Popular items like the spike strip return, and you can call in for a roadblock too, whilst they go up to the more exotic side with the air blast shock ram – SHRAM – and an AI Racer I was pursuing unleashed an electrically charged hull, to deal a lot of damage to all the Cops surrounding it. Helping you take down and evade will be the pursuit tech, items which you have to buy on a car-by-car basis, and which will handily deal damage to enemies. Getting back to your nearest safe house in order to bank Speed points and save your completed Speedlist objectives will be a priority, so you can then buy more unlocks, whilst as a Copper you want to be taking down as many cars as possible to steal away their Speed points for yourself. As a Racer, on the other hand, you might be the target of Cops who are slightly harder to ignore, especially whilst hounding you across Redview. You can easily join in with or start your own pursuit, by flicking on your lights as a Cop, and giving chase. Though Redview was actually quite sparse with the amount of traffic that I saw, it is with quite regularity that I saw AI Cops and AI Racers getting involved with chases. The handling is certainly quite arcade-like, letting you put the car into a drift around some of the many long corners with ease, and is fun to just pick up and play. The landscape and scenery sees you able to drive from the snowy mountains down to the coast, with waves crashing against the rocks and spraying up into the air. Frostbite 3 is a very good looking piece of technology, and here is was running at 1080p30 on next-gen hardware, for something quite visually stunning. The cars are a pleasure to drive along the windy roads of Redview County, and the game is certainly quite a looker. The only problem is that the world is huge and filled with enough distractions to cause difficulty when rallying other players. Getting an event to start is as simple as everyone stopping in the right place, and one person hitting the L1 button. You can’t spawn directly on another player, but with a little thought, you can meet up along the way, and set way points. Playing with friends should be easy, as you’ll pop up on one another’s maps when picking a spawn point. I was midway through a Pursuit mission with a fellow Cop when, out of nowhere, the other two players in our session rounded a corner on their own race and caused a massive head-on crash. The delightful thing about it is that your paths might cross at any time.
It is a technology designed to artfully weave players into each other’s games, for moments of immersive gameplay and general online tomfoolery. In fact, you’re always online through AllDrive, barring an internet outage, or you opting out of online play. However, you won’t even need Easy Drive to get online and play with other humans. You can initially spawn wherever there’s a safe house, command post or event, or even set waypoints with the simple Easy Drive menu system on the D-pad.
So when you hit the road, you will often have a clear idea of what you want to do out there. The racers have Race, Pursuit and Drive classes as their loose equivalents. Finally, Undercover cars are unmarked and able to blend in with Racers before going live with lights and pursuit tech for takedowns. On the Cop side, the Patrol path and cars are your middle of the road fare, whilst Enforcer cars are about head to head dealing of damage and takedowns. Both sides of the law let you pick between three styles of gameplay, and have objectives and cars with specs and looks tailored to them. The kinds of objective you’re given depends on which path you take through a career.
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