I bought NFS: The Run (PC) for $5 from Amazon DVG yesterday.
Got some 3 hours or so into it last night - and so far, I'm actually liking it. I really like the concept of this whole game being ONE entire race cross-country in the USA from West Coast (California) to East Coast (New York). It's linear as can be (which is fine), but the racing & tracks itself are just awesome and really good. I really like that there's TONS of racers on the track, as well.
These races...are interesting. Sometimes, you'll do a downhill down the mountain battle; you'll have to knock enemies out in certain amount of time; advance past a certain # of racers; etc.
QTE's (Quick-Time Events) don't seem to come too often. Instead of just having cut-scenes to watch to push story forward, they use QTE's - namely, after you make your way from one MAJOR area to ANOTHER. They namely are there to try to push the story forward, when they show up. Yeah - the story is nothing special. It seems to be there just to push the race forward. Not much depth into the characters and the story at hand, unfortunately - since this was supposed to be one of the strong points of the game, if you actually read interviews and previews on this game, before it was finished.
You have X amount of "resets", depending on what difficulty you're playing), in which hitting "reset" key sets you back to last checkpoint and/or last spot the game wants to put you back at. My gripe is if you finish a race; lose; and have resets; the game won't kick you back to checkpoint/last spot - you lose and have to do race all over again. This doesn't help in the race, when you lose right at the last second especially! So, before you finish, if you get a chance and are not going to complete the objective - you might want to hit "Reset".
The game's running on DICE's Frostbite 2 - and yes, it's gorgeous. The vistas thoughout this cross-country race from Cali to NY are awesome - I've seen Cali, Death Valley, Vegas and Colorado - and it looks great technically and artistically. I have this game maxed on 1920x1080 in-game on Ultra. In-game V-Sync ON caps the game at 30 FPS (frames per seconds). I threw off V-Sync OFF to try to get some better framerates - which it had, i.e it was running consistently around 50-60 FPS - but, unlocking the frames often caused crashes to the desktop, here & there. Threw V-Sync ON to cap the game out at 30 FPS - runs perfectly w/out any crashes or anything.
So, I'm curious - has anybody else actually played this? I see Xessive has played it - as AutoLog here actually compare your stats w/ those on your Friends list on Origin. I should note this, since I'm on the Origin subject - NFS: The Run on the PC does require Origin to run.
For those who played it - what do you think of the game?
Sure looks like it's at least worth the $5, from what I've played so far...
