Need for Speed™ Heat

This is an amazing car game and fun to play and race against your friends and others

trash woke ea slop, not one white male character to pick, not worth even 99% off on sale.

Installed this on another pc and neither EA App or Steam had my save game synced. Everything started from the beginning again. Steam still shows my achievements yet the game starts anew. Then I tried to launch it from my other PC where i had the save file but when the game opened it remote the save file and started from scratch. Apparently EA never provided a solution to this issue to anyone.

Game looks and feels worse than some random free racing game on a phone, i didnt expect such a massive fail from a need for speed game but yeah, not worth the 3 bucks at all

Problem Performance, my pc rtx 2070 intel i7 still suttering in high or low setting grafic, this is game crash performance

What a terrible performance, not optimized at all

The cops in this game are invincible. You cant ditch them. This makes gaining rep a chore, instead of a game.
Would not recommend!!

This game is terrible. You can't configure the joypad, you can't configure the keyboard, it's basically the worst game I've ever spent money on.

Absolutely don't buy this game because you will lose your nerves over cops, they are overpowered so much that I think development team didn't even test them, they just wrote that they should be THIS much powerful and just decided it was good. There are no pursuit brakers or anything and plus you have health which you have to make sure that they dont damage, which they will in just ONE MINUTE if you are in a chase on 3+ heat level. Just don't buy this game and save yourselves some money. I want to say one more thing, you have NO CHANCE of escaping cops when you achieve heat level 3. Don't buy it!

The only thing that this trash heats is your PC. Well only good thing is hardly cost anything to buy this on sale.

a classic need for speed game that continued the point of the series itself, but one thing made this game special. and those are the characters, the characters in this need for speed are somehow special to me, more unique than other need for speed games. And about the music at night while driving and racing, I think it would take me 10 hours to describe how good it is. 9/10

The rubber banding on the cops makes it damn near impossible to advance the game. It's super annoying. You can grind away for hours and lose it all in seconds when the game decides to spawn a bunch of cops directly in front of you. And it doesn't matter how fast your car is, or how good you are at driving, you cannot outrun them. Only way is to get lucky and have them wreck into a building or something. Otherwise, forget about it. Don't buy unless you like being bogged down with dump game mechanics.

Good story, Fun race, Bad Cops

Game is really bad or mid at best. The visuals are good and the tuning is really nice and thats about it for the good side.
The steering is very poorly made and you cant take the most normal turn without drifting. The drifting is also not the best and very unpredictable.

The sounds in the game are so incredibly bad i cant even describe it if you dont rev the cars fully up it just doesnt make a sound at all.
Literally everything aside from visuals and tuning is absolutely trash in this game do NOT buy it especially not for 70 dollars.
this game is an absolute joke.

A 100+ hour review, since i played the game with steam in offline mode just to clarify

If games such as NFS Most Wanted 2005 and Rivals are your benchmark for the NFS franchise, this game can often under deliver on those expectations.

The story campaign is short so take your time playing the game doing side activities as well. Played the game on hard difficulty.

The soundtrack the very first time you start playing is exciting but soon becomes stale whether free roaming or in events. At night there is a different playlist though that is also limited to a few songs that become repetitive soon. Compare this to games like most wanted and rivals where each soundtrack actually got the adrenaline flowing and are still in my Spotify playlists

Yes the graphics in the night time reminds you a lot of NFS Underground and Carbon but the roads are majority of the time wet and dry being very scarce, even during the day which sometimes looks ugly, but could be a more of a preference. Overall the game is a pretty looking game however a lot of graphic settings must be tweaked and even after that there are certain artifacts and shimmering present. Need For Optimisation.

Equipping engine, tyre, differential and suspension parts to make the car equipped for road, race, off road, drifting is a tedious process with a very rigid equipping and de-equipping system that takes away the fun of choosing a car and going full beans with it. Not that user friendly.
On that point even the Map does not have a filter to choose races that give you the most money or rep at the night but you have to manually keep hovering over the map to see which race or event is best, another not so user friendly approach, takes away the ebb and flow of a NFS game. Also if a certain event is giving you the most bank or rep, you keep doing those races which makes it even more repetitive. The map size is decent and there is a decent variety of roads highways etc.

Cops are both stressful sometimes in certain areas of the map and at the same time very much easy to shake off, particularly when you get a good 250+ rated car. So early gameplay its very exciting getting into cop chases however later on it looses that feeling unlike most wanted or rivals, best cop mechanics in those games.

