I am 624.5 hours in on it and would completely agree. Love that they have focused more on the grip builds to start but for once the drift mechanic is more than just giving it gas and tapping the e-brake button. Followed by hanging on and hoping for the best! I actually, love drifting corners in unbound. I hated the graphics when I first picked up the game but I agree with you, they enhance the feeling of speed or flying through the air after a massive jump. I also use it to tell when I get a micro drift in a corner and can combo that with a grip boost. I can't wait to see what changes they make in the future and hope they don't screw it all up!
The ASAP rocky monologue at the end of the story credits really inspired me to quit the game and do something with my life. Except i have to unlock all my fav hypercars in multiplayer so that can wait
Dude I did not expect that cringe ass speech near the end. I was so confused, it kept going. At the very least I have nothing left in story mode to do now but jesus fuck
23:25 About the art style, you may have noticed that there's an effect of breaking the sound barrier when you take the 3 bar burst Nos, you can look at it precisely by going frame by frame (you do that using the "comma" and "period" keys).
@@hasanakib7112 Oh yeah, the method to watch a video frame by frame only works on pc and the video has to be paused. The comma and period keys have these symbols on top (). Now that you have the video paused you press the keys to go one frame at a time, the direction us simple, left is backwards and right is forward. I hope this was more understanding than my last comment.
I think for story mode for after you finish campaign they should keep doing the qualifiers thereafter and have it be random tracks each time and give us opportunity to win various random cars with random different customisation options. It would make the end game more worth playing for sure
I mean they still aren’t wrong, any new NFS game is still mid, except Heat, that was actually good, Unbound is somehow worse than Heat. MW05 is still the best one, along with the Underground games, Carbon, and Prostreet
_I swear down _*_to this day!:_* That if Heat still had its support after launch, its would've rivaled MW and Carbon as Greatest NFS Game. I say this after putting in nearly 300 hours into Heat. Also found The Run to be awesome too. People need to stop looking for _The Next Most Wanted_ and start looking for _The Next Need of Speed. That's it._
Same, thought I'd hate it but I find myself enjoying it, now. I do hope they make it where different tags can be applied independently to different vehicles, though. I like all my things to match, when I go from my white and blue eclipse to my red and black skyline I'll forget to change the effects. Blue does not line up with red and black lol
The main thing that kept me away from unbound mainly was the money grind as you said but it was mainly the fact that I couldn't really have a competing chance because in the beginning everyone just slammed me up and I'm always in the last place getting smoked by vehicles that shouldn't even be in b-class. And that's a thing I want to talk about as well, this stupid class system. It was a cool concept in story mode but you can completely throw it out the window online
@@Music-vr7szexactly it sucked in single player, shit is ass, I love a challenge but not a impossible one where you need so much research to find out shit the game doesn't tell you & makes you have to choose a certain car even though you want to use what you want to use, I'm big on freedom in games especially games where you have options & freedom, I get punished for using a car that isn't the "gold" apparently what I read on Reddit, if I need to do that, I'm uninstalling, been close to uninstalling within the first hour to be honest
Bottom line - the driving and racing in this game feels amazing and is addictive. The skill ceiling is super high so you're encouraged to get back in there and keep improving. Its too bad it doesn't have the legs and post-launch support of something like Forza Horizon. If it had a time trial mode for courses, I'd love to be in the lab trying to master tracks and tweak builds. Unfortunately with such barebones multiplayer, its already a bit stale. Might dip in once in a while for a quick hit of NOS and adrenaline, but I'll just have to hope that they patch it or release a sequel with good live-service.
The driving feels absolutely horrible with the brake to drift bs and the awful physics. especially in the city the car is bouncing like a kangaroo nonstop, drift physics feel bad and the handling in general is just shit. 50% of the time the car doesn't do what i tell it to do and i have to battle more with the terrible physics instead of battle other racers.
Speaking of the horrible game economy, you know in Heat you could actually swap auxiliary parts between cars. In Unbound, you have to buy them separate for each car. So if you happen to like using nitrous grip, drift, etc., you're spending an extra sixty or so grand per car. Crazy.
I'm a little surprised by the ASAP Rocky critique. I felt like the entire point of that mission was to tell you, the player, what he's doing in the game. By telling about what he went through growing up, how he and his crew stuck together, and how he's trying inspire other kids by being a part of this game, and break negative patterns within our communities by striving to be better.
But that’s his only true involvement in the game. Most people don’t know A$AP Rocky and don’t give a care about his monologue. The lack of development for his in game character just makes it feel like your listening to a random guy’s speech. I honestly thought we’d get a side story since he “leads” the takeovers, but unfortunately not.
Think about heat and how u interacted with other characters that were involved with the difference race types there was atleast some personality and story bro what they did with rocky was hot basura
@@smoovekidwill there was no "cover athlete" to heat so yeah there was no one to look over. And how was is garbage? They gave him the sickest car hyper personalized car, gave him the mic, and put him on one of the hottest racing franchises. Just because he wasn't in a few more cutscenes? Nah.
@@neyok3198 he's not a character in the story. He's a real world person. He's the cover athlete. Most people don't care about him, so what? Some people do.
@@aaronmurrayvazquez what's the point of getting somebody like that just for a tiny ass cameo ...listen I will admit I'm prolly biased AF I'm from NYC so his role just felt disrespectful the car cool tho but like bro said in the video it didn't tie into the story what so ever
I think your summary nailed it. Totally agree that this game has tons of potential, it's just down to whether the devs actually update and fix the main issues in the game. I think if the economy was improved and net code was fixed along with some other minor changes, this would be one of the best racers out there.
The economy is my biggest issue. Partly because with limited money, there is even more incentive to just use the meta car. There's some 179 cars or whatever in the game, and the most fun I've had is when I take random stuff and figure out how to race well with it. More money means more spending it on things and tinkering and having fun that way.
feel like people also forget that not every game is not perfect off launch and they forget that games can be updated, fix and worked on later down the line so instead of being patient or giving constructive criticism they just shit on the game without giving real reasons why they think that way and just expect the game to get better and compare it to other games but thats just me
Dude they need so much more than that lol, where are cops, where are hot pursuits, why is there no drag racing why do the drift physics suck ass, there’s so many things they need to fix
The best thing about sandbox games is the ability to play the game and access anything when you want to (well at least at end game). Unbound crushes that with the forced order of races and low money rewards. I wish they followed burnout paradises approach to multiplayer where it seamlessly switches your main game to multiplayer and lets you use all your cars from your garage but unbound treats it as a separate game forcing you to grind and buy more cars again. The game is still brilliant and it captures the feeling of street racing in a living and breathing city really well. The cop chases are incredible. I have not had this much fun in a driving game since burn out paradise.
Hey trigger, so I waited till the end as you asked, and there's still a couple things that you didn't mention. To preface, I have AT BEST maybe half as many hours put into the game as you! I did go out of my way to get a platinum trophy, and it wasn't painful at all in my opinion. In terms of the story mode I opt'd to do it in "Relaxed" difficulty, as I quickly learned from reviewers that progression for story and online were completely separate. My plan was to crunch through the story as quick as possible and then hop over to lakeshore online, I found out about the handful of cars transferring over from story mode on my own (it was actually a nice surprise)! I found that yes, the police were easy to lose this game, and I barely found myself getting busted after the first week (keep in mind I was playing on relaxed), but it got to a point after story week two, where it just became a pain every time you got into a cop chase instead of exhilarating. I had to run the "Cop Jammer" on every car because of how much time I felt like I was wasting looping the police around, or taking new routes to avoid them. Unlike in NFS Heat, with Unbound there is no reward to getting to max heat, it would have been really nice to see "Max Heat Max Cash" type of events to encourage even more risky gameplay. Even on NFS Heat's easiest difficulty, I found myself getting busted pretty often and would get a rush from seeing all the rep I bank in a night. In terms of story racing, "Relaxed" difficulty didn't feel relaxed at all in terms of AI. I was honestly hoping the AI would just be brain dead so I can maximize my income and finish the campaign quicker, I still get PTSD from Waru and Shimizu flying 500 yards ahead, on supposedly relaxed difficulty. I ended up getting into lakeshore online and almost laughing at how bad some of the other players are when in comparison to some of the AI in the campaign. Adding onto what you mentioned about endgame, this is amplified TEN FOLD on lakeshore online. You went over how there was only a handful of race types, I'd add on how there wasn't even an option to fill the races online with AI, not even for the sake of adding another element of surprise (and not just being a 1v1 race so often). I did agree with your point on the much needed change being either increasing party size or lobby size. This is an even more glaring issue, since last gen consoles were completely wiped off the table with this game. I understand there may be technical limitations, maybe even with the engine itself, but we can't just keep giving EA/Criterion a pass when one of the biggest bottlenecks (10 year old xbox ones and ps4s) was a completely removed variable. Another game mode that was made to seem like such a big deal and fell flat on it's face, was the Takeover events. All of these game modes don't even exist online to even allow the opportunity to try and beat a friend's score, I don't see how that that competitively / rivalry feature didn't make it into the game. In regards to the more fleshed out tier system (B, A, A+, S, S+) and the performance tuning, the online ecosystem completely disencourages experimentation a few ways: 1) As you mentioned, the payout per online race playlist is a joke. 2) Engine swap are ridiculously expensive, I find myself sitting around waiting for a TH-camr (such as yourself) to put together a build video, instead of wasting my online grinded cash on an experiment. 3) Unlike in heat, the engine parts are NOT ONLY locked to a particular vehicle, but also 100% locked to that engine. I understand locking parts to a car, but locking parts down to the specific engine in an online economy that already prohibits experimentation is a joke. Another completely missed item in a game that emphasizes customization, is the missing "x/10" customization rating. It wasn't very precise, but it at least gave a quick indication of which cars had the most options, and can give the player a head ups that "hey, we have no or almost no options for this particular car". Also, call me crazy but I feel like some customization parts are missing from Heat! I think the MOST important/ impactful thing you said in this review, was that: "NFS Unbound has the MOST potential". I wholeheartedly agree, I think this game has the potential to be the greatest NFS game in a very long time. That being said, EA/Criterion have A LOT of ground to cover, and seeing the absolute tragic "under the hood" update released earlier today, it's not looking promising. it feels like EA has called it quits already, and now they have trickled down to like two people working on the bug fixes. I can't even fathom how fixing the Pista was completely overlooked. I've enjoyed all of the past handful of NFS games, to different degrees. I even pushed myself through the ridiculous NFS Payback lottery mechanic, but in regards to specifically endgame online content, NFS Heat is more fleshed out than Unbound (for now). I know this "review response" may make me sound like a pessimist or a hater, but on the contrary I love the NFS franchise and I want to see it SUCCEED. This was promised to the fans as a "return to form", when the name was announced, I even mentally processed it as a gentle nod towards the legendary NFSU & NFSU2 duology. I will continue to hope for some big changes, but there are so many glaring issues, some of them that I just can't look past and make it hard for me to push my friends to buy this game. Let's see what the future brings, I don't want to see this series go away.
