’s doing something right. I thought the world was quite cool, a bit grey perhaps, I discovered a few surprises and as usual the more you get to know the world the better. Some great sections to race on and shortcuts to be discovered too.

 

It’s a solid and very surprising 8/10 for me, the online seemed a bit meh but I didn’t give it much time, I doubt anything will ever come close to Burnout Paradise for me in that respect.

 

Price is too high for me though, might go back to Hot Pursuit while I wait for a Sale on this.

 

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3 hours ago, scoobysi said:

I certainly wouldn’t recommend spending £70 on this, or pretty much any game, but there’s some tactics to use with the cops.

  • If you meet one coming straight at you then use nitrous to boost past and out of range before you’re spotted. Drive in oncoming lanes as much as possible to build up blue nitrous, so it’s ready when needed.
  • If you come up behind one then slow and follow it until it turns off, it won’t spot you even if you’re on its bumper or alternatively, if it’s a patrol/4WD rather than high pursuit just boost past it.
  • Use the mini-map, often you can just drive round them, using off-ramps and on-ramps on the motorways etc. but sometimes you do just end up boxed in.

If you end up in a chase

  • Normal patrol cars can be rammed and destroyed or just outrun 
  • High Pursuit cars don’t like off-road
  • Helicopters run out of fuel quite quickly or use below street level roads in the city or drain pipes etc. to lose them.
  • Keep using yellow nitrous built up from drafting etc. as it’s use it or lose it.

I’m also playing on the difficulty one level below the top where the cops are a bit less aggressive. The difficulty can be changed whenever you’re in your garage/safe-house but seems ok for me at the moment as I’m not winning every race.

 

If you don’t like open world racers/collectibles then you won’t like this but I much prefer this over FH5. I think primarily because each day is focused on 3 or 4 events and therefore has a bit of structure whereas I felt a bit overwhelmed by FH5 from the start.

 

I think I have 52mins of my trial left and doubt I’ll get to the end of week one which is a shame. Has any one done the event at the end of the week, do you win another car at that point?

 

 

I ran out of demo before my 10hrs was up. I won a Lotus Exige and got to the last day but it said I needed to buy the game to continue. I could still drive around until the time ran out but not do any more events. It wouldn't let me drive the lotus either.

 

I quite like it - not £70 like it, but you know, in a sale or on GamePass.

 

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Just now, SneakyNinja said:

 

I ran out of demo before my 10hrs was up. I won a Lotus Exige and got to the last day but it said I needed to buy the game to continue. I could still drive around until the time ran out but not do any more events. It wouldn't let me drive the lotus either.

 

I quite like it - not £70 like it, but you know, in a sale or on GamePass.

 


I didn’t realise their trials were content limited, I thought it was the full game for 10hrs. Bit rubbish.

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38 minutes ago, scoobysi said:


I didn’t realise their trials were content limited, I thought it was the full game for 10hrs. Bit rubbish.

I think they got wise with Grid Legends. I nearly completed the single player campaign of that during the 10 hr trial. I got about 6 races from the end and suddenly a forced updated locked it down. 

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6 minutes ago, Mr Majestyk said:

I think they got wise with Grid Legends. I nearly completed the single player campaign of that during the 10 hr trial. I got about 6 races from the end and suddenly a forced updated locked it down. 


Lol 10hrs is quite generous I guess. I’m gradually chipping away at Grid Legends on EA Play but it didn’t really grab me.

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4 hours ago, K said:

 

Tell us more about this game you haven't played.

 

I have a Gamepass sub so played the trial. It's…okay. Coming off a recent full playthrough of Burnout Revenge and Split/Second, it just doesn't feel that exciting or different enough to pull me in. Seen it all before. What's there is just averagely passable, with no unique hook to make me think the full game is worth a splurge. Racing games really need something special to make them worthwhile to me.

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There's a lot of flaws with this game. The open world is a little bit disappointing - it's basically a small bit of Chicago with some surrounding roads that all look fairly similar - and the police chases have the same flaws a lot of open world driving games have, which is that they are basically something that gets in the way when you're trying to do something else. Previous NFS games tended to segregate the police chases into their own sections; it doesn't quite work here, as there's this conflict between not making them too difficult (to stop overwhelming players when they just want to do an event) and making them challenging enough to be fun.

 

But man, the races are amazing. The handling is amazing once you get used to it - big, sideways drifts slow you right down, but if you limit your angle of attack you can breeze round a corner without slowing down too much. It feels fantastic when you get the balance right, and you blast out of a corner with full boost and very little loss of speed - it feels really nuanced, without losing too much of the arcade stylings. I love the fact that each race is a genuine challenge, too. You have to fight to get into first place, and sometimes, just getting third or fourth is good enough.

 

This is easily the best NFS in years. I'm even tempted to buy it once the trial is over, although I'm obviously going to wait for a sale.

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Actually, the only major negative at this point is that you can get license plates that relate to every single NFS game from Underground onwards, EXCEPT for Hot Pursuit. You even get plates that reference the really crap games like NFS: Undercover, and obscure locations like Fortune Valley from NFS: Payback, but there isn't one for Seacrest County, which seems nuts given that this is Criterion* returning to the series.

 

*some Criterion people mixed in with Codemasters and Evolution staff, but you know what I mean.

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I’m playing NFS:HP Remastered at the moment and finding that I’m wishing I was playing this (trial finished), so it must be doing something right. The drifting in HP is perfection though and Unbound feels a little clunky in comparison, until you get used to it.

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How long does the bollocks story go for before it just leaves you alone?

 

Can you change the spoken language to something other than English - and just have English subs - I may be able to tune out the drivel if I don't understand what they are on about (being sick probably).

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As @K says, the handling is great when it clicks (and when you get better, faster cars) but the city is quite disappointing. In fact the more I plat it, the more I keep wanting to go back and finish off NFS: Heat, which I think is a much better city and an overall better game. 

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This is now £47.99 on disc at Amazon and £41.99 there for an Xbox download code.

 

This has got to be up there with the fastest price cuts in history - it's only been out 2 weeks.

 

I guess they made this one a little bit too niche overall - hopefully the industry doesn't look at this and say the arcade racer market is deader than dead

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I'm having some of this over Xmas, as its only 35.99 on CD Keys for the Series X

 

so bought and put to one side to play over Xmas :)  theres a ( sort of ) way to turn off  the silly effects too.

 

besides it looks great!  ( reminds me of Tokyo Highway Battle a bit ) 

 

 

 

 

****  I just hope it feels nice to drive the car ****

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On 06/12/2022 at 14:40, SneakyNinja said:

I quite like it - not £70 like it, but you know, in a sale or on GamePass.

 

This sums it up for me... So many games that years ago I'd be itching to play, and now in 2022 I'm thinking, "looks good.  I'll play that if they put it in front of me for free".

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