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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

What a disgrace, i literally made this account just to write this review. What a horrible game, so much artificial barriers to progression, prolonging the game for absolutely no reason. WHY DO I HAVE TO DRIVE TO EVERY SINGLE RACE. It's not fun just staring at my cars back, and hearing its engine struggle up hill whilst i'm trying to do an event. The game is so grind heavy its ridiculous, The evo 8 from nfs 2015 was 32,500 but in heat its 72,000, and on top of that getting money in this game is way more tedious and time consuming. So much grind grind grind, an arcade racing game shouldn't be some grind fest it should be that i can pick up and play and have fun. The map is dreary, boring and horrible, stupid corners that are impossible to turn without crashing. The traffic AI will literally block both lanes of a road so you crash. The rubber-banding is so obvious that it makes me want to cut my eyes off. The music selection is horrible, i'm not spanish so why do i have to listen to random spanish songs during a race. Worst of it all, is the night racing/grinding. You have to earn rep, to unlock parts and cars, which seems like a good concept, until you notice that the police in this game are the most broken aspect of everything. They literally know what turn you are going to take, they go even faster than you, when they tap, your side you lose about a quarter of health, WHY IS THERE A HEALTH BAR FOR MY CAR??? This is arcade racing game, i didn't ask for realism and car damage and weapons on my car, they still haven't learnt their mistake from nfs rivals. Police would literally spawn right in front of me during a race, and i would lose at the last turn, because of bs stupid AI. It's literally impossible to get away from the police no matter how fast your car is, the only way is to do a jump, or literally drive into water in the hope that the police follow you in. This would be all fine if THE REP GRINDING WAS NOT COMPULSORY TO PROGRESS THROUGH THE GAME. You have to grind the rep once you first start the game, and you have a low end car, so it's so tedious and time consuming. Once you get to heat level 2, thats it, game over for you. What idiot thought that this was a good idea? Grinding? RPG style elements in a arcade racing game? wtf is this. Absolute disgrace to the series, and i've played every single main title that has come out. The handling system is still the same brake to drift bs, they havent changed anything, moving the drift button from L2 to R2 doesn't mean you have changed the handling model. Stupid forced off road section that literally no gives a f about, cringe story line and voice acting. I see no improvement upon the customisation of cars, apart from sticking rice effects like under-glow and air suspension. The wrap editor is the exact same. The car choice in the game is horrible as well. SO many supercars and hypercars, and this would be no problem, but they cause inflation within the game market because they are so goddamn overpriced, so all other cars are more expensive as well, as i mentioned above with the evo 8. Adding 4 different versions of the same car doesen't mean its good content you've just re-used the same goddamn model. 45 different types of BMW, and 23 types of mercedes is not good car choice. The engine swap idea was good, but it also falls flat on its face, because it ruins the whole aspect of going from 0 to hero, with your starter car if you wanted to. I picked the 180sx as a starter car, then i realised i cant make this into an ultimate racing car because the engine only goes up to 600 hp. Why is there forced barriers to enjoyment and progression?? Its too complicated for a racing game, and way too grind heavy, if you enjoy listening to your starter car, struggling going up hill whilst you are on your way to a race, and then a random police car spawns and you cannot lose them no matter how fast you go and how perfect you take corners, you lose all of the rep you made that night, so you lose all progression and there is nothing you can do. And their concept of story is to just stick the BMW M3 GTR all the way from a game from 2005, into every single game, trying to pull on nostalgia strings, yet it makes no sense for the car to be there. The characters are all boring and i don't care about a single one of them. The game feels lethargic, boring, pathetic to play and there is no enjoyment to have whatsoever. i received the game as a gift, so please don't waste your money on it. THERE IS A REASON WHY GHOST GAMES WERE DISBANDED/ TAKEN OUT FROM PRODUCING NFS after this game because they well and truly messed up every ounce of reputation they had. How does a company produce worse games in sequels? 2015 was great with a few minor problems, payback was worse and this is downright unplayable garbage. would not recommend at all.