Good critique on multiplayer but you might have missed some really big issues with the game. I have played the game for 70 plus hours and I personally think they did a lot of things wrong. 1. Difficulty: they should not have kept a limit on retries. You definitely need a lot of retries for the harder difficulty but it's the opposite. It would add to the tension if everything was fair , but most times the AI racer would hit traffic and make you crash into that too , there is no avoiding it. 2. Cops: they turned this into a metal gear solid car spin-off. Cops aren't threatening but outright annoying. Yeah you might learn to evade them but during the first 2 to 3 weeks of qualifier the cops chase you around the whole map for hours and you will never reach the meet-up point to start a race, which is bad game design. ( atleast heat had a event where you finished the chase ). Also the game is relentless. It spawns 2 helicopters around you and a parade of cops just after you escaped a heat 5 chase. Even when not in a chase it's almost impossible to avoid them as the cops are everywhere ( it's literally a mini pac man game in the minimap ) and without the undercover upgrade the game is frustrating. 3. Progression : the first 3 weeks are an absolute grind. It is not enjoyable. They don't even have a tracker for activities like speed traps . You have to reach the garage to check up on the reward cars to see how much you progressed. Again bad game design. Even heat had a menu saying how much you have left for each district. One thing they did right is awarding you the car when you finish all activities ( in heat it just unlocks it ... which was worse ! ). 4. Online : the grind you mentioned is a massive understatement. The fact is that they can solve the entire grind problem by simply allowing the singleplayer cars to be used in multiplayer. The game is too stingy on cash for new players to try new cars because the lobbies are full of regeras and golf gti ( meta OP cars ). So everyone is forced to get a meta car themselves. The other players quit because they have to grind 3 times more to get the same car they used in single player and spend another hour or two to find out that it's useless compared to the meta cars they are up against. Also the races keep repeating in all playlists. The track with the train track is almost in every playlist. 5. Day night system and qualifier : the day night system is severely flawed because after 3 races you will be in heat 5. So you get chased by cops all over the map and they don't allow you to start the event you want to. And if you progress to night the heat is carried over and the cops prevent you from starting any event. The races increasing heat system should be removed altogether or nerfed. It is incredibly annoying to be chased around without incentive .. because cop chases are meaningless in the game. They don't add any multiplier like in heat and they reward you with chump change (1000 dollars ). The only mechanic they sever is that they can empty your earnings if you get caught. Which is also flawed because you can leave the game and escape from cop chases. The qualifier events limited to 3 weeks and don't carry over post game yet you are forced to use the day night system. Want to change the color of your car ? You can't use the garage without progressing time. The grand was the most underwhelming aspect of the game. The story takes a plunge for the worst endings in any nfs game. There is no pressure to win as they become friends and it's some friendly race and nothing is on the line. Be happy that I spoiled it or you'd be frustrated to see it happening when the game hypes that the opposition will do anything to stop you ! ( the hype made me expect most wanted 2005 level cops during final mission and everything on the line ). But nah nothing happens they have a meaningless race and hand over a car that is worse than the car you will be driving towards the end. Also there is no incentive to play the game after you roll the credits. 6. Event variety: the game severely lacks event variety. Just 3 events ! Race , drift , takeover. Drift and takeover are underwhelming and boring at worst. Time trials are for specific cars only and not for the car builds you do. Mw 2005 had more event variety than this !! Even burnout 3 takedown (2004) had variety in spades. The only thing going for the game is the solid racing gameplay. Buy it on a deep sale. I cannot recommend the game with these many flaws for full price.
That's fair, and cool to hear. Thanks for sharing. I like how he presents the takeovers, but I end up just skipping them because I want to get to the event. Although the delivery event with his monologue is kinda weird and confusing.
I play NFS games for one main reason: to customize cars. I've been playing the game non-stop for a month now, and have been trying to do every race in the single player per day/night cycle in order to build up the bank account. I was able to find all the collectibles way early in the game because they pretty much give you a location of where things are if you pay attention to the mini map. Storyline-wise, yea its corny: its not a FPS or a RPG, obviously. Cops are definitely nerfed compared to Heat, but they are still as annoying when I'm just trying to head to the next meetup. Multiplayer is not something I've never been interested in as other people are annoying 9/10 times, and whatever you can do in MP you can do in SP. AI difficulty is okay, I personally had a lot of trouble in the beginning on "Challenging" but that was because I was getting used to the mechanics of the mods & driving. Customization is solid, but wish they put more variety with car selection and mods rather than recycle majority of Heat. Overall, I agree, its definitely not perfect, but man is it fun and addicting. I'm almost done my first playthru, and will definitely do a second.
One possible solution I feel like they could do for MP is do what Forza does for their playlist. You could go to a meet-up, each one meant for a different tier or multiple and queue into a specific tier, then it's gives a Playlist with random races. Once that's over, it plops you back into free roam. It also bothers me that you can only do certain tracks on specific tiered cars. Why tf is Rapid Transit a part of 4-5 different S+ Playlist? I have no clue.
I’ve been playing racing games since the ‘80s and this is the first N4S game I’ve played in over a decade that I’ve really enjoyed. The drift/grip mechanic is really satisfying to use and I’ll be the oddball… I really like the single player campaign because I can apply a few of my own rules to it and treat it like a rogue-like where I treat certain things as game over events. This creates some tension that’s lacking due to money not actually being all that scarce.
As a super casual gamer, especially with racers... it was actually the art style that I was interested in. I just didn't want to pay full price after the initial bad reviews (probably would have though if split screen was available). Might have to grab the next one if this is the direction they're going with.
I feel people just want to hate on NFS, at this point. I played all the Burnout titles from Criterion, and they were some of the best arcade racers ever made. Unbound not only reminds me of Burnout, with the insane sense of speed and takedown mechanics (without the overly present takedown cutscenes) but adds top tier customization, cop chases and culture elements of NFS titles. I totally agree on the art direction, people just hate it without playing it, just out of pure prejudice: there is not a moment where I thought to remove the effects, the game was made for them. I do not agree on the night/day criticism, it adds a layer of anticipation towards the quali, and especially for casual gamers, it is hard to grind for cash at first so having more races to earn money is a safety net. And on customization, clearly if you play this game you love car culture, and want to get money to completely customize every car. Nobody plays NFS just to progress, I spend hours just to create wraps. Personally, having played the original Underground back in the days, this is what I want from NFS, I have visions of Undergound in Unbound.
I just finished the prologue last night and I loved it it’s a lot more emotional and gives you a reason to race all these events it gives you a proper goal and not some unrealistic goal
This most certainly a step forward for NFS. Great handling and nitro mechanics make it an underrated gem. The devs just need to iron out some kinks like the barebones multiplayer or the grindy singleplayer to start making more headway.
One issue that I've noticed..is those numbers (0-360) you see when adjusting your car's color, saturation, and brightness aren't visible anymore...which will make it more difficult to get the exact color(s) you want.
As a need for speed fan, and a guy that tries to defend the argues about this game, i really agree with you with all it's happening with the game and all you say on this video, even with things i haven't noticed and i thought that "i just have a bad luck at races". An example for this it's the netcode. It's a really good video, with great points, mature thoughts and basically, speaking from the experience. I really liked this title because the adrenaline on each race (offline or online), the sense of risk, the rng of the traffic, gives you a constant feeling of risk and the feel that the minimal error you make, you lost almost everything. That achieving feel of winning a hard race it's really well made.
Great review! I was personally very hyped for A$AP Rocky, since i'm a big fan of his, so I didn't really care how he did, or did not, impact the story. But yes, the story was boring and repetitive. But I 100% agree with you that the graphics are CRAZY! It's so intense and gives you a feeling you only can describe if you actually play the game! Great video, keep it up
Whats everyones thoughts on NFS 2015? The cutscenes 2ere corny, but that game had charm and the level of tuning meant I could seriously get a car perma drifting. It felt more grounded to me.
I may have missed it but I feel no one has critiqued the actually races/tracks in any review. For me personally it’s the biggest downside to Unbound. Everything feels great (excluding drifting) but when it comes to the races themselves, they feel quite generic. Wide turn, sharp turn, boost boost, do it again. If I compare with need for speed 2015s races. They were miles better. You’d sharp turn into a tight alley way over a small jump, the hook turn around a building, then boost on a straight then dip into another turn straight into a sewer then back up into a construction yard then up a hill and onto a windy road up a mountain. Maybe it was the gymkana influence but man I miss races like that. Unbound is mostly wide uninspired generic roads and when you get to S+ it’s basically highways. Maybe it’s personal preference but I really wish there were more variety and creativity with the races.
Well for me personally I’m playing the campaign again because it was so engaging. The risk and reward with getting busted carrying a lot of cash is tough and rewarding when it works out is satisfying the next week when you can get a sweet car
i really like the art style, it makes things unique and gives it its own vibe. it feels like an arcade racer, i like that, its different with todays racing games imo
Don’t know if I missed it, but another thing that’s not so great is that they took the majority of cars from Heat and Payback. There are hardly any recent models, most of them are from like 2014-2017. Concerning the difficulty level: if you’re a mediocre player, it’s not too easy, the rubber banding can be annoying and the cop chases are really tiring because they once again didn’t add pursuit breakers. The day and night circle in Heat is so much better, especially if you just want to race and earn money.
Same honestly don’t know what’s so good about this game but they’re doing something right. I’ve played literally all racing games that I can, that’s fh5, crew 2 even Gran turismo. But unbound just feels so sick to play. For me I think it’s the sound design and customisation, and I fucking love the effects
I think i'll let pass a few time hoping the game will grow and also to make sure it's actually worth the price. Ty! And as always keep up the awesome work dude!🤗👍💥
Good review thanks. I'll definitely pick this up eventually when it goes on a really deep sale. For now when I want to play a racing game I'll just stick with NFS Heat. (Unbound seems way grindy with that forced day/night cycle. Like you said, after the campaign it should be open. Plus, although the cops may be somewhat easier still it sounds like they are way more annoying from lots of comments I've seen and it's a bummer there's no fast travel.)
