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Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed™ Heat, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set. By day, Palm City hosts the Speedhunter Showdown, a sanctioned competition where you earn Bank to customize and upgrade your high-performance cars. At night, ramp up the intensity in illicit street races that build your reputation, getting you access to bigger races and better parts. But stay ready – cops are waiting and not all of them play fair.
The Deluxe Edition comes with:
- K.S Edition Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Starter Car, available at start in player garage
- 3 additional K.S Edition cars unlocked through progression
- 4 exclusive character outfits — swappable and fit both male and female avatars
- REP rewards increased by 5%
- BANK rewards increased by 5%
Need for Speed Heat is Crossplay enabled.
Minimum Requirements
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: FX-6350 or Equivalent; Core i5-3570 or Equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD: Radeon 7970/Radeon R9 280x or Equivalent; NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 760 or Equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 50 GB available space
Recommended Requirements
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Ryzen 3 1300X or Equivalent; Core i7-4790 or Equivalent
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD: Radeon RX 480 or Equivalent; NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 1060 or Equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 50 GB available space
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Game Reviews
User: 76561198334431655
Fun game, Good graphics, and far fucking better than NFS Unbound. Period!
User: 76561198984761658
I'm a fan of the early 00's NFS games, NFSU2 and MW particularly, and played Hot Pursuit (2010), NFS (2015) and Payback afterwards. I think NFS Heat delivers a familiar experience to the last two games, with some new ideas. If you haven`t played these games before, expect an arcade-y gameplay, focusing in fast paced races, nitro, police chases and drifting around corners. The game world is a sandbox with urban, contryside, industrial and mountain areas. The races are divided in day (in a Forza Horizon-lite style) and night - when most police action happens.
The story is a bit on the short side and it`s as deep as you would expect for a racing game, but there is more content in the form of jumps, speed traps, and collectibles (with rewards for completing them) if you end up liking the game.
The graphics are good, as is the engine/environment sound effects. It`s not as polished as some newer or simulation focused games.
I bought this game during a 90% sale, and I feel you should wait for a similar price. I find it worth buying if you want a no-stress arcade racing game, police chases and modified cars. Nowadays the servers are still populated, and there is cross-plataform multiplayer. And being a EA game, you'll need their launcher.
User: 76561199674413233
Best car game I played my life good Graphics and fun playing with friends
User: 76561198069145363
Game is amazing. Great races, cars and soundtack.
HOWEVER....EA launcher ruined the entire experience for me.
Stopped playing it for awhile and after picking it up again it just would not run as it couldn't get pass the EA launcher page.
EA please stop forcing your rubbish launcher app onto us.
User: 76561198114265776
I havent logged into my EA account for 4 years and finally decide to buy an ea game thought steam. turns out my account has been deleted which means i can never buy any new EA games and all my EA games in my library are unplayable. DO NOT BUY ANY EA GAME (that require EA launcher to work) or you will get Fucked in the Ass by EA
User: 76561199490260653
This game is actually goated, one of the best arcade racers on steam, The races are fun, the cops are actually hard and that makes the chases actually fun (especially on heat 5). This game and a good music playlist is a 10/10 combo (beer optional)
User: 76561198042950548
The best "current" Need for Speed game, the closest you can get when it comes to the gold old ones like Most Wanted and Carbon.
User: 76561199105197380
This is a game.
I suppose I kind of like it, but nothing stands out to me. I'm not a racing game expert and connoisseur, so I don't know what to say. You can buy car and go VROOOOOOOMMMM SCREEEECH PUT-PUT-PUT-PUT BROOM BROOM SSSSKRRRRRRTT, etcetera.
Personally my favourite parts of the game are
- customising the appearance of my car and person
- Smashing Flamingos
- Finding uncanny Teddy Bears just existing menacingly
- Collecting and breaking stuff
- Ramming into the side of police cars at over 300kmph
Racing is okay I guess, but not really what attracts me to these games. Racing is like the job you get paid for and when you're done you have to spend most of it on whatever upgrades make the numbers next to the stats increase. Big number good. I'm guessing these games are called Need For Speed to remind intellectually impaired people that speed is one of the fundamental aspects of racing.
I play on easy mode but still manage to lose half the races I participate in. Some call me a bad driver, but I am just efficient. I find the fastest route to the finish line. I get there so fast, the game doesn't register that I won and keeps telling me I missed a checkpoint. I'm always being ridiculed for simplifying things. I'm the one in the wrong, not the people wasting petrol by driving on every bit of road within a 10 mile radius of the destination.
Edit: To clarify, the flamingos are just neon lights shaped like flamingos and by smashing I mean pounding them against the front of my car.
User: 76561199793930075
Best graphics and best racing game ever
User: 76561198964892738
Cops in this game probably snort a line before chasing you in a Crown Victoria that disobeys all laws of physics