
Sure it can be annoying but it does help you most of the time and it is funny to see them crash at random and somehow catch up to you in seconds. Races are fun and the enemy racers do not have rubber band AI, this is proven by the fact that your crew member ally does have rubber band AI, presumably to keep up.

The cars handle great and the handbrake lets you drift around like a god. This game seemingly did everything right. Then we had Need For Speed Carbon, the follow-up game to Most Wanted and my favorite game in the series. However I will not doubt that Most Wanted had some crazy pursuits and was damn fun the whole way because of them and the races were still not all that bad. Where the game ultimately flopped for me was the lack of tuning and customization. Speaking of the cops, they were everywhere, you couldn’t free roam without triggering a pursuit, it’s near impossible. Every single car in that game handled like a truck going at high speeds and they might as well be trucks seeing as half the time is spent smashing up cops getting milestones. The AI was better but the handling of the vehicles was far worse. Then we got Need For Speed Most Wanted, arguably a step back from Underground, especially in the customization department.

However the car customization and the free roam more than made up for its shortcomings, plus aside from the scummy AI, the races were mostly enjoyable. For one it had some very deep tuning and some of the race events such as URL’s were pretty fun… whilst others such as street X and drags… not so much, not to mention the annoying rubber band AI in every race. Now I started with Underground 2, not the best game in the series I must say but it does hold a lot of merit. Now before we get to the meat of the problem, I want to talk about my history with the NFS games. Why? Because Need For Speed 2015 is a train-wreck… or should I say “car-wreck”. Oh boy… where do I even begin with this game? First I’m just going to say that Need For Speed 2015 is the best NFS game in the past decade but I shall cease my praises there.
