Need for Speed Rivals is a racing game and features gameplay similar to earlier Need for Speed titles, such as Criterion's Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.[2]
Rivals uses the Frostbite 3 engine.[3] The development team opted to target 30 FPS across all platforms instead of 60 FPS, because of the AllDrive feature.
AllDrive is the system used to seamlessly matchmake players
within the same open world. Another reason was due to the number of
players able to be in the same world at the same time.[4]
Rivals is the first cross-platform next-gen game to achieve a native 1080p across both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.[5]
Talk of resolutions and frame rates became a major point of contention
between Sony and Microsoft's new consoles after it emerged that both Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4 run at a higher resolution on Sony's PS4 console as compared to Microsoft's Xbox One.[6]