10 Best Video Games Of 2022

10. Need For Speed Unbound

The game millions of arcade racing fans have been begging for for years, Need for Speed Unbound is essentially Burnout Paradise meets Into the Spider-Verse.

It's every bit the billboard-smashing stunt ramp-hitting open world extravaganza we got back in 2008, twinned with a gorgeously OTT art style that sees cel shaded smoke streams, random doodles and beautifully animated anime-adjacent characters fly past you at 200mph.

Adopting a segmented day/night cycle design that came into its own this year with Gotham Knights and Marvel's Midnight Suns, here NFS Unbound encourages you to get out and complete races, challenges or collectible hunts during the day, then "bank" everything back at base before the cops bust you and take away all your money. Stay out longer and you'll make more cash, but that means more risk and you'll now be carrying more "Heat" into the nighttime, where it's even harder to avoid getting caught.

Car handling, customisation, vehicle variety and even character customisation are next level, with various tweaks, sliders and tunings letting you skew more towards weightier simulation-style racing if you really want to, or embrace gigantic drifts, regular nitrous blasts and rival takedowns if they get in your way.

The whole package here is the best and most confident Need for Speed has been since maybe 2010's Hot Pursuit. Sure, Unbound's art style has proven divisive with the game struggling sales-wise, but the guts of the experience are pure Burnout. It works WAY better than any of us thought going in, and if you have an arcade racing bone in your body, you need to play this.