Rivals is underrated in my opinion. I absolutely love the cop chases. The cops actually try using tactics similar to Most Wanted '05. It takes some skill taking on Heat Level 10 cops though. For the longest time, I couldn't survive without being right next a repair shop. Now, I can strategically race around the map for over 30 minutes without getting busted. Sometimes I do screw up and I'll need to make a U-turn to go back to the nearest repair shop.
i agree. though like most games it suffered of launch problems and also being crossgen game, affecting its reputation after. now that it's patched it's really nice arcade racer, also considering what cheap prices you can get it for all systems. it is definitely words getting. cop chases are nice and being cop is cool chasing those baddies, challenges are good and challenging forcing you to utilize those chase abilities and good reaction times when you're speeding on a highway or drifting around corners , just loads of fun and it is one of the good ones in the franchise .
I LOVE the graphics and how diverse the map is in terms of seasons in this game, I used to just drive around for hours just to see the beautiful scenery in various conditions. I really hope they come up with another game with graphics and effects like Rivals'
i think Rivals is a really cool game for what it is. it really should've been priced at 30-$40 though, i think that would've made it a much more attractive prospect. the campaign structure was simple but for me it really worked. quick to complete, but gave you a lot to do if you wanted to 100% it. Plus, the visuals, sounds, and general car/weapon balance was great. Bugs sucked tho.
@@rocketman___gaming9457 reminds me of when i played the ps3 version again after ages and saw how awfully it performed in comparison to ps4, hp10 and mw12 are way more worth when it comes to late-gen ps3 nfs games, speaking of mw12, i think imma go play some multiplayer now
I like how when your car is damaged pieces on the bumper split and flap in the wind, I can’t think of any other game that has this feature in damage models.
@@valsparosgacharepository8949 Of course prostreet has more extreme damage models but I just really appreciate the smaller touches in Rivals which imo make up for the lack of deformation.
Definitely one of the actual good nfs/racing yt videos I've seen where mostly even big racing yt channels are just not good enough. You actually knew what you were talkin about, combining techs is genius. Really enjoyed the commentary and this gameplay, well done.
If they transplanted some of the open world Ideas from this to 2010 Hot pursuit freeroam. It would basically be perfect. Like having racers in the open world that you have to bust. Or random outrun races in open world that may have cops. something closer to how Most Wanted worked.
I gave Rivals a shot earlier this year. It was a pretty fun experience, imo. Only problems were that if you're a Racer, the cops have a tendency to overwhelm you. Whereas if you're a Cop, I swear AI Racers will always dodge Spike Strips unless they're in sneezing distance of your car.
Rivals is underrated imo the cop chases are intense and the car list was nice since it brought cars like Enzo Ferrari and Lamborghini Veneno and the career was also fun especially the final race in Grand Tour it was a really close race. Overall, Rivals is one of my favourite NFS games I had alot of fun playing it on my Xbox 360 and it's much more fun than 2015, Payback and even Heat to a certain extent. Plus you should use Turbo and Jammer it's the best PT combination and it works really well
I think if this game was remastered so that it fixed the bugs, 30fps cap and added 1 or 2 new vehicles for each side, along with adding some sort of anti-cheat to the online multiplayer, it would easily be one of, if not the best nfs game
Great game but am I the only one that thought the map felt small? Like a lot of pursuits would have you drive across a good portion of the map. Maybe its just because the roads aren't very dense, but HP2010 feels bigger for some reason.
You are not the only one. In fact, even that i love this game, sonething i always hated about Rivals is how small the map is. I know they had 1 year or less to create the map, but it fells so small and kinda emphty, even without comparing it with hp2010
It's difficult for me to say that it's underrated due to the massive amounts of jank it has, between the perpetual host migration in public lobbies, the now sadly departed Network only content and the later patches that introduced instant softlock zones. I appreciate how every element of the game that does work does a great job of selling the game's atmosphere, which is definitely quite different from usual NFS fare.
One tip that I like to use, is I get a racer down to one HP while I am also a racer and once he's about to die I do a head-to-head, then after the race starts I just finish him and win.
It was a decent game in my opinion, nothing special but it can be fun for a few hours the only thing I hate is the fact that the fps was locked at 30 even on PC. Nowadays there is some kind of fix that unlocks fps but I haven't tested it myself yet
60 fps actually changes the game's behavior as well, one example is Sesto Elemento's performance which the car is having problems to shift up to 6th gear. The more obvious one, is the EMP. Faster lock-on due to unlocked FPS.
