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Rivals has stuck to the plan of being predominantly arcade with very few simulation elements. As an aspect of racing games that is universally desired, itвЂ™s a shame that itвЂ™s missing in Rivals.ДЄs far as driving games go, both simulation and arcade, IвЂ™m a huge fan. ThereвЂ™s a very limited selection of rim paints, stripes, vinyl wraps and licence plates, but other than that, thereвЂ™s not much to differentiate yourself from the crowd. YouвЂ™re limited to paints in the common variants of gloss, metallic, matte, colour shift and so on. One of the biggest disappointments in Rivals is the lack of visual modifications for your car. ThereвЂ™s a nice range though, all modelled very faithfully. ThereвЂ™s not many however, only 23 for racer cars and 24 cop cars if you donвЂ™t count the undercover variants. It harks back to the original hot pursuit where all the cars were very exclusive and expensive. The selection of cars is almost exclusively exotic sports cars and hyper-cars, straying from the familiar tuners and muscle cars. ItвЂ™s nice to see they didnвЂ™t try and shoehorn a story where it didnвЂ™t need one. ThereвЂ™s no characters because your rivals are your friends you play online with. If I hear one more thing about вЂthe limitвЂ™ IвЂ™ll cry. RivalsвЂ™ вЂstoryвЂ™ is really just an outline to set up the cop and racer rivalry.

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Which I like because if you really happen to like one of the starter cars, you can essentially beat the game with it if you upgrade its performance. Because the computer opponents scale with what car you have, you can complete the entire game with the first car if you really wanted. You can keep playing to unlock вЂeliteвЂ™ upgrades, but I wasnвЂ™t particularlyВ compelled to. Once youвЂ™ve completed nine or ten chapters of speed lists, youвЂ™ve unlocked every car. Pursuits start the moment you drive past a cop, so youвЂ™re constantly escaping from police and levelling up your heat.ДЄs far as progression through the career goes, the speed lists is it. Of course, the police are supposed to stop you before you can bank your points, but itвЂ™s not until the very high heat levels when they actually become a problem. If you keep racing in a session long enough, eventually youвЂ™ll have a ton of points. But it makes no sense to reward ramming with SP when it damages your car.Д®arning SP as part of progression seems largely unbalanced, especially as a racer. It makes sense design wise, because players as cops can more easily immobilise racers and vice versa, without having to bring them to a standstill.

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Ramming other players is rewarded with SP, but rather confusingly, theyвЂ™ve opted for a damage meter, which even with full durability upgrades, depletes rather quickly. Getting hit by spike strips isnвЂ™t a game over because after a little while your tires re-inflate, which shows they put thought into the power ups. They can be used by both racers and cops, making it the main way to take out other drivers. These range from EMP mines and fields to shockwaves and turbo boosts. Police will deploy roadblocks, spike strips, helicopters and power-ups called вЂpursuit techвЂ™. If there was anything that captured what made 2005 Most Wanted so popular, this is it. This part of the game is done really well. The higher the heat, the more police resistance youвЂ™ll face. Heat is the amount of police attention you have. The more you drive around before going back to your hideout to bank your SP, the higher your вЂheatвЂ™ goes up. Cops cannot upgrade their vehicles, but they have access to вЂpursuit techвЂ™ to counteract that. You unlock new cars by completing a different set of speed lists relating to catching racers and rapid response missions, which is like time trials, but collisions result in a time penalty.

You chase racers down and earn an amount of SP depending on their heat level. Some are more tedious, like slipstreaming for 60 seconds.ДЄs a cop, you play as the chaser. The lists seem pretty arbitrary since if you keep yourself busy youвЂ™ll naturally complete them just playing normally. Speed lists are a set of three goal sheets you can choose from depending on what you want to do. You can use SP to buy and upgrade new cars as you unlock them by completing speed lists. Driving dangerously and causing trouble earns you speed points, or SP.

As a racer you compete in races and time trials while outrunning the omnipresent police force. The game is split up into two careers, cop, or racer. Over the last few days playing it, I kept leaving the game more conflicted about whether or not I was actually having fun, and whether or not I wanted to return. It seems for every good thing about the game, thereвЂ™s some other problem hindering it.

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Need For Speed: Rivals on the PC is a mixed bag.