Need For Speed No Limits – Mobile Game Review

Need for Speed No Limits joins the already impressive pantheon of mobile racers as a title worthy of being added to the complicated niche of mobile doing justice to what a racing game should stand for. But, free to play feature proves to be too stingy and too insatiable and goes to the point of ruining the game as a whole.

A lot I say, range from taking part in the black market street racing to unlocking and upgrading an array of cars using blueprints and materials as well as cash.

Graphics

Gamers of the world spend over 20 years drafting, foot to the peddle, boosting, jam the brakes and all that on the Need for Speed series. With few exceptions though, none of those games were able to satisfy the need for speed fans. The most recent addition to the series was No limits and the aim was straight forward to provide the fans what they were wishing. This time the game focused more on the target audience who used touch devices to play.

Need for speed no limits was developed by Firemonkeys studios. This game wastes no time putting its audience into the perspective of the most fastest cars of the world. The game is not lacking in content one bit, with an entire story mode that consists of street races, one on one chases and police chases.

The drivers at No Limits can rest easy as they manage to revolutionize the touchscreen controls by making them responsive. Along with the appropriate car configurations, the users have the option of fueling their car by swiping down to set off a drift or pressing both the left and right sides of the screen to steer the car. Users can also deploy nitrous by swiping the screen upwards. The minigames add more dimensions to the racing itself such as revving the tacho to gain optimal acceleration or riding more dangerously to allow for quicker NOS refills. The races themselves tend to be rather short, averaging around thirty to fifty seconds.

Gameplay

When discussing the Need for Speed franchise, the conversation is often carried away by the adrenaline rushing races within the game. The spin off itself finds a place within those expectations. This is evidenced by the better than usual graphics as well as the smooth controls within the game. There is also a wide variety of licensed and customizable cars to choose from.

Central to the game is the activity of racing as well as raising your notoriety as a street racer. With every race you win, you are rewarded a certain amount of money and reputation. This allows you to purchase new cars or upgrade your existing structure. Along with this, there are different social elements in the game such as daily challenges and quests, special events and car upgrades.

Need for Speed No Limits is unable to get rid of certain bad practices that define mobile games and yet it doesn’t make focus on payments to access in-game content, unlike many of its competitors. However, advertisements that appear before the races and allow obtaining bonuses of low value for watching them, are present. These don’t get in the way of the fun experience of the game as such, although they may be annoying when you want to concentrate on racing. On the other hand, the game flow is a bit accelerated as the races are usually less than 50 seconds.

Story

The concept is not new as for the Need for Speed No Limits: you get to amass cars and get upgrades for better performance and appearances before going against AI or other players in relatively short competitions, but what sets it apart is that you are also able to play several minigames within NFS No Limits: fidgeting around in a single car and flooring the pedal until the tachometer hits a certain point where you’ll be able to put NOS, which makes you able to set better scores in the minigames.

While the game lacks variety in police chases, there are plenty of options in regards to the maps one can play on – even though there are a few places where it’s night all the time, you can also find several city maps decorating the Underground series, as well as maps that are all about canyons that hail from Criterion’s games – and for a mobile title, the racing is quite decent due to the easy controls.

Sadly, Need for Speed No Limits breaks the almost unbreakable core value of free-to-play: it inundates you with ads and hinders your progress through a myriad of other malicious means. I would think that this game would rather be one of the finest mobile racing games in existence—it is on the Greatest Generator’s selection, unfortunately. But if that’s possible for you, Need for Speed No Limits is an enjoyable racer worth trying out regardless of what the people say.

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They are rampant as it is expected from one of the EA franchises but in the Need for Speed No Limits Mobile Game not a lot of them interfered with gameplay. However, controls for the games are relatively easy to master and there is plenty to engage the gamers for long periods – there are car series, underground rivals, campaign, and tuner trials that offer enough variety.

Like the other titles in the Need for Speed series, you begin as a nobody with the goal of becoming the world’s best street racer. It’s a plot that’s definitely a bit overused but still gets the job done.

There’s a lot to do in No Limits, there is a good selection of licensed cars and the graphics are impressive considering it’s on a mobile device. However, if you are unwilling to put down real money, the game becomes rather pointless.

The most prominent one is the constant pushing of advertisements. You never get a moment of peace without some ad promoting a VIP pack or a game devoid of any ads. It tarnishes the gaming experience as an otherwise well created simulator turns into a badly made time waster.

Score

The setup for the game is such that you participate in ‘street races’ in Blackridge, quite legally. That being said, it tries to be the ultimate racing game for mobile at least, and if you don’t mind spending money on in app purchases, it does the job. When it was released, the game included 900 races, 10 game modes, and 100 levels for the drivers to compete, all of it backed by a large collection of customizable and collectable cars.

In my opinion, the graphics might not be the finest on a mobile device but they’re worth something. Only with the touch of a button, it’s possible to drift and press NOS with ease. Someway, somehow, they still manage to stay interesting with various mini-games such as throttling the tacho meter to properly start your engines, or driving lamely to fill up the NOS faster before our races.

With respect to violence, it is true that some vehicles may be damaged when colliding during races however the violence is not severe in Need for Speed No Limits Mobile. There is also a small amount of language in the form of taunts and insults from other racers. The Need “N.” Speed Series has ever been more fun indeed and so has this new spin off.