So to sum it up if the game is available in sales its a good deal but keep your expectations in check with the fun you will have,

Played for 6 hours immediately after buying - game is incredibly fun. Only other Need For Speed game I've played was maybe an hour of Most Wanted, so this made a fantastic first experience. Racing is fun, the street-legal day mode vs not so legal night mode is very interesting, and overall I've really enjoyed the first few hours. Excited to keep playing!

The campaign runs for around 10 hours and you can reach max level in around 15.

The campaign itself is short and bland, it has nothing beyond "go here and do this race you do anyway in the overworld" - there's no unique elements or fun differences in the campaign. It's quite literally the regular overworld races with occasionally some unique dialogue.

Everything I've done since that is just...the same repetitive races again and again. There's no incentive to keep playing or do more beyond the fact that the racing is very fun and very well done.

It's just that I would hope to have incentive to play it for more than that 15 hours that's other than, "do a collect-a-thon to be able to buy the 4th most expensive car in the game that's objectively worse than the one you got in your first 20 minutes"

At least a longer time to reach higher level, or more max level missions, or just SOMETHING more than what feels like a day 0 release game that came out two years ago.

Boring races and missions. Ugly film grain filter to it. Repetitive gameplay drive there, drive back. Who binded the menu button to TAB?! Cant disable the film grain too.
Thanks to the wonderful system during the race it already gets up to heat lvl 2 and at the beginning of the game you literally can't escape them if they get to lvl 3. So either you directly are able to lose them by ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jumping in the water, or you find a good normal jumping spot to get away, otherwise the heat lvl directly ends up on lvl 3 and they stick like glue to your back thanks to the rubber band.
If I compare the cop chases with games like most wanted back then, then I'm just questioning myself how they can't add any additional ways to get rid of the cops as they did back then to make such a key part more fun. Sadly like this it ends up as a major flaw of the game.

Honestly kind of boring. 200+ mph feels like 30, the music is dead, the map is kind of mundane, the cops are fun and the sfx are nice.

great game . nice graphics nice cars nice animations w

story is pretty short, you can get through it in <5 hrs if you wanted to

racing is cool, and the cop chase is nice, though the only real way to get away from cops a lot of the time is cheese

Glad I only paid $5 AUD for this, it won't even launch and Steam won't refund it to me. I don't know what it is but it says it's loading, then closes without giving any reason why or if it's even happened at all

Really fun to play after moving over from xbox onto a PC platform game runs really well and looks so much better than it did on my xbox and I forgot how much replay-ability the game had.

Game is genuinely a pile of shit. Crashes after nearly every race, from the jump. FUCK THAT!

EA launcher was having issues so I couldn't play the game. I just wanted to drive around a bit offline. I don't like needing to use third party apps to play my singleplayer game.

Well first of all this is not the game if you're looking for strongly story driven games. it have one but its more like a reason to put some special races. if you're looking for arcade racing game this is the way to go. day night selection is the best part for me. cops are how they meant to be. overall fun experience. recommended if you're looking for fun arcade racing game

Really recommend. Nice map, cars and races tbh story is alright tho.

Definitely not the best car game out there even though the concept and various aspects are put together neatly .However to maintain the base system and story of the game various little details have been overlooked including the cop chase system which gets very annoying time to time just because of how the heat level works and also someone who has played games like forza or other better car racing games will have trouble overseeing the flaws of this game .I think the effects and the aesthetic of the game are definitely a good thing about it tho .It's a 50-50 at the end of the day .

unoptimized POS, bought it on steam because my ps4 wont be avaliable with me anymore.
at frist somehow it was working fine 60+ fps on mid settings probably for an hour
and when i open the game again it just does not cross 20+ with any settings possible
even RDR2 words better than this game on my laptop

what in the bin is the problem with EA ,the graphics and gameplay turned horrible and worse with worser fps on my hp victus 15 13450 H

Gamepalay and graphic is kinda ok, but the music is trash

Boring races and missions. Ugly film grain filter to it. Repetitive gameplay drive there, drive back. Who binded the menu button to TAB?! Cant disable the film grain too.

its a good game, nice cars, good graphics and most importantly, it gives the need for speed vibe like carbon for me. the only downside of the game is that you can't replay the game like in the old games, which should be a thing. even with that this game is the only game deserving the name along with rivals.

Absolute peak gameplay, great car handling and cop chases are done greatly too. Not too hard but also not too easy its a great experience and the community in game is really friendly. Highly recommended to play especially as a first racing game, it was my first and I love it. Story is alright but the gameplay makes up for it and its super easy to learn.

