![]() ![]() Need for Speed Heat has its feet planted in two worlds. It's a decidedly edgy story for a game about racing, but that's where Need for Speed has lived for the past two titles, so I guess Ghost Games feels strongly about it. You're the new guy or girl in town, looking to prove yourself on these deadly streets. For reasons unknown, the local law enforcement is cracking down on street racing seriously, the opening story cutscene has the cops discussing the outright murder of a crashed street racer out in the open. Need for Speed Heat moves the series to the vaguely Floridian climate of Palm City. | Mike Williams/USG, Electronic Arts Just Like Paradise 2015's Need for Speed and 2017's Need for Speed Payback were both misses, and unfortunately, the threepeat of roughness continues with Heat. ![]() That title rode the transition between the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4/Xbox One, a co-production that marked that last time the original Criterion Games worked on the franchise. Ghost Games has been hammering away at Need for Speed ever since 2013's Need for Speed Rivals. But in this generation, one that has winnowed the arcade racer nearly to death, Need for Speed has lost the race against its competition, and itself. It's been a realistic simulation racer and an arcade-y free-for-all. It a racing series that's been about underground street racing, cops and robbers, and exotic cars. Need for Speed has burning that rubber in one way or another since 1994. ![]()
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