Need for Speed: Heat
Hustle by day and risk it all at night in Need for Speed Heat, a white-knuckle street racer, where the lines of the law fade as the sun starts to set. By day, Palm City hosts the Speedhunter Showdown, a…
Need for Speed: Heat is an adventure developed by Ghost Games, released 8 November 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 18.9 hrs to finish.
What Need for Speed: Heat is
Need for Speed: Heat is an adventure game developed by Ghost Games and released in 2019. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Palm City, learn to hustle by day and risk it all at night. Drive the world's most popular cars in a mission to form a crew, stake your claim with Palm City's street-racing elites, and uncover a money-laundering conspiracy surrounding the police's High Speed Task Force, led by Lt. Frank Mercer. Get rich, get rolling, and best of all... Get ready for some HEAT!
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Heat is the 80th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. It arrived 2 years after Need for Speed Ultimate Bundle. The next entry was Need for Speed: Heat - McLaren F1 Black Market Delivery in 2020. Its critic score of 70 is 4 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Heat holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 243 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 32 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for FX-6350 or Equivalent; Core i5-3570 or Equivalent, 8 GB RAM and AMD: Radeon 7970/Radeon R9 280x or Equivalent; NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 760 or Equivalent. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 50GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Heat launched on 8 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Heat yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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