Thu, Jun 07, 2012 | 11:50 BST
Need for Speed: Most Wanted features “all the best shit” from Burnout Paradise, Hot Pursuit, says Criterion
Need for Speed: Most Wanted will have the best of both Burnout Paradise and Hot Pursuit whilst keeping its own identity, Criterion’s Matt Webster has said.
“It’s everything we know about open-world driving, just piling it together,” Webster told Videogamer at E3. “All the best shit about Burnout and everything we did in Hot Pursuit, we’re just smashing them together.
Webster added that Most Wanted has been inspired by every game its ever developed.
“[Most Wanted] is what we think an open-world game should be. Hot Pursuit was about beautiful cars and epic drives, and so it didn’t match what we wanted to do in that game. This time it totally does. Everything that we’ve ever done comes to pass here.”
He added: “It’s a Criterion game so everything that we’ve ever done comes to play. We always say that each game we do is a reflection of us at the time, but of course, you’re going to be influenced by what we’ve done in the past and all the stuff we had fun with.
“You remember the journey that we went on with Paradise. The game that we shipped was absolutely not the game that we ended up with. And with Hot Pursuit we learned a bunch of other things. This is the best of everything.”
Need for Speed: Most Wanted launches in the US on October 30 and November 2 in Europe for PS3, 360, Vita and PC.
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Posted in: E3 2012, EA, PC, PS3, Racing, Vita, Xbox 360
Tags: criterion games, Matt Webster, Need for Speed: Most Wanted
12 comments
#1
KrazyKraut
07/06/12, 12:00 pm
mh…dont know what I should thinking, but Criterion never disappointed me.
#2
roadkill
07/06/12, 12:11 pm
what Kraut said
#3
Maximum Payne
07/06/12, 12:13 pm
There is not customization ? which was kinda big feature for Most Wanted
#4
The_Red
07/06/12, 12:19 pm
And yet it’s still a “shitty NFS” game. Fuck NFS! Where’s Burnout!? Now that game is the good shit.
#5
Fin
07/06/12, 12:28 pm
@4
All Criterion games are basically Burnout.
#6
tenthousandgothsonacid
07/06/12, 12:54 pm
@5 no they’re not because Burnout was *always* 60 FPS.
HP was a sludgey 30 as I assume this will be too sadly
#7
The_Red
07/06/12, 1:02 pm
@5
No, NFS and their other projects don’t even come close to the brilliance of Burnout games. Sure, Burnout Paradise wasn’t the masterpiece fans expected but Burnout 3 and Revenge still remain the VERY best the arcade racing genre has to offer by far.
Other racers (Including their own NFS Hot Pursuit) don’t even come close to those 2.
#8
Lounds
07/06/12, 1:37 pm
Burnout 3 was amazing and I would put that in my top 10 games of all time. Even the PSP port legends was good. Revenge was a fun game but I enjoyed burnout 3 more. Crash FM was better back then lol.
#9
The_Deleted
07/06/12, 2:01 pm
Give me back ‘Aftertouch’ and I’m on board.
#10
drewbles82
07/06/12, 2:09 pm
Just do another Burnout game already, sod Need for Speed, one of those every year.
#11
SplatteredHouse
07/06/12, 2:11 pm
<3 Burnout 3! <3 If they can restore a sense of finesse, decision-making and timing to the racing, it will leave me a lot more enthusiastic about it. It may be that Criterion's Most Wanted (need for speed edition) is going to be great, but I haven't seen much to imply that. I wait to see how it stacks up, as they make it more public and development continues.
#12
ManuOtaku
07/06/12, 4:05 pm
Now this is getting to the point it will be a Burnout game but with the Need for Speed name on it, evidently they are making the transition preparing the ground.