The characters are cliché and the storyline isn’t very involving.

But when the writers attempt to create complex relationships and fake drama later on, the whole thing begins to fall apart. When it remains a light hearted, fist-bump and Monster Energy-filled take on the modern underground car culture, it can be kind of enjoyable, in a campy sort of way.

The acting is also okay for the most part, on par with any B-movie, and the attempts of the group to look and sound cool doesn’t become too annoying. It looks a bit obvious at times, but it’s a nice attempt non-the-less. A cool feature is that these videos often feature your own car, overlayed on top of the real video footage. Taking inspiration from the original Most Wanted, the game features FMV cutscenes from a first person perspective. Your job, as a new driver in the city, is to help them achieve this goal. The group is trying to get the attention of an iconic driver in each discipline, those being real world personalities of Magnus Walker, Nakai-San, Risky Devil crew, Ken Block, and Morohoshi-San. The narrative follows a group of friends who each specialize in a certain segment of the street racing culture – this ties into the game’s main gameplay focuses: Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw. And unfortunately, it’s one of the worst games in franchise’s recent history. The end result doesn’t exactly scream of a reboot – after all, NFS has always been about supercars racing in exotic locations – and the new Need for Speed is more in line with NFS Underground. The general idea was to bring the franchise up to modern racing standards and street culture. Taking the wheel this time are developers at Ghost Games (majority are ex-Criterion staff), who had a longer development cycle this time. And thus we arrive at 2015’s Need for Speed, a game that so desperately wants to reboot the whole franchise that they used the original name.

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