Very fun do play any time of day

This game is enjoyable to play no matter how far you have progressed. I have heard criticism for the way the game has blueprints and fuel, I and somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. Blueprints are required to unlock cars, and higher level cars require more blueprints. This makes it challenging to grind of things in short amount of times, as you also need fuel to race. I don’t mind these things though, as it makes grinding less stressful. On the plus side you begin by unlocking lots of new features pretty early on to keep you engaged. Pretty early on, once you have access to special events, anyone committed enough can get very high tier cars early on. But believe me, this is not easy to do by any means. You still have to work very hard to complete events. Another thing in this game is upgrading you cars. You have to have your cars to a certain score to be able to do some races, which I find more annoying than the fuel and blueprints. And on to the driving mechanics. When racing, you can drift, use nitro, and turn very easily. One thing you cannot do it control your speed and braking. It’s not the most realistic, (I don’t like that about it) but it is still very fun and easy. There is a very wide selection of cars from the Ford Fiesta to the Koenegsegg Jesko, and even 2 Ken Block cars (RIP). I think if y oh somewhat like cars, modifications and upgrading, or racing, you should really try this game.

Great game, but has its flaws

This game has driving mechanics that makes you feel like you are actually doing something. This game is fun and I recommend everybody that comes across it to try it out. There aren’t any pop-up ads that you are forced to watch unless you want a boost. However, this game is major pay to win. To unlock better cars you have to get a certain number of blueprints for that car. The only way to get blueprints is from crates that you earn overtime (or you can just buy them in bulk), winning races (fuel is required to race and is earned over a long time or you can buy more), and just buying the car outright. You can only get high-tier cars from the crates when you are a high level (which makes sense) but the fuel mentioned earlier only allows you to race 5-10 times every 30 minutes, which restricts your ability to level up. You also have to get parts to upgrade your car (which you can win from races or buy for in-game and real-life money) but are way too expensive with in-game money (or at least the part I’m at. It is very frustrating to people that want to play this game a lot, but it is a lot of fun. I ask you to try the game out for yourself to see if you agree with me, and if I put a bad taste in your mouth from where I talked about the flaws, I encourage you to download this game and play it for 10 minutes and see if you think it is worth keeping.

Good but needs some improvement

This game honestly is very fun, despite only getting a three star review. My main complaints are that the steering is a little wonky -often when drifting the steering wheel will just disappear from the screen and your car will crash. The races are so short that one small crash and you will lose every time so this can get frustrating in special events will it takes much longer for your tickets to recharge. My second complaint is that this game is 100% paid to win. While you can technically unlock everything naturally by just playing, you need to complete the same race often 20 or more times just to unlock a low tier vehicle, I can’t imagine how long it will take me to unlock some of the legendary vehicles. My third complaint is that there is not enough variety of vehicles. While there are lots of vehicles,You often see the same brands over and over.I get tired of seeing same brands like Porsche, Ford, Honda, Nissan, all the brands that historically have made sports cars. There are more sports cars out there, and basically every brand has a couple really great cars to offer and I think it would make the game more fun to include some lesser thought of brands. Like you could add a Kia stinger, or a Hyundai Veloster Turbo (or N), or a Volkswagen Jetta V6, or a Mazda RX-8, or a Fiat/Abarth Punto or Spider, heck you could have a whole class of SUVs and pickups if you wanted. Just get tired of the same 30-50 cars in all the racing games

Great game, would love to see improvements

I've been playing this game for a good year, and I'm glad to say that it's one of the best racing games on the App Store, however it would be better if; the car sounds had a larger variety and sound more realistic, if the game made it more fair for players to win series, and this previous update may have gotten my data lost! First of the vehicle sounds. The sounds of all the vehicles should be re-done to match the specific model and make of car in real life, to make the game more realistic. It has been done in the newer Need for Speed games and would be a great addition to this version. Second the pay to win concept that is low key implemented into car series; the tournaments that are implemented into the game to allow people to win cars gets really complex near the final stages, and seems impossible to win the loaned vehicles unless real cash is spent on gold to use in game to win. Third; with this new update, which I am extremely excited to participate in, every time I try to log-in it says to check internet connection when my wi-fi is active and strong, and also says it is having trouble retrieving my data! This game is so fun and I am always delighted to play and hope that these complaints are taken into consideration by the people of EA to optimize not only my game play, but the game play of all who play Need for Speed! Thank you!

