Need for Speed News

Need For Speed Heading back to its

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February 13, 2008 1:04:19 am PST
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General NFS, All Versions

Now we all know NFS is already making NFS12. This is undisputed. We however do not know which direction the game is going. According to a Small section in a fiscal blog at gamespot (link below), they had stated quite specifically that the game will be going towards its old roots, but once again with a new twist.

Quoted from Gamespot News

[... EA Games president] Frank Gibeau also mentioned the next installment in another of EA's racing franchises, Need for Speed. While a new Need for Speed in development isn't surprising (the franchise has been annualized since 2002's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2), Gibeau did give the analysts an early look at the direction EA would be taking with the next installment of the series.

Noting that sales of last year's Need for Speed ProStreet didn't live up to EA's hopes for the game, Gibeau said he thinks it was because the series drifted too far from what consumers expected. ProStreet had dropped the tuner culture and police evasion aspects of previous installments in favor of perfectly legit closed track racing. For the next Need for Speed, Gibeau promised that the series would be getting back to its roots with a number of features, including open-world racing and a new highway battle mode.

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The funny thing, is that TUNERS ARE NOT the roots of Need For Speed.
However, the police have always been a welcome addition to any NFS.

Read the whole EA article here.

Comments 9

Zpectre19 years ago

Expect a new Underground with shitty Jap cars.

I don't really want to be forced to buy TDU and listen to those horrible car sounds...

monkey.wesley19 years ago

EA! Keep going down the roots... you've stopped at Rice Station.

Highway battle is calling out Outrun Mode. Please not.

ToyotaWish19 years ago

A good variety of cars, open road/closed track racing combo and minimum tuning would make a good NFS.

Jaume0819 years ago

I would like to see a something like a new MW (since I don't expect EA to go to the real roots) with open world, adding exotic cars, police chase, car damage and, if that high battle mode is something like the speed challenge from prostreet, then it would be great.

rapzeh19 years ago

@ Zpecter
I hope not , anyway we still don't know a thing about it
@ Jaume08
I'd like that too

Zpectre19 years ago

It's not that I don't like tuning - I enjoy the idea of progressing in the game by building strong cars to take on the competitors - but there's stuff that simply doesn't belong in a racing game. I enjoy driving a lowrider around the streets of GTA, however everyone knows that kind of car simply can't be used for racing. Hydraulics, sound systems, electronic shizzle for custom lights, etc., all make the car heavy and unwieldy. I'm using the example of a lowrider since this branch of customisation is one of the least oriented towards racing. They're supposed to be art on wheels.

Since NFS is a racing game first and foremost, there's little point in having stuff like spinners, sound speakers, hydraulics, you name it, in the game. You don't get to enjoy this stuff because you spend all your time racing, and, if you just want to cruise around showing off your sound system, you might as well get a copy of GTA.

Pro Street was the opportunity for EA to actually build a competitive community around their racing game, just like it happens with many other titles of theirs. Too bad they ended up treating it exactly like Underground and will quit supporting the game as soon as they can.

Out with the FIFA-minded people currently in charge of NFS and in with the folks from the branch that designs Battlefield, please.

choas19 years ago

this is a good time to get rid of tunes now by EA.Replace them with TVR,noble,farbound,weismann,shelby,saleens,ssc, and bring back jaguar, and ferrari if possible.They could also bring back the tracks from the ealier games saves them time and just redue them in new graphics along with all new tracks in those style as well and have a NFS game once again that can be called NFS unlike UG to carbon

alexandercars19 years ago

YES!!

alexandercars19 years ago

YES!! I realy hope this can be a good "hot pursuit 3", if you want street racing- play juiced, now we willl drive the reral roots!!, YES, now we can drive a ferarri again!! (original car;)