Cars
Need For Speed Rivals has a car list of 52 cars in total made up of 47 cars available to the player, 24 cops cars and 23 racer cars, and 5 traffic cars.
Each cop car has 3 different variants:
- Patrol versions have Acceleration and Durability upgrades applied
- Enforcer versions have Strength and Durability (higher level than Patrol) upgrades applied
- Undercover versions have the Control upgrade applied.
Racers have the ability to upgrade their vehicle in contract to how each cop variant has a specific, unchangeable set already installed.
There are 5 different types of upgrades that can be purchased each consisting of 5 different level:
- Top Speed - Increases your vehicle's top speed.
- Acceleration - Increases your vehicle's acceleration.
- Control - Improves your vehicle's ability to corner
- Strength - Improves your vehicle's strength, or amont of damage delivered, when hitting other players
- Durability - Increases the amount of damage that your vehicle can take.
You'll get the chance to visually personalize your currently selected vehicle by heading to Car Personalization and previewing or applying any of the following options:
Note that only Racer vehicles can be personalized with most options, with the exception of Licence Plates, which can be changed for both Cops and Racers.
- Custom Paint -Use the color wheel to choose from a number of pre-set paint colors and set your paint-material to Gloss, Metallic, Satin or Matte.
- Paint Rims - Pick a rim-color from a selection of pre-set colors.
- Stripes - A large number of different stripes can be customized by color and put onto vehicles, with the exception of all Ferraris.
- Decals - A large number of different decals can be customized by color and put onto vehicles, with the exception of all Ferraris.
- Wraps and Liveries - You'll have at least 3 individual-race liveries and one full-body wrap, which includes pre-set rim color as well, that can be applied to each car.
- Note that Stripes and Decals cannot be added to liveries and Custom Paint, Stripes, Decals, and Custom Rim color cannot be applied to Full body wraps.
- License Plate - You'll be able to set your licence plate background from pre-made selections and change your license plate text.
If your vehicle gets dinged and damaged, you can drive through a Body Shop to fully repair your car, no matter how battered, bruised, and beat-up it may be.
All vehicles have 2 empty weapons slots that can be filled with weapons purchased from the Pursuit Tech screen in Racer hideouts and Cop command posts.
Weapons, and their respective upgrade levels, must be purchased per car. Each consists of 4 different levels.
- Weapon availability, and their respective upgrade levels, is based on the level of vehicle you have currently selected.
Common Weapons:
Cop-specific Weapons:
- Roadblock
- Helicopter
- Shockwave (directed forward)
- Spike Strip
Racer-specific Weapons:
- Shockwave (produces a pulse that hits targets in proximity)
- Stun Mine
- Turbo
- Jammer
World
Need For Speed Rivals is an open world game much like Need For Speed: Most Wanted, with events spread throughout the world that you can start by going to their physical location and pushing LB /L1, depending on platform and you can use the GPS feature in EasyDrive to route to events.
The world is divided into several themed sections as detailed below:
- Rural/Coastal
- Grapevine Drive
- Lagoon Trail
- Sunset Tunnel
- Driftwood Heights
- Last Stallion Ranch
- Gullwing Drive
- Laguna Rise
- Kingfisher Road
- Forest
- Eastwood Rise
- Interstate 03
- Interstate 04
- Troll Pass
- West Ridge Drive
- Pacific Woods
- Riverside Drive
- Desert
- Sun Valley Run
- Dead Tree Canyon
- Fork Tongue Trail
- Coyote Pass
- Interstate 01
- Interstate 02
- Mountain
- Grand Peak Drive
- Base Point Drive