Need For Speed: Heading Back to its "Roots"??
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.
[... 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.
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.

Need For Speed: Heading Back to its "Roots"??
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well i wish more exotics and license the veyron again and ferrari cars
wish all you want, they ferraris dont make appearances unless aru decides to crack the game.
Heres hoping for NFS Higher Stakes, lets keep our fingers crossed.
an underground 3 i wiss
well, it's gonna be either a underground 3 or a high Stakes 2, Hot Pursuit 3 or Most Wanted 2 (since it seems cops are back) i just hope that Honda does not go anal over cops again -_-
Well, it looks like EA finnaly came to it´s senses.
at last the old root tracks like celtic ruins,snowy ridge,hometown,tracks from PU would be perfect.EA has should never left the old roots to street racing crap.IF this is true it would be a wish come true.I can't count how many times to myself how NFS would look with new graphics with the old track stlye.Only thing they need to change is not so much customizing to cars and more details to cars and world around it.and best yet no tuners possilbe that would really make the game back to it roots again.Good work EA
I really want something like HP2, but I'll settle for a MW like game.
They better be making a proper 'highway battle' mode, where it doesn't end up like a ricer flyby. :|
But I would see why its hard to not have tuners in NFS, but that doesn't mean they can go and make it another ricerfest.
I hope the new nfs would not have some pussy ricing sht
Your all NFS titles are good! I hope it is NFS Carbon Rival of the Blacklist. I think maybe it's 95% dont have this.haha
And real-time morning and night.
If NFS would go back to its roots, it would mean a game about cars not a game about racing. The first nfs series were all about the cars - the detailed showcases, relatively accurate car performance etc.
what took so long for EA to know the old way of NFS games were the best.PS is still a great crossover from street racing to old style.What made NFS so popular was the tracks in the mountains,forest,etc.Maybe a a evo version of PU only with different car companys would be cool what ever they have in plan and if is it old style it will bring the glory back to NFS once again.
Well I find this police thing really irritating. Frankly, I'm fine with Pro Street but even then the Speed Challenge races are just too risky to be true. I don't think any sane person would go at 400 kph on Nevada highway, full of bumps and blinded turns. The performances of Ryo and Nate Denver are almost Godlike. they don't err even a bit and that's too frustrating for a human competitor.
i hope they do this but you never know. its ea. it could just be another missleading advertsiment to get people to buy the game. but i do hope they make another MW 2 HS 2 BUT not a U3. if they make an underground three i mostlikely will not buy it.
OOO!!
mayybe we'll get a mixture of NFS:HP@, HS, P2000, 2SE, and MW..
Cabon and ProStreet suck ass to the fullest!
and i didnt even bother to buy ProStreet yet...
The next Nfs title must NOT be MW2,Underground3,etc...,it must be a new title,with a new story,and more exicting than all the old nfs titles. :D
I will be fine as long as it has the following content:
Hemi Cuda
The ability to tune and customize your car
Free Roam
A hot girl leading you through the storyline (lol)
cops
Camaro Concept
Optional items:
Funny Reference to Carbon (like in Prostreet, announcer says it)
Highway Battle Mode
A rival dude
These are all the things I would like to have in the new game.
-Racer_88
A storyline? Come on, NFS's a racing/driving game for f**ks sake...
True NFS: You just pick a car and a nice open road location and enjoy the speed and sound of engine! :)
Actually, what's the meaning of Need for Speed 'CARBON'. Is about the Carbon Canyon? Please tell me.
And I hope every NFS is the BEST racing game every year.
I only know year 1998 is NFS3.
i hope they do go back to the old games, going through towns and city's was awesome. it would be great if they would re-release the old games for all consoles. i'd pick up the first 2 releases.
I'll urge EA to make the next F1 2008/9 instead!! ;)
The speed challenges in Pro Street kinda reminded me of the early versions of NFS, location wise, but speed challenges are a pain and I used cheats to finish them
Do we really need NOS? EA hasn't had a Formula 1 game in a while... anyone up for cops chasing F1 cars???
Well I'm still speed-challenging my way to the speed king but I can't quite dominate even after getting plenty of cash through cheating.
I think F1, if made with as much zeal and special effects as ProStreet, should stand out on its own. A cop car won't be able to match an F1 car in drag racing anyway!
