Need for Speed Rivals is a racing video game set in an open world environment. Developed by Swedish and British developers Ghost Games and Ghost Games UK and developer Criterion Games, this is the twentieth installment in the long-running Need for Speed series. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 19 November 2013. It has also been released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as launch titles in the same month.
A spiritual successor to Criterion's beloved Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Players star as either cop or racer, and there's an AllDrive feature which smells like a next gen update to Hot Pursuit's Autolog system, allowing you to "seamlessly transition" in and out of multiplayer as you participate in races.
Racers are out to become infamous by way of risky driving and the studied evasion of pursuing fuzz. The more cops you evade, the more Speedpoints you get, which allow you to unlock new cars and items. Get busted and you lose everything, however. As a cop, meanwhile, you're out to smash any passing speed freaks to dust, swiping better cars and more powerful "pursuit tech" as you climb the Police Force ranks.
There are 11 car gadgets - turbo boosts, jammers and EMPs for racers, and shockwaves, roadblocks and helicopters for cops. It's Hot Pursuit, isn't it. Hot Pursuit with added razzle-dazzle.
In order to play Need for Speed Rivals on your PC, your system needs to be equipped with at least the following minimum specifications:
Operating System: Windows Vista 32-Bit with Service Pack 2 and the KB971512 platform update
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHZ or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ
Ram: 4GB or more
Free Hard Drive Space: 30GB
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz or higher; Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon 3870 or higher; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher
For the best Need for Speed Rivals experience, however, we recommend having a system equal to or better than than the following specifications:
Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
Processor: AMD Six-Core CPU; Intel Quad-Core CPU
RAM: 8GB
Free Hard Drive Space: 30GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon 7870 or higher; NVIDIA GeForce GT 660 or higher
Graphics Memory: 3GB
Additionally, Need for Speed Rivals will support SLI-mode if your system is SLI-enabled.
Need for Speed Rivals will not support Driving Wheels. The Xbox 360 controller and Keyboard at the only supported input devices for Need for Speed Rivals.