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Need for Speed™ Rivals

$19.99
Release Date:
Metacritic:
76
Developer:
Criterion Games
Publisher:
Electronic Arts
Platforms:
Windows
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Need for Speed™ Rivals: Complete Edition

Online servers will be retired on October 7, 2025. Own the complete Need for Speed™ Rivals experience. Get the full game, plus all six downloadable content packs with the Complete Edition. Key features 6 additional packs — Get the Simply Jaguar Complete Pack, the Ferrari Edizioni Speciali Complete Pack, the Concept Lamborghini Complete Pack, the Koenigsegg Agera One, the Complete Movie Pack, and the Loaded Garage Pack. Race with friends — Imagine your race and your friend’s pursuit colliding, creating a world where no 2 events feel the same. Don’t want to play with others? Simply choose to make Redview County yours alone and dominate the advanced Racer and Cop AI. High-stakes rivalry — Racers are lone wolves out for glory, driving agile cars built for high-speed racing and epic chases. Cops work in teams to hunt down and bust racers using the full power of the police force. Switch roles whenever you like, and watch the stakes grow through a new scoring system that puts your speed points on the line. Your car, your identity — Personalize your cars with performance and style modifications. Power up your car with the latest upgrades in pursuit technology and personalize your bodywork with fresh paint jobs, liveries, custom license plates, rims, and decals to show off your car to the world. Pursuit and evasion tech — Use the latest pursuit tech and modifications to change your pursuit or escape strategy on the fly. Racers evade Cops using turbo bursts, jammers, and electromagnetic pulses. Cops will be armed for aggressive busts, deploying shockwaves, spike strips, and calling in police roadblocks or helicopter support.


About the Game

Online servers will be retired on October 7, 2025. Welcome to Redview County, where a street-racing rivalry between cops and racers never stops as both sides compete in an all-out war featuring the fastest cars, mods and technology in a gritty open road environment. Play as either a cop or racer, where each side of the law has its own set of high stakes challenges, rewards and consequences. Risk everything in the ultimate high stakes rivalry.

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User Reviews

Mixed
100 user reviews
64%
Positive
15 hrs at review
Not Recommended

The game itself is fun but EA has made the baffling decision to make it painfully difficult to reset your save file. I've been wanting to replay this game for literal years but every time I try to reset my save and start over I run into so many obstacles I eventually give up and go play a different game. I don't understand why you'd design a game in a way that prevents you from playing it again. It's so needlessly obtuse! Why not just have a button in the settings menu to wipe your save? Or let you create multiple save slots? I just want to play this game again for christ's sake!!!

8 helpful
6 min at review
Not Recommended

30 fps cap, physics tied to frame rate so you can't change it without introducing bugs total joke

7 helpful
3 hrs at review
Recommended

Servers are being shut down on october 7th 2025 but thats only for mp, it will still be playable unlike the crew

6 helpful
10 min at review
Not Recommended

game won't even start. tried multiple guide from discussions, reddit, youtube, etc. nothing work. got my game stuck on title screen

6 helpful 1 funny
22 hrs at review
Recommended

Need for Speed™ Rivals marks an ambitious entry in the long-running racing franchise, blending high-speed thrills with a dynamic open-world environment that caters to both racers and police chasers alike. Developed by Ghost Games and Criterion Games, the title builds on the series’ legacy by offering a seamless experience where players can choose to live life on the edge as an outlaw racer or enforce the law as a determined cop. This dual-perspective gameplay creates a tense cat-and-mouse atmosphere, enriched by fast cars, intense pursuits, and a variety of customization options that add depth and replayability. One of the defining features of Rivals is its open-world setting of Redview County, a sprawling and diverse landscape that offers a mix of coastal highways, mountain roads, and urban environments. The seamless transition between different terrains provides a playground for adrenaline-fueled races and high-stakes pursuits. The game excels at delivering cinematic chase seque...

4 helpful
43 min at review
Not Recommended

this game conviced me to never buy another ea product again in my life. Would rather stare into the wall than buy anything that is even connected to the ea launcher

4 helpful
3 hrs at review
Recommended

I shed many tears when I learned my first ever game was shutting down on October 7th (2025).. I'll miss ya, partner.

3 helpful
31 hrs at review
Recommended

This is my childhood game and i enjoyed every moment playing this game. The graphic, gameplay, the cars everything is amazing

2 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

randomly freezes and having to close out the game and reopen it unfortunate

2 helpful
7 hrs at review
Not Recommended

This game should be called "Escape cops simulator", because that's the only thing you are technically doing here as a racer. It doesn't matter whether you are doing races, time trials, head to head, it's all the same - escaping cops in the pre-defined track. If you manage to finish someting, you are escaping cops wherever you want. They are spawning from thin air, use weapons and litter the road with spikes. If you dare to slow down to avoid it, they wreck you. And if they wreck you, you get exactly zero points, so you can spent hours doing no progress at all. I played dozens of NFS games, even the "hard" ones, but this one is just frustrating as hell.

1 helpful

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7 (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit
  • Processor: Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo or AMD 2.8 GHz Athlon X2
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon 3870 512 MB or higher performance; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance; Intel HD 4000 Integrated 512 MB or higher performance
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 30 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS *: Windows 7 (Service Pack 2)
  • Processor: Intel Quad-Core CPU or AMD Six Core CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon 7870 3GB or higher performance; NVIDIA GeForce GT660 3GB or higher performance
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 30 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible

FAQ

How much does Need for Speed™ Rivals cost?

Need for Speed™ Rivals costs $19.99.

What are the system requirements for Need for Speed™ Rivals?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit Processor: Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo or AMD 2.8 GHz Athlon X2 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon 3870 512 MB or higher performance; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance; Intel HD 4000 Integrated 512 MB or higher performance Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible Recommended: Recommended: OS *: Windows 7 (Service Pack 2) Processor: Intel Quad-Core CPU or AMD Six Core CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon 7870 3GB or higher performance; NVIDIA GeForce GT660 3GB or higher performance Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX 11 compatible

What platforms is Need for Speed™ Rivals available on?

Need for Speed™ Rivals is available on Windows PC.

Is Need for Speed™ Rivals worth buying?

Need for Speed™ Rivals has 64% positive reviews from 100 players. Metacritic score: 76/100.

When was Need for Speed™ Rivals released?

Need for Speed™ Rivals was released on Jun 4, 2020.

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