Will it let you actually let you configure a racing wheel properly this time, while letting you use half-decent camera angles? Or does it still feel like a burnout clone?
Because I could live with 30FPS if it actually worked decent, unlike most recent NFS games. I know NFS, apart from the Shift games, are arcade racers and don't really need a wheel, but any racing game just feels better with a wheel.
Edit:
This reminded me to watch the TotalBiscuit video on this, and it seems to continue the trend of horrendously annoying menu systems where you spend 90% of the time just waiting for tutorials you don't need or insane menu transitions. Also, if you move the FPS cap to 60 the game plays at double speed(not the menus though, those are still slow as ****).
30FPS lock is just plain crap programming. It's easy as pie to code for variable fps. I know, I've done it and it's just something I do as a hobby now and then.
I enjoyed Underground 1 and 2, Most Wanted (original PC version) and Carbon. Shift was also okay. All the others are crap IMO. I tried a wheel in some of them, but going lock-to-lock is easier with a controller and I have Forza 4, which makes Shift's physics and reactions seem... wrong. Really wish my G25 worked on the Xbox....
I kind of like Burnout Paradise, but don't like the new Most Wanted.
Shift 2 was the last game I really enjoyed in the series, Shift is probably ok as well, but I mostly skipped that, only picked it up later when it was dirt cheap on sale. That said, the Shift games are not very NFS-ish games, but that doesn't make them any less entertaining. Other than Shift 2, Underground 2 is the last proper NFS style game in the series that I liked.
Best NFS memories are of Hot Pursuit 2, I played the **** out of that game with my old Sidewinder wheel, good times. See, I thoroughly enjoyed playing that with a wheel, which is why I expect all NFS games to be playable with a wheel even if they are arcade racers, but the new Hot Pursuit won't actually let me configure the wheel.
And yeah, Burnout Paradise is fun, but it's not Need For Speed, so I was annoyed when the new Most Wanted was mostly just a Burnout clone with licensed cars.