Need for speed no limits 2 upgrade#
I’ve honestly had a blast racing, progressing, leveling up, unlocking new cars, and installing new parts to upgrade my collection. Of course, lots of free-to-play games are like this so you’ll have ample time to get hooked, but it totally worked on me. Each time you level up your energy bar will refill, and I was therefore able to play for several hours straight before I hit any kind of pay-or-wait wall. That may sound pretty terrible up front, but my “out of box” experience with the game was actually surprisingly great. The game has an energy system, multiple currencies (I counted at least three), and lots and lots of grinding. Admittedly, things aren’t quite as smooth as a simpler racer like Horizon Chase (Free) (which was kind of jarring when I switched from one to the other), but considering how much is happening on the screen it’s still pretty impressive.Īlright, I’ve put it off long enough. Indeed, the game has a great sense of speed, which I suppose is rather important when “speed” is right there in the title. Visually the game is top-notch, with lots of reflections, smoke, and sparks flying everywhere without the frame rate suffering hardly at all.
(You can change the controls to tilting or sliding in the options menu, but I greatly prefered the default.) Drafting, drifting, getting air, and having a “near miss” will net you more money and help fill your boost bar faster, so there’s a tiny bit of strategy there as well. The game controls well, with a press on either side of the screen to turn and a quick swipe up for boosting or down for drifting. Except here the races are really short, with some even being less than 30 seconds long. It feels very similar to Most Wanted, with each race being a short, arcade-y blast of fun. The game’s structure actually reminds me a bit of a social RPG like Puzzle & Dragons (Free), with a campaign mode, daily missions, special events, and the aforementioned collecting and upgrading aspects.įortunately, the actual racing is pretty great.
Does anyone play these games for the story? Anyway, what this amounts to is lots of racing and car collecting and upgrading. In Need For Speed: No Limits (ha, ha) you play as a street racer trying to make it big in the underground scene. This game is unabashedly, almost aggressively free-to-play, to the point where even the title seems like EA is laughing at us. It’s the first game I’ve played from Firemonkeys where I can sense many of the EA doomsayers’ predictions coming true. (Admittedly, RR3’s pay model was pretty controversial when it came out, but it still ended up becoming one of my favorite racers on iOS.) And now we have their latest, Need For Speed: No Limits (Free). Surely this would be the end of the beloved developer who brought us App Store classics like Flight Control and the Real Racing series, right? Surely EA would suck the life out of them and add mountains of IAP and other shenanigans? Well, a few years (and a merger with fellow Aussies Iron Monkey) later we got Need For Speed: Most Wanted ($4.99) and Real Racing 3 (Free), two games that are incredibly well-made and fun. It was four years ago that EA bought Firemint, and many people at the time were worried about the latter studio’s future.
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