For some versions, the game defaults to English if other language files are missing.
Fixing garbled characters in menus:
Appendix
. Ensure it points to the English DLL by changing its value to GDFBinary_en_US.dll The "Proper Story" of NFS Rivals The story in Need for Speed Rivals
"Need for Speed: Rivals" is an open-world racing game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts (EA). The game was released in 2013 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.
: This is the "Game Definition File" resource that tells the system which language metadata to load.