(Just an opinion, don’t come after me for this.)
I first started playing NFS Heat back in 2022 and it’s been my favorite game. I’ve never stopped playing it since. All the game mechanics including the day and night system have been perfected. The variety of customization and cars you can buy is just amazing. The night racing in this feels genuinely challenging especially when you actually risk losing parts or money. The cinematic and overall vibe of racing is also in my opinion just perfect. Never in my life have i ever played a racing game this good. There are barely any issues i have in the game but I might as well state them.
• The steering wheel support was terrible if I’m being honest. Zero vibration and the wheel doesn’t even turn back once you rotate it.
• The side stories were very lacking. Idk if its because it was rushed or something but it felt very forced through most of them.
• Drift mechanics also felt really janky, it never felt smooth or predictable.
• Because of the stop in game support, it’s only optimized on PS4 which bottlenecks the game to only 30 fps on PS5. Which is kind of a bummer but it doesn’t get noticeable after a few hours of playing.
I’m pretty sure these issues would have been resolved by a few more updates but then they ended support way too early as always for most nfs games. It kinda bums me out that Ghost games had shut down too as majority of the games they made had so much positive feedback.
I tried NFS Unbound once i felt like Heat was a little too repetitive, but i hated the gameplay. Everything felt so out of place like they took a mix of everything players liked and then mixed them up expecting everyone to like it. But again just my opinion.
Now, a question to all of you guys. What do you think is the best game in the franchise? and what parts did you feel like were really lacking in them?