Need for Speed: Unbound
Race against time, outsmart the cops, and take on weekly qualifiers to reach The Grand, Lakeshore's ultimate street racing challenge. Pack your garage with precision-tuned, custom rides and light up the…
Need for Speed: Unbound is a racing developed by Criterion Games, released 29 November 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 16.5 hrs to finish.
What Need for Speed: Unbound is
Need for Speed: Unbound is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2022. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the city of Lakeshore, you, your partner Yaz, and mechanic Rydell run a repair and mod shop...until a shocking betrayal by Yaz leaves the shop underfunded and threatened for shutdown. Two years later, after you meet a girl named Tess and help her escape the cops, she decides to work with you and Rydell to raise money and enter the Grand, the city's biggest street race, to take back your ride and become the best in the city.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 41 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Unbound is the 84th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. It arrived 2 years after Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Remastered. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 77 is 3 points above 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: Unbound holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 95 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Ryzen 5 2600, Core i5-8600, 8 GB RAM and RX 570, GTX 1050 Ti. 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: Unbound launched on 29 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns and Chained Echoes. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Unbound yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 3 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Need for Speed: Unbound - Robojets Swag Pack
Need for Speed: Unbound - Ford Mustang GT Legendary Custom Pack
Need for Speed Unbound: Vol.5 Customs Pack
Need for Speed Unbound: Trick or Street Swag Pack
Need for Speed Unbound: Volkswagen Beetle (1963) - Legendary Custom Pack
Need for Speed Unbound: Vol.6 - Premium Speed Pass
Need for Speed: Unbound - Vol. 7 Premium Speed Pass
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