Yeah, you guys are both right. I googled it a bit more and found out that the game only functional as intended if played with locked fps. It's really a shame that the developers never fixed that
I loved this game playing during Christmas in 2020 if I remember. I really loved this game and I will remember this part forever. Soundtrack was also reeeeally good.
I absolutely love Rivals, I believe it’s my third favorite NFS game right after the 2002 Hot Pursuit game, and the 2010 one It has a few bugs but it’s really fun playing as both sides and have unique rosters for them too And I love how the story takes itself way too seriously to play the “I am your rival” gig going on I also feel that it’s the most interactive open world NFS as you can just do your own thing, you could see NPC cops and racers wreck each other out. If I’m correct this might also be the last NFS game to have a dynamic day-night cycle system
I actually bought rivals and the complete edition upgrade a couple days ago on my ps5. (I did have it on ps3, so the bump in graphics was great) I actually like the style and handling model alot, game still looks very good. And I find the game very fun. however I can do without the crazy annoying crashcam, there are some visual bugs but minor
This game is like escape from tarkov but with cars and its hot pursuit with open world and litteraly the best story line in the series i just wish they patch it a bit because this games has very big bug issues
Disagree, hot pursuit its a real nfs game, returned the gold games, Not to much open world, no city, just like old nfs games, so hot pursuit is better than rivals, rivals I didn't understand what they want to do, A recycle of hot pursuit, they tried to put city, but it doesn't really feel like need for speed, it's a good game, graphics, But frostbite was not made for racing games, more for fps.
I played this game when it came out on 360 then definitively on PS4. My major gripe is as a Racer the cops have a Tendency to take you out in 3 good hits (Even in the most Durable Racer vehicle in the Challenger, Racer cars feel like paper weight to the cops) As a result I had more fun "enjoying" the game as a Cop (And tendered to choose the Undercover Vehicles or spam the one section in the game where you use a "Racer Enzo" as a cop. In past NFS games I used to purposely lengthen the cop chases because I enjoyed them, This is the one game I did my damnedest to end cop chases as fast as possible (As a Racer that is.) Once a Blue Moon I boot this game up and just take in the graphics from time to time.
28 hours in rivals using and I love it ,I went into the hot pursuit remastered currently 8 hours .. I love nfs but I hope we will be able to play all nfs at 90 fps + ,but for the price sale I won't complain more xd
For me rivals is too much underrated, 'cause he make a diferent style of the game, i think the rivals retreat the real forbidden races of real world, or you die, or you win, or you lose trying to win
@@dbclass4075 All I know is that you hit your opponent on high speed with some sort of electric shock and it would send their cars flying off the road!😂😂😂😁
The physics and lags killed the fun for me. I remember gaining an enormous amount of xp and I got locked OUTSIDE the road barrier after a respawn 🤡 Also lots of crashes that immediately killed the car and many other problems. However, I still enjoyed the game back in 2014. The world was so good. I also noticed the resemblance of world development between Most Wanted 2012 - Rivals and NFS 2015 - Payback. It was like "city + industrial" - "variety of landscape + longer highways".
Idk, the only problem for me is that you can't pause, even in offline, and the pc port is kinda buggy. The graphics, the music, the car selection, the gameplay, everything else is amazing
This game seems to be pvp focused in light of the abilities.. Even my father in law who is a terrible gamer, (plays cod campaigns and never any mp) started playing the game as a burnout title. And trying to wreck the cars. All about wrecking them before they wreck you. Pvp is massively fun to go around owning people let alone beating them in a race when they get salty. Also fun to see how high of a score you can get by wrecking cop cars and careful and strategically using the repair stations to keep your car from getting wrecked itself. See if you guys can get past around 5m. That was bloody tough. Then banking it by racing away to the hideout. Bloody hell intense game. Fun as hell racers in the story mode. Some wrong moves can cost you / some require a few tries to finish. Love the game. Brought my family a lot of good memories. Even my non gamer s/o loved trying to rack up a high score :)
I have played NFS Rivals for years and that's what I think: Rivals is a good game (underrated indeed). Gameplay wise, it is an improvement of NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 by adding the open world and partial customization. I like the concept to make your car unique by installing 2 of 11 Pursuit Tech available. The problem of NFS Rivals for me is the game itself is less efficient to play. In PC, it needs to be stored inside HDD with 7200 RPM or SSD to run it smoothly. Also, the cars is exotic exclusive. It needs more tuners and muscles to be more "realistic" approach.
