The new Need for Speed is a fun surprise [The Resties]

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Need for Speed: Unbound deserved a better launch than this. After a decade of middling entries, EA has returned NFS responsibilities to the exceptional racing developer Criterion Games. The team has produced a street racing game that blends Forza Horizon with the thrills of the Midnight Club games. And it just looks cool! Frush also got Prodeus off his backlog. It’s a solid retro FPS, ideal for playing on a portable like the Switch or the Steamdeck. Plus, we talk through the Besties 2022 bracket!

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0:00.0	My name is Christopher Thomas Plant.
0:10.4	My name is Ross Firstek.
0:11.7	Welcome to the Resties, where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.
0:17.4	This week we're talking about need for speed unbound.
0:21.6	A game that the people who publish it are not talking about.
0:25.2	Apparently, we've decided to because it's a pretty good game.
0:29.8	They either forgot about it or something.
0:32.0	It was a tax-rate off.
0:33.4	Who knows?
0:34.4	Got lost between the cushions, but it's a really cool game.
0:37.8	I can't wait to talk about it.
0:39.3	Before we talk about it, I have a question for you.
0:43.3	It is the holiday season, which means it's time to watch holiday movies.
0:49.8	I have a theory that everybody has one holiday movie that is bad, that they love, but that
0:59.1	is deeply not good.
1:02.5	And yet, because it hit them at the right time, or just because their family watches it
1:06.9	every year, they go back to it over and over again.
1:09.8	This is not the Grinch.
1:11.3	It's not Charlie Brown.
1:12.8	Yeah, those are good.
1:14.3	Those are good, right?
1:15.3	It's a wonderful life.
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