Nice ambient graphic game, urban soundtrack and styles, fair in-game money value with racing grind ratio, totally recommended for leisure time drifting along the city and nostalgia for racing vibes

Small Campaign, nice cars with cool modifications, and pretty decent Online Multiplayer.

Multiple bugs. Annoying mechanics. Npc cars loading in 10m in front of you while riding >300km/h. Falling of the map in some places causes the game to load you infinitely in the same place over and over. etc.

It's just not the Need For Speed I once loved. Terrible gameplay, terrible soundtrack. Visually it's good but the visuals don't outweigh the obvious negatives about this game. When you hit a tree you might as well be hitting nothing. When you want to do drift events you have to tune your car perfectly and can only do it in the garage. This game is so bad I bought a PS2 and NFS MW just to get the experience of playing this game out of my mind. I wish I could get my $2 back from EA but I'd rather win my M3 GTR back from Razor.

full of thrills in this game the graphics the lighting and the chase all are unstopable so i will not recoment but just play on your own and feel the thrills.

Worth it if you're getting it at 95% off. Not very good compared to some of the stuff out today, but if you feel nostalgic for the older NFS games, then it's good enough.

As usual, the police has the best racing cars and would practically teleport in front of you to hit you with their unmovable cars.

The game is good overall but absolutely ruined by the heat/cops aspect which is ridiculously difficult. There is no real strategy except maybe using jumps, hoping that cops are left behind and no more spawn close to you.
And the worst is that the game doesn't even really teach you what to do. It's extremely frustrating, I just can't enjoy the otherwise nice game mechanics. What a weird game design.

I would have been MAD if I had paid more than the on-sale price I got (3.49€). Let alone 69.99 (go to hell EA lol)

dont get me wrong its a nice game (graphics gameplay etc) there are some bugs but no game is perfect.The price tho is unjustifiable maybe if the price was like 30 bucks maybe but for 70 it doesnt worth

i am admittedly not a huge car guy, and racing or car-based games like this have never done much for me, but this was a pleasantly surprising racing game that i thoroughly enjoyed attaining 100% completion in. this isn't some absolute banger that changed my perspective entirely, but it was serviceable. i will say the game had even more potential left on the table, but the story and gameplay both just felt a little too arcade-y and not as satisfying as both could've been. the gameplay is more of a clear & intentional choice while the story just fell flat imo and was really bland and generic. visually i enjoyed the world and art style, but that was one of the clear standouts while playing the game, and it magnified the flaws i found throughout my almost fifty hours of playtime.

Sadly I can't recommend this game, the cars drive like boxes and it's a huge downgrade to other arcade racing games like forza horizon. I really tried enjoying the game and after playing it for a while I have to admit that I definitely started to have some fun with it... well until I had to make night races and during the race I start to get followed by cops. Thanks to the wonderful system during the race it already gets up to heat lvl 2 and at the beginning of the game you literally can't escape them if they get to lvl 3. So either you directly are able to lose them by fcking jumping in the water, or you find a good normal jumping spot to get away, otherwise the heat lvl directly ends up on lvl 3 and they stick like glue to your back thanks to the rubber band.
If I compare the cop chases with games like most wanted back then, then I'm just questioning myself how they can't add any additional ways to get rid of the cops as they did back then to make such a key part more fun. Sadly like this it ends up as a major flaw of the game.

I personally just couldn't get warm with it, so if you just want to play a fun racing game focusing on the races instead of strange cop chases, then I would rather recommend a forza horizon title then something like this.

4/10

Out of all the recent Need for Speed games, Heat feels the most like Most Wanted. The cop chases are a blast, and the way the heat level multiplies your points pushes you to max out your heat level every night. But it's high risk high reward as with max heat level comes a lot of police and unlike Unbound, where chases are lame, the cops in NFS Heat are relentless and will absolutely mess you up.

Car customization is top-tier.

The soundtrack gets old really fast, they pretty much chose what was popular at the time of release - pretty bad. The game is set in fake Miami, they could've at least included some 80s and 90s classics.

good gameplay bad storyline

Wait for a sale. The price went up because EA is greedy, but this game often goes on sale for 10$.
11/10 game for that price, 6/10 for 70$

Its the best modern need for speed full stop. You don't have to bother with the other ones, just look at the review counts.

There is a reason its still 70 bucks, buy it on sale though fuck them for that

Excellent game, Good story, Cops are ruthless

Awesome game. Even tho the story is kinda bad and short, it's a pretty good game.