Drifting is absolutely, by far, not even close, the WORST in all NFS series, in unbound. Absolutely mind numbingly TRASH. the game as a whole is like, 4/10 IMHO. It's definitely #1 or #2 weakest NFS titles ever. Every, single, car, caps out at like 245 mph. Hyper cars that SAY IN THE DESCRIPTION "260+" are capped at 245.... it's atrocious
This is my first NFS since...NFSU2 and I gotta say that they got the most important thing right: the driving itself is a lot of fun. It's sad though that with such a strong foundation there have been so many bad decisions made around other, sometimes minor things. I don't regret doing the disconnect glitch for example. Grind in all games is something I just can't stand anymore and Unbound is bottom of the barrel in that regard. The buildcrafting and customization is more fun with no money issues and you need to unlock most cars anyway so all that money isn't gonna help you there at all.
What really pissed me off in the story was that after being within inches of Yaz after she stole the main characters car, you don't just run up and steal it back??? My blood was absolutely boiling throughout the whole story like "Oh well guess im gonna have to win it back in a race" like NO BITCH SHE LITERALLY STOLE YOUR FUCKING CAR DO SOMETHING??? DGAF that she's like oooh yea i was with the wrong crew etc etc that shit is UN👏FOR👏GIVEABLE👏
Haha, yeah. I was not a fan of "bringing her back." And the last week wasn't enough to even come close to making me feel better towards her. Afaic, she's not "my friend" anymore.
This is generally in line with my thoughts as well. - Great handling model, which I could not say for nfs titles for 10 years, great customization, speeding actually feels fast, and as you said, burst nos is super fun - Single player campagin and multiplayer money farming is so grindy that it made gatcha game farming feel as peak gaming The only thing I don't agree is police difficuly. I havent played modern nfs games (tried but immediately dropped) so I'm not familiar with fighting these cops, soI found them super hard to escape. It also doesn't help that I play on hard difficulty and that A & B class cars are slow. Anyway police felt super punishing, and I lived in poverty in this all risk no reward single player. I'm honest gonna be honest I dropped the campaign due to sheer amount of frustration, but its not like the story or post game is worth it anyway
It'll be on relaxed and still play like shit then you get a pop up saying to play on relaxed, like how about you just change the difficulty settings instead of being a bunch of lazy shitty developers
Are you seriously playing the campaign this way (leave the garage, do a race, return to the garage)? What about choosing the most worthwhile races and doing side missions?
Spot on Trigger 👍The game certainly has all of the problems you mentioned, but it is good fun despite that. You said you weren't exactly sure why, but I know why it's fun for me, and it's the stress/exhilaration/adrenaline, etc. in the racing experience. Perhaps this might change once I become half way competent as a racer, but I feel like I'm driving on the edge and at the absolute limit every second of most races; like I could lose control at any second (which happens as well on occasion Lol). For example, by now in Forza Horizon 5, I feel very much in control during races. I know what the cars can do, I know how to get the most out of them and I know how to get them around the track efficiently to win most races most of the time. This means I'm sitting there on the couch quite relaxed, regardless of the action on-screen. In Unbound however, I'm literally sweating after a couple hours of racing Lol. I'm constantly worried about screwing something up, leaning left and right around turns and ridiculous stuff like that. I've beaten people soundly and been beaten soundly plenty of times, but in most cases, I have to be engaged every second of every race as we're all in very close proximity for the majority of each race. In the end, that's a lot of fun and provides an experience unique from anything else currently.
Nailed it! Absolutely on point mate. Great video! Hope they get those bugs/glitches fixed asap. And of course... more multiplayer racing categories like off road would be grand.
Agree with everything youve said!! The game is great! Multiplayer was fun initially but now it’s def boring and repetitive I think my two biggest things id ask for is a online matchmaking playlist that you could join and start racing immediately and more maps and different racing styles like drag racing or drifting or rally types
They also said they would take away the civilians stopping in the middle of an intersection and civvies also cutting you off. NOPE, they do it more in this game
Hi I found your video very interesting and I would like to know what do you think of unbound in its current state, also what would you think of a free live service nfs game
Now in the present time for Need for speed unbound has a new game mode introduced in vol. 6 Where if you struggle to find a game in a multiplayer server, you can always go to pvp which almost guarantees a 8 player lobby. Now there's other game modes in the pvp section but we're focusing on the daily pvp, which for the unfortunate part, refreshes through real life time. For instance, Sunday is for only S+ races but as soon as it hits the refresh timer, it goes back to B races and you have to wait for a whole week just for it to be S+ races.
Not saying this is a good thing (I wish we could have bigger party sizes too) but you can cheese the "join party" function to have more of your friends in one lobby than just the 4 people in your party. Because if you leave the party, but stay in the lobby, you're still with your friends, just not in the exact same party as them. -Hope this helps someone because it took my buddies and I over a week to figure that out.
After replaying NFS Carbon and diving deep into drifting and all the tuning you can do to a car, I'm very intrigued by the tuning system I'm Unbound. If I can survive the campaign, I might have a new favorite game.
Believe me or not... I just bought it recently on Dec 9th on Black Friday Sale... Literally played 55hr+ till today... This Lockdown mode is pretty addictive + grindable
Would love a detailed video on the performance parts and what they all do. I think the turbos are explained decently well but the other engine parts aren't and I'm wondering if ECU upgrades are better on some cars/engines than others. I recently tried taking my Foxbody into an A+ race in the story and got totally destroyed by Harlow and a few other AIs and lost a ton of money. It was primarily a highway race with little opportunity for burst NOS gains and the car just did not want to hit the speeds the others had. I'm now wondering if my performance parts setup was causing the problem, because on paper the car is best in class; top of A+.
I really appreciate all your videos from the tutorials to the builds. If it wasn’t for your build videos I would have wasted a lot of money and probably quit the story mode after the first week or two. As several others have mentioned, not being able to switch parts on different engines after grinding for small amounts of money, prevented me from experimenting with different builds. Overall though, I enjoyed the game. The cops were annoying as hell and the pursuits were a waste of time for me because what I mainly wanted to do was get back to racing so I could improve my driving ability, racing skills and compete. Escaping the cops didn’t feel rewarding to me. Now that I have completed the story, I really wish I could stay on single player mode, be able to switch engine parts (without repurchasing the same parts for each engine), have the ability to turn off the cop pursuits, and rerun a race as many times as I want with the ability to change cars and keep running the same race. That way I could test and compare my cars and figure out which are the fastest and handled best on different types of races. That probably won’t happen, so I’m not sure how long this will remain fun. Again, thanks for all your well researched and tested videos. I’ve learned a lot and it has helped make Unbound as well as Heat enjoyable.
For all the people that are reading this comment. I suggest you look at the single-player mechanics with the specific events tied to the days of the week differently. I'm playing NFS Unbound to enjoy another game in the series with the best customization and tuning in my opinion. I'm able to play this game for about 2 hours per day and I'm doing one in-game campaign day per real day and it feels so nice. Yes, I definitely can see some repetitive things, for example, I'm tired of A.S.A.P Rocky's same phrases on these "showoff" events. I'm currently finishing the second week, but I've managed to build some sick cars and enjoy some arcade racing experience. I'm playing for almost two weeks and I can tell that this campaign is enjoyable if you play it that way. I'm looking forward to finishing it in a week or two. Also, the race-to-event binding makes sense to me. You are not some kind of superhero or mayor or race organizer in this city to decide what races are played. Street racers have some rules there and if I'm entering the game on Tuesday for example, I would think something like this: "Ok, what races do we have today? Aha, yea, this would be hard for me but I'll try..." or: "OMG, you, stupid bots, have ZERO chances against me on that tight city corners today..." The main point is that it really makes sense for you if you just want to play some arcade race game. Don't play for more than 3-4 hours a day and this will be a healthy and enjoyable experience. Any game can be annoying if you play it too much. I'm also looking forward to joining multiplayer after completing the campaign See you on the track, pilots of the beautiful customized vehicles)))
You forgot your opinion about the linkup Events. Theyre fun and its a decent amount of money you get if you made All 4 rounds. Definitely one of the best multiplayer activities.
Great video! If I had to nitpick, it's over the use of the statement _"can't replicate in any other racing game"_ since the nos grip boost thing has been a thing since ye olde Blackbox era NFS and 3 bar burst nos lightspeed is pretty much just NFS Rivals lv4 Turbo boost with special effects on (not to mention Midnight Club's boosts).
My first hour playing need for speed 2 months ago was "this is a grind heavy game" luckily I have downtime to grind. But I did end up relying on glitching after hitting 99+. I unlocked too many cars to go broke purchasing and building TWO cars. The game is addicting, but after this update I'm very sad. I literally been in party chats hyping it up. Waiting for more races, more balance changes, and THAT GAWD DAMN notification over my tuning.😐
About the story, one funny thing that happened to me... we spend the entire game building up to the final showdown with Yaz in the grand finals. Then when I go do that race... Yaz literally finishes last on the very first race, getting knocked out of the competition and leaving me to race against the rando npcs. That has got to be one of the most anti-climatic random developments to a game I have every experienced lmao
The only thing that's stopping me from buying this game is the lack of Toyotas. Hell, if they put a 3000GT VR4 in it, I'll buy it, but No supra is the single thing stoping me from wanting it.
it sucks that Toyota has some beef with EA. They literally added only one Toyota (GR Yaris) to the new WRC game while WRC is their most promoted thing on socials, which makes me thing that Toyota really hates EA.
As an A$AP Rocky fan I can tell you that while he does have small interest in the car scene Need For Speed 100% just leaned on using his name and likeness to bring in a new fan base. Same idea with the anime art style. They tried to merge Japanese Anime, Hip Hop and Car culture all into one.
took me a while to get through the main story at over 200 hours haha. the money grind was real and i spent time upgrading and testing parts in cars. didn't dindn't play extremely long sessions as i have a day job and sometimes frustrations set in. getting into the groove of winning some money every day and doing some upgrades bit by bit without expectations of finishing quickly make the game more enjoyable for me. as far as completion though the game still says i'm around 50% but now as i have a collection of cars in every class all upgraded the money grind isn't so bad. a few S+ races and i'm taking home over 100K so buying cars and parts happen way faster too. also without the pressure to finish a story i'm enjoying tinkering with each car class and creatiing new builds to test and there is no pressure. except for heat 5 police haha. but you learn the routes to escape them too if need be. they are just an annoyance now. good game
20:21 reminds me of the problems i had with red dead redemption and gta multiplayer; nobody wanted to play the game modes, they just messed around in free roam
I definitely would’ve liked if a$ap Rocky was like a side character that helped you unlock a new shop with new customization and different races/bets to get your money up.
