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Another year, another ‘edgy-cool’ Need for Speed game.

April 30, 2011 in Blog comments 1

EA has announced yet another Need for Speed game, this time Need for Speed The Run. Might the thematic change be seen as a regression for the series, which is coming off the excellent Need for Speed Hot Pursuit?

It’s a scary time for gaming when I consider the recent Need for Speed Hot Pursuit to be a ‘happy’ and ‘care-free’ experience. Half of Hot Pursuit consists of sending cops careening off the freeway or smashing speeders into walls at 200mph. There are no mangled corpses. The murder is only implied. The skies of Hot Pursuit are often blue and sunny, the music is high energy as opposed to hip hop, no firearms are fired, no cops are kicked in the chest. Hot Pursuit depicts a sort of casual homicidal violence as compared to the nasty, dark, and angry homicidal violence we see in most games today. That’s what I want in my racing games.
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    Daweii May 1, 11
    Not really a regression more the fact they have three developers making Need for Speed. With Slightly Mad Studios doing the more simulation based games, Criterion doing the arcade based games and with EA Black Box's last true success being Most Wanted it seems they have been brought back to do a brand new story based game.

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