Review Bounty_Hunt3r 5/5 · Nov 23, 2022
Fast & Furious: Palm City Drift
NFS: Heat is a great arcade racing game and a good NFS title, that is full of bad design choices.
The Good:
- Racing is entertaining and once you get used to the drifting mechanics, you can have a lot of fun
- I like the separation of Day and Night, both being important for separate reasons
- Off-Road races are a nice …
NFS: Heat is a great arcade racing game and a good NFS title, that is full of bad design choices.
The Good:
- Racing is entertaining and once you get used to the drifting mechanics, you can have a lot of fun
- I like the separation of Day and Night, both being important for separate reasons
- Off-Road races are a nice addition, had a lot of fun beating my main NPC rival Vladimir with my weaker BMW
- The world is full of stuff to do, although most of it is collectibles
- High-heat races really raise the stakes, you have to earn your way to the top every night
- Car selection is superb, from older classics to top-tier Ferraris you find everything (no Bugatti or Toyota though)
- Visual Tuning is cheap and top-tier, you can easily customize almost every part of your car and even download others' designs if you are lazy
- Not the best written story, but at least not a mute hero
The Bad:
- Once you reach Rep lv.50, reputation is mostly useless and I wish you could get money instead to buy cars
- Online mode was a nice addition to make the world feel more alive, but no real chat and the lack of willing to race makes it mostly pointless
- The game only makes a race seem like completed if you finish the lower tier version of it and if you complete a race, there is no easy way to know if you finished first (real WTF in a racing game)
- Fast travel and car changing is a bit tedious, plus I don't really like the menu system ( if I go into a garage, I want to come out of the same garage without having to choose it again)
I probably forgot a bunch of small things that annoyed the heck out of me, but still I like this game and I hope NFS: Unbound will be similarly fun, but with a lot more polishment.