Anthony Lam

Playing this game I was honestly more frustrated with it rather than having fun with it. the story itself is hella grindy and it really feels like it gatekeeps a lot of the more fun aspects of NFS that I remember which is customizing the cars. from the first to like third week you can't really aesthetically build any of yours cars because you simply don't make enough money, which is a big bummer because I feel like that's a big part of the game and it's locked by all the grinding and car performance building you have to do. my second gripe is I feel the heat 5 gets way to over populated with cops to the point where it's impossible to go anywhere, and when you are like A to A+ it's really hard to go anywhere. I also feel that the heavy's are wwaaaaaay too aggressive. third problem is the awful drift physics, I hate that you can initiate drift with gas because it doesn't really allow you to decelerate if you want to take a grip turn. on top of that if you hit even the slightest bump the car will just go into drift and spins out which I find really annoying when you are in first for a race and then suddenly you are now dead last. fourth problem is for me at least when in a race if any AI is in front they almost seem to slingshot on me and consistently pull away even though my car way outclasses theirs. and lastly I don't like that the story and online are separate from each other, since it means building completely different cars or maybe even rebuilding cars all over again. when I played heat I had a lot more fun building up these cars alongside my friends as we all progressed through the game together. I am glad that there is now a new instalment for NFS and I hope to enjoy it in the future but as of right now I am just playing to try and get my money's worth