This and BF4 are gonna me my first and only 2 purchases until I get my Xmas Amazon vouchers from family/friends.  I have never played a NFS game in my life so want to try one out - I love arcade racers.

I read that the new dev, Ghost, is mainly staffed by ex Criterion staff! No wonder it's so polished.

It'd be good if there were multi-platform leaderboards. I wonder why there isn't?

Mod74 wrote:

They are multiplatform aren't they? I thought the EA ID system pulled in your friends stuff from wherever they were playing?

Ooh! Awesome!

Maybe I'm getting confused. But I could have sworn that's what the last couple of NFS games did. I could be spectacularly wrong though.

acemuzzy wrote:

Thats great news if so! But will I be able to get perm on my ea friend list somehow, or is that hard-tied to platform

This would be good if it is a possibility.

Ali wrote:

How does it know who your friends are if they're on another system and not in your friends list?!

This is what made me question it myself.

Right...after doing some checking you could do that, but only on the website not in game. So there were cross-platform leaderboards.. on the web. Further checking reveals they've actually shut down all the NFS websites in prep for the new game. Good old EA.

Mod74 wrote:

Right...after doing some checking you could do that, but only on the website not in game. So there were cross-platform leaderboards.. on the web. Further checking reveals they've actually shut down all the NFS websites in prep for the new game. Good old EA.

They're open today. I just logged in and changed my avatar.

google wrote:

OK. So, here's my official review after 60 minutes of playing. It feels exactly like the last three Need For Speed games made by Criterion. Take what you want from that. 7/10

Considering HP (yay!) and MW (boo!) were like chalk and cheese that's not massively helpful.

JRPC wrote:

Considering HP (yay!) and MW (boo!) were like chalk and cheese that's not massively helpful.

It's essentially the openworldness of MW mixed with the different disciplines of HP without any loading screens.

If it's actually good, it'll be £25 by the time we find out. I'll get it then.

Edit: All the stories about sales of everything being down because people are waiting for next gen - everything will be £25 before Christmas. Happy days.

Aye, saw that yesterday. Sorry for those losing their jobs. Feels like a consequence of EA's continued mismanagement of the NFS brand. Hot Pursuit really should have been the launch pad for a successful reboot of the series. However you could see issues from the off with the calamitous handling of the online MP. The Run shouldn't have seen the light of day, Most Wanted felt like it needed another year of development and some more much needed content. MW may have been the bitter pill that forced many away from Rivals as it did me, despite the positive reception.

I still like Rivals but it's biggest issue is that it only supports 8 people in a lobby which is nowhere near enough to reach the ambitions they had for integrating cops and racers. You barely see another real human driving in a session and the AI drivers are no contest.

It smelt as if it was designed around a everyone always on, cloud peered mega-future before budgets, deadlines and reality network infrastructure stepped in to kill all the aspirations. 
It looks pretty enough..

This is growing on me, the handling is excellent and it is very shiny, if not quite as crisp as some of the stills EA put out at launch. Not sure if it has legs of course and the flaws are numerous, worthwhile cheap I suppose.