During the day you participate in sanctioned race events for cash. Heat ‘s gimmick is that “Day” and “Night” aren’t constantly cycling in the background, but rather separate modes with separate activities. Now we have Heat, a reboot of a reboot of a reboot.
Then we had Payback, which paired bizarre gambling-themed dialogue with an abysmal loot box grind modeled vaguely after Ubisoft’s The Crew. Then we got the self-titled Need for Speed, the one that had FMV cutscenes. We got Rivals, the one where you could play as the cops. Need for Speed’s identity crisis continues with Heat, a state of affairs that’s now lasted an entire console generation. That’s not a rousing endorsement, nor is it meant to be.
