Steam Community :: Little Anja (Short)

100.8 hrs on record (75.2 hrs at review time)

90% Police Chases
7% Enjoyment due to several neglected quality of life settings (i.e turning fx off)
3% Actual street racing

When I started the game, the cops were the funnest part. I always loved to run from them, and push myself to escape heat 5 chases while being in a lower tier car (Like A or A+). However as I started to play more, I just wanted the ability to do races, deliveries, and get more money so I can start focusing on completing the story and upgrading my car. The game purposefully places police in places to just annoy the player. (In the several cases that I've seen: Spawning heli's out of literal thin air (without you're in a chase or out of one), annoying undercover camaro's that camp every event, the fact that heli's have a forced 100% spawn chance after completing a takeover mission (literally spawns a heli heading straight towards you after completing a takeover), and the several other annoyances that PD brings to this game. I could be trying to go pick up a car for yaz, but then a swat car just start patrolling around the area and body guarding it. Also, the AI is rigged to be unfair towards the player, which is also extremely annoying (I.e: police cars will sometimes randomly perform U-turns in the middle of the street and begin heading towards the player from several streets away). Also, this isn't a major concern, and the last thing someone looks at when it comes to an NFS game, is immersion. However, I find the fact that you can't disable utterly impractical routes from the GPS. Sometimes maybe I wanna take the correct way to the place I'm trying to reach, and not be given the directions of going into oncoming traffic to get there (similar to how games like GTAV will show the player the correct way to get to a location, without the using of improper lane travel). Just one more thing to add onto immersion, the police. There are so many things wrong with the police that it BLOWS my mind. If I actually went and explained everything wrong with PD it would be a story book, so I'll just list them off:

Driving on the wrong side of road during a chase
Complete neglect to locals (which usually leads to them damaging more property and killing a mother of four in her minivan, more than the player would)
The absolute most irrational acceleration of the PPVs (A Raptor F-150 (the NFS S.W.A.T car) should be INCAPABLE of accelerating to 0 - 100 in an average of about 2.5 - 3 seconds. The fact that this car is also able to confidently keep up with a S rank ferrari is beyond me. (The same can be said for the Corvette and Camaro PPV)
Finally, the Camaro "Handbrake Technique". Does it look badass? Yes. Is it something that would ultimately lead to the driver of the Camaro being turn apart as the car would rip through the car after E-Braking in front of a car traveling 170mph+, yes.

I know I said that would be the last thing, but I have one more... WHY ARE THERE ROAD SIGNS FACING TOWARDS THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC. Once again, I know it's just a game, and I know that its NFS, so I'm not expecting the "realistic scale" on this to be very high. But it's almost like the people who made Lakeshore, build the roads for the purpose of driving on the incorrect side. (i.e: Posted speed limits and sharp curve warning signs face towards both correct, and incorrect lanes of travel, as if they wanted to give a heads up to the people that are driving on the wrong side).

btw the multiplayer is pretty ight. Quite literally the only enjoyable aspect of this game besides customizing cars. :skull:x8

Posted 9 August, 2023.

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