10 Iconic Video Game Features Needlessly Cut Out Of Sequels

5. Car Customisation - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

Car customisation has always been a major part of Need for Speed's appeal. Especially back in the Underground era, the series embraced the early-2000s obsession with kitted-out cars that were mostly made out of neon lights than anything else, allowing fans to go nuts and create the craziest, flashiest, most garish vehicles their imaginations could come up with.

After those releases came and went, and car aesthetics became less fashionable than raw horsepower and handling, the franchise began to distance itself from its mad customisation roots, eventually doing away with these options altogether in 2010's Hot Pursuit.

The series had always been a solid racer, but mechanically speaking other franchises like Forza, Burnout and Gran Turismo pretty much covered all bases from a pure driving perspective, and without the extensive visual options for players to tinker with, Need for Speed kind of lost a lot of its charm and reason to exist.