The multiplayer aspect of the game is both Need For Speed: RivalsвЂ™ greatest triumph and its biggest downfall. YouвЂ™ll constantly find yourself casually driving down a section of road, come across something where a friend or rival is higher than you on the SpeedWall, and lose a few hours of your life as you try and top them in a game of вЂњIвЂ™m better than youвЂќ. The gameвЂ™s world is littered with speed cameras, races, speed areas and more, and thatвЂ™s before you even start bringing other people into it. One of the most obvious things about Need For Speed: Rivals is that youвЂ™ll never find yourself lacking in things to do. You can either choose the race from the map, and let the game draw a GPS route for you on the minimap, choose the race from a selection of options in the вЂњEasyDriveвЂќ menu, or just select the race from the map when you leave your Hideout/Command Post and get dumped into the game world right at the raceвЂ™s starting location. In order to get to the start locations in the first place, you have a couple of options at your disposal. You drive around the gameвЂ™s world of Redview County in a vehicle mostly decided by which faction youвЂ™ve chosen to play as at the moment вЂ“ Cops or Racers вЂ“ and will partake in events by driving up to the start location and tapping on the left bumper. The main bulk of the gameplay experience plays very much like last yearвЂ™s Need For Speed: Most Wanted. So, when you actually look вЂњunder the hoodвЂќ, it seems as if Need For Speed is in pretty safe hands. Ghost Games is made up of a selection of developers who have previously made hugely popular racing games, such as Forza and Project Gotham Racing as well as games in the Need For Speed franchise. ItвЂ™s not as scary as it first appears though. Criterion Games appear to have been on hand for consultation when it came to the various elements of the gameplay вЂ“ and after having Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (one of the most widely admired Need For Speed games in the last generation), under their belt, it made sense вЂ“ but the vast majority of the development was handled by the brand new Ghost Games. The Need For Speed series, with their arcade feel, over the top speed and crazy antics, has always been one of my preferred racers, so the opportunity to play it on a next generation system, with everything that offered, left me dying to get my hands on it as soon as I possibly could.ДЄll the gameplay footage, information and more, couldnвЂ™t hide the fact that we are getting a brand new, untested developer making the latest instalment of the NFS franchise. When the hype machine for the next generation started, and we began to see gameplay footage coming out for the first wave of games, Need For Speed: Rivals quickly rose to the top of the pile for me as one of my most anticipated games during this first phase.

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