Need For Speed Heat | Whitelight Review 

www.dashlane.com/whitelight for swerving those nerds trying to watch you through your webcam. So this Need For Speed review was a very experimental project, like many of my recent videos, tell me what you think. If it's received well, I might go on to do the same for as many recent releases as I can, including DOOM Eternal.

My god... the writing of the script was just.... * _chef's kiss_ *

"She got a need for speed, and i'm not talking about cars" lmfao

I actually love the cruises to the races in this game. A big part of the car community is cruises like those along the streets, showing off cars and hooning a bit. I think it adds a nice bit of humanity to the game.

I have no idea why with this aesthetic they didn’t give it a synthwave/vapor wave/outrun soundtrack. That would have seriously elevated the game for me, luckily I can just use RU-vid to do that and some eurobeat too.

“And just like Jeffery Epstein, not suicidal.” Lmao this script is fire

Speaking as someone, who has no interest in racing games, I can tell you, that you succeeded in your endeavour to make the video interesting even for people who have no interest in the game itself. Cheers, mate.

Oh my Godspeed! The word play, the editing, the...EVERYTHING!! I didn't expect to be this entertained by a Need For Spleen review. Congrats, sir, you've created a masterpiece :hyperclap:

Ghost: Making finally good nfs EA: *Im gonna destroy their careers*

"It's been done more than Mia Khalifa"

7:52 WTF right mirror doin

I didn’t remember it had a soundtrack. It was so bad I turned the music volume down in the first 5 minutes of playing.

"moving slower than tectonic plates" wow.... I never thought I'd live to hear an earth science based joke. That is true elegance. Subbed

I feel like whitelight is slowly being overwhelmed by madness

"NFS Thot Pursuit" lol. Excellent review, as always.

"Now like Whitelight-Chan, there are some kinks here..." I--I need and adult...

Night racing is the backbone of this game, that and customization are the only reasons why my friends and I still play NFS Heat 3 years later. Hoping that Criterion doesn't take away this experience from us in their upcoming release.

'NEED FOR SPEED: YEET ' XD

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on NFS The Run.

Can’t wait to see your thoughts on Unbound

This game introduced me to racing games and turned me into a gearhead. The story is cliche but good enough to keep you playing. The day/night cycle made you choose if you'll play it safe or take a risk. Cop chases were thrilling and fun, even though it may be too challenging for new players. NFS Heat wasn't a masterpiece, but it was good enough, which is why I'll always remember it fondly.

I like how whitelight has torn down the facade of professionalism and now just produces honest and scathing critques

What I like about Midnight Club and Tokyo Xtreme Racer series is that they give the opponents some sense of a character. They have backstories, personalities and their own reasons for street racing. They're all pretty simple, but when there's so many of these, together they end up forming this overall idea of what street racing, the main setting of the game, can mean to different people. That's how you portray the social aspect of street racing, how you give an impression of the overall setting to the player. It's a great way to show different sides of the culture, showing the different mindsets, age groups and backgrounds the people have and how this one interest of theirs brings them all together to create this interestingly varied whole.

When you get to heat five, take some jumps. The cop AI just cannot handle jumps. It’s like an instant escape as long as you don’t screw it up.

I would like to see Need for Speed go back and capitalize on some of their older ideas. For instance, the crew mechanic in Carbon. It gave your rivals more personality, and it made you feel like you were not doing everything on your own. The challenges for your territory was pretty fun too. I feel like there's already so many good ideas they could use if they just look back.

Why is this video so short (not even five hours long)

God all I want ALL I want is a game that plays like the old Underground games, where your car becomes basically your avatar how people will know you, with it having the graphics of modern racers.

“Need for Speed: Yeet” killed me Edit: yeah the joke/minute rate was incredible. I resisted the urge to quote each and every one of them. Your recent release format will definitely hook people not interested in the actual games.

Overall my only real problem with the game (Meh Story Aside) is rather subjective, the music. There are some alright tunes but personally there was only about two that i liked to speed to. Hell, Payback (the mess it was) had some that made cruising the open world worthwhile. Again, a subjective issue but seems they went for what would compliment the setting which i guess i understand. Beside that Good Game Ghost.

