which1spink
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Slayer-33 said:
If you look at the booth rendering it doesn't seem like it's part of the title (at least it can't be found on the banner behind the first one).
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New Need For Speed Hot Pursuit revealed [EA-CONF]
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If you look at the booth rendering it doesn't seem like it's part of the title (at least it can't be found on the banner behind the first one).
Diablohead
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Cat still in the bag eh? can I grasp on to hope that we will get a road rash game?
twinturbo2
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As the great philosopher Elaine Benes would say... GET. OUT!!!!!farnham said:
If this is indeed released in 2010, it's a lock for GOTY and the clincher for the Year of the Racer. That is all.
VibratingDonkey
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I'm guessing they've got two cats.stonecold_316 said:
GitarooMan
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Nice! I just hope we get some non-urban tracks (like Mountain, Forest, Coastal etc.) I love those kind of tracks in NFS games.
People may have said this but I'm sure the RACE is just part of the menu system in that shot (i.e., select this to race)
People may have said this but I'm sure the RACE is just part of the menu system in that shot (i.e., select this to race)
twinturbo2
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Race and chase has a nice ring to it.GitarooMan said:
Fallout-NL
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High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed were the last Need for Speed games I really enjoyed (PC versions). Perhaps this will be a return to form?
mescalineeyes
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twinturbo2 said:Race and chase has a nice ring to it.
exactly.
The other side of the booth says "chase" I believe. If you're standing on the race side, you're racing, if you're standing on the chase side you drive a cop car. boom. mystery solved.
GitarooMan
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I really, really hope it's not open world.ram said:
It seems that ther are two camps here. On one hand you have guys wanting no open world, little to no customization and tuning, just some nice old school NFS.
Then you have the guys who want open world, customization+tuning ala Undergound...
'What to do, what to do,' asks EA....fuck it, we'll give them 3 games to choose from!
Then you have the guys who want open world, customization+tuning ala Undergound...
'What to do, what to do,' asks EA....fuck it, we'll give them 3 games to choose from!
MadOdorMachine
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HFS:HP2 is one of my all time favorite racers. It's the reason I still have my PS2 hooked up. As excited as I am that we're finally getting a sequel, I'm a bit worried with Criterion at the helm. I love the way their games look. Their graphics are beautiful, incredibly fast and silky smooth, but I'm concerned they can't handle it from a gameplay perspective.
Burnout games are fun, but they really are a different experience and the racing sections of that series seems to kind of drive itself. What do I mean by that? When taking corners in every BO game I've played since 3 you start a drift and either slam into a wall and ride it until you're around the corner or you oversteer and crash. As a matter of fact there is a lot of crashing in BO games - to the point they became unenjoyable for me. In BOR (the last good game in the series imo) I remember parts where I crashed literally every 5 seconds. Right when I would get going, I would crash again. Why?
Level design.
After the amazing BO3, I took the constant crashing in races of BOR for a fluke, because other wise the game was enjoyable. Then came BOP. This game was so terrible I regret wasting the $20 I did on it. I'll admit I'm not a fan of open world racing like that of NFS:MW, but this took bad track design to a whole new level. I thought I didn't know where I was going in BOR, but BOP really was unplayable for me. I remember not knowing where to go and also crashing all the time. This was not a fun formula to me and I have a really hard time understanding how people like this type of game.
So, with all that out in the open, I do think that Criterion is capable of making a great NFS game if they respect it for what it is and don't try to make it a BO game. It's okay to borrow certain aspects from BO like it's beautiful graphics, intense speed, solid framerate and destructible cars, but please leave it at that. Keep the tracks in the country and out of the city and keep the cars exotic.
If this didn't have the subtitle "Hot Pursuit" in it, I wouldn't care as much, but this is the last chance for a sequel for people who have been waiting all these years. If they screw this up, there probably won't be any chance of ever having another arcade type NFS again.