Rivals focuses on sports cars, super cars, and hyper cars. If they add JDM cars in Rivals they have less durability and speed in order to outrun the cops. Well 2 of them are, which are in the cop career, which is the LFA and the GT-R.
@@ralphlorenzperolino3054 I just wanted some variety of the cars. If not JDM then something more durable like trucks and SUVs may also included in the type of game like this.
Just like Hot Pursuit, this game had a brilliant concept, and I actually prefer it in many ways to Hot Pursuit 2010. It was loads of fun for both career sides and had an awesome soundtrack. But it's a fact that the game was very buggy and unfinished and had a lot of wrong features like the "no pause" thing or the "online only" requirement, and the biggest killer for me: faction specific car list. It should've been 2 or 3 cars exclusive to one side and the rest of the list should've been common for both sides. It would be great if they remake this game and fix these issues. We could really use a Rivals 2.
I guess that NFS Rivals was neither good or bad, it was fine in terms of graphics, soundtrack, car selection and map but most players didn't notice it due to game glitchiness, poor driving physics, 30 FPS cap and so on, I for example hate the fact that I can't do something as simple as pause the game beacuse developers did not implement it, cops are way too strong and few other quirks but still I sometimes come back to play it
The only underrated feature of Rivals imho was the quality of the multiplayer. Game was buggy and not as good as the NFS games from my childhood like HP2, MW and Carbon, but holy DAMN did i make some amazing memories with my best friend on Rivals.
Im torn between getting this or hot pursuit remastered... Thoughts ? From what ive read the cops in rivals might frustrate me too much .. are they just as intense in hot pursuit? Im new to nfs games
"Cops are overpowered" *racers with Shockwave and ESF, casually going on a rampage and chasing player cops half the time, while the other half, they just use jammer and turbo on the One:1 to escape.* Racers are overpowered if you ask me, but then we do have ways to handle racers that want to start the offensive
Didn’t like hot pursuit at all was worried about getting rivles when first came out, loved it think rivals is so much better then hot pursuit, in that it’s same roads with nowhere really to go but straight, this had all sorts I loved the freedom
On a more serious note, I think this game had to potential to be much better. The progression is ok, the car list I approve (I like how the cars are separated into racers and cops and there are no cars that you can both race or be a cop in). The performance upgrades could have been better. I personally wasn't a huge fan of the weapons, but it made sense for them to be in the game, as they were featured in NFS HP2010. Having no pause was absolute bullshit. No way in hell can EA justify themselves for that. I also wasn't a fan of cops turning to chase you, even if you are driving at 30km/h. The soundtrack was ok, it fit the game and is representative of the period in time when the game was released (not being able to turn dynamic music off was a dumb move as well). I think that's about it
@@tolyo96 Pre-DLC, there is one car that is available to both, though: Aston Martin Vanquish. Based on Need for Speed's King of the Road Facebook poll. This car won.
Ghost's NFS pretty much suffered bad fates for me. Rivals : OK, but what kept me away are you can't pause the game and lack of customisations. 2015 : Mediocre. What kept me away are always online and shitty handling and physics. Payback : Worst. What kept me away are cringe characters and gambling systems. Heat : Awesome, Ghost finally hit the mark. But once again, what kept me away are lack of post-launch support and it become too short.
I dont understand what do people always mean when they say "the sense of speed" while driving almost 300 kmh... driving 300 in a game looks like 150 IRL which aint good sense of speed in my opinion... also what is SUS is that I know some corners IRL where I can easily go 110 but a similar shaped corner in a game on semislick tyres, nada... I think racing games should start to be more realistic... We have the technology to make a good racing game but nobody cares and they just slam us with games like FH5 that has graphical issues, 60% of your gametime is loading and waiting or listening to boring conversations and cutscenes... or we get NFS Unbound that is actually great game but does not support steering wheels... I hate this... If a game is about cars, it should have wheel support and proper FFB... its like selling a car without a steering wheel and pedals and making it in a way so you cannot even put it there... I do like Rivals though but The Run was way better concept... if it could be one long race in one car then it would be awesome just thinking u have to overtake hundereds of racers and finish first... Rivals were good but the problem I had was them cops... I just hated how weird it was cuz I doubt cops would use lambo to ram people and it was just weird for me... R35 GTR is a heavy car so it makes sense a bit... but lambo or anything else is pointless...