19:33 I don't think I've ever given something 100% of my attention so quickly

NFS Most Wanted 2005 was very much "speaking to the youth" of its time though, everything from the soundtrack selection to the cheesy antics of the blacklist racers was made with the "How do you do fellow kids?" vibe. It is about as tacky as the NFS Heat influencer / making bank attitude but Heat is not engaging enough without the build up and story that MFS MW 2005 had. Also kids in 2005 weren't distracted by multiple apps for entertainment. Playing something like NFS MW or watching someone play it or talking about it was the best distraction they had. It is tempting to look at NFS MW 2005 through its special sepia filter and laugh at the cut scenes (if you will) but I suppose an almost 30 year old would have played it with wonder in its time since it was a leap in graphics and 'storytelling' (for arcade racers) in its time. NFS Heat, is presented with all the same accompaniments as NFS MW 2005, only that it doesn't bring much that is new and definitely is not as engaging as the blacklist progression. After many iterations of NFS stories, NFS Heat is a victim of its own series fatigue.

Definitely looking forward to Whitelight reviewing the latest Need for Speed game made by Criterion Games.

I absolutely adore the snark in the commentary. Would love to see more videos like this!

Is this video not a 7 hour long review?

"Just call it Need for Speed : yeet and be done with it" omfg

Best in-depth review channel. Thanks man, keep up the good work!

Where's the Darksiders 3 review?

I ask you, sincerely, to draw up a hypothetical Manhunt 3 as you did [PROTOTYPE]. It would be both harrowing and spectacular.

Since i discovered your content about 2 or 3 days ago, i have been NONSTOP binge watching you since! Your videos are amazing keep it the hell up my dude!

Most entertaining review I've watched in ages, instant sub. Good work!

This is one of the most compelling, clever, and strongly structured reviews I’ve ever seen. Hats off to you, sir. You’ve knocked it out of the park once again.

Regarding the music in the game, remember the GOOD o' days when the devs of a lot of racing games would add all sorts of different music genres into their games and give you the ability to customize the soundtrack's playlist? That way, you could actually CHOOSE what you wanted to listen to of all the songs that they provided? I sure do miss features like that. You'd think as technology and game quality gets better and better, more and more features such as that would be more prominent and refined, but now they're just nonexistent, it's a shame.

7:32 the car’s right hand side mirror is suicidal lmao.

This review is incredible Whitelight... You've done it again, I love you man. Thanks for brightening up my night!

God I love the fact that your reviews are getting more and more filled with memes

need for speed: thot pursuit (good subtitle but imagine this) Need speed for women: thot pursuit (keeping the subtitle but changing the franchise name for this individual entry it goes from nfs to nsfw)

This is the first video I saw on your channel and i just watched all 4 part of prototype that you have done. You really have a great channel and I will be waiting for more vids.

Honestly the reason why I think Heat is great is because it follows the phrase IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT But hopefully Citierion will follow this games example by building on what worked While removing the shit that didn't

The music transitions made me think I was watching a content cop for a hot second.

these character models look like they are out of some dysgenic mixer.

I don't replay yt videos often, but I keep coming back to this video. This script is just amazing, I don't think I ever memorised lines from a review before

One of the best reviews I've seen in a while. Subscribed!

I know it's been a while but you're actually not restricted to keep the speed limit in those "follow the npc" missions, if you go very fast you get a marker on your map where you need to go, so you can get there in 1min if you don't wanna hear the conversation

Whitelight: Physics aren't trying to be realistic... Me: 7:31 yeah, i can see that (right door mirror having a stroke)

Your script is incredible! This is the first video of yours I've seen and I love it!

I wish I could get your amazing content in audio form in spotify as I am always on the go and never have enough time connected to wifi to watch your videos but love everything you do and all that is you're passionate about

Whitelight you're an amazing reviewer, dont give up, review some newer titles and you'll surge in popularity

4:07 OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE HAS SAID IT, the atmosphere in NFS 2105 is hands down the best in my opinion

that antony dyatlov joke was so damn obscure i love it

Amazing video! Probably my favorite whitelight video ever

ok this is the single best review video i have ever seen, laughed so hard, while you are right about what u say too. gold!