Great game, could be better.

I’ve been playing for almost a year now and have loved the game, would give 5 stars but 2 things interrupt. One would be the removal of visual points, it was awesome back before when you would get visual points from the tuner trial races, it was simple way of modding a car the way you want it to look, especially after getting a new car and seeing all the mods you can have for it and customize it to your liking. After the removal, getting a new car is not as exciting as it used to because in order to get new mods you have to upgrade a car via blueprint completion, which takes a long time from crates or the black market, not to mention special cars, such as the JDM cars, that their blueprints don’t occur often in the black market, and rarely in a crate. Bringing back visual points would make the game more engaging I feel instead of waiting to level up your car just to unlock mods. Number two would be the Fast Lane vehicle challenges. The first couple days aren’t too bad and are doable, but as soon as you reach the last couple days there is no way of completing the races without spending hard earned gold, and most likely real money, in the amount of time that’s available for the challenges. Other than these two things, this is my favorite mobile racing game and hopefully in the future these things can be improved on.

The quality is there but it’s also an EA game...

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and have some time invested. When first starting off many things seem awesome like winning crates and whatnot. However after a week of playing I was stuck and it was nearly impossible to continue without paying for it. The game itself has so much potential from the long list of cars to the cool customization options (sports cars and below). I feel like there should be more to this game it feels like an open world aspect could be possible as many of the tracks overlap which might mean they already have a city rendered and I really wouldn’t mind paying to play for an open world racing game considering there’s not another one on the market. I do appreciate the work that went into developing this game but it feels like EA is holding the potential of this game back. I’ve spent nearly $80 into this game and you wouldn’t be able to notice based off my cars. I’ve noticed “crate boxes” in this game resemble the other boxes in games like battlefront 2. Hopefully some sort of big update will be coming but I’m not really expecting it. Would I tell someone about this game? Yes, but be aware of pay to play and if you’ve had any history with EA games you pretty much know what to expect. 5 stars for game and graphics 3 stars for the crates and limited driving experience.

Glitchy

I give this game a four star rating because while I agree with the first comment I saw about the game being really fun to play, it has also become really hard to play. Need for speed no limits becomes glitchy and freezes while I’ve tried to customize my vehicle or when I’ve tried to race with the Renault loan car; which I’ve tried to win. I’ve lost tickets to races because the game will freeze in the middle of a race and I’ll exit out of the game and gone back in and it still does the same thing. The last couple of days it’s turned my phone off automatically, without me turning my phone off myself. I had no control over it. It would be cool if EA could fix this because I also have one of the newest iPhones so I don’t think I should be having these problems and I have been a need for speed fan for years. Favorite one is the original Most Wanted. And while I’m here if EA reads this, you guys should put the original Most Wanted on the Xbox one, or remaster it. I like it A LOT better than the new Most Wanted. I wasn’t really feeling it. And another game that would be awesome to continue playing would be dead space; that game is one of the best I’ve played. One of the only games that has made me jump; and I’m hard to scare. A Dead Space 4 would be awesome and greatly appreciated. Something way scarier than the first three. Thank you.

Great game but….

I downloaded this game about 2 months ago because I got sick of asphalt 8 and 9 being absolute money pits. First impression was very good, this game has a great storyline and graphics, and you keep unlocking new things for a long time, keeping you hooked. Although I do think the tracks could be a bit more interesting, I fell in love with this game. However, every game has its flaws, these just happen to be really annoying. Anytime you unlock something in the Modshop it displays that you have something new to put on your car. This doesn’t go away until you unlock something else, in which case that will display the same thing leaving you with a constant display on your Home Screen that you have something new. Although this is annoying it doesn’t affect gameplay, which leads me to my other complaint. The game will randomly decide that it doesn’t want your car to turn( when using tap to steer)and this will last two or three seconds almost always costing you the race. This wouldn’t be that terrible if you didn’t have a limited amount of races before you have wait for more tickets( or a refill depending on what you’re doing). Please fix these issues especially the latter as they are ruining the otherwise excellent game.

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