Review: Need for Speed: Heat (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Harvard L.

Need for Speed is a franchise which needs little introduction; it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary with 2019’s entry, Need for Speed: Heat, and for its long and illustrious history it’s always been a fixture on the console market. The series has been EA’s eminent basically-one-release-a-year homestay long before Battlefield and Call of Duty went head to head. We’ve seen Need for Speed grow and shrink, ride the waves of racing fads and reboot itself end-on-end. But it’s a testament to the franchise’s solid core gameplay loop (and Need for Speed: Heat’s no-nonsense implementation of the formula) which keeps the games relevant and comforting, something like gaming’s equivalent of Law and Order.

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