It just doesn’t have enough character or classic EA flair. It makes much more sense at night when the good residents are tucked up in bed, but even so the city is simply duller than it should be to drive around. Palm City is supposed to be a vibrant place, yet the streets have no pedestrians (for obvious reasons - one wrong move and you’d be responsible for a massacre), and traffic is unrealistically light. The draw distance is definitely the most impressive feature of the engine, though the city can look barren and dull in the hard light of day. The realistic filter of 2015’s Need For Speed’s visuals has been dropped, making for a slightly sharper but less urban look. There’s more than a hint of Forza Horizon about the way you smash through thick stone walls without the car damage indicator even flashing, and it makes for an inconsequential racing experience. Sure, if you plough through successive fence sections, you’ll lose enough speed to get overtaken, but that’s the worst you’ll see. As long as you avoid the planets, everything else is just pretty space dust, provided as eye candy and barely slowing you down. So instead of looking ahead and carefully plotting a path between all of these things, instead it’s akin to piloting a superfast rocket out in space.
Fences, bushes, fully-grown palm trees, bus stops, trash cans, street lights and solar farms are all smashable and completely disintegrate even when nudged at 3mph. There’s also another concession to allow all this zooming about generally, nothing smaller than a house is an obstacle. The movement is solid and smooth, though of course the city’s layout is simplified to accommodate traversal at these unrealistically high speeds. The result is comfortable, assured driving even at 150mph. Drifting is now mapped to a single pump of the accelerator while turning, and if you need a tighter turn then hitting the handbrake works, which also kicks in the drift mechanic albeit at a much lower speed. The car handling is admirably crafted, managing to feel like your ride has actual weight, while also visibly moving like a vintage Need For Speed game. You may as well go slow and steady, banking everything as soon as you hit the doubler you’ll finish the game just as fast as always going for higher and failing, say, every other time. So essentially you’re climbing ladders and sliding down snakes, with the currency of success and failure being real life hours of precious time. Get caught, however, and you lose all your multiplier (though fortunately not your base score, that would be too much). Lose the cops and make it to a safehouse and you bank your rep and reset the counter for the next day’s business. You can speed up your progress by increasing your eponymous Heat gauge to a maximum 5x multiplier each night.
There’s a clear gambling element to progressing in Need For Speed Heat, but it’s only after a long time that you realise what you’re gambling with: your time. The biggest question posed by the gameplay is on how confident you are in being able to do just that.
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