Need for Speed Unbound

The open-world racing series has been spinning its wheels for a while now... and not in the cool, tyre-shredding sense. Can Unbound change all that?

- Tom Morgan-Freelander

Series fans will know the S drill. Unbound lets you loose in a fictional US city filled with exotic rides, a bustling street race scene, and a police force obsessed with dangerous drivers.

The rags-to-riches story is a real box-ticker, including a betrayal or two along the way.

But it's the blend of cel-shaded characters and anime-inspired special effects with photorealistic cars and locations that sets it apart. Light glints realistically off your ride's bodywork, while comic-book smoke billows from the rear tyres with every drift. Think Into the Spider-Verse and you're halfway there.