I don't really hate unbound to be honest. I still prefer it to Heat. I am only on week 2 atm tho. My biggest problem with the game is : 1- Car sounds! What happened to these in the last 3-4 nfs? They sound so bad. 2- Yaz is freaking annoying. 3- Asap as said is useless 4- main male character (our) acting is low tier. 5- the cartoon effect on jump doesn't bring anything good visually or performance wise. Edit: and 6, they didn't freaking fix the left door on the brz since heat. If you look at the bottom of the door, you can see the interior.
Recently picked up the game and I'm *_almost_*_ in love._ A little disappointed by some of the older cars from Heat have little to no addition in terms of Visual Parts. And *_very disappointed_* that you can't just loop the Story after you finish. _Just make it so you can do Qualifiers and The Grand again and _*_I'm sorted!_*
September 2023, me playing NFS unbound for the very first time. And after the first 2 hours I already absolutely hated it. Not because of the looks, the art style, the cringe, the music I really don't like or that this stupid Jasmine just stole MY FRCKN COUNTACH !!!! No, it's the handling. I played so many racing games in my life starting with Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on the original Playstation. And I played them all, the sim side with Gran Turismo 3, GT 4, Dirt Rally, even dipped my toes into Assetto Corsa (which is way too sim for me, things like split second precise weight shifting within a curve combination are just too much for me). And of course I always loved my arcade racers like NFS 2, NFS Underground, Tokyo Extreme Racers (super old, but I have great memories), Mario Kart, NFS Most Wanted (the original from 2005) and last year I put maybe 200 hours or more into NFS Heat and I absolutely loved it. Oh, and at the moment I'm digging Forza Horizon 4 and 5. Long story short: I know how to move a car in a video game. I've never been great at it, but decent enough to beat the game and not placing last in every online race. But in NFS Unbound I have absolutely no clue what I'm supposed to do. I feel like the car just lets loose of the street surface and then claws it back just to lose it again half a moment later. In the last couple of hours I haven't had a single turn where I felt the car was doing what I wanted it to do. I don't know where to lift the gas, where to break, where to turn, where to engage a drift and how to control how long to drift. I usually don't play with enabled racing lines, but when I have a turn in front of me I can imagine the racing line, where to break, if my speed is appropriate, I see the apex and where to exit the turn. In unbound this all feels random. Sometimes I understeer, sometimes I oversteer and I have absolutely no clue why. And I know that there's this whole debate about sim style and arcade style handling and stuff, but I don't care about it, I like both, the license tests of GT and the crazy "unrealistic" car handling in NFS Heat. It's about control. And with most car handling models, no matter how far on the sim or arcade side, I'm able to control the car. Or at least I have somewhat of an understanding what I would need to do to control the car. And then I need to practice the execution. But with Unbound I'm completely lost. It's not that it lacks realism. It seems to me that it lacks consistency. And consistency is an absolute necessity for any racing game, because that's what racing is all about: Execute the same thing, get the same results. Not happy with the results? Change something about your execution.
just got a ps5 for my birthday and my step dad gave me nfs unbound. i was a very big fan of heat. this game is good in my opinion. not as good as heat but still a good game. just different art style. the car list is obviously improved which i’m happy about. over all good game but needs improvement in the multiplayer section (eg. money making, races and modes)
When you said gameplay is boring its exactly what i felt after uninstalling it after about 3 hrs of gameplay. The last good nfs i played was most wanted 2012 and shift 2. Sadly NFS is a dormant franchise now and lost its "magic"
When I bought the game i thought that the art style/effects were what I would dislike, however I just ignore them most of the time. What I do dislike is the burst nos system (races are too dependent on this IMO) and the cops. You say the cops are easy I say the cops are annoying. I hate how they randomly spawn in front of me when going from point A to B then I have to drive the opposite direction to lose them, rinse and repeat until I finally get to the destination 15 minutes later. Oh no fast travel so this happens every session on heat 5
So In my opinion, they had so many opportunities with the game. A few was the song selection as well as some events. In the trailer there are parts hinting to winning a car off of someone. They could've made a pink slip event or something more than what they initially have. Another is the online sessions. It feels dead and pointless after an hour or so.
I feel like they spent all their time trying to get a proper grip handling and the nos mechanics to work.. now they are behind in crucial features and the update is in March 😢…. I’m just worried that no one will play the game by then because it’s not very motivating to grind multiplayer with such low payouts
I'm not a noob or a new player to NFS but because I play on intense, I do have to say, I agree but also disagree with you in terms of the Cops, at higher Heat Levels, I genuinely feel like I'm in danger of getting busted because of whatever car I'm in, especially with the getaway driver auxiliary perk (which you didn't even mention in the video), they're intense af to me, especially in the heights of the open-world because I'd be lacking options to actually getaway from them because there would be too many solid trees in a forest when going offroad so I'd just crash easily letting the Cops at Heat Level 5 catch up with me, and even on the freeway/highway, regardless of me driving in a maxed out Lamborghini Huracán Performante and driving at 220mph, I've seen a Chevrolet Corvette Cop (interceptor) still gain on me despite the amount of traffic on the road, oh and I've even actually struggled to lose them just to reach a single Meetup in Seba Ski Resort because that place just feels so tight and narrow in that area so those Cops are just able to keep up with me no matter if I'm in my maxed out Lamborghini or not, it genuinely kills me how they're just everywhere and can't escape just to hit that Meetup in Seba Ski Resort, lol I love them so much, I get busted pretty much everyday despite that I've beaten the game for a while now. They're a real struggle if you ask me, especially with the Ford F-150 Raptor Cops (Heavy) they deal so much damage, I'm not even kidding, no cap.
They only added about 7 or 8 cars since heat, as someone who had all the cars in Heat I got bored very quickly since all the upgrades are pretty much the same for a ton of cars
I have only 4 more multiplayer challenges left. The money earned is a PROBLEM. It’s too low. Therefore, do the “unplug Ethernet” glitch. No cops online sucks. Having to do 3 races sucks too. :(
I love this game and think is a step in the right direction, but it does have a lot of flaws, the week system only works for the campaign, the day and night cicle in HEAT was way better, the TIER system is amazing but after the campaign it doesn't matter only the S+ races gives good cash, and doing the low tier low paying races raise your heat level, making continue racing with low tier cars a horrible idea (cop chases).
I felt you in every way, you even opened my mind on some negative things. I honestly think it’s my favorite racing game ever, the customization and mechanics make it a blast to play. I mean what other game can you make Rough World Porsche???
my favorite thing about NFS Unbound is the license plates. They are from actual states and they are 95% accurate on the designs. only wilsh they had more designs from the states!
i don't condone cheating personally, but EA forced me to in this game. i had around ~250 hours of online playtime when my game crashed, and when i got back on all my progress was wiped. before i even resorted to cheating i contacted EA support to see if there was anything they could do to restore my progress, and after waiting days for a reply to my support ticket they said they couldn't do anything, and to just play for my progress back. at that point i had already 100% completion of the game, had multiple cars for each tier, as well as loads of spare change to experiment builds with. this was the only time i had ever cheated in a game, and i had only cheated in what i had lost. under these circumstances i think most would agree with my method. the game is still riddled with bugs on PC random crashes, cars suddenly losing all their speed, checkpoints on races that have multiple paths to take are broken, couple others too but not impactful enough to mention. i love this game but its incredibly difficult to continue playing with all the issues.
Over 22,000 characters and 4100 words in this video...SORRY. lol. I had a lot to say.
And it was really worth it. Great content again. Keep it up. Im only 40hrs in the game but I agree with you completely. 👏✌
I am 624.5 hours in on it and would completely agree. Love that they have focused more on the grip builds to start but for once the drift mechanic is more than just giving it gas and tapping the e-brake button. Followed by hanging on and hoping for the best! I actually, love drifting corners in unbound. I hated the graphics when I first picked up the game but I agree with you, they enhance the feeling of speed or flying through the air after a massive jump. I also use it to tell when I get a micro drift in a corner and can combo that with a grip boost. I can't wait to see what changes they make in the future and hope they don't screw it all up!
You are doing by far the best NfS content and I am grateful for every character and word!
Yeah, you lost ALL credibility @ 11:00 -- TONS of videos here showing how hard the cops are in Unbound. 250/hrs? I don't believe you!
Why are you saying about making a video?
The ASAP rocky monologue at the end of the story credits really inspired me to quit the game and do something with my life. Except i have to unlock all my fav hypercars in multiplayer so that can wait
lmao,underrated comment
Lol
priorities xD
Dude I did not expect that cringe ass speech near the end. I was so confused, it kept going. At the very least I have nothing left in story mode to do now but jesus fuck
😂😂😂
i think you're one of the most trustworthy people in the community to make a video again. thanks man.
I appreciate that!
Agreed on that
23:25 About the art style, you may have noticed that there's an effect of breaking the sound barrier when you take the 3 bar burst Nos, you can look at it precisely by going frame by frame (you do that using the "comma" and "period" keys).
its pretty cool when i see other people using it, the shockwave and the particles flying really scream that this guy is gonna speed up really fast
Can explain a bit more? I feel like I know what you mean but cant put my finger on it and go like OH YEAH YOU ARE RIGHT
@@hasanakib7112 Oh yeah, the method to watch a video frame by frame only works on pc and the video has to be paused. The comma and period keys have these symbols on top (). Now that you have the video paused you press the keys to go one frame at a time, the direction us simple, left is backwards and right is forward. I hope this was more understanding than my last comment.
@@carlosandresvillagra2372 I learn something new everyday. But hey, thanks to you I've learnt 2 new things today 😂👍
yeah its a 5 frames lens distortion, noticed it when i edited videos from unbound, cool effect for sure, boosting speed sense
I think for story mode for after you finish campaign they should keep doing the qualifiers thereafter and have it be random tracks each time and give us opportunity to win various random cars with random different customisation options. It would make the end game more worth playing for sure
Hell even if they made it like Heat where you have to do the qualifiers to get the Elite+ parts and take it back to the garage.
Someone who actually makes a review and isn't just "mw good new NFS bad"
Fax dude it's so annoying
I mean they still aren’t wrong, any new NFS game is still mid, except Heat, that was actually good, Unbound is somehow worse than Heat. MW05 is still the best one, along with the Underground games, Carbon, and Prostreet
@@Chris_8 exactly. It may be annoying, but they're not wrong.
