What does it take for a racing game to be a worldwide success? Vintage, prolific, and exotic cars? In-depth customizations? Beautiful tracks? Or just sheer gameplay?
The list of a perfect racing game doesn’t end. However, when you ask most racing gamers, there’s one racing games franchise that’ll top the list, almost every time.
Need For Speed, commonly known as NFS, doesn’t need any introduction. In our childhood, it was every household’s game. I’ve played it, you’ve played it, and everyone who had a PC may’ve played it too.
But, we’re not so sure when it comes to ranking every NFS game. Well, there’s no denying that every NFS game offered something unique, however, some games didn’t do justice to NFS’s name.
So, how about we put forth some of the best games coming out from the NFS franchise? We may be wrong, but with solid facts supporting the games, there’ll hardly be anything to disagree with.
Without further ado, let’s get started.
- Need For Speed Undercover
- Need For Speed: Heat
- Need For Speed: The Run
- Need For Speed 2
- Need For Speed: ProStreet
- Bottom Line
In the early days of the NFS franchise, police chases in narrow streets weren’t a common sight. But, NFS Undercover took the police pursuits to a whole different level.
It was something gruesome for the gamers, but didn’t it add a bit of spice to the game? Moreover, escaping the police, that too in stolen cars, was something that rushed adrenaline in our bodies.
Making sure that the gamers don’t get bored, the speeds the cars in NFS Underground could reach were insane.
For all the right reasons above, there’s no doubt Need For Speed Underground should make it to the list of best NFS games ever.
Heat took the NFS’s tally to 24 games. Released in 2019, the game technology was at its peak. With a lot to shuffle and experiment with, NFS Heat didn’t disappoint the gamers.
NFS Heat made driving realistic, where every brake or sprint was accounted for. Moreover, providing an open world to explore, that too with wild cars, fans couldn’t want more from the NFS series.
In addition, providing an option to race against your fellows, NFS Heat hit a very high standard for a racing game. But, to play Heat with your friends, make sure your internet connection isn’t sloppy or slow.
Why?
Because of extreme graphics, it takes a quality internet connection like Xfinity to race in the multiplayer mode. Without stable pings, it’ll be a drag for you to take out your friends.
To know more about Xfinity, visit their website today. Spanish customers can connect to Xfinity servicio al cliente for Spanish customer support.
NFS: The Run wasn’t the most played game by any means. However, it should be one because The Run is closer to reality than any NFS game.
You may ask how.
Well, in the racing world, to be on the top, you need to outclass your opponents. Starting as a rookie, The Run provided you with an opportunity to compete against the racers around the country. Beating them and making your way forward was the only way to gain respect in the fierce racing community.
Moreover, you didn’t only race against your fellow racers. You had to outmaneuver police and mob drivers to reach your destination.
Back in the day, there was hardly a game cooler than this. On top of that, little tricks like racing with FZR and summoning the bus, or the dinosaurs made every more exciting.
Unlike its forerunners, NFS 2 wasn’t the best when it comes to car physics or graphics. However, considering that NFS 2 came out in 1997, it was way ahead of its time.
One wouldn’t expect the NFS franchise to make softcore games. Where there isn’t much crashing and the one that is more focused on the “legal side of the racing”
NFS, trying to mesh arcade racing with a more simulated sort of racing, brought us ProStreet. Moreover, some fans didn’t like the new idea of racing on tracks, instead of narrow streets. Still, most fans came around the idea of a new sort of racing.
Since 1994, Need For Speed has bestowed us with many great games. It is only a matter of time before we see another masterpiece from the NFS franchise. Till then, we’ve got 25 games to enjoy.