the thing about rivals is that it released at a time where everyone wanted underground 3 and when this game dropped it didn’t help it was buggy as shit so it caused the #craigitup wave but this game was still fucking phenomenal. stupidly fun. stupidly crazy. it’s addicting this game is more fun than the modern NFS’
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Rivals is underrated in my opinion. I absolutely love the cop chases. The cops actually try using tactics similar to Most Wanted '05. It takes some skill taking on Heat Level 10 cops though. For the longest time, I couldn't survive without being right next a repair shop. Now, I can strategically race around the map for over 30 minutes without getting busted. Sometimes I do screw up and I'll need to make a U-turn to go back to the nearest repair shop.
I agree
Fr. Awesome game, but much underrated
Absolutely. I enjoyed this game a lot. The police chases in this game are the best ever in a racing game in my opinion. It was so intense
i agree. though like most games it suffered of launch problems and also being crossgen game, affecting its reputation after.
now that it's patched it's really nice arcade racer, also considering what cheap prices you can get it for all systems. it is definitely words getting. cop chases are nice and being cop is cool chasing those baddies, challenges are good and challenging forcing you to utilize those chase abilities and good reaction times when you're speeding on a highway or drifting around corners , just loads of fun and it is one of the good ones in the franchise .
I mean if you wanted to like farm credits literally staying next to a repair shop was the move.
I LOVE the graphics and how diverse the map is in terms of seasons in this game, I used to just drive around for hours just to see the beautiful scenery in various conditions. I really hope they come up with another game with graphics and effects like Rivals'
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I did that with The Crew.
i think Rivals is a really cool game for what it is. it really should've been priced at 30-$40 though, i think that would've made it a much more attractive prospect. the campaign structure was simple but for me it really worked. quick to complete, but gave you a lot to do if you wanted to 100% it. Plus, the visuals, sounds, and general car/weapon balance was great. Bugs sucked tho.
I got it cheap asl on PS4, I believe for like 5$ on a discount sale.
If you ignore the bugs the game is very good with a nice story to tell.
My only gripes with the game were lack of a pause button and bugs
Other than that I enjoyed the game.
@@Balisidoros Using SSD resolves most of the bugs.
I played the hell out of this on PS4, it was the first NFS I ever platinumed, I enjoyed it a lot for what it is to be honest.
Isn’t Rivals on ps4 really laggy, so a lot of framedrops?
@@Koen1702 PS3 is the version with terrible frame rate
@@rocketman___gaming9457 reminds me of when i played the ps3 version again after ages and saw how awfully it performed in comparison to ps4, hp10 and mw12 are way more worth when it comes to late-gen ps3 nfs games, speaking of mw12, i think imma go play some multiplayer now
it was actually my FIRST game i platniumed ever and i did it on the ps3
@@rocketman___gaming9457 i dont remember it being laggy lol
I still love this game and will play it forever. thank you GHOST you guys will be missed.
Shout out to criterion games too
@@pradhanasurya8004 well they are coming back hope they dont make a game like nfs mw12 again.
Best game
Are you still playing it?
I like how when your car is damaged pieces on the bumper split and flap in the wind, I can’t think of any other game that has this feature in damage models.
Prostreet has dangled up cars
@@valsparosgacharepository8949 Of course prostreet has more extreme damage models but I just really appreciate the smaller touches in Rivals which imo make up for the lack of deformation.
didn't hp have this?
@@yat0282 yes
Definitely one of the actual good nfs/racing yt videos I've seen where mostly even big racing yt channels are just not good enough. You actually knew what you were talkin about, combining techs is genius. Really enjoyed the commentary and this gameplay, well done.
If they transplanted some of the open world Ideas from this to 2010 Hot pursuit freeroam. It would basically be perfect. Like having racers in the open world that you have to bust. Or random outrun races in open world that may have cops. something closer to how Most Wanted worked.
I agree
Whats the point of open world when races are closed?
@@Milgraaauuu good point
I gave Rivals a shot earlier this year. It was a pretty fun experience, imo.
