Need for Speed ​​Rivals: Review

Remember the famous phrase that everyone plays football, and only the Germans win? Poprazing it, we can say that the series Need for Speed In recent years, I played with almost all ideas and concepts, but the good old chases with police are still winning. Need for Speed: Rivals – This is the next return to the key format for the series, where the ideas of the latter Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted are cemented by the new generation graphics and revolutionary online capabilities. It’s a pity only that it did not work ideal.

There is a hunt for wolves ..

Rivals, As expected, it is built around the confrontation of police and likhachi riders. The first to catch up, the latter run away. Each of their tasks, special opportunities and cars are available (the police in the service, for example, have Marussia and Bentley Continental GT, and the street -raises of the Audi R8 and Dodge Challenger). All cars are equipped with futuristic gadgets that help survive in pursuit. Reisers can discard mines to the wheels of pursuers, use Amy and additional turbocharged, and a shock wave, air support, the ability to scatter spikes on the highway or completely block the road.

And those and others receive a special local currency for success – Speedpoints, for which new “cars” are bought and old. True, tuning is not available to the police. The racers are also not too big here, but this is at least something: they can use different modifications of engines, put new discs and unique license plates, change coloring and vinyl stickers.

However, the player is free at any moment to change the side and start a career, for example, for the police, and then the movement of the hand return to the life of the auto -hooligan. There are no restrictions on how to go Rivals. The action takes place in the open world of the fictional American district of Redveu, where you can just travel by joining some competitions and arbitrarily choosing any available tasks. In addition to the “forki” with the police (or, conversely, hunting for traffic violators) there are ordinary races and races for a while. This is not to mention constantly pop-up tests such as “Break 5 cops of cops”, “achieve such and such speed” and so on. And for everything: for each sneezer, drift or a spacecraft – they accrue additional Speedpoints.

Together to chase the spaces

All this is well familiar to us in the past parts. IN Rivals The usual mechanics is complemented by the revolutionary in essence of the Alldrive system, which can be called the evolution of Autolog known to everything already. This is such a voluntary-compulsory multiplayer: by connecting Alldrive, each time you will automatically get to the server, where it is at the same time up to 6 players. They can independently chase AI, travel around the open world, survey the surroundings, compete as riders and cops. Or maybe a situation happens when you are at full speed screaming from the police, and then the player passing by is included in the persecution. Or, conversely, tries to interfere with the ministers of the law. All this will probably result in a wild mess with the participation of players on both sides of the barricades.

And all this also intervenes users of the Overwatch application: they help or, conversely, interfere with other players, getting out of the system of electronics on the car, activating checkpoints or repairing cars. All this, of course, opens the second bottom in the usual gameplay – the sensations are completely different, the adrenaline goes off the way. Not to mention the fact that chasing living people is more difficult (but more interesting) than with bots. However, and the developers also noticeably pulled out: very often silicon rivals behave just like real ones: they are mistaken, go to ram, cut the path and so on.

Another achievement Rivals – This, of course, is the transition to the new generation of Frostbite 3 (it is on it that Battlefield 4 works on it). The picture in the game really looks impressive. Cars are drawn to the smallest drops on the hood, some leaves constantly flutter in the air, garbage flies out from under the tires, and in the evening sky a practically sucking storm with thunder and lightning can rage at that time at that time.

But the main thing is amazingly worked out the open world of Redve. Some dark forests are replaced by resort landscapes, and city streets are replaced by spacious highways, bizarre bridges or industrial zones. At the same time, a variety of routes are simply teeming with all kinds of congresses, branches and skulls – it is easy to get lost here!

Limited happiness

As you know, you need to pay for all the good. So in Rivals We have to sacrifice something for the revolutionary multiplayer and for no less revolutionary engine. Due to the fact that the game is constantly online, you can put it on a pause only in the garage. That is, if you, suppose, called you, and at that moment you are screaming from the cops the tenth minute, you will have to solve a difficult dilemma, which is more important: to pick up the phone and fly into the curb or get to the garage.

In addition, due to the same online and consuming a lot of resources, graphics in the game introduced a forced restriction on 30 fps. And this is still serious for such a quick auto -rmalcade: it is not possible to fully feel the frantic speed.

Finally, not everyone may like another restriction, imposed exclusively on those who play for riders – being caught, they lose all their current money. Only the part that the street raises managed to save in the same garage remains inviolable. If we take into account that the police in Redve constantly get involved in chase, even if you have not violated anything, you have to dangle from the city all the time to the shelter and back. At first, this introduces additional adrenaline into the game, but when this is repeated every five minutes, what is happening begins to openly irritate.

The higher the racing of the racer, the more money he receives for his successes and the more attention the police pay him.

Not everyone Rivals Will appeal. Especially if you do not have a powerful gaming system, insufficiently fast Internet, or you don’t at all end your spirit at all. But all this does not cancel the fact that the authors managed to bring the usual mechanics to a new level. Nekstgen-technologies, total online, open world and the most facilitated, not distracting tuning from constant chase-apparently, this is precisely this is the future of Arcadus Need for Speed. Although some artificial restrictions would still not hurt to remove.

Pros: beautiful graphics;interesting tracks;chic licensed fleet;unique online mode;Huge open world.
Cons: weak tuning;The abundance of different restrictions that prevent you from getting full pleasure from the game.