Almost done with the game now, and I'm getting in the habit of posting reviews of games I play so let's do this.
This was EA rebooting the series after meh entries into the series that has lost it's past greatness, there was a call for a new underground game and this game certainly fit the bill, it looked good from the first showings, having paid 20 bucks for it my final conclusion are as follows:
it's bad, there is no other way around it, it's an insult to an already declining series. Why? plenty of reasons.
-Soundtrack is as if someone picked the least favorite played tracks on Earth and compiled them, they have some pretty big artists in The Glitch Mob, The Prodigy, Spor, The Chemical brothers, yet they only one of their songs and they pick some of their least inspiring choices as well, the rest of the soundtrack is more cringe worthy than the FMVs, Plus points for Quantum Singularity though.
-Always online: Just 🤬 off with that nonsense, the game gains nothing from it but this ruins alot of things, the fact that when you are in a race you can't pause and may get hit by other players in the lobby is laughable, honestly if it's DRM related and you're worried about PC pirates then don't release it for PC, although to be honest after playing it it would be a blessing for them.
-Night time only: Frostbite has gorgeous visuals too bad the game is stuck in miserable night rainy conditions except in other areas in the Map where it's dusk....... yes it's always dusk in certain areas only
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-AI: now they have improved the AI from unplayable to just bad but even the traffic AI is laughably bad, plus the Police are useless.
-Limited customization: it's an underground esque game but alot of the cars you can only customize so little that you wonder what is even the point.
-No Manual transmission: that's coming but it's baffling it wasn't in from the start considering how bad the auto transmission is.
-the FMVs: some people like how cheesy they are, I don't understand why?it's brofist, energy drinking, slang the simulator
-The icons: I honestly could not care less about any of these people aside from KB maybe. some of them build stunning cars but let's keep it at that alright dude (Magnus)
And now for the cherry on top
- the horrible, terrible, unresponsive, has a mind of it's own, utter piece of dog 🤬 handling model. It's the worst I've ever played and I'm not even kidding. the game just steers when it wants, it doesn't care if you didn't turn, your car will steer itself into a wall because the handling model is actually Satan in disguise.
there are good points like the graphics and sounds and putting naked anime chicks on your car but you could do that in a lot of other games that don't have a potato for a handling model. If you do want to live out your fantasy of being a far out bro who is probably on drugs and has the superpower of racing a million races in one night and buying cool looking cars the drive by themselves into walls then by all means you should buy this game...... when it's like 5 dollars.
My first impressions were that this game is about a 6.5/10, anything above a 5/10 is too much to be honest.
Sad thing is this will probably sell more than DC and FH2.