Only problems were that if you're a Racer, the cops have a tendency to overwhelm you.
Whereas if you're a Cop, I swear AI Racers will always dodge Spike Strips unless they're in sneezing distance of your car.
i feel like this game is built more for multiplayer than singleplayer,because as a cop the racers always dodge spikes and roadblocks perfectly
Rivals is underrated imo the cop chases are intense and the car list was nice since it brought cars like Enzo Ferrari and Lamborghini Veneno and the career was also fun especially the final race in Grand Tour it was a really close race.
Overall, Rivals is one of my favourite NFS games I had alot of fun playing it on my Xbox 360 and it's much more fun than 2015, Payback and even Heat to a certain extent.
Plus you should use Turbo and Jammer it's the best PT combination and it works really well
I think if this game was remastered so that it fixed the bugs, 30fps cap and added 1 or 2 new vehicles for each side, along with adding some sort of anti-cheat to the online multiplayer, it would easily be one of, if not the best nfs game
Great game but am I the only one that thought the map felt small? Like a lot of pursuits would have you drive across a good portion of the map. Maybe its just because the roads aren't very dense, but HP2010 feels bigger for some reason.
I think its somewhat bigger then hp 2010 but indeeed u are not wrong, it feels smaller
You are not the only one. In fact, even that i love this game, sonething i always hated about Rivals is how small the map is. I know they had 1 year or less to create the map, but it fells so small and kinda emphty, even without comparing it with hp2010
HP 2010 has a bigger map with longer roads
It's difficult for me to say that it's underrated due to the massive amounts of jank it has, between the perpetual host migration in public lobbies, the now sadly departed Network only content and the later patches that introduced instant softlock zones. I appreciate how every element of the game that does work does a great job of selling the game's atmosphere, which is definitely quite different from usual NFS fare.
Needs a remaster, the game was not even finished.
True, they need to finish this game development and it will be perfect
@@GFTV1546 I wonder if people can play on this as multiplayer and also it needs a remaster would be perfect
Project Unite is working on the remaster in Rivals.
@@ralphlorenzperolino3054they arent
Rivals is an excellent game when you consider they had less than a year to develop it (6 months iirc)
Im late but that is amazing, how much time did they have to develop 2015?
One tip that I like to use, is I get a racer down to one HP while I am also a racer and once he's about to die I do a head-to-head, then after the race starts I just finish him and win.
It was a decent game in my opinion, nothing special but it can be fun for a few hours the only thing I hate is the fact that the fps was locked at 30 even on PC. Nowadays there is some kind of fix that unlocks fps but I haven't tested it myself yet
60 fps actually changes the game's behavior as well, one example is Sesto Elemento's performance which the car is having problems to shift up to 6th gear.
The more obvious one, is the EMP. Faster lock-on due to unlocked FPS.
I don't think adding more fps to the game is a good idea.
Yeah, you guys are both right. I googled it a bit more and found out that the game only functional as intended if played with locked fps. It's really a shame that the developers never fixed that
I loved this game playing during Christmas in 2020 if I remember. I really loved this game and I will remember this part forever. Soundtrack was also reeeeally good.
I remember when TotalBiscuit first played this and after unlocking the frame rate the game ran at double speed
I absolutely love Rivals, I believe it’s my third favorite NFS game right after the 2002 Hot Pursuit game, and the 2010 one
It has a few bugs but it’s really fun playing as both sides and have unique rosters for them too
And I love how the story takes itself way too seriously to play the “I am your rival” gig going on
I also feel that it’s the most interactive open world NFS as you can just do your own thing, you could see NPC cops and racers wreck each other out. If I’m correct this might also be the last NFS game to have a dynamic day-night cycle system
what bothered me the most is the handling, most cars for the bit i played felt just way too heavy and slow while turning
At least the handling is better than mw12
The hamdling is pretty fine imo
@@saadhasan2518 true
Wdym? The handling is pretty fine
Handling is way better than Hot Pursuit 2010, way better control.
I actually bought rivals and the complete edition upgrade a couple days ago on my ps5. (I did have it on ps3, so the bump in graphics was great) I actually like the style and handling model alot, game still looks very good. And I find the game very fun. however I can do without the crazy annoying crashcam, there are some visual bugs but minor
9:48 who th turn on the uranoid XD
I just got this game after 8 YEARS!!
