A little unusual, but this time, the review hasn't been posted anywhere but here.There's nothing, absolutely nothing that makes this game stand out from the rest in the series, actually it feels totally rushed, un-inspired and only made to have a launch game for the new consoles - ported for the old ones to see how much money they could possible scratch out of the title.
Sure, the game looks good on the new generation consoles, especially the cutscenes, but it is quickly ruined by lack of variety, a shoddy physics engine in crashes and if you're signed into PSN, a forced multiplayer mode.
Multiplayer mode will automatically match you up with other players, not sure if it even accounts on the players abilities or levels. But having the game pausing for 1-2 minutes for migrating a host, even that you aren't really playing with others, just meeting up with them, out there, is annoying. This makes it that you can't pause the game, which is fucking ridiculous. You need to get into a command post or hideout to be safe. Pause, making your car a ghost to others and hides you from the map - it ain't that hard, EA. One good thing with the "forced" multiplayer, is with that you can team up with a random player and do jobs together as cops.
Cops line:Fine and fun for the first 10 levels, and the games story ends at level 20. The designers of the game decided that 20 levels is a little short for the game, so they made trophies up to level 60 and encourage the player to keep on gaming in the ending cutscene. I am level 20 in Cops mode, and I can't imagine that it'll get more fun. Not because I had huge fun, but because I don't expect new modes to show up.
Racers line:Just started this - writing this the second after I got to level 5. I already hate it. If I stop somewhere and expect to be safe because it is away from the road, I was wrong. Especially if another player, as a cop, is nearby. I am still shown in the map, even if I am idling, doing other things, he can go and take me down easily - even the AI reacts at a still standing racer. In less than a minute of standing in the grass away from the road, a cop 20 feet away started the siren and went straight for me. The worst part? Even AI cops easily take you down, and if you're done with the current objectives, you're out of luck as the cops takes all your cash you just earned and kicks you home. Your level will rise, but certainly not the digital numbers in your bank account. /rant
I wouldn't recommend anyone to get this game. Cops has 3 different events, and racer has 4 (I don't really expect anymore modes to unlock at this point) and that is really lacking for a game that encourages the player to get through 60 set of objectives that goes from earning 250K points to gold 3 [Hard] events as an example. Objective lists can be done in 10 to 40 minutes and keeps your score if you need to stop playing in the middle of the list, even if one of the objectives in the list says "get 100K in one session".
Game looks beautiful - sort of if you're not looking too close at the details - but it is dull, rushed and simply not worth any players time, even fans of the series. The makers should be happy that it is a launch game and not many games has come to the new consoles yet, so PS4 and Xbox One owners are desperate to play some games on their newly acquired boxes which is the only selling point of the game. Now, I haven't gotten around to watch
the movie yet, but I expect that the game and the movie is actually at the same level of quality this time around. Surprisingly.
Falling hard on the tail you do, NFS Rivals.
If you're here, checking out if you should buy this game or not, this is my verdict: DON'T. save your money and your time. Get this game in the bargain bin later on, AND play it on alternative account so you don't have to grind this game out. Plug back in your PS3 or X360 instead and play some of the good games that came out late in the old generation.
** Special - how come this game was so praised? **I am quite surprised at Kotaku's verdict (below) and the metascore of the PS4 version hanging at 80. Burnout Paradise? Where's the co-op challenges then? Where's the 6-8 different modes? Where's the option of playing online or not?
Kotaku... damnit.The AI is wonky too - being attacked by another cop like this? Wat?
3.0