NEED FOR SPEED: Rivals

(NFS: RIVALS )

Need for Speed Rivals is a racing video game developed in a collaboration 

between Ghost Games and Criterion Games, and published by Electronic Arts. It is the 

twentieth installment in the Need for Speed series and the debut title for Ghost Games, 

who would be established as the primary developer of the series for all subsequent non-

mobile installments up until 2020. The game was released for Microsoft 

Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in November 2013, and is 

the final Need for Speed game for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Players take 

on the role of a Racer or Cop, with each side of the law offering its own play style.


After the commercial and critical success of 2010's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Criterion 

Games executives stated that they wanted to draw from the series' roots and re-introduce

 old Need for Speed ideals. With EA Canada and Black Box restructured and refocused 

towards online and free-to-play games in February 2012, EA had already formed a new 

studio in 2011, EA Gothenburg (later known as Ghost Games), who decided to use 

the Frostbite 3 engine for Rivals. On 30 August 2013, Ghost Games head Marcus Nilsson 

stated that the studio had been given complete charge of the Need for Speed franchise 

and that the franchise being bounced between multiple EA studios was not "consistent" 

with different game types.


Rivals was well received by critics at E3 2013 and was awarded with "Best Racing 

Game" from Game Critics Awards. It also received mostly positive reviews upon 

release. It was followed in 2015 by Need for Speed: No Limits and the unsubtitled 

reboot of this franchise.




Need for Speed Rivals

Developer(s)Ghost Games
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Director(s)Craig Sullivan
Producer(s)
  • Jamie Keen
  • Leanne Loombe
  • Mat Thomas
Designer(s)Jame Mouat
Programmer(s)Christian Holmqvist
Artist(s)Christopher Kristiansson
Writer(s)Will Staples
Composer(s)Vanesa Lorena Tate[3]
SeriesNeed for Speed
EngineFrostbite 3
Platform(s)
ReleasePlayStation 4
  • NA: 15 November 2013[4]
  • EU: 29 November 2013
Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
  • NA: 19 November 2013[4]
  • AU: 21 November 2013
  • EU: 22 November 2013[4]
Xbox One
  • NA: 22 November 2013[4]
  • EU: 22 November 2013
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)

SYSTEM REQUIRMENT FOR NEED FOR SPEED : RIVALS-

CPU : Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo or AMD 2.8 GHz Athlon X2.

RAM: 4 GB.

OS : WINDOWS 7/8/10 

VIDEO CARD : AMD Radeon 3870 512 MB OR NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

FREE UP SPACE: 30 GB.


PASSWORD : nfsrivals