And it is amazing the most fun I've ever had racing a car
This game is like escape from tarkov but with cars and its hot pursuit with open world and litteraly the best story line in the series i just wish they patch it a bit because this games has very big bug issues
Was a big fan of HP 2010 so this was a great game to me, still play it and as you said wish theyd make another one like it
You've inspired me to buy the game just to mod the engine sounds into heat. Congrats kuru.
I think its visually nicer and by gameplay little bit polished Hot Pursuit, so for me Rivals is better than the Hot Pursuit.
Hot pursuit gameplay is more polished and balanced but rivald definetly is more pretty
Disagree, hot pursuit its a real nfs game, returned the gold games, Not to much open world, no city, just like old nfs games, so hot pursuit is better than rivals, rivals I didn't understand what they want to do, A recycle of hot pursuit, they tried to put city, but it doesn't really feel like need for speed, it's a good game, graphics, But frostbite was not made for racing games, more for fps.
love this game so much despite all those bugs
The thing that makes Rivals so good for me are its looks. The Graphics in this game are amazing and look good.
8 year old game looks as good as games today
rivals is the best NFS in the series
Agree I play the living 360 out of it on my xbox 360
this game has some good concepts but the development was so rushed nothing got executed very well
this can be applied to every nfs after mw2005 tho
True
I wonder if anyone noticed that the Rivals cop siren sound is the same as the siren in MW 05.
The car in the start of the video: *Change da world. My final message. Goodbye*
7:09 I liked the mountain too, for some reason, it reminds me of Aspen or Independence Pass
Another to the tally of calling an NFS/Racing game an 'underrated gem' or 'overlooked' 😅 never change, Kuru
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I played this game when it came out on 360 then definitively on PS4. My major gripe is as a Racer the cops have a Tendency to take you out in 3 good hits (Even in the most Durable Racer vehicle in the Challenger, Racer cars feel like paper weight to the cops) As a result I had more fun "enjoying" the game as a Cop (And tendered to choose the Undercover Vehicles or spam the one section in the game where you use a "Racer Enzo" as a cop. In past NFS games I used to purposely lengthen the cop chases because I enjoyed them, This is the one game I did my damnedest to end cop chases as fast as possible (As a Racer that is.) Once a Blue Moon I boot this game up and just take in the graphics from time to time.
28 hours in rivals using and I love it ,I went into the hot pursuit remastered currently 8 hours ..
I love nfs but I hope we will be able to play all nfs at 90 fps + ,but for the price sale I won't complain more xd
Loved the pursuit ost, one of the best in any NFS franchise
13:10 The Easydrive has a similar thing
For me rivals is too much underrated, 'cause he make a diferent style of the game, i think the rivals retreat the real forbidden races of real world, or you die, or you win, or you lose trying to win
For me it’s the last NFS w/ amazing gameplay and graphics. Just wish it had more customization
No
I think 2015 was the least, but heat is also good
@3:06 bam! That's how you bust a racer
@9:52 what the hell!? 😂
@10:40 _ooof!_
I remember I used to wreck Havoc with a 458 Italia Enforcer equipped with EMP and Shockwave! Good times man!😄
Police doesn't have Shockwave, though. Do you mean Shock Ram?
@@dbclass4075 All I know is that you hit your opponent on high speed with some sort of electric shock and it would send their cars flying off the road!😂😂😂😁
@@asagoodfriend That would be Electro Static Field (ESF), available for both factions.
Aaah, a fellow Italia ENF enthusiast
@@Madcat1331 😁
People maybe says this is a 'Hot Pursuit Knockoff'
For me personally, this is what a Hot Pursuit remake truly looks like
The physics and lags killed the fun for me. I remember gaining an enormous amount of xp and I got locked OUTSIDE the road barrier after a respawn 🤡
Also lots of crashes that immediately killed the car and many other problems. However, I still enjoyed the game back in 2014. The world was so good. I also noticed the resemblance of world development between Most Wanted 2012 - Rivals and NFS 2015 - Payback. It was like "city + industrial" - "variety of landscape + longer highways".
