Need for Speed 19 (Rivals) - King Of The Road with Ferrari Enzo
With Need for Speed Heat on the horizon I decided to do a quick revisit of the 21 previous NFS games leading up to the launch of Heat. Here you can see Need for Speed 19 (Rivals), which was released in 2013 for various platforms. In this game I recorded the Hot Pursuit event "King Of The Road" with the Ferrari Enzo.
Rivals is kind of similar to Hot Pursuit 3 but with free roam being a major part of the gameplay. Once again you can play as racer or cop and you have weapons and other pursuit tech.
As you might have seen I recently started this game on PS4 and this slightly improved my opinion about it, since the game feels a bit more solid there, while the PC version unfortunately doesn't feel quite as well optimized.
When Rivals was new I didn't like it very much but in hindsight it is probably the best NFS from Ghost Games so far. This is mostly because of how bad the other two are though and not because Rivals is amazing. The physics are definitely flawed but at least not quite as much as in the following games.
One really dumb thing is the lack of a pause feature, even when the game is set to single player. If you open the "pause" menu the game will continue in the background.
The game also has a bunch of DLC cars but as you can see I never actually got those on PC.
Just like HP3 and The Run the game is definitely good enough for a casual playthrough, since hitting opponents with the pursuit tech does feel fairly satisfying. You shouldn't take the game too seriously though.
Here are a bunch of the bugs and glitches that I encountered in the PC version in the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htE3rh1lP2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARUbeyLsGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMho7iFiuI
Like all 21 main NFS games Need for Speed Rivals can be played on a modern PC with Windows 10.
I will attempt to show you all 21 existing NFS games before the release of Heat, so expect to see a video almost every day from now until the release of Heat and on some days even two. :)
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