They are there to look at and admire, as well as the crashes feel like something out of Burnout. Minor things like the weather affecting the roads in real-time as rain droplets glisten on the cars are things one wouldn't see going 130+ MPH. Running on an upgraded version of the Frostbite engine, the attention to detail is amazing. The blend of "realism" and "cartoonish" aesthetics seemed jarring at first as the world around Need For Speed Unbound and the cars themselves are some of the highest quality ever produced. Now if we had these wings from Initial D, it'd be even cooler. The cars also had their own sense of personality, with animated smoke coming from the tires during a drift, lines passing through cars to emulate slipstreaming, and cars growing wings as they take flight over jumps. Criterion used Need For Speed Heat as a template and built around it in several ways that I'll discuss here, but the character designs were an interesting step. Character models were CGI designed, similar to Into The Spiderverse, and showed more personality and animation than Heat. Then came the trailers for the game, featuring a very artistic style different from other Need For Speed titles. I guess you can say it was unbound from the formula Ghost Games provided. With the changing of the guard back to Criterion, who had worked on the reboot to Most Wanted and Hot Pursuit, the gameplay was bound to be different. Subsequent games that follow would use in-game rendered models, which in the vein of Heat, used character designs striking similar to their voice actors like Jonny Cruz who is best known for Lucio from Overwatch.
It also meant the return of narrative-based racing games, with 2015 using live actors similar to Most Wanted, Carbon, and Undercover. Ghost Games were known for helping bring the floundering franchise back to relevancy with the release of Need For Speed 2015, a love letter to the successful Underground series. Need For Speed Heat was released three years ago as the final game developed by Ghost Games. Having played a little bit myself, I wanted to discuss my first impressions of a game that I have been honestly skeptical of.
Owners of the Palace Edition for Need For Speed Unbound will begin to take a look at the latest entry for one of the longest-running video game franchises as a part of the three-day early access beta.
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