And the part improves the performance of your vehicle in the ways you would expect for that part.'Īnd if you're worried about loot boxes, don't be. You get money, you buy the part you want. 'So we're leaning much more grounded and straightforward. 'Speed cards were a little abstract,' Riley Cooper, creative director on Need for Speed Heat, told Engadget. You no longer need Speed Cards, for instance, to upgrade your ride. Unsurprisingly, the new game is vastly different to Payback. The pressure is therefore rising around Ghost Games, the series' current steward, and its next entry, Need for Speed Heat. The last game to broach the 80 mark on Metacritic, Need for Speed Most Wanted, was developed by Criterion and released in 2012.
Its successor two years ago, Need for Speed Payback, had an irritating upgrade system built around collectible Speed Cards. The 2015 reboot, simply titled Need for Speed, was criticized for its cringeworthy live-action cutscenes. The long-running Need for Speed franchise is stuck in a rut.
