Love the game, but hate the soundtrack with passion. Its full of mumble rap, auto-tune and weird electronic shit, which was popular at time. (apologies if someone likes it). I just couldt listen to it for more than 10 min.

I honestly found heats handling atrocious compared to underground, even the grippiest heat car only just barely approaches the feel.

Heat is fun for like one session then all its problems and poor design are constantly in your face. It's permanently on sale because it's a shit game

Hard disagree. I'm still in my starter car in Heat because the physics are 110% garbage. A stock 240 should not be able to pull off drifts like it has 800+ more hp than it has, or the fact that it forces a drift when you merely want to take a standard corner. In street tires. In a standard circuit/sprint race. Or how it's tied to online servers, thus when the servers freak out, your single player event kicks you off. Or how there are objects that retain their lowest LOD no matter how close you are, or how long you wait. That's just off the top of my head, it's been a while.

I got the 'premium' or whatever version for $1.25 on steam a couple years ago. I played the 10 hour demo before that, reviewing it blind for a friend and then revisiting it 6 months later, each for a few hours. 'surely, it's been a couple years, they must have fixed it some'. Nope, not even a bit. I want my $1.25 back.

Shit, I think Unbound is a decent upgrade from Heat. And I don't particularly like Unbound, so that's kind of both a complement and an insult at once. The bar was so low it was touching the floor, it could have only gotten worse with DRM that opens a backdoor to my machine or something. I spent $10 for Unbound, and I don't want my $10 back for that installment (I mean I'll take it if they are offering but), so... Heat is baaaaad. Unbound is meh, but meh beats the hell out of baaaaad.

Agree, Heat was really fun to play together with some friends.

You mean like NFS World? I was a closed beta tester. While it was a P2W system (buy powerups, etc) it wasn't ruined by it, and if you could beat a nfs game you can do just fine in World.

I only played for the first year or so - and haven't played the 3rd party rebirths - but World had potential. And EA killed it, like the dumbasses they are.

E: word

Yes and give me realistic physics and don't shove pointless and impossible "drifts" into everything!

Shift 2 was actually pretty good, I forgot about that one.