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During today’s Q2 EA conference call, EA Games label president Frank Gibeau confirmed the existence of a Need for Speed title developed by Burnout creator Criterion Games.
“In recent years, we failed to put adequate resources behind the franchise and, as a result, quality suffered,” he admitted.
Giving the series a good tune-up, as it turns out, is as simple as 1, 2, Here’s hoping that the new game’s a lot like Burnout 3!
“Next year’s Need for Speed has been under development now for some time at our award-winning Criterion Studio,” Gibeau said.
Here’s hoping it crashes and burns. In a good way.
Thanks, Joystiq.
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Plainview said:
It’s in good hands
chickenbutt said:
This might be a Need for Speed game I’ll be getting.
Jadeskye said:
i’ll consider my NDA over then!
Yes this has been on the cards for some time, criterion was shifting people around with the need for speed guys for a while, up to around a year ago.
A number of artists got moved around including a lot of the guys that worked on burnout’s car textures and models.
From what i’ve heard from the inside, this game is looking pretty sweet.
Anders said:
Didn’t Riccitiello confirm this game back in June?
It’ll sure be interesting, though. Loved (loves) Burnout Paradise.
Nelius said:
This is the first NFS i’m seriously interested in since NFS:SE!
Freek said:
Sounds good, but it still means NFS remains in a deep identity crisis.
On the one hand it wants to be a sim with NFS:Shift and on the other hand it wants to be an arcady Burnout style game.
Robo_1 said:
Need For Speed + Criterion = WIN
Blerk said:
So…. what about Burnout, then?
Captain Fruitloop said:
More bad news for Blur, which was conceived as Acti’s NFS-beater at a time when the NFS franchise was starting to look really worn out.
Freek said:
SplitSecond looks to be kicking everybodys ass anyway, next year.
Harry said:
I hope this means a return to oldschool NFS. I want supercars and sunlit coastal roads. And blue skies.
Cort said:
Yup, Criterion are awesome. I Platinumed Shift but the physics drove me mad and I traded it in immediately after – and without a moment’s hesitation. Criterion will produce a game with just the right vehicle handling model for this sort of thing.
DrDamn said:
@Freek
I don’t thinks so. Shift filled the gap left by Project Gotham quite nicely. As a series it can goes forward in a couple of ways. EA are sensibly not trying to put everything in one place.
Hopefully the Criterion effort is not an open world thing like Paradise so it can actually do stuff like split screen. I’m not holding my breath though.
LewieP said:
Any news on the Black sequel?
Jadeskye said:
LewieP, no mate, theres no work being done on this as of the last time i checked which was around august.