This might be one of the most one liner dense reviews I've ever watched, well done. 😂

First time im watching a video by Whitelight, really liking this format!

I come back to this review once in a while to just appreciate the writing. Superb !

ngl most hilarious review i've heard in a long time, keep it up

2015's vibe was the shit. You really felt underground. You felt illegal. The best nfs game out there.

As a guy thats from Houston Texas were they street race every other day. I can confirm that either you have young people dressed like young people dress, or you have older guys that just bought a C8 corvette as a project to add to his 1k horsepower GTR/Lamborghini car collection.

The soundtrack quick rant was pure satisfaction

This was a great review! It was nice to a fresh perspective. The jokes were well timed and placed too. I really like this style

Do a review of car lesbians(?)

you really stepped it up with this video, nice work man - looking forward to more

Love the choice of shot 7:26 to 7:55 the right wing mirror is brilliant! Great review.

I was just waiting for that Prototype reference when I read the subtitles for the murder cop-out scene.

Great video, but seeing Criterion coming back to NFS doesn't really make me happy. They were EA's shiny star in the 2000's with Burnout. Even to the point that they had enough agency to make a game like 'Black'. But over the years they became a not-so-important asset for EA that took care of an NFS game/the driving mechanics of a DICE game once in a while. And I know that they're good at it. Hot Pursuit 2010 is an absolute gem to me. But I remember one of their leads saying that they were done making NFS games after Most Wanted 2012... I might be wrong, but seeing them getting the franchise back after years without officially working on a project of their own tells me that they pretty much have the same level of agency than Visceral before their shutdown.

Dude I would watch anything you make a video about. Your writing is insane, both the hilarious parts as well as the purely passionate parts

Great video format bro 🤙 dig this so much

7:30 - Must be hard for that right door mirror to sit still

My main issue with this game is how short the story is and once you’ve done that it doesn’t take long to collect everything unless you want all the cars . I bought an NSX pretty early on and been steamrolling got ultimate plus on everything .

Good lord why have I missed this channel out for so long. Binge watching your videos mate, damn good job.

You even made the ad great...subbed...keep em comin

7:47 "the cars mirrors control like a ufo"

I dig your critiques and your style of writing, Whitelight. Always looking forward to the next video. Also, I’m sure you’ve heard it dozens of times already…but I would love to hear your thoughts on Darksiders 1 and 3, especially since I’m playing through the first three before I play Genesis. Anyway, Keep up the good work. Peace

THOMAS THE DANK ENGINE? CARDIGAN B? YOU'VE JUST GOTTEN A NEW SUB LMAO

just found out your channel today! great stuff

A note about the speed, you forgot to mention the main speed component, which is the increasing camera FOV.

1:32 "this is where you select what drugs you are addicted to and how many ass bones you've got" really got me laughing badly. So much yeets 😂😂👍🏻

Given that marathon of Deathstand i'm supprised you could make another video so soon. Good work on you.

I see many reviews and this one is the best of all Need For Speed Heat Reviews

I love the format! Great editing, an amazing script (as always) that kept me entertained with some great laughs along the way. Now that I think about it I don't even know how I spent the last 10 years without a good nfs. Thie series defined my childhood. I am just sad not to hear you talk about nfs for the next 5 hours. Have you thought about making a video about the whole nfs series? Their roots, maybe innovations in the genre and a little context on each game? It could be 48 hours long I wouldn't mind.

I like to play my Spotify music while playing.

The reducing music vol part is pretty much how i deal with most games. I find it's a very effective way to make a game more immersive and a fine too if the music sucks 😆.

This is some of the best writing ive heard in a while. Great way to start the day!

"dabbing nonces" and "cardigan b" are the only two things you need in life

Need for Speed: Thot Pursuit sounds amazing

It still makes it to the "best selling games on PS4" list every now and then

this is by far the best video on heat, good job

I loved that you stated your interest in Quantum physics and also loved every moment of this Review being upfront, brutally honest and unapologetically truthful about what happening within the NFS community as a whole. excellent job sir!!

This is a great review. Very fair but critical, but also, hilarious.

the type of content and script i have in my imagination is like this, thank you !! should try it myself

Love this guy, doesn’t hold back with humour and has incredibly witty humour. Subbed.