This isn’t a game where it is simply a matter of learning how to drive and maxing out your car stats. In some instances, simply getting in the top 3 is an achievement that should be celebrated and the game goes out of its way to make sure you know that. There is also a feeling that you don’t have to win every race to be getting ahead. There are no easy wins and mistakes can cost dearly, especially in the shorter races. Even on the easiest difficulty, Unbound offers a stiff challenge to racers, with every victory feeling earned.
The racing is almost always white-knuckle, as you need to navigate tight city turns, traffic and roadworks while trying to avoid the aggressive and quite competent AI in the process. The racing itself is a purely arcade experience that puts flashy fun ahead of physics and never loses sight of the fact that this is a game about pure adrenaline. So the question becomes, do you compete just one more time and almost certainly find yourself in a police chase or do you play it safe and head for home while the getting is good. If you get caught, you lose all of that session’s earnings. This mechanic may sound simple but it adds a nice little slice of strategy to proceedings, especially when you consider any money you have earned isn’t actually yours until you get to your safe base after each session. Each race you compete in will earn a certain amount of heat, with heat being reset at the beginning of each day. Unbound is very much trying to be its own beast and not trying to compete with something like Forza Horizon (which would have been a mistake.) The day-night cycle from Heat has been brought back, but this time heat from the police can be earned during the day and will carry over into the night. It does provide a great setup for what is quite the compelling single-player mode. Like I said, cheesier than a stuffed crust four-cheese pizza, but tasty all the same. This is your chance to get revenge, build up your tuner shop once more, and most importantly, get your car back. Fast forward two years, the mayor is starting to lose her grip on the city and your ex-best bud is hosting a new racing tourney with big bank prize money.
But before long the mayor cracks down on racing, your best buddy steals your ride as well as every ride in the tuner store and you find yourself at the bottom of the rung, eeking out a living as an uber driver. You have a sweet new ride that you and your best pal put together and are working at a local tuner store with a father-like figure guiding your steps. You take the role of an up-and-coming racer ready to take on the underground scene in Lakeshore City. Only this time it is tasty cheese, not the found-under-the-fridge cheese of some of the previous games. Once again there is a story in a Need for Speed game and once again it is a little on the cheesy side.
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