It’s a smart system, though Heat seemingly has no safeguards for outstripping its poorly-paced progression. Here, you’ll work your way up through different tiers of differentials and exhaust pipes and so forth.

Artificial though it may be, Need for Speed: Heat thus provides some structure to the upgrade path-which is usually cut short in Forza by saving judiciously and then buying all the best parts in one go, skipping the intermediary steps.

You need money to buy better parts for your car, but can only buy those parts if you have the reputation, thus forcing you to pinball back and forth between official and illegal events. Nighttime is for ad-hoc street races and potential police run-ins, earning you “Rep.” During the day you participate in sanctioned race events for cash. Heat ‘s gimmick is that “Day” and “Night” aren’t constantly cycling in the background, but rather separate modes with separate activities. Now we have Heat, a reboot of a reboot of a reboot. Then we had Payback, which paired bizarre gambling-themed dialogue with an abysmal loot box grind modeled vaguely after Ubisoft’s The Crew. Then we got the self-titled Need for Speed, the one that had FMV cutscenes. We got Rivals, the one where you could play as the cops. Need for Speed’s identity crisis continues with Heat, a state of affairs that’s now lasted an entire console generation. That’s not a rousing endorsement, nor is it meant to be.

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