Need for Speed No Limits is a mobile racing game that was released in 2016 on Android and IOS by the famous game company “Electronic Arts”, who have given us many gems like Need for Speed Most Wanted, NFS Underground etc. To remove your confusion about whether to install this game or not, we have created a list of 5 deciding factors that summarize our honest review of Need for Speed No Limits.
5 Deciding Factors in Need for Speed No Limits Review
1. It’s like the dumb young brother of Asphalt 8 Airborne
The top menu bar with settings and options, the loading animation before a new race gets loaded, the color scheme & design of the menu selections with cars drawn on top of them and also the stars at the bottom of the card-shaped menu – you can clearly see the visual influence of 2013 released racing game aka “Asphalt 8 Airborne”. No Limits is like the younger brother who tries to copy his elder brother’s swagger but ends up looking like an idiot due to a lack of personality – the game neither feels refreshingly original nor a well-inspired but entertaining version of a mega-successful Asphalt game, it’s goofy at best.
The fast-paced background music and trippy visuals that made Asphalt 8 Airborne a legendary game were absent from Need for Speed No Limits – it just goes to show that even copying from the class topper requires some skills.
2. A driving experience that is too vanilla
The driving controls feel a little too guarded like the parents who don’t let their kids make their own decisions and end up raising an indecisive kid – every time you activate the right, left or nos functionality, you don’t feel as if you are going to crash badly or the car is going to get reduced to a flaming mechanical mess. The lack of unpredictability in Need for Speed No Limits kills the excitement instantly – even while drifting, the feeling of “Oh Let me control this thing or I’ll crash” doesn’t arise in your gut.
Playing Need for Speed No Limits is like dating a beautiful Victoria’s Secret Model, who is dumb and has zero street smartness in her Barbie brain. The inclusion of jumping ramps and police barricades feels like a forced attempt at looking cool – you will forget these elements within seconds due to the game’s monotonous gameplay.
3. The graphical textures are an absolute visual feast
The shiny reflections in the game, the grainy textures of the road, the transparent speedometer, the NOS outburst of blue light, the dark tunnels with beautiful lighting and the realism of the environment – Need for Speed No Limits is going to keep you hooked with its breathtaking graphical opulence. The grittiness & the magical quality missing in the gameplay get overcompensated by the gorgeous world of Need for Speed No Limits. This game is like a Wes Anderson movie – you don’t care about the story, screenplay or any other technical aspects of likeability, you just want to stare at its visual magnificence for long durations.
4. The game lacks any aim or objective in its gameplay
In other Need for Speed games, your usual aim or objective is to complete the race to earn some money for car upgrades or escape the police to earn more bounty and experience otherwise the game gets stuck – you are not going to feel any motivation to complete races in Need for Speed No Limits like how you felt in games like NFS Shift, NFS ProStreet or NFS The Run. You are going to feel like you’re walking in the dark gloomy world of a DC movie without any hope while racing in this game – it’s just a beautiful world and you’re driving aimlessly.
The gameplay lacks character development or even enough nerve-wracking driving experiences to keep the gamer hungry for more racing challenges – it’s boring in plain simple vocabulary.
5. It’s not exciting up to Need for Speed standards
The heart palpitations and genuine excitement mixed with a ton of anxiety that one feels while being chased by the police in NFS Hot Pursuit or evading the police with heat level 5 in NFS Most Wanted 2005 – is missing from this game. The genuine excitement you feel when you see the Need For Speed official logo in your mobile app store or Play Store’s list of games is going to turn into bitter disappointment after playing a single race of this stale game.
The peaceful solitude in Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2, the therapeutic long drives of NFS The Run, the punchy & exhilarating visuals of NFS Unbound or the thrill of driving on challenging mountain roads in NFS Carbon – you don’t get anything exciting in this game, Need for Speed No Limits is like the homeless junkie in an otherwise successful family tree.
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