Rivals had so much patichle to be a good game
Idk, the only problem for me is that you can't pause, even in offline, and the pc port is kinda buggy. The graphics, the music, the car selection, the gameplay, everything else is amazing
Underrated but unfinished
4:40 - 4:50 what was the song? i forgot lol
This game seems to be pvp focused in light of the abilities.. Even my father in law who is a terrible gamer, (plays cod campaigns and never any mp) started playing the game as a burnout title. And trying to wreck the cars. All about wrecking them before they wreck you. Pvp is massively fun to go around owning people let alone beating them in a race when they get salty. Also fun to see how high of a score you can get by wrecking cop cars and careful and strategically using the repair stations to keep your car from getting wrecked itself. See if you guys can get past around 5m. That was bloody tough. Then banking it by racing away to the hideout. Bloody hell intense game. Fun as hell racers in the story mode. Some wrong moves can cost you / some require a few tries to finish. Love the game. Brought my family a lot of good memories. Even my non gamer s/o loved trying to rack up a high score :)
I have played NFS Rivals for years and that's what I think:
Rivals is a good game (underrated indeed). Gameplay wise, it is an improvement of NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 by adding the open world and partial customization. I like the concept to make your car unique by installing 2 of 11 Pursuit Tech available. The problem of NFS Rivals for me is the game itself is less efficient to play. In PC, it needs to be stored inside HDD with 7200 RPM or SSD to run it smoothly. Also, the cars is exotic exclusive. It needs more tuners and muscles to be more "realistic" approach.
Rivals focuses on sports cars, super cars, and hyper cars. If they add JDM cars in Rivals they have less durability and speed in order to outrun the cops. Well 2 of them are, which are in the cop career, which is the LFA and the GT-R.
@@ralphlorenzperolino3054 I just wanted some variety of the cars. If not JDM then something more durable like trucks and SUVs may also included in the type of game like this.
This game was something unique and very under rated. I think they could have made it better but it was great regardless.
This game is awesome and I still play the hell out of it. Is really really fun besides the bugs. I fixed The stuck in place bug with an ssd
Rivals is 10x better than unbound
This game is basically hp but really crowded with new features, sometimes it works sometimes not
I'd say it is overhated. It is a genuinely good 8th gen NFS game and is quite a bit better than Hot Pursuit in my opinion.
Just like Hot Pursuit, this game had a brilliant concept, and I actually prefer it in many ways to Hot Pursuit 2010. It was loads of fun for both career sides and had an awesome soundtrack. But it's a fact that the game was very buggy and unfinished and had a lot of wrong features like the "no pause" thing or the "online only" requirement, and the biggest killer for me: faction specific car list. It should've been 2 or 3 cars exclusive to one side and the rest of the list should've been common for both sides. It would be great if they remake this game and fix these issues. We could really use a Rivals 2.
The set of cars should be added in next NFS.
I guess that NFS Rivals was neither good or bad, it was fine in terms of graphics, soundtrack, car selection and map but most players didn't notice it due to game glitchiness, poor driving physics, 30 FPS cap and so on, I for example hate the fact that I can't do something as simple as pause the game beacuse developers did not implement it, cops are way too strong and few other quirks but still I sometimes come back to play it
Is NFS rivals still online in 2022? Thank you!
Until now it is, so you'll encounter players on the road.
The only other nfs i would love to see on switch
This game really pushed the ps3 /xbox 360 hardware to it's limits
Yeah the X360 version ran fine for me there were bugs but they were in all versions however I enjoyed this game alot
I recently replayed it because a friend liked it and i think its pretty good
The only underrated feature of Rivals imho was the quality of the multiplayer. Game was buggy and not as good as the NFS games from my childhood like HP2, MW and Carbon, but holy DAMN did i make some amazing memories with my best friend on Rivals.
Do yall remember when Theo used to MURDER this and Criterion like a decade ago?? Good times 🤣
Im torn between getting this or hot pursuit remastered... Thoughts ? From what ive read the cops in rivals might frustrate me too much .. are they just as intense in hot pursuit?
Im new to nfs games
Hot Pursuit remastered
i didn't finish this game but i still think it was a solid nfs, it was a lot of fun
"Cops are overpowered"
*racers with Shockwave and ESF, casually going on a rampage and chasing player cops half the time, while the other half, they just use jammer and turbo on the One:1 to escape.*
Racers are overpowered if you ask me, but then we do have ways to handle racers that want to start the offensive
I still love this game till this day sure it has is faults but what game does not have its faults if you wanna have a good time pick this game up
Didn’t like hot pursuit at all was worried about getting rivles when first came out, loved it think rivals is so much better then hot pursuit, in that it’s same roads with nowhere really to go but straight, this had all sorts I loved the freedom
this game never worked for me (i have recommended graphics and cpu) and it stuttered so hard on every single graphic settings
Perhaps try an SSD? Fixes most of the problems.
