Exclusive to PC, Need for Speed World is the first massively-multiplayer racing game in the Need for Speed series. Race with your friends online or compete against them and thousands of other racers in the enormous NFS universe, built specifically for World.
GenreRacing
Platforms pc
DEVELOPER EA Black Box | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Need for Speed World Reviews pc
gamingxp.com review
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pcgamer.com review
There are also micro-transactions; this is where things get silly. At any time you can spend the game’s paid for in-game currency, SpeedBoost, to buy power-ups at about 12p a shot or, ridiculously, to rent a super-car for three days. These cars are far more powerful than the cars you have to work hard to earn and can be taken, restriction-free, in to any race. I rented a Lamborghini for around 1500 SpeedBoost, the equivalent of just under £4. Yes, that’s £4 to rent a virtual car that disappears without a trace after three days.
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gamezone.com review
Need for Speed World is the classic franchise at heart. A fairly big open world to drive around in, many races to participate and dominate, and spot on racing with impressive graphics make this free MMO definitely one to look into. Keep in mind that the word “free†has a huge asterisk next to it.
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gamefocus.ca review
In the end, even with the free-to-play model that Need For Speed World offers, its hard to recommend this game even to hardcore NFS fans. The amount of time needed to get to the really fun and challenging races will take too long for most gamers. Considering it doesn’t cost anything to try this out, some may wish to download it and give the game a shot. However, even though you may find something interest in the beginning, once it is revealed what will be required before reaching the juicy bits, you will already be on to something else.
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gamesradar.com review
Pursuit mode is a little more interesting – though Need for Speed veterans will immediately recognize it from previous iterations. Smack the fuzz with your little blinged-out speedster and they’ll chase you relentlessly through the city, plowing through civilian vehicles (the cops, as in so many games of this type, are the worst murderers on the streets) and trying to ensnare you with road blocks and spike strips. The longer you survive and the more cash you drain out of state coffers (by wrecking police cars and racking up property damage), the more experience and money you’re rewarded with when you finally escape. It’s a fun diversion, and probably the most entertaining feature in the game, but after a handful of white-knuckle escapes the novelty wears off and pursuit wears thin.
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ign.com review
In an nutshell, Need for Speed World is an online racer masquerading as an MMO, where there is really very little player interaction at all. The open world is a glorified queuing system, and there is far too much grinding between upgrades, and far too little difference between the upgrades themselves. No doubt the game will have content updates in the future that add much more interesting components, but right now, the ‘free-to-play’ intro serves as a demo for the paid portion which is more of the same, but with far less people, little means of interacting with the ones who are around, and little to keep players grinding towards their next level.
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computergames.ro review
Another annoying problem is that you only get one point per level up to invest in one of the three branches. Since each one has at least 5 or 6 options, which in turn have 3-5 levels of improvement, it all comes down to a horrible level grinding. I’d say it’s worse than gathering plants and mushrooms in MMORPGs, because there you at least get some background variety. Here you see the same areas all over again and, even if there are new tracks opening at level ups, you already know the zones by heart from the Pursuit races
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1up.com review
But the lack of event types is hardly the only area of the game that feels incomplete. NFSW features a big open-world to explore, but it’s largely just the cities from Most Wanted and Carbon slapped together. Unlike fellow open-world racer Burnout Paradise, NFSW offers absolutely no reason whatsoever to explore. There are no billboards to smash, hidden locations to find, or super jumps to conquer. There’s just a largely static world that feels like it’s there only to let you drive by other players and to have somewhere to drive while in Pursuit mode.
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teletext.co.uk review
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gamer.nl review
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