June’s Xbox Game Pass lineup is a chance to play 2022’s most overlooked racing game
EA Play and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get a chance to play 2022’s most overlooked racing game, Need for Speed Unbound, with the update coming to both services this week.
Need for Speed Unbound launched in early December, after the glut of holiday-shopping-season AAA releases. It caught eyes by putting anime-style characters (and vehicle flair) on the series’ usual photorealistic fleet, but on the whole, Criterion’s first NFS game in a decade was a solid recovery for a series that seemed to have lost its way in the interim. We gave it a Polygon Recommends badge for solid driving gameplay and realistic performance that lets the player spend a lot of time getting to know their favorite car, rather than just collecting a fleet of one-use unlocks that always finish first.
Need For Speed Unbound is available through the EA Play library that comes with Game Pass Ultimate, the highest tier of service that affords access to everything (PC, console, and cloud-streaming play). It joins both subscriptions on June 22.
In addition to NFS: Unbound, PC and Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get access to:
Of course, with a batch of new games joining the service, some older titles will be leaving as of June 30. They are:
Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass both cost $9.99 a month. PC Game Pass includes EA Play access, which offers another 70 games on PC. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, at $14.99 per month, gives subscribers access to everything — the PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass libraries, EA Play on both console and PC — as well as Xbox Live Gold membership, which is needed for online multiplayer.
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