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Need for Speed: Rivals

Ghost Games · Nov 15, 2013

PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS3 · Xbox 360

Everyone10+

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Welcome to Redview County, where a street-racing rivalry between cops and racers never stops as both sides compete in an all-out war to take over the social, local and national media and earn the best cars, mods and technology. Risk Everything. Trust No One.

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PC

Critic 7.9 (6 critics) · Gamer 7.2

PlayStation 4

Critic 8.0 (24 critics) · Gamer 8.2

8.0

Xbox One

Critic 7.8 (4 critics) · Gamer 7.8

7.6

PlayStation 3

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 9.0

Xbox 360

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 8.5

Critic reviews

  • Push Square

    Sammy Barker · Dec 09, 2013

    7.0
    You certainly won’t find an enemy in Need for Speed: Rivals – even if it does have some infuriating issues that put a dent in its otherwise immaculate exterior. The clever competitive dynamic at the core of the open world excursion augments the experience with a white-knuckle tension which ensures that outrunning your opponents, either online or offline, is entertaining at all times.
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  • Game Revolution

    Daniel Bischoff · Dec 04, 2013

    9.0
    It’s a drop in the bucket for a game that makes you feel badass almost all the time. Dozens of hours of gameplay, the only racing game on PS4 at launch, a fantastic showpiece for your next-gen hardware of choice, and a hyper-connected experience—Rivals is one of the best games to own on PlayStation 4. Rev your engines, folks, this will be on hell of a ride.
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  • COGconnected

    Shawn Petraschuk · Dec 03, 2013

    8.2
    As we move into this new generation of racing games it has to be said that EA and Ghost are taking a step in the right direction with the All Drive system. Once all the kinks are worked out and the participant numbers are amped up we’ll really be able to see what it can bring to the table. In the meantime though Need for Speed Rivals is a competent arcade racer that is sure to get the heart rate up with some real ‘edge of your seat’ cops vs racers action.
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  • Arcade Sushi

    Luke Brown · Nov 26, 2013

    8.0
    Need for Speed: Rivals is one of the series’ most enjoyable entries in the last few years. There’s a great multiplayer component built right into the core game, and the racing and cop careers are both enjoyable for different reasons. You shouldn’t feel obligated to pick up Rivals since it’s the first racing game available for the PlayStation 4 at launch. You should pick it up because it’s a lot of fun, and it takes the series in a new direction we can’t wait to see explored further.
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  • Edge

    Edge Staff · Nov 26, 2013

    7.0
    These all-too-rare occasions spent enjoying Rivals’ skillfully engineered handling alongside someone else offer confirmation of Ghost’s ambitious vision for a new Need For Speed. But outside of them, dazzling 1080p visuals, astonishing weather effects and a sense of competition feel like too high a price to pay for such a profound dip in the series’ mechanical polish. Rivals’ systems show potential, but it is considerably less than the game it might have been.
  • Video Gamer

    Brett Phipps · Nov 25, 2013

    7.0
    This is Rivals at its best: in the heat of the chase, cops on my tail, car damage critical. ...There’s also a lack of dedicated servers, which severely affects your experience. ...Rivals has the potential to be excellent, but too many issues get in its way, diminishing the obvious quality of the driving itself.
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Gamer reviews

  • André Purificação

    Feb 17, 2021 · PS4

    7.8

    great need for speed beautiful graphics and beautiful gameplay looks like a need for speed hot pursuit, but missing but customizations for cars and weak story mode but for those who don't care about it is a great game for fun

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  • Parshv Joshi

    Jan 27, 2021 · PS4, Xbox 360

    10

    its a fun game on alomst all platforms

  • BlueBomber

    Nov 4, 2019 · PS3

    7.5

    (Reviewed on Ps4. I now realize there was a separate place for that lol) need for speed rivals is a very thrilling game having you either chase down the bad guys as a Cop or fleeing from the Cops. Long story short this is a very fun game but I can’t say you’ll put that many hours in it at one time. It has a very linear story that is mostly little side missions, you have to complete these to unlock more cars or get more “Speedpoints” to buy more cars. I found that this game was just something kinda fun to play once in a while.

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