@@Chris_8 I liked the run and hot pursuit (2010) too
_I swear down _*_to this day!:_* That if Heat still had its support after launch, its would've rivaled MW and Carbon as Greatest NFS Game. I say this after putting in nearly 300 hours into Heat. Also found The Run to be awesome too. People need to stop looking for _The Next Most Wanted_ and start looking for _The Next Need of Speed. That's it._
Great critique. I was also one of the people who were super turned off, I actually like the artstyle now and it's not intrusive in any way.
Same, thought I'd hate it but I find myself enjoying it, now. I do hope they make it where different tags can be applied independently to different vehicles, though. I like all my things to match, when I go from my white and blue eclipse to my red and black skyline I'll forget to change the effects. Blue does not line up with red and black lol
Watch the videos where they take it completely off and it looks extremely boring
A week to buy and fully upgrade a car seems reasonable. No reason you should be able to buy and fully upgrade a car in a day
The main thing that kept me away from unbound mainly was the money grind as you said but it was mainly the fact that I couldn't really have a competing chance because in the beginning everyone just slammed me up and I'm always in the last place getting smoked by vehicles that shouldn't even be in b-class. And that's a thing I want to talk about as well, this stupid class system. It was a cool concept in story mode but you can completely throw it out the window online
Nah it sucked in single player
@@Music-vr7szexactly it sucked in single player, shit is ass, I love a challenge but not a impossible one where you need so much research to find out shit the game doesn't tell you & makes you have to choose a certain car even though you want to use what you want to use, I'm big on freedom in games especially games where you have options & freedom, I get punished for using a car that isn't the "gold" apparently what I read on Reddit, if I need to do that, I'm uninstalling, been close to uninstalling within the first hour to be honest
@@xDaPrincex if you're just starting it is really bad. It does get better at the higher tiers though. More cars are actually usable in races.
Bottom line - the driving and racing in this game feels amazing and is addictive. The skill ceiling is super high so you're encouraged to get back in there and keep improving. Its too bad it doesn't have the legs and post-launch support of something like Forza Horizon. If it had a time trial mode for courses, I'd love to be in the lab trying to master tracks and tweak builds. Unfortunately with such barebones multiplayer, its already a bit stale. Might dip in once in a while for a quick hit of NOS and adrenaline, but I'll just have to hope that they patch it or release a sequel with good live-service.
How is it addictive, it’s always the 3 same race types. Shit gets boring asf after a while
@@Chris_8 I guess you just don't feel the NEED.... (for speed).
@@Notorious_MIG Nah, it’s just not the best. I always go back to Heat or MW05
@@Notorious_MIGYou lost me at “the driving feels amazing”
The driving feels absolutely horrible with the brake to drift bs and the awful physics. especially in the city the car is bouncing like a kangaroo nonstop, drift physics feel bad and the handling in general is just shit. 50% of the time the car doesn't do what i tell it to do and i have to battle more with the terrible physics instead of battle other racers.
Speaking of the horrible game economy, you know in Heat you could actually swap auxiliary parts between cars. In Unbound, you have to buy them separate for each car. So if you happen to like using nitrous grip, drift, etc., you're spending an extra sixty or so grand per car. Crazy.
You could also swap engines between cars that allowed it. Or sell swaps entirely. Not anymore lmao
You can't even sell the parts you don't need anymore...
@@tonitoni9059 Disappointing to hear. 👎👎
@toni toni Wait, you can sell parts you don't need in Heat? 🤔
@@superflash1980 ye.
I'm a little surprised by the ASAP Rocky critique. I felt like the entire point of that mission was to tell you, the player, what he's doing in the game. By telling about what he went through growing up, how he and his crew stuck together, and how he's trying inspire other kids by being a part of this game, and break negative patterns within our communities by striving to be better.
But that’s his only true involvement in the game. Most people don’t know A$AP Rocky and don’t give a care about his monologue. The lack of development for his in game character just makes it feel like your listening to a random guy’s speech. I honestly thought we’d get a side story since he “leads” the takeovers, but unfortunately not.
Think about heat and how u interacted with other characters that were involved with the difference race types there was atleast some personality and story bro what they did with rocky was hot basura
@@smoovekidwill there was no "cover athlete" to heat so yeah there was no one to look over. And how was is garbage? They gave him the sickest car hyper personalized car, gave him the mic, and put him on one of the hottest racing franchises. Just because he wasn't in a few more cutscenes? Nah.
@@neyok3198 he's not a character in the story. He's a real world person. He's the cover athlete. Most people don't care about him, so what? Some people do.
@@aaronmurrayvazquez what's the point of getting somebody like that just for a tiny ass cameo ...listen I will admit I'm prolly biased AF I'm from NYC so his role just felt disrespectful the car cool tho but like bro said in the video it didn't tie into the story what so ever
I think your summary nailed it. Totally agree that this game has tons of potential, it's just down to whether the devs actually update and fix the main issues in the game. I think if the economy was improved and net code was fixed along with some other minor changes, this would be one of the best racers out there.
The economy is my biggest issue. Partly because with limited money, there is even more incentive to just use the meta car. There's some 179 cars or whatever in the game, and the most fun I've had is when I take random stuff and figure out how to race well with it. More money means more spending it on things and tinkering and having fun that way.
man... if i had a nickel for everytime an AAA video game sequel released with "Tons of Potential"
feel like people also forget that not every game is not perfect off launch and they forget that games can be updated, fix and worked on later down the line so instead of being patient or giving constructive criticism they just shit on the game without giving real reasons why they think that way and just expect the game to get better and compare it to other games but thats just me
hold ur horse
Dude they need so much more than that lol, where are cops, where are hot pursuits, why is there no drag racing why do the drift physics suck ass, there’s so many things they need to fix
The best thing about sandbox games is the ability to play the game and access anything when you want to (well at least at end game). Unbound crushes that with the forced order of races and low money rewards. I wish they followed burnout paradises approach to multiplayer where it seamlessly switches your main game to multiplayer and lets you use all your cars from your garage but unbound treats it as a separate game forcing you to grind and buy more cars again. The game is still brilliant and it captures the feeling of street racing in a living and breathing city really well. The cop chases are incredible. I have not had this much fun in a driving game since burn out paradise.
Hey trigger, so I waited till the end as you asked, and there's still a couple things that you didn't mention.
To preface, I have AT BEST maybe half as many hours put into the game as you! I did go out of my way to get a platinum trophy, and it wasn't painful at all in my opinion. In terms of the story mode I opt'd to do it in "Relaxed" difficulty, as I quickly learned from reviewers that progression for story and online were completely separate. My plan was to crunch through the story as quick as possible and then hop over to lakeshore online, I found out about the handful of cars transferring over from story mode on my own (it was actually a nice surprise)!
I found that yes, the police were easy to lose this game, and I barely found myself getting busted after the first week (keep in mind I was playing on relaxed), but it got to a point after story week two, where it just became a pain every time you got into a cop chase instead of exhilarating. I had to run the "Cop Jammer" on every car because of how much time I felt like I was wasting looping the police around, or taking new routes to avoid them. Unlike in NFS Heat, with Unbound there is no reward to getting to max heat, it would have been really nice to see "Max Heat Max Cash" type of events to encourage even more risky gameplay. Even on NFS Heat's easiest difficulty, I found myself getting busted pretty often and would get a rush from seeing all the rep I bank in a night. In terms of story racing, "Relaxed" difficulty didn't feel relaxed at all in terms of AI. I was honestly hoping the AI would just be brain dead so I can maximize my income and finish the campaign quicker, I still get PTSD from Waru and Shimizu flying 500 yards ahead, on supposedly relaxed difficulty. I ended up getting into lakeshore online and almost laughing at how bad some of the other players are when in comparison to some of the AI in the campaign.
Adding onto what you mentioned about endgame, this is amplified TEN FOLD on lakeshore online. You went over how there was only a handful of race types, I'd add on how there wasn't even an option to fill the races online with AI, not even for the sake of adding another element of surprise (and not just being a 1v1 race so often). I did agree with your point on the much needed change being either increasing party size or lobby size. This is an even more glaring issue, since last gen consoles were completely wiped off the table with this game. I understand there may be technical limitations, maybe even with the engine itself, but we can't just keep giving EA/Criterion a pass when one of the biggest bottlenecks (10 year old xbox ones and ps4s) was a completely removed variable. Another game mode that was made to seem like such a big deal and fell flat on it's face, was the Takeover events. All of these game modes don't even exist online to even allow the opportunity to try and beat a friend's score, I don't see how that that competitively / rivalry feature didn't make it into the game.
In regards to the more fleshed out tier system (B, A, A+, S, S+) and the performance tuning, the online ecosystem completely disencourages experimentation a few ways:
1) As you mentioned, the payout per online race playlist is a joke.
2) Engine swap are ridiculously expensive, I find myself sitting around waiting for a TH-camr (such as yourself) to put together a build video, instead of wasting my online grinded cash on an experiment.
3) Unlike in heat, the engine parts are NOT ONLY locked to a particular vehicle, but also 100% locked to that engine. I understand locking parts to a car, but locking parts down to the specific engine in an online economy that already prohibits experimentation is a joke.
Another completely missed item in a game that emphasizes customization, is the missing "x/10" customization rating. It wasn't very precise, but it at least gave a quick indication of which cars had the most options, and can give the player a head ups that "hey, we have no or almost no options for this particular car". Also, call me crazy but I feel like some customization parts are missing from Heat!
I think the MOST important/ impactful thing you said in this review, was that: "NFS Unbound has the MOST potential". I wholeheartedly agree, I think this game has the potential to be the greatest NFS game in a very long time. That being said, EA/Criterion have A LOT of ground to cover, and seeing the absolute tragic "under the hood" update released earlier today, it's not looking promising. it feels like EA has called it quits already, and now they have trickled down to like two people working on the bug fixes. I can't even fathom how fixing the Pista was completely overlooked. I've enjoyed all of the past handful of NFS games, to different degrees. I even pushed myself through the ridiculous NFS Payback lottery mechanic, but in regards to specifically endgame online content, NFS Heat is more fleshed out than Unbound (for now). I know this "review response" may make me sound like a pessimist or a hater, but on the contrary I love the NFS franchise and I want to see it SUCCEED. This was promised to the fans as a "return to form", when the name was announced, I even mentally processed it as a gentle nod towards the legendary NFSU & NFSU2 duology. I will continue to hope for some big changes, but there are so many glaring issues, some of them that I just can't look past and make it hard for me to push my friends to buy this game. Let's see what the future brings, I don't want to see this series go away.