@@dbclass4075 i have 2 SSD's in my pc and they're the only drives i have
Definitely an underrated Gem. I love this game so much💎💯🔥
I got it for free on PS3
It's very stable there, never encountered any bugs.
Best criterion need for speed.
30fps cap on PC. WHAT!!!! Thank God, i was planning to buy this game in a few days. NO Deal Ghost.
Just patch it to higher haha
@@KuruHS yeah might try it😅, does it negatively effect the game in any way
Still better than any nfs released since then.
How he get 60 fps?
ur steam really likes high bpm music huh.
This was the first game i got platinum on psn
if you like being chased by the cops every 2 minutes, this is the game for you
On a more serious note, I think this game had to potential to be much better. The progression is ok, the car list I approve (I like how the cars are separated into racers and cops and there are no cars that you can both race or be a cop in). The performance upgrades could have been better. I personally wasn't a huge fan of the weapons, but it made sense for them to be in the game, as they were featured in NFS HP2010. Having no pause was absolute bullshit. No way in hell can EA justify themselves for that. I also wasn't a fan of cops turning to chase you, even if you are driving at 30km/h. The soundtrack was ok, it fit the game and is representative of the period in time when the game was released (not being able to turn dynamic music off was a dumb move as well). I think that's about it
@@tolyo96 Pre-DLC, there is one car that is available to both, though: Aston Martin Vanquish. Based on Need for Speed's King of the Road Facebook poll. This car won.
Ghost's NFS pretty much suffered bad fates for me.
Rivals : OK, but what kept me away are you can't pause the game and lack of customisations.
2015 : Mediocre. What kept me away are always online and shitty handling and physics.
Payback : Worst. What kept me away are cringe characters and gambling systems.
Heat : Awesome, Ghost finally hit the mark. But once again, what kept me away are lack of post-launch support and it become too short.
Sounds like garfield cart to me
I honestly view Rivals as nothing but a story DLC for HP2010
One of my favorite nsf games.
9:47 Whoever played Uranoid: Thumbs up
ESF can counter Stun Mines.
It one of the best nfss, my opinion
Rivals is the best game ever
I dont understand what do people always mean when they say "the sense of speed" while driving almost 300 kmh... driving 300 in a game looks like 150 IRL which aint good sense of speed in my opinion... also what is SUS is that I know some corners IRL where I can easily go 110 but a similar shaped corner in a game on semislick tyres, nada... I think racing games should start to be more realistic... We have the technology to make a good racing game but nobody cares and they just slam us with games like FH5 that has graphical issues, 60% of your gametime is loading and waiting or listening to boring conversations and cutscenes... or we get NFS Unbound that is actually great game but does not support steering wheels... I hate this... If a game is about cars, it should have wheel support and proper FFB... its like selling a car without a steering wheel and pedals and making it in a way so you cannot even put it there...
I do like Rivals though but The Run was way better concept... if it could be one long race in one car then it would be awesome just thinking u have to overtake hundereds of racers and finish first... Rivals were good but the problem I had was them cops... I just hated how weird it was cuz I doubt cops would use lambo to ram people and it was just weird for me... R35 GTR is a heavy car so it makes sense a bit... but lambo or anything else is pointless...
The only thing this game has over Hot Pursuit is the open world and honestly i don't think it's worth it
I hate the 30fps lock
Its a cool game, without the glitches xD
the thing about rivals is that it released at a time where everyone wanted underground 3
and when this game dropped it didn’t help it was buggy as shit so it caused the #craigitup wave
but this game was still fucking phenomenal. stupidly fun. stupidly crazy. it’s addicting
this game is more fun than the modern NFS’
It's and underrated gem for me.
love this game so much
Nfs rivals is basicly knock off of hot pursuit 2010 but hey knock offing own series is not a problem right?....
Rivals is so cool and fun
Sometimes enjoyed that game (mostly because of the NFS movie cars) but damn that game is glitchy and full of cheaters holy crap
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Nah it was a bit better than hot pursuit for sure