Things are going to be a bit different with the next Need for Speed game, as longtime developer Ghost Games has pulled out of that race and handed their wheels over to Criterion Games.

As of now, developer Ghost Games is scaling back and handing Need for Speed to EA’s other racing game studio: Criterion.

Need for Speed Heat may fall short in some areas, but by the racing gods I’ll defend this game’s ability to put a smile on my face with its high-speed cornering until the day I die.

Need for Speed Heat may be a greatest hits collection of past success stories in an attempt to make up for the past, but it still pushes the pedal to the metal when it comes to being a guilty pleasure of pure racing junk food that’s hot off the engine block.

One thing that Need for Speed Heat does exceptionally well though? Provide a workshop wherein you can apply some fantastic liveries to your vehicle of choice. Which is why I want to create the butt-ugliest car of all time. I can’t do it alone though.

Hey! Need for Speed Heat is out, with EA giving the once revered, now mostly middling racing series another spin. I can’t really think of a single NFS game this generation that I’d point to as being a good game, with most of its thunder in the last few years having been thoroughly stolen by better games, Like Forza Horizon. Is this ne One, Heat, any good? Well, it seems it’s a bit mixed, but it looks like it’s better than the lootbox-laden Payback.

It’s cheesier than a Wisconsin cheddar tour, its coming off of the back of the massively panned Payback game and its going head to head with the current king of arcade racers, Forza Horizon 4. Need for Speed Heat certainly has its work cut out for it and then some. EA and Ghost Games’ semi-regular racing franchise has been in need of a substantial retune for many a year now and with a benchmark so low that it may just be a speed hump thanks to Payback, Heat has nowhere to go but up.

Need for Speed Heat will have its own selection of licensed tunes that cater towards the more chill side of driving while also flipping the coin at night to deliver some pulse-pounding beats.