Bro made a whole essay 💀
Respect tho lol :)
Considering getting it. perfect timing for the video
Just pirate it tbh
i just wish the garage is more fresh like heat and can rev anytime i want
I miss playing nfs underground 1 and 2, most wanted original and carbon. Miss the boss race and the blacklist.
yes,only true nfs. nowdays only the name is nfs. nothing else
I just played through Carbon a few weeks ago. Just because Unbound is out doesn't mean those games stop working.
Good critique on multiplayer but you might have missed some really big issues with the game. I have played the game for 70 plus hours and I personally think they did a lot of things wrong.
1. Difficulty: they should not have kept a limit on retries. You definitely need a lot of retries for the harder difficulty but it's the opposite. It would add to the tension if everything was fair , but most times the AI racer would hit traffic and make you crash into that too , there is no avoiding it.
2. Cops: they turned this into a metal gear solid car spin-off. Cops aren't threatening but outright annoying. Yeah you might learn to evade them but during the first 2 to 3 weeks of qualifier the cops chase you around the whole map for hours and you will never reach the meet-up point to start a race, which is bad game design. ( atleast heat had a event where you finished the chase ). Also the game is relentless. It spawns 2 helicopters around you and a parade of cops just after you escaped a heat 5 chase. Even when not in a chase it's almost impossible to avoid them as the cops are everywhere ( it's literally a mini pac man game in the minimap ) and without the undercover upgrade the game is frustrating.
3. Progression : the first 3 weeks are an absolute grind. It is not enjoyable. They don't even have a tracker for activities like speed traps . You have to reach the garage to check up on the reward cars to see how much you progressed. Again bad game design. Even heat had a menu saying how much you have left for each district. One thing they did right is awarding you the car when you finish all activities ( in heat it just unlocks it ... which was worse ! ).
4. Online : the grind you mentioned is a massive understatement. The fact is that they can solve the entire grind problem by simply allowing the singleplayer cars to be used in multiplayer. The game is too stingy on cash for new players to try new cars because the lobbies are full of regeras and golf gti ( meta OP cars ). So everyone is forced to get a meta car themselves. The other players quit because they have to grind 3 times more to get the same car they used in single player and spend another hour or two to find out that it's useless compared to the meta cars they are up against. Also the races keep repeating in all playlists. The track with the train track is almost in every playlist.
5. Day night system and qualifier : the day night system is severely flawed because after 3 races you will be in heat 5. So you get chased by cops all over the map and they don't allow you to start the event you want to. And if you progress to night the heat is carried over and the cops prevent you from starting any event. The races increasing heat system should be removed altogether or nerfed. It is incredibly annoying to be chased around without incentive .. because cop chases are meaningless in the game. They don't add any multiplier like in heat and they reward you with chump change (1000 dollars ). The only mechanic they sever is that they can empty your earnings if you get caught. Which is also flawed because you can leave the game and escape from cop chases. The qualifier events limited to 3 weeks and don't carry over post game yet you are forced to use the day night system. Want to change the color of your car ? You can't use the garage without progressing time. The grand was the most underwhelming aspect of the game. The story takes a plunge for the worst endings in any nfs game. There is no pressure to win as they become friends and it's some friendly race and nothing is on the line. Be happy that I spoiled it or you'd be frustrated to see it happening when the game hypes that the opposition will do anything to stop you ! ( the hype made me expect most wanted 2005 level cops during final mission and everything on the line ). But nah nothing happens they have a meaningless race and hand over a car that is worse than the car you will be driving towards the end. Also there is no incentive to play the game after you roll the credits.
6. Event variety: the game severely lacks event variety. Just 3 events ! Race , drift , takeover. Drift and takeover are underwhelming and boring at worst. Time trials are for specific cars only and not for the car builds you do. Mw 2005 had more event variety than this !! Even burnout 3 takedown (2004) had variety in spades.
The only thing going for the game is the solid racing gameplay. Buy it on a deep sale. I cannot recommend the game with these many flaws for full price.
Tbh the addition of A$AP in the game put me onto him, I’ve been trying to expand my music library and honestly he’s simply awesome
That's fair, and cool to hear. Thanks for sharing. I like how he presents the takeovers, but I end up just skipping them because I want to get to the event. Although the delivery event with his monologue is kinda weird and confusing.
@@MattePurple1 swearrr, him in game as a character/announcer for sure could’ve been done better
I play NFS games for one main reason: to customize cars.
I've been playing the game non-stop for a month now, and have been trying to do every race in the single player per day/night cycle in order to build up the bank account. I was able to find all the collectibles way early in the game because they pretty much give you a location of where things are if you pay attention to the mini map. Storyline-wise, yea its corny: its not a FPS or a RPG, obviously. Cops are definitely nerfed compared to Heat, but they are still as annoying when I'm just trying to head to the next meetup.
Multiplayer is not something I've never been interested in as other people are annoying 9/10 times, and whatever you can do in MP you can do in SP. AI difficulty is okay, I personally had a lot of trouble in the beginning on "Challenging" but that was because I was getting used to the mechanics of the mods & driving. Customization is solid, but wish they put more variety with car selection and mods rather than recycle majority of Heat.
Overall, I agree, its definitely not perfect, but man is it fun and addicting. I'm almost done my first playthru, and will definitely do a second.
So single player is good, and does your car transfer over on MP and SP
One possible solution I feel like they could do for MP is do what Forza does for their playlist. You could go to a meet-up, each one meant for a different tier or multiple and queue into a specific tier, then it's gives a Playlist with random races. Once that's over, it plops you back into free roam. It also bothers me that you can only do certain tracks on specific tiered cars. Why tf is Rapid Transit a part of 4-5 different S+ Playlist? I have no clue.
I’ve been playing racing games since the ‘80s and this is the first N4S game I’ve played in over a decade that I’ve really enjoyed. The drift/grip mechanic is really satisfying to use and I’ll be the oddball… I really like the single player campaign because I can apply a few of my own rules to it and treat it like a rogue-like where I treat certain things as game over events. This creates some tension that’s lacking due to money not actually being all that scarce.
yes but you are 12 years old
As a super casual gamer, especially with racers... it was actually the art style that I was interested in. I just didn't want to pay full price after the initial bad reviews (probably would have though if split screen was available). Might have to grab the next one if this is the direction they're going with.
I feel people just want to hate on NFS, at this point.
I played all the Burnout titles from Criterion, and they were some of the best arcade racers ever made.
Unbound not only reminds me of Burnout, with the insane sense of speed and takedown mechanics (without the overly present takedown cutscenes) but adds top tier customization, cop chases and culture elements of NFS titles.
I totally agree on the art direction, people just hate it without playing it, just out of pure prejudice: there is not a moment where I thought to remove the effects, the game was made for them.
I do not agree on the night/day criticism, it adds a layer of anticipation towards the quali, and especially for casual gamers, it is hard to grind for cash at first so having more races to earn money is a safety net.
And on customization, clearly if you play this game you love car culture, and want to get money to completely customize every car.
Nobody plays NFS just to progress, I spend hours just to create wraps.
Personally, having played the original Underground back in the days, this is what I want from NFS, I have visions of Undergound in Unbound.
I just finished the prologue last night and I loved it it’s a lot more emotional and gives you a reason to race all these events it gives you a proper goal and not some unrealistic goal
You might be right, but please use more punctuation
@@yeaaahboii2527 this is the internet bro. Ain't nobody got time for all of that especially on TH-cam 😂
@@Itz_Puxe fair enough
This most certainly a step forward for NFS. Great handling and nitro mechanics make it an underrated gem. The devs just need to iron out some kinks like the barebones multiplayer or the grindy singleplayer to start making more headway.
agreed.
It's not! The game is cartoony af besides those TWO positive points
Plus a poorly-written and garbage story
@@Bolter024
Are you serious man. Was thinking bout it but now uncertain of it
@@Fr_An_Ken_STEIN Play Heat instead
@@Bolter024heat is lame on console so yea
One issue that I've noticed..is those numbers (0-360) you see when adjusting your car's color, saturation, and brightness aren't visible anymore...which will make it more difficult to get the exact color(s) you want.
As a need for speed fan, and a guy that tries to defend the argues about this game, i really agree with you with all it's happening with the game and all you say on this video, even with things i haven't noticed and i thought that "i just have a bad luck at races". An example for this it's the netcode. It's a really good video, with great points, mature thoughts and basically, speaking from the experience. I really liked this title because the adrenaline on each race (offline or online), the sense of risk, the rng of the traffic, gives you a constant feeling of risk and the feel that the minimal error you make, you lost almost everything. That achieving feel of winning a hard race it's really well made.
Thank you!
That was really great review. I've watched TH-cam for many years and this, if anything, deserves positive comment. Keep up the great videos!
Great review!
I was personally very hyped for A$AP Rocky, since i'm a big fan of his, so I didn't really care how he did, or did not, impact the story. But yes, the story was boring and repetitive.
But I 100% agree with you that the graphics are CRAZY! It's so intense and gives you a feeling you only can describe if you actually play the game!
Great video, keep it up
Whats everyones thoughts on NFS 2015? The cutscenes 2ere corny, but that game had charm and the level of tuning meant I could seriously get a car perma drifting. It felt more grounded to me.
I may have missed it but I feel no one has critiqued the actually races/tracks in any review. For me personally it’s the biggest downside to Unbound. Everything feels great (excluding drifting) but when it comes to the races themselves, they feel quite generic. Wide turn, sharp turn, boost boost, do it again. If I compare with need for speed 2015s races. They were miles better. You’d sharp turn into a tight alley way over a small jump, the hook turn around a building, then boost on a straight then dip into another turn straight into a sewer then back up into a construction yard then up a hill and onto a windy road up a mountain. Maybe it was the gymkana influence but man I miss races like that. Unbound is mostly wide uninspired generic roads and when you get to S+ it’s basically highways. Maybe it’s personal preference but I really wish there were more variety and creativity with the races.
I watched other reviews and was prolly not gonna get the game but when I watched this GREAT review I changed my mind and even got exited!
Great to be back with a new Nfs game brother👌🏽
Well for me personally I’m playing the campaign again because it was so engaging. The risk and reward with getting busted carrying a lot of cash is tough and rewarding when it works out is satisfying the next week when you can get a sweet car
i really like the art style, it makes things unique and gives it its own vibe. it feels like an arcade racer, i like that, its different with todays racing games imo
Don’t know if I missed it, but another thing that’s not so great is that they took the majority of cars from Heat and Payback. There are hardly any recent models, most of them are from like 2014-2017.
Concerning the difficulty level: if you’re a mediocre player, it’s not too easy, the rubber banding can be annoying and the cop chases are really tiring because they once again didn’t add pursuit breakers. The day and night circle in Heat is so much better, especially if you just want to race and earn money.