Burnout games are fun, but they really are a different experience and the racing sections of that series seems to kind of drive itself. What do I mean by that? When taking corners in every BO game I've played since 3 you start a drift and either slam into a wall and ride it until you're around the corner or you oversteer and crash. As a matter of fact there is a lot of crashing in BO games - to the point they became unenjoyable for me. In BOR (the last good game in the series imo) I remember parts where I crashed literally every 5 seconds. Right when I would get going, I would crash again. Why?
Level design.
After the amazing BO3, I took the constant crashing in races of BOR for a fluke, because other wise the game was enjoyable. Then came BOP. This game was so terrible I regret wasting the $20 I did on it. I'll admit I'm not a fan of open world racing like that of NFS:MW, but this took bad track design to a whole new level. I thought I didn't know where I was going in BOR, but BOP really was unplayable for me. I remember not knowing where to go and also crashing all the time. This was not a fun formula to me and I have a really hard time understanding how people like this type of game.
So, with all that out in the open, I do think that Criterion is capable of making a great NFS game if they respect it for what it is and don't try to make it a BO game. It's okay to borrow certain aspects from BO like it's beautiful graphics, intense speed, solid framerate and destructible cars, but please leave it at that. Keep the tracks in the country and out of the city and keep the cars exotic.
If this didn't have the subtitle "Hot Pursuit" in it, I wouldn't care as much, but this is the last chance for a sequel for people who have been waiting all these years. If they screw this up, there probably won't be any chance of ever having another arcade type NFS again.
Dedication Through Light
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Someone needs to fix the wikipedia lol.
"It is confirmed that Criterion Games, developers of EA's own Burnout series, is currently working on a "revolutionary" addition to the Need for Speed franchise called Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit RACE.[22] "
"It is confirmed that Criterion Games, developers of EA's own Burnout series, is currently working on a "revolutionary" addition to the Need for Speed franchise called Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit RACE.[22] "
kamikazekoala
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Going back to the roots? Excellent. Leave that tuning scene behind.
BioWare is at 800 people. Admittedly they're at different locations though.SolidSnakex said:
Ubisoft Montreal however is a studio of 2000, and TOSE was at 1000 back in 2006..
It's actually not even impossible to get monolithic amounts of people on a single product though. World of Warcraft is supported by 4600 people. Most of those are customer service however.
Hot Pursuit 3? YES!
HP2 is one of my favourite racers ever.
They better fix this shit this time if they are going to release NFS Shift 2. The game had the potential to be very good.
HP2 is one of my favourite racers ever.
Bought that game day one and what a horrible mess it was once you got the Tier 3 cars. They fixed it all up now apparently but too late EA! Sold my games ages ago.ram said:
They better fix this shit this time if they are going to release NFS Shift 2. The game had the potential to be very good.
Anticitizen One
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I hope its a remake of the ps1 classic
SapientWolf
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You can't break real cars in half. That's silly. You're silly.-viper- said:
Open world Burnout was pretty boring though.
twinturbo2
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Neuromancer
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It's too early for me to get excited, if Criterion open-worlds this I'm going to cry myself to sleep.
Dedication Through Light
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seady said:
I dont think we have anyway of knowing considering all of this talk is just based on the show floor insignia. Oh well, 2 days until we know lol.
Ninja Moomin
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do the people in this thread not realise the booth render was done by a marketing agency building the booth and not by ea themselves...everything on there is really just marking out space, etc for the people at ea to understand and approve.
for fucks sake get over the 'race' bit.
for fucks sake get over the 'race' bit.
twinturbo2 said:
hot pursuit 2 was a beautiful game and i think it aged quite well.
I'll have to disagree it was awesome. I put well over 150hours into that without even realizing it. Once you memorize the city it was all kinds of awesome. You make your own tracks.. man I had so many epic online races.... why did I even stop playing it?! *goes to play burnout*ram said:
Dedication Through Light
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Blutonium said:
But its not Criterions
twinturbo2
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watDedication Through Light said:
Alex Connolly
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What're the chances of this having wheel support, guys?
SolidSnakex
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Pylon_Trooper said:
Very high.