History VideoGame / NeedForSpeed2015

* NiceGuy / NiceGirl: Majority of the characters sport a very friendly facade. Downplayed for Amy though who is perhaps to be more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold due to her constant teasing manner.

* BadGuysPlayPool: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Longhorn is Spike's LocalHangout where Travis's crew hangs out and sometimes plays billiards during cutscenes. Given the "Bad Guy" part is that the main characters are actually illegal street racers per se.

* ContinuityReboot: WordOfGod states that the 2015 installment is a complete reboot of the franchise, possibly as a result of the backlash over ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted (2012)]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedRivals Rivals]]'' by the tuner-era fanbase.
* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler:Each of the career paths end with the crew throwing down a party to celebrate their success. The only exception is the Outlaw path where It's just Travis and Morohoshi-san just simply congratulating you and share a toast.]]

* ImprobablyCoolCar: The Beck Kustoms F132 is perhaps a forbidden killer machine. It's a concept supercar, combining a body of a 1932 Ford hot rod, an engine from a UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} stock car and aerodynamics of a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne car. Also considered to be an [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity +1 Car]] due to its non-upgradable maxed stats and already fitted with a NitroBoost by default.

* MarathonLevel: The final race, "On the Dream Team": You against the main cast, [[BossBonanza including the Icons]], in a race around the whole Ventura Bay.

* POVCam: All the cutscenes are viewed in the perspective of the player.

* ScoreMultiplier: Drift-related events fall under this trope:
** In Drift Train, your score multiplies when you drift closer to nearby opponents. The more opponents that are within your proximity, the bigger the multiplier.
** In Touge, your score multiplies when you overtake opponents. Take the lead for a maximum multiplier.

* NiceGuy/NiceGirl: Majority of the characters sport a very friendly facade. Downplayed for Amy though who is perhaps to be more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold due to her constant teasing manner.

* MarathonLevel: The final race, "On the Dream Team": You against the main cast, [[BOssBonanza including the Icons]], in a race around the whole Ventura Bay.

* ContinuityReboot: WordOfGod states that the 2015 installment is a complete reboot of the franchise, possibly as a result of the backlash over ''Most Wanted'' [[Creator/CriterionGames (2012)]] and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedRivals Rivals]]'' by the ''Underground'' fanbase.
* DiscOneNuke: If you have the ''Deluxe Edition'' of the game, you can grab the BMW M3 E46 "Deluxe" and you can blast through the early stages to the game by a huge margin.

** The Honda Civic Type R featured in the game clearly uses the pre-facelifted 1997 model, despite being marketed as a 2000 model. They would later carry over in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound Unbound]]''.
** One of the hints states "Donuts in a FWD car? Forget." Except that, both in real life and the game, you can do donuts in an FWD car - you just need to do it in reverse.

** The Honda Civic Type R featured in the game clearly uses the pre-facelifted 1997 model, despite being marketed as a 2000 model. They would later carry over in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound Unbound]]''

* PaletteSwap: The Toyota [=GT86=]/Scion [=FR-S=]/Subaru [=BRZ=] triplets. In real life, they are all the same car sold under three different brands, since it was a collaboration between Toyota and Subaru (and Scion was an American brand of Toyota).

JustForFun/{{The One With}}out a subtitle and an antagonist.

JustForFun/{{The One With}}out a subtitle. Also, Creator/KenBlock [[DrivesLikeCrazy doing something highly illegal]].

''Need for Speed'' is an online [[WideOpenSandbox open-world]] {{racing game}} developed by [[Creator/EAGothenburg Ghost Games]] and published by Creator/ElectronicArts, released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne in November 2015, and released for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows on March 15, 2016. It is the twenty-second installment in the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' series and a ContinuityReboot of the franchise, hence the lack of a subtitle.

* ObviousBeta: The game was released on consoles without even a manual transmission option, which was a standard feature even in arcade racing games before the Criterion era. Some players even found a non-functioning "Semi-adjustable Gearbox" part, suggesting transmission tuning was cut. The PC version was delayed by 4 months to prevent the PortingDisaster issues ''Rivals'' had. By the time the PC version came out, every version of the game was updated to include a manual transmission option, but other problems came to light: gear ratios for most cars were not only un-adjustable, but wildly inaccurate, and most cars ''magically grew'' extra gears when power upgrades not related to the transmission were added. A ''Civic'' can have up to 8 speeds in this game.

JustForFun/{{The One With}}out a subtitle. Also, the one that has live-action cutscenes blended with the game's graphics engine.

* MarathonLevel: The final race, "On the Dream Team": You against the main cast, including the Icons, in a race around the whole Ventura Bay.

** The Honda Civic Type R featured in the game clearly uses the pre-facelifted 1997 model, despite being marketed as a 2000 model. This would later carry on later in ''Payback'', ''Heat'' and ''Unbound''.
** One of the hints states "Donuts in a FWD car? Forget." Except that, both in real life and the game, you can do donuts in an FWD car - you just need to do it in reverse. They would later carry over in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound Unbound]]''

* BrandX: The game features a social media app named Bl@h; the usernames in it start with an "@" and it uses a light blue color scheme, just like Website/{{Twitter}}, but the fact that the characters in the game appear to use it for instant messaging and voice messages makes it look more like [=WhatsApp=] (or Telegram for that matter, which does also have a light blue color scheme).

* ArtisticLicenseCars: The Honda Civic Type R featured in the game clearly uses the pre-facelifted 1997 model, despite being marketed as a 2000 model. This would later carry on later in ''Payback'', ''Heat'' and ''Unbound''.

* FiveManBand: The player character's crew can be laid down as follows: The PlayerCharacter is TheLeader; Spike, a SpoiledBrat on his father's trust fund who follows the player, is TheLancer; Manu, the GentleGiant is TheBigGuy; Amy, the crew's mechanic, is TheSmartGirl; and Robyn, the crew's social butterfly, is TheChick. Travis could be considered both TheSixthRanger and TheMentor, as he gives out the first car to the player along with some driving hints, [[spoiler:plus the TokenEvilTeammate, as he's the one who sends anonymous messages to the player for Outlaw missions to cause trouble around Ventura Bay]].

* BladderOfSteel: Being an online-only game, even if you're using single player, the game lacks a pause button. Surely there is a menu but everything still goes on in real time. Oh and don't think about going to the bathroom whenever you're in a pursuit or in a MarathonLevel.