Same honestly don’t know what’s so good about this game but they’re doing something right. I’ve played literally all racing games that I can, that’s fh5, crew 2 even Gran turismo. But unbound just feels so sick to play. For me I think it’s the sound design and customisation, and I fucking love the effects
A$AP Rocky’s role in the game was small but he did run the takedown events even before he started racing. Other than that he didn’t really do much
I think i'll let pass a few time hoping the game will grow and also to make sure it's actually worth the price.
Ty! And as always keep up the awesome work dude!🤗👍💥
It's free now on ea pass
@@TheUltimateHacker007 i've already purchased the game, months ago.
Good review thanks. I'll definitely pick this up eventually when it goes on a really deep sale. For now when I want to play a racing game I'll just stick with NFS Heat. (Unbound seems way grindy with that forced day/night cycle. Like you said, after the campaign it should be open. Plus, although the cops may be somewhat easier still it sounds like they are way more annoying from lots of comments I've seen and it's a bummer there's no fast travel.)
Drifting is absolutely, by far, not even close, the WORST in all NFS series, in unbound. Absolutely mind numbingly TRASH. the game as a whole is like, 4/10 IMHO. It's definitely #1 or #2 weakest NFS titles ever. Every, single, car, caps out at like 245 mph. Hyper cars that SAY IN THE DESCRIPTION "260+" are capped at 245.... it's atrocious
unbound sucks bro if u wana play i suggest waitin till its like 20 bucks
@@tomguglielmo9805 simple solution to your problems don't play unbound cuz u sound like a real crybaby rn
This is my first NFS since...NFSU2 and I gotta say that they got the most important thing right: the driving itself is a lot of fun. It's sad though that with such a strong foundation there have been so many bad decisions made around other, sometimes minor things.
I don't regret doing the disconnect glitch for example. Grind in all games is something I just can't stand anymore and Unbound is bottom of the barrel in that regard. The buildcrafting and customization is more fun with no money issues and you need to unlock most cars anyway so all that money isn't gonna help you there at all.
What really pissed me off in the story was that after being within inches of Yaz after she stole the main characters car, you don't just run up and steal it back??? My blood was absolutely boiling throughout the whole story like "Oh well guess im gonna have to win it back in a race" like NO BITCH SHE LITERALLY STOLE YOUR FUCKING CAR DO SOMETHING??? DGAF that she's like oooh yea i was with the wrong crew etc etc that shit is UN👏FOR👏GIVEABLE👏
Haha, yeah. I was not a fan of "bringing her back." And the last week wasn't enough to even come close to making me feel better towards her. Afaic, she's not "my friend" anymore.
This is generally in line with my thoughts as well.
- Great handling model, which I could not say for nfs titles for 10 years, great customization, speeding actually feels fast, and as you said, burst nos is super fun
- Single player campagin and multiplayer money farming is so grindy that it made gatcha game farming feel as peak gaming
The only thing I don't agree is police difficuly. I havent played modern nfs games (tried but immediately dropped) so I'm not familiar with fighting these cops, soI found them super hard to escape. It also doesn't help that I play on hard difficulty and that A & B class cars are slow. Anyway police felt super punishing, and I lived in poverty in this all risk no reward single player. I'm honest gonna be honest I dropped the campaign due to sheer amount of frustration, but its not like the story or post game is worth it anyway
It'll be on relaxed and still play like shit then you get a pop up saying to play on relaxed, like how about you just change the difficulty settings instead of being a bunch of lazy shitty developers
Skill Issue
Are you seriously playing the campaign this way (leave the garage, do a race, return to the garage)? What about choosing the most worthwhile races and doing side missions?
Spot on Trigger 👍The game certainly has all of the problems you mentioned, but it is good fun despite that. You said you weren't exactly sure why, but I know why it's fun for me, and it's the stress/exhilaration/adrenaline, etc. in the racing experience. Perhaps this might change once I become half way competent as a racer, but I feel like I'm driving on the edge and at the absolute limit every second of most races; like I could lose control at any second (which happens as well on occasion Lol).
For example, by now in Forza Horizon 5, I feel very much in control during races. I know what the cars can do, I know how to get the most out of them and I know how to get them around the track efficiently to win most races most of the time. This means I'm sitting there on the couch quite relaxed, regardless of the action on-screen.
In Unbound however, I'm literally sweating after a couple hours of racing Lol. I'm constantly worried about screwing something up, leaning left and right around turns and ridiculous stuff like that. I've beaten people soundly and been beaten soundly plenty of times, but in most cases, I have to be engaged every second of every race as we're all in very close proximity for the majority of each race.
In the end, that's a lot of fun and provides an experience unique from anything else currently.
Nailed it! Absolutely on point mate. Great video! Hope they get those bugs/glitches fixed asap. And of course... more multiplayer racing categories like off road would be grand.
Agree with everything youve said!!
The game is great! Multiplayer was fun initially but now it’s def boring and repetitive
I think my two biggest things id ask for is a online matchmaking playlist that you could join and start racing immediately and more maps and different racing styles like drag racing or drifting or rally types
Yh we had Playlists on nfs 2012 but not nfs heat when fans asked a lot so we prob not going to see them on unbound either sadly
Great Review! Agree with most of the points here, I enjoyed the story as it felt longer than heat, the game has potential lets see where it goes 😎🚀
They also said they would take away the civilians stopping in the middle of an intersection and civvies also cutting you off. NOPE, they do it more in this game
Hi I found your video very interesting and I would like to know what do you think of unbound in its current state, also what would you think of a free live service nfs game
Now in the present time for Need for speed unbound has a new game mode introduced in vol. 6 Where if you struggle to find a game in a multiplayer server, you can always go to pvp which almost guarantees a 8 player lobby. Now there's other game modes in the pvp section but we're focusing on the daily pvp, which for the unfortunate part, refreshes through real life time. For instance, Sunday is for only S+ races but as soon as it hits the refresh timer, it goes back to B races and you have to wait for a whole week just for it to be S+ races.
Not saying this is a good thing (I wish we could have bigger party sizes too)
but you can cheese the "join party" function to have more of your friends in one lobby than just the 4 people in your party.
Because if you leave the party, but stay in the lobby, you're still with your friends, just not in the exact same party as them.
-Hope this helps someone because it took my buddies and I over a week to figure that out.
After replaying NFS Carbon and diving deep into drifting and all the tuning you can do to a car, I'm very intrigued by the tuning system I'm Unbound. If I can survive the campaign, I might have a new favorite game.
I just really hope Unite for this comes out soon. That would make it basically my perfect single player racing game.
Believe me or not... I just bought it recently on Dec 9th on Black Friday Sale...
Literally played 55hr+ till today...
This Lockdown mode is pretty addictive + grindable
That was a great review thank you
I wish they would go back to Heat (even tho different devs), that game needs less work to be a Masterpiece, I would even pay for it!
Would love a detailed video on the performance parts and what they all do. I think the turbos are explained decently well but the other engine parts aren't and I'm wondering if ECU upgrades are better on some cars/engines than others. I recently tried taking my Foxbody into an A+ race in the story and got totally destroyed by Harlow and a few other AIs and lost a ton of money. It was primarily a highway race with little opportunity for burst NOS gains and the car just did not want to hit the speeds the others had. I'm now wondering if my performance parts setup was causing the problem, because on paper the car is best in class; top of A+.
I really appreciate all your videos from the tutorials to the builds. If it wasn’t for your build videos I would have wasted a lot of money and probably quit the story mode after the first week or two. As several others have mentioned, not being able to switch parts on different engines after grinding for small amounts of money, prevented me from experimenting with different builds. Overall though, I enjoyed the game. The cops were annoying as hell and the pursuits were a waste of time for me because what I mainly wanted to do was get back to racing so I could improve my driving ability, racing skills and compete. Escaping the cops didn’t feel rewarding to me.
Now that I have completed the story, I really wish I could stay on single player mode, be able to switch engine parts (without repurchasing the same parts for each engine), have the ability to turn off the cop pursuits, and rerun a race as many times as I want with the ability to change cars and keep running the same race. That way I could test and compare my cars and figure out which are the fastest and handled best on different types of races. That probably won’t happen, so I’m not sure how long this will remain fun.
Again, thanks for all your well researched and tested videos. I’ve learned a lot and it has helped make Unbound as well as Heat enjoyable.
For all the people that are reading this comment.
I suggest you look at the single-player mechanics with the specific events tied to the days of the week differently.
I'm playing NFS Unbound to enjoy another game in the series with the best customization and tuning in my opinion. I'm able to play this game for about 2 hours per day and I'm doing one in-game campaign day per real day and it feels so nice. Yes, I definitely can see some repetitive things, for example, I'm tired of A.S.A.P Rocky's same phrases on these "showoff" events.
I'm currently finishing the second week, but I've managed to build some sick cars and enjoy some arcade racing experience. I'm playing for almost two weeks and I can tell that this campaign is enjoyable if you play it that way. I'm looking forward to finishing it in a week or two.
Also, the race-to-event binding makes sense to me. You are not some kind of superhero or mayor or race organizer in this city to decide what races are played. Street racers have some rules there and if I'm entering the game on Tuesday for example, I would think something like this:
"Ok, what races do we have today? Aha, yea, this would be hard for me but I'll try..."
or:
"OMG, you, stupid bots, have ZERO chances against me on that tight city corners today..."
The main point is that it really makes sense for you if you just want to play some arcade race game. Don't play for more than 3-4 hours a day and this will be a healthy and enjoyable experience.
Any game can be annoying if you play it too much.
I'm also looking forward to joining multiplayer after completing the campaign
See you on the track, pilots of the beautiful customized vehicles)))
You forgot your opinion about the linkup Events. Theyre fun and its a decent amount of money you get if you made All 4 rounds. Definitely one of the best multiplayer activities.
Great video! If I had to nitpick, it's over the use of the statement _"can't replicate in any other racing game"_ since the nos grip boost thing has been a thing since ye olde Blackbox era NFS and 3 bar burst nos lightspeed is pretty much just NFS Rivals lv4 Turbo boost with special effects on (not to mention Midnight Club's boosts).
