@mattman127 I-4. It's literally the ONLY way I can get the "Escaping" bar to fill. Since the game is constantly spawning cops behind you, you have to keep your speed up to keep the meter moving. Hiding is pointless because apparently the cops have a damned GPS hooked up to you and know when you're hiding in caves or behind buildings or on rooftops. Run. Just. Run.
If you don't want to be chased by cops, do the speed limit and keep at least five car lengths between you and the cops. Also, don't have a heat level over 5.
@thetrellan Closed world racer here,responding because you asked us not to.
"For another, we were promised a huge world. We got that, only it was really the map of a smaller world blown up to add more detail, making the entire thing look like what it mostly was- large expanses of lonely desert. " It's this, but bigger. They clearly copy-pasted a bunch of landmarks from all the other popular closed world NFS games and spread them out a bit. Only I am legitimately surprised at the lack of a corkscrew section of the map. They added one small town where you can drive through, and somehow that town only has three roads, all parallel to each other and one of them isn't even really a road, it's a boardwalk that holds a bunch of outdoor dining areas (of course you can completely destroy these at will). The desert isn't as big as HP, but it does feel better. The Airport graveyard from MW2012 madeda reappearance allowing you to jump and wreck off as many wingtips as you like.
Anyway, to answer your question, no, you won't like this game. It's not open-worldy enough. Hope that helps.
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