‘Need for Speed Rivals’ review: the endless road

Need for Speed Rivals is the latest title to be spawned from the Need for Speed family and the first one born from the hands of new Swedish developers, Ghost Games. It was built on the new Frostbite 3 engine, the same one used for the recently released Battlefield 4. How does it fare?

First Impressions

As you start it up it you’re forced to watch a lengthy and unskippable two-minute intro video. The voice in this intro seems like it’s trying overly hard to be philosophically deep and poignant but it just isn’t. It comes off shallow, though, at least it is coupled with some reasonably pleasing visual imagery.

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