My first hour playing need for speed 2 months ago was "this is a grind heavy game" luckily I have downtime to grind. But I did end up relying on glitching after hitting 99+. I unlocked too many cars to go broke purchasing and building TWO cars. The game is addicting, but after this update I'm very sad. I literally been in party chats hyping it up. Waiting for more races, more balance changes, and THAT GAWD DAMN notification over my tuning.😐
About the story, one funny thing that happened to me... we spend the entire game building up to the final showdown with Yaz in the grand finals. Then when I go do that race... Yaz literally finishes last on the very first race, getting knocked out of the competition and leaving me to race against the rando npcs. That has got to be one of the most anti-climatic random developments to a game I have every experienced lmao
The only thing that's stopping me from buying this game is the lack of Toyotas. Hell, if they put a 3000GT VR4 in it, I'll buy it, but No supra is the single thing stoping me from wanting it.
Crazy cause they put a supra in nfs 2015 but ruined it with a 8 speed transmission
it sucks that Toyota has some beef with EA. They literally added only one Toyota (GR Yaris) to the new WRC game while WRC is their most promoted thing on socials, which makes me thing that Toyota really hates EA.
As an A$AP Rocky fan I can tell you that while he does have small interest in the car scene Need For Speed 100% just leaned on using his name and likeness to bring in a new fan base. Same idea with the anime art style. They tried to merge Japanese Anime, Hip Hop and Car culture all into one.
took me a while to get through the main story at over 200 hours haha. the money grind was real and i spent time upgrading and testing parts in cars. didn't dindn't play extremely long sessions as i have a day job and sometimes frustrations set in. getting into the groove of winning some money every day and doing some upgrades bit by bit without expectations of finishing quickly make the game more enjoyable for me. as far as completion though the game still says i'm around 50% but now as i have a collection of cars in every class all upgraded the money grind isn't so bad. a few S+ races and i'm taking home over 100K so buying cars and parts happen way faster too. also without the pressure to finish a story i'm enjoying tinkering with each car class and creatiing new builds to test and there is no pressure. except for heat 5 police haha. but you learn the routes to escape them too if need be. they are just an annoyance now. good game
20:21 reminds me of the problems i had with red dead redemption and gta multiplayer; nobody wanted to play the game modes, they just messed around in free roam
I definitely would’ve liked if a$ap Rocky was like a side character that helped you unlock a new shop with new customization and different races/bets to get your money up.
I don't really hate unbound to be honest. I still prefer it to Heat. I am only on week 2 atm tho.
My biggest problem with the game is :
1- Car sounds! What happened to these in the last 3-4 nfs? They sound so bad.
2- Yaz is freaking annoying.
3- Asap as said is useless
4- main male character (our) acting is low tier.
5- the cartoon effect on jump doesn't bring anything good visually or performance wise.
Edit: and 6, they didn't freaking fix the left door on the brz since heat. If you look at the bottom of the door, you can see the interior.
Recently picked up the game and I'm *_almost_*_ in love._ A little disappointed by some of the older cars from Heat have little to no addition in terms of Visual Parts. And *_very disappointed_* that you can't just loop the Story after you finish. _Just make it so you can do Qualifiers and The Grand again and _*_I'm sorted!_*
they could have just do "heat" with this driving style and I'm sure 90% would have been happy about it
Heat hit the right notes making it an almost identical copy of Most Wanted just a different map/cars and tougher cops xD
Great video
How do you know !! It’s only been out 25 mins and you commented 12 mins ago lmfao
he knows....lol
@@MilitiaGamingCommunity I watched it and he was right 👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Giving a comment to add to the algoritm, nice video I listened too in the background.
September 2023, me playing NFS unbound for the very first time. And after the first 2 hours I already absolutely hated it. Not because of the looks, the art style, the cringe, the music I really don't like or that this stupid Jasmine just stole MY FRCKN COUNTACH !!!!
No, it's the handling.
I played so many racing games in my life starting with Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on the original Playstation. And I played them all, the sim side with Gran Turismo 3, GT 4, Dirt Rally, even dipped my toes into Assetto Corsa (which is way too sim for me, things like split second precise weight shifting within a curve combination are just too much for me). And of course I always loved my arcade racers like NFS 2, NFS Underground, Tokyo Extreme Racers (super old, but I have great memories), Mario Kart, NFS Most Wanted (the original from 2005) and last year I put maybe 200 hours or more into NFS Heat and I absolutely loved it. Oh, and at the moment I'm digging Forza Horizon 4 and 5. Long story short: I know how to move a car in a video game. I've never been great at it, but decent enough to beat the game and not placing last in every online race.
But in NFS Unbound I have absolutely no clue what I'm supposed to do. I feel like the car just lets loose of the street surface and then claws it back just to lose it again half a moment later. In the last couple of hours I haven't had a single turn where I felt the car was doing what I wanted it to do. I don't know where to lift the gas, where to break, where to turn, where to engage a drift and how to control how long to drift. I usually don't play with enabled racing lines, but when I have a turn in front of me I can imagine the racing line, where to break, if my speed is appropriate, I see the apex and where to exit the turn. In unbound this all feels random. Sometimes I understeer, sometimes I oversteer and I have absolutely no clue why.
And I know that there's this whole debate about sim style and arcade style handling and stuff, but I don't care about it, I like both, the license tests of GT and the crazy "unrealistic" car handling in NFS Heat. It's about control. And with most car handling models, no matter how far on the sim or arcade side, I'm able to control the car. Or at least I have somewhat of an understanding what I would need to do to control the car. And then I need to practice the execution.
But with Unbound I'm completely lost. It's not that it lacks realism. It seems to me that it lacks consistency. And consistency is an absolute necessity for any racing game, because that's what racing is all about: Execute the same thing, get the same results. Not happy with the results? Change something about your execution.
Very detailed & accurate review.
Put in 25 hrs so far & everything you said is accurate.
Well done & thank you 👍
Militia Gaming Community what about the speed caps
just got a ps5 for my birthday and my step dad gave me nfs unbound. i was a very big fan of heat. this game is good in my opinion. not as good as heat but still a good game. just different art style. the car list is obviously improved which i’m happy about. over all good game but needs improvement in the multiplayer section (eg. money making, races and modes)
I was about to buy this game today but I think I'll wait for a deal to happen before I buy it lol
Lol I got it on sale at GameStop today
Yeah i think I'll hold off on this game till theres a sale or it's free for playstation plus
When you said gameplay is boring its exactly what i felt after uninstalling it after about 3 hrs of gameplay.
The last good nfs i played was most wanted 2012 and shift 2.
Sadly NFS is a dormant franchise now and lost its "magic"
Gripping in heat is actually really fun if you put it on manual trans xD
I like how you’re first car can be a Lamborghini more diversity in the first car choice
I agree with a lot of points you made. Idk if this game is a dud for EA to fix, but they are leaving a lot of potential
It's a live service game, so let's see what happens with content drop they bring starting next month!
When I bought the game i thought that the art style/effects were what I would dislike, however I just ignore them most of the time. What I do dislike is the burst nos system (races are too dependent on this IMO) and the cops. You say the cops are easy I say the cops are annoying. I hate how they randomly spawn in front of me when going from point A to B then I have to drive the opposite direction to lose them, rinse and repeat until I finally get to the destination 15 minutes later. Oh no fast travel so this happens every session on heat 5
my only hope is they give us either single player support or private multiplayer sessions
So In my opinion, they had so many opportunities with the game. A few was the song selection as well as some events. In the trailer there are parts hinting to winning a car off of someone. They could've made a pink slip event or something more than what they initially have. Another is the online sessions. It feels dead and pointless after an hour or so.
I feel like they spent all their time trying to get a proper grip handling and the nos mechanics to work.. now they are behind in crucial features and the update is in March 😢…. I’m just worried that no one will play the game by then because it’s not very motivating to grind multiplayer with such low payouts
I'm not a noob or a new player to NFS but because I play on intense, I do have to say, I agree but also disagree with you in terms of the Cops, at higher Heat Levels, I genuinely feel like I'm in danger of getting busted because of whatever car I'm in, especially with the getaway driver auxiliary perk (which you didn't even mention in the video), they're intense af to me, especially in the heights of the open-world because I'd be lacking options to actually getaway from them because there would be too many solid trees in a forest when going offroad so I'd just crash easily letting the Cops at Heat Level 5 catch up with me, and even on the freeway/highway, regardless of me driving in a maxed out Lamborghini Huracán Performante and driving at 220mph, I've seen a Chevrolet Corvette Cop (interceptor) still gain on me despite the amount of traffic on the road, oh and I've even actually struggled to lose them just to reach a single Meetup in Seba Ski Resort because that place just feels so tight and narrow in that area so those Cops are just able to keep up with me no matter if I'm in my maxed out Lamborghini or not, it genuinely kills me how they're just everywhere and can't escape just to hit that Meetup in Seba Ski Resort, lol I love them so much, I get busted pretty much everyday despite that I've beaten the game for a while now. They're a real struggle if you ask me, especially with the Ford F-150 Raptor Cops (Heavy) they deal so much damage, I'm not even kidding, no cap.
They only added about 7 or 8 cars since heat, as someone who had all the cars in Heat I got bored very quickly since all the upgrades are pretty much the same for a ton of cars
I have only 4 more multiplayer challenges left. The money earned is a PROBLEM. It’s too low. Therefore, do the “unplug Ethernet” glitch. No cops online sucks. Having to do 3 races sucks too. :(
I love this game and think is a step in the right direction, but it does have a lot of flaws, the week system only works for the campaign, the day and night cicle in HEAT was way better, the TIER system is amazing but after the campaign it doesn't matter only the S+ races gives good cash, and doing the low tier low paying races raise your heat level, making continue racing with low tier cars a horrible idea (cop chases).
I felt you in every way, you even opened my mind on some negative things. I honestly think it’s my favorite racing game ever, the customization and mechanics make it a blast to play. I mean what other game can you make Rough World Porsche???
250.. well, I’m on that same boat so I can’t complain. Something about Unbound that’s addictive
It’s a great game so far, I just hope at a minimum they add different playlists!
my favorite thing about NFS Unbound is the license plates. They are from actual states and they are 95% accurate on the designs. only wilsh they had more designs from the states!
i don't condone cheating personally, but EA forced me to in this game. i had around ~250 hours of online playtime when my game crashed, and when i got back on all my progress was wiped. before i even resorted to cheating i contacted EA support to see if there was anything they could do to restore my progress, and after waiting days for a reply to my support ticket they said they couldn't do anything, and to just play for my progress back. at that point i had already 100% completion of the game, had multiple cars for each tier, as well as loads of spare change to experiment builds with. this was the only time i had ever cheated in a game, and i had only cheated in what i had lost. under these circumstances i think most would agree with my method. the game is still riddled with bugs on PC random crashes, cars suddenly losing all their speed, checkpoints on races that have multiple paths to take are broken, couple others too but not impactful enough to mention. i love this game but its incredibly difficult to continue playing with all the issues.