* I pray, It's King size in features!!!!!!!! (lots of cars, (Tuner, Muscles, and Exotics, old and new), Tons of visual customizing options, Tons of Performance Enhancing Options, Tons of Tracks (lots of different enviornments), Tons of Excellent Music, and Tons of Rewards)
* I would agree if it's NFS: Underground 3(import scene, but more serious), or NFS: Speed (reminisent to old NFS)
* In course map, Not only cars, and cops, ALSO see Traffic cars!
* No Crazy Rubberband AI!!!
* Lots of Race styles (including touge and,..........ANYTHING!)
PS: WTF?!?!?!?! Highway battle Mode?!?!?!?!
Don't Tell Me that This will also borrows the Formula from "Wangan Midnight"!!! XD XD
Well, I like Wangan Midnight, anyways, so I don't mind about it!
I'd look forward to this soon..... ^_^ ^_^
How about something like people in GTA? When the people seeing the races, we can crash them, haha,then the police came......
I'm glad EA saw the light about the miserably boring Pro Street game. I never played past 60%, uninstalled it and will never play it again.
When NFS started, "Tuners" were not a familair class of cars to anyone outside of Japan. Thus, not a part of NFS. Now that Tuners practically rule the city streets, it is only natural to include cars that you or I will, or already do drive. (Suby RS2.5)
I'll take literally any car (even a Ugo), as long as the game is done well. So include Outrun Challenges and Drifting in a game like Most Wanted, take out the punk stupid illegal racing story line, and you have the perfect NFS. We don't need story lines at all. Just give us a ticket or impound our car and make us pay for getting caught.
Ah yes, and bring back CHOOSABLE difficulty levels last seen in NFS UG2. Enough with the infinitely compansating AI garbage. It ruins the game.
they need to put some more muscle cars and have a bigger career mode and more things you can put in and on your cars, nfs needs more mods to put on the cars and have tires you can buy that changes the color of the smoke frome the tires like have red smoke when you burn out. i think nfs should have a thing that you can customize your character and the inside of your car. please bring back the neon lights and the mod for putting a sound system in the car. (pro street is #1)
nascar: i really hope you are joking..
If got Bugatti Veyron cops, it will be very cool.
How about a MW with prostreet-like handling and Roadrash-like environment?
Nascar, just burn urself.
Hope they get back to High Stakes. And they should focus less on the graphics and shit like that cz with every new NFS I need to change my whole system
Please EA, we all beg you for god sake! Put Ferraris back to game! I've been very sad & disappointed because there are no Ferraris around here anymore. Ferrari rules, Ferrari is THE car.
However, I'm happy & glad to know that probably tuners, drifting, autosculpt, NOS and other sad, ugly & discusting things like those will be finally DELETED, DROPPED AWAY. I hope NFS12 includes exotics of all time (Ferraris, Lambos, DeTomaso, Maseratis, Bentleys, Bugattis, etc.) & muscle cars, too. Maybe somekind of "Past to present match".
Do you really believe it is posible that a tuner car would be able to win a race over an exotic car? Naahhh, I bet you don't. Why running with regular cars you can see everyday by the streets? Lets race with gorgeous & great cars that probably you would never even see close to you live in your whole life!
If you had a Ferrari or a Lambo or a Bentley or an Aston Martin or a Rolls-Royce, would you really re-paint it with a color such as pink or light purple? Or even put some weird & wacky vinyls on it like fire dragons or almost-nude-naked-women? Naahhh, definitely I bet you wouldn't dare to do so.
Oh! and please put back the INTERIOR DASH highly detailed on every car; I think that would be fine & definitely a plus, at least as an option instead of autosculpt.
I'd also like to run again through NFS3 & High Stakes tracks with realtime weather like raining or snowy or fog, daylight, night driving, etc.
^_________
(coughs, clears throat).........
I Think There are some Japanese Imports that are tuned and able to go as fast as the Ferrari Enzo. I found some on Youtube. Type on search ____(amount of HP) HP __________(Japanese import).
PS: Do you check WMMT3????? and.......
Another PS: WHY IS SO MANY IN THE FORUMS HATE TUNERS?!?!?!? Tuners, Muscles, and Exotics are all welcome to me. Period.
PS: Ferraris ARE ALSO WELCOME IN THE NEXT GAME! (Since they are one of my favorite car brands)
@ skool me n my m8 was saying, make it like underground 2 but have it so you can trun your lights and neon on and off and have diffrent times of day, day and night like grand theft auto
There must be option in this game where you can be a cop again