VROOM, BOOM, POW: Need for Speed Unbound relies on a striking comic look, which caused discussions in the community after a leak and a reveal trailer released too early. We wanted to know from you what you think of the new look. The result is surprisingly ambiguous.
All known information about the new Need for Speed part can be found in the following article:
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Need for Speed Unbound officially announced, here’s the trailer & all the info
Your opinion on the new look
Here you can see the results of our survey at a glance (as of October 16, 2022):
Although the game’s visuals have been hotly debated and criticized since the first leaks, your opinions are surprisingly divided. 27 percent of you state that you don’t like the new look at all. 26 percent are still not sure what to think of it all. And a total of 22 percent are quite taken with the comic-like effects in Need for Speed Unbound – 9 percent find them ok.
By the way: In the meantime there is good news for everyone who cannot get used to the look. The developers have now confirmed that the effects can also be easily exhibited and that you can experience the racing game without drawn comic clouds of smoke and wings.
This is also shown in the first gameplay trailer, which you can watch here:
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Need for Speed Unbound: Gameplay Trailer Shows – You have control over the new look
Comic look also causes discussions with you
In the comment column under our survey, a picture similar to that of the survey itself emerges: some love the new graphic style, others have absolutely nothing to do with it. User Zeroa thinks, for example, that you should give new ideas a chance:
Based on the reveal trailer I actually think it’s quite nice. It’s really something different and the style is quite similar to Into the Spider-Verse. Of course you have to see it ingame first, but I’d rather have a new style than a new run-of-the-mill game, which doesn’t sting against Forza and Co. anyway.
GameStar reader Evers also agrees:
I actually find it very interesting. It’s something different and, if implemented well, could set the game apart from its competitors in the genre. Also find the mix of realistic cars and comic effects visually very interesting to look at, but as I said, it’s the implementation that counts.
While the two are still waiting for the release and want to see the effects in the game, user EggsyXC is already totally impressed:
I find it INCREDIBLY cool! Finally something new and to combine such a cel shading look with a certain realism, wow! I didn’t know that I would ever be hyped for an NfS again.
User ATiX had actually already written off the racing game series, but the new look is now arousing interest again:
NfS hasn’t interested me for years and if someone had told me beforehand that a style of this kind was coming, I would have just shaken my head. Now, to be honest, I’m extremely hooked and for the first time in many years I feel like NfS! I find the step very courageous – and would not have thought that EA would change something completely and dare something new. Maybe that’s exactly the right step, after all, the series has been bobbing around somewhere else for a long time […].
No more »real« Need for Speed?
But not everyone can make friends with the new style and is increasingly losing touch with the racing game series. QuackerJack123 would like Need for Speed to go back to its roots:
EA simply has it down to “damage” a traditional brand. Please do not get this wrong. The game may be good. But I can’t really identify the last few games with Need For Speed anymore. […] I wish that NfS goes back to the roots. Away from open world. Away from this absolutely exaggerated tuning. Away from this imposed »coolness«. To classic road races on circuits and sprints over Normandy, the Rocky Pass, past the Cote d’Azur to Monte Carlo.
User Jigsaw also agrees:
This is the “Fortniteification” of games. Everywhere bling-bling, colorful, shrill, stupid outfits, stupid masks, more appearances than reality. Everything revolves around the customization of the characters – preferably with microtransactions. The actual game is almost irrelevant, the main thing is that the character or the car looks »cool«. […]
Tomkosu also lost interest in Need for Speed a long time ago:
At the moment you have to say that the NFS series has to do something again. For me, the series is completely uninteresting, since it has long since been replaced by other good racing games. She’ll only bounce back if she sticks to the style of the old underground tunes. Until then, they can do as much comic as they want. I’m not interested.
Of course we are still looking forward to your opinion! What do you think of the comic effects? Are you happy that they are only optional? Write it to us in the comments!