![]() ![]() Individual vehicles will have their own strengths and weaknesses, which players will be able to exploit during chases. ![]() “It's not as big as the buy-in and the rewards of picking the event, but it is personal.”Ĭops, of course, will be omnipresent in Need for Speed Unbound, but Criterion’s approach will be much more “tactical” this time around. “It's like, ‘I am going to make sure I beat this character and I am going to make sure I beat this character,’ Crimmins says. That element extends into side bets, which will allow players to target individual characters. “They've got little story arcs, they've got personalities, they've got their own car customization and style and you can see them driving around.” ![]() “very single one of those characters, we've actually made them full characters this time,” Crimmins says. It will also include what Criterion describes as an “immersive narrative” in which two friends are torn apart by a robbery at a family auto shop, leaving the player to try and reclaim a priceless car by winning the “ultimate street race.” So if you do lots and lots of races in one session, your heat can build up and you'll take a huge gamble on the money that you're carrying around as well. “Every single race also gives you a little bit of heat. So you have to make a choice in which race you want to do and what buy-ins you're comfortable with,” Crimmins explains. “So when you go in a race, there's a buy-in, which basically, you have to be able to play the race and then you can win that back with a reward if you do well or you can lose that money. ![]() It’s reflected in Need for Speed Unbound’s single-player, which will feature a “completely new campaign structure.” "If I was to boil everything up to what we trying to do here, we are trying to make the player feel like an illicit street racer, and make crazy bets like an illicit street racer, and feel the highs and lows and thrills of what it means to kind of embody that fantasy," Crimmins says. In taking the reins back from Ghost Games, Criterion is keeping the focus squarely on the areas it considers to be the series' strengths, but also expanding and reworking many aspects of the gameplay. Despite that, Webster says the series is in "good health," noting that it's managed to stick around for close to 30 years. Need for Speed Heat was well-received by fans, with our review calling it "easily the most impressive Need for Speed game in many years," but that didn't stop EA from shuttering Ghost Games and handing the keys back to Criterion. In the interim, Need for Speed has generally languished in the 70 overall range on Metacritic. Known for classic racers like Burnout Paradise and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the Guildford-based studio has lately served as support for releases such as Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront, with a particular emphasis on vehicle combat. It's at the heart of that street racing fantasy, so we should be exploring new art styles and new visions and new ways the game can look, so that we can not only stand out from everything else, but also deliver innovation where we should be setting trends," Crimmins says.Ī historic series going back to 1994, Need for Speed Unbound is the first entry to be developed primarily by Criterion since 2013. Need for Speed is about breaking the mold. Its emphasis on art and graffiti will extend to the gameplay, with Burst Nitrous boosts rewarded for stylish driving. The physics will run at a high frame-rate as well, offering "more control and nuance to.the physical movement of the cars," creative director Kieran Crimmins says.Ī trailer released Thursday offered fans their first look at the newly-revamped art style, which is meant to reflect the franchise's return to its street racing roots as well as the input of rapper A$AP Rocky, who will have his own mode in the new entry. Titled Need for Speed Unbound, Criterion's long-awaited return to the racing scene will utilize new-gen consoles and the Frostbite Engine to deliver 4K 60fps visuals in a free-roaming open world called Lakeshore. ![]()
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