

It’s a slightly more serious Burnout Paradise with extra cops (and no destruction mode), really.

Depending on how badly you offend, outrunning the bacon might be a sinecure or a massive chore. Like Need for Speed Heat, you’ll have to make it back to your safehouse before being busted or you’ll lose all your cash for that day/night. Race during the day and you’ll make some cash but the good money lives on the night-side. Still, you’ll burn around the city contending with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather. But the story dialogue… may be party crafted of cheese. Even the story, where players start off at the bottom and eventually make it to the top despite all the obstacles on the way, is familiar. The cops are intensely interested in both. This generic Chicago knockoff is populated with a ridiculous number of souped-up rides and street racers. There’s a semi-fictional open world called Lakeshore to play with. If you’ve played Need for Speedin the last decade, you should know your way around Need for Speed Unbound.
