Need for Speed Unbound Volume 9 Adds Lockdown Game Modes and a First Ever Motorbike

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Need for Speed Unbound Volume 9 Adds Lockdown Game Modes and a First Ever Motorbike​

For the first time in the 30-year history of Need for Speed games, players will be able to ride a motorbike with the upcoming Volume 9 update for Unbound...

 

[kjb]

This seems interesting. EA really done a good job supporting multiplayer in this game

 

[Yassi_99]

Playable motorcycles in NFS before GTA 6

 

[cbarbosa]

If memory serves me correct, it was the Player's M3 GTR not Razor... But I could be wrong...

 

[Famine]

If memory serves me correct, it was the Player's M3 GTR not Razor... But I could be wrong...

Technically yes and also technically it's both.

The player uses it originally, then Razor effectively steals it after sabotaging it and he uses it to ascend the Blacklist. At the end, the player wins it back by beating him while he's racing it.

In "ownership" terms, it's never owned by Razor, but he does race it the most in the game. I think Razor's "own" car is a Mustang.

 

[PJTierney]

I’m glad the bike wasn’t teased/leaked before reveal, that was fun to see people’s live reactions to.

 

[Siren]

Unbound has been such a really good game. Is anything particularly great about it ? no, I can pin point a lot that's wrong with it but in this day and age where great seems to be an afterthought for most publishers its really nice to just play a really good game.

 

[GranTorino91]

Bikes in NFS? WTF...? 🤨

 

[McLaren]

We’re expecting this to be the final major update for Unbound, given both the existence of the Ultimate Collection — which includes the Volume 9 Premium Speed Pass — and the wording of the release that states that this update will be the “climactic peak of our live service journey”.

For anyone like me who's considering picking this up since the game is reaching its end of life & this bundle includes everything to my understanding, the Ultimate Collection is currently on sale through EA's Black Friday deals, at 80% off til' 12/2 taking it from $85 to just $17. Unbound by itself, is 90% off at $7.00.

 

[PJTierney]

Ultimate Collection is the way to go, it has everything that was ever added to the game (except some pre-order cosmetics from 2022).

 

[kjb]

Is the bike available in offline mode?

 

[Chikane_GTR]

Just bought the Ultimate Collection on PSN since its $19 down from $84 I'm hoping I like it has much as I do heat which I'm still playing today and I love.

 

[Manasseh257NSX]

I’m not gonna lie, EA has done a WAY better job of supporting this game compared to Heat and has given us an ample amount of things to do. I do wish they added a few things to Unbound that were present for Heat and I wish the offline mode was more elaborated (even though I hated the story)

Nonetheless, Unbound has slowly transitioned into one of my more favored NFS games over time. I can have fun playing this game for a good 4 - 5 hour run and not get bored compared to when I first got it, I had pretty much scrapped it once I finished the story mode in single player.

 

[PJTierney]

Cool to play a small part in this:





edit: GTP’s article is up: https://www.gtplanet.net/bmw-builds-need-for-speed-m3gtr-20241126/

 

[GTboyz]

I don't know about anyone else but I love the bike handling.

 

[DC2_Evan]

The bike is super fun to drive, its a shame its limited to a few races and the lockdown mode. Even if we couldn't use it in general S+ races, just using it in free roam would have been cool

 

[GTboyz]

Got the stock Regera in lockdown which is neat since I'm basically never try unlocking it.

 

[sirjim73]

I picked up the "Ultimate" upgrade package today as it is 35% off on Xbox.