One thing is for sure when you first boot NFS up, and that’s the fact that this is the best looking Need For Speed title there has ever been. But those loyal to the brand will have paid close attention to EA’s murmurings, promises of a return to form and better gameplay, in the hope that their beloved NFS brand will return to form and give them something to cheer about this festive season. It’s hard to gauge how much anticipation has surrounded Need For Speed as we have come to expect an iteration of it each year in the big build up to Christmas, whilst there has been very little media coverage of it pre-release. So, fingers crossed, this amount of effort has similarly been put in to the fading franchise that is NFS because let’s be honest, if it works for Criterion with Burnout, then surely it will work here too? They have an uncanny knack at making their titles look as pretty as they can too despite their arcade appeal, you can safely bet that Criterion will make ever effort to ensure the game looks as polished as it possibly could be.
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This is a very clever move by EA as Criterion know how to make cracking arcade titles, just look at their back catalogue of Burnouts across all formats and see how successful they have been. It’s not like EA don’t have the acumen to do so either, as they’ve been around for 20 years now and have produced some memorable games across all formats, recently the likes of FIFA and Dead Space.īut with EA’s creative fountain seemingly running dry, can they pull a top quality game out of the hat to get their followers back on side? Well if they ever were, they have no greater chance than now as Criterion have changed their stance and decided to give the Need For Speed brand a new lease of life and have a break from their own prestigious Burnout games. Their last NFS outing last year, Shift, wasn’t as easy a step into the serious racing genre as they would have hoped it to be, as people began to ask for a quality arcade title as opposed to circuit racing. No more so is the case than with the popular racing brand Need For Speed (NFS), supplied to us each year generously by Electronic Arts, who seem to have let their standards slip in recent years when it comes to quality titles. Us gamers like our franchises and long standing brands don’t we? So much so that sometimes we even neglect titles that are new to the market and offer a fresh take on things, merely because of our love for big developers’ installments.
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