Eurogamer: "Patrick Soderlund is a busy man. He's in charge of EA's driving and shooting games. Think about that workload for a second.
Battlefield (and all that involves), Medal of Honor, Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed (itself a spiralling franchise made up of numerous titles), Burnout and more are under his jurisdiction. And so, as the launch of Criterion's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit nears, Eurogamer catches up with Soderlund to ask about the future of not only NFS, but... Well, everything."
After nearly three decades of NFS games, here's a list of the best Need For Speed titles that have ever been released in the past years, ranked by The Nerd Stash.
Paul writes - "EA know a good thing when they see it, and for multiple years November was Need for Speed month. In a break from the usual routine, I'm going to be looking back at two games here, released in 2005 and 2010 respectively. The earlier game is Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has the distinction of being one of the very best in the franchise. The second game comes from 2010, and is Need for Speed Hot Pursuit; which I'll talk about just as the Remastered version of the game has hit the stores."
I completely adore this game! In fact its probably my favorite racing game. I recently dusted off my xbox 360 to play Most Wanted 2005. Still a great game, though I do not remember there being such horrible performance