| “ | Nobody’s order anything above five bucks. | „ |
| ~ Spike has to pick up everybody’s tab after losing again… |
| “ | I don’t need his help. And now new guy over here is getting’ all the credit? Yeah? What?! Huh?! | „ |
| ~ Spike's infamous rant |
Spike is a supporting character and overall, the deuteragonist of Need for Speed 2015. He is the player’s partner in the Speed Missions and the person who invited the player to Travis’ crew in the first place.
He is portrayed by Adam Long.
What Makes him a Scrappy?[]
- He’s supposed to be a cool and funny guy but comes across as one of the most annoying characters of the whole franchise, especially when he desperately wants to be cool and funny. For example, when he makes dog barking sounds, when he seriously assumes that everyone envies him or when he tries to prank Manu while he hears music only to fail again.
- He’s doing a ridiculous amount of fist bumps solely to look cool, however the fans just making jokes on his back for this.
- Also, he just overestimates himself, boasting about the amounts of races he do and his feeling for this while he talks down on everybody else for the most time. Problematic is just, that he never shows any kind of talent onscreen.
- In the opening scene he distributes colorful Flyers for a top-secret underground racing party.
- He’s just another Daddy’s boy, who just uses the money of his father to get anything he wants, like his jacket for 1.200 bucks.
- He is treated like a complete butt-monkey by the other members of the crew and still the player supposes to see him as a worthy partner in the Speed Missions.
- This led to some players think that he will eventually betray his crew for joining his icon Magnus Walker, like when he develops some kind of jealousy on the player when Magnus express interest in the player.
- However, even when he wants to start an argument, it’s completely impossible to take him seriously because his treatment as a butt-monkey and his annoying personality makes him look like an idiot in these scenes.
- Also, the betrayal never happened, so some people even call him some wasted potential, because this plot really would give a little depth in his character. Something they painfully miss.
- Also he just makes himself even more unlikeable and annoying with his jealousy.
- The structure of the game with five stories simultaneously doesn’t help either because if the player wants to switch between some events with other partners, the player sees one cutscene before the event and Spike behave like nothing happened.
- To accept a new mission the particular partner needs to call the player on his cellphone. As you have five storylines to fill these people call CONSTANTLY. This is one of the most annoying features for the players, that they cannot really enjoy driving because They’re getting calls permanently.
- Also, because the player is mute once again, some of those calls are extremely weird. It’s like stalking those conversations in secret.
- Neither this type of character nor Adam Long’s style fit in the need for speed series. He could be making blue’s clues or Art Attack without any problem but not a Need for Speed game where he plays kind of a gangster.
- Hashtiger from Need for Speed Payback has many similarities with him, and he’s deliberately made to look like an idiot.
- Also, the player just has one mission with him while Spike will follow them through the whole game.
- Some people call him and the whole crew as wasted potential, because just one year earlier the Need for Speed movie came out with really good actors, but this game has nothing to do with the movie, even when it’s called like that.
- Even with his clique, which is extremely base breaking by itself, Spike is by far the most unpopular and is one of the main reasons that Ghost Games went back to animated cutscenes.
- Even the fans of Need for Speed 2015 mostly didn’t like Spike and while this game has a similar vibe like the beloved Underground games, Spike and his crew appear like completely out of place.
Trivia[]
- Spike is currently the second (or eleventh) Need for Speed Scrappy. The first ones are the Blacklist drivers from Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012.
- Just to demonstrate how unpopular the character is, the german Youtuber AltF4Games asked even analogous “Is murder on guys like Spike even illegal?”