In Need for Speed Heat, a hardcore racing game where you take on the police of a city and fight your way into the elite of street racing, you can escape during the day and risk everything at night. During the day, you participate in the Speedhunter Showdown, a sanctioned competition where you earn money to customize and upgrade your garage with high-performance cars.

Be rebellious, be expressive. With even more options to customize your fleet and personalize your identity behind the wheel, this is the time to not hold back in being unique and ensuring everyone knows who you are. This also means tuning your car's performance and handling to match your style, then gathering a group of online friends and hitting the streets to cause chaos all over Palm City. And when someone tries to stop you, that's when the real fun begins.

Beat the Heat. In daylight, you must do everything to annoy the cops patrolling Palm City. But after dark, the rules change when a rogue special unit appears, now hunting you and your car. Dive deeper into the story and confront the head of the task force, Lieutenant Mercer, who runs a corrupt operation targeting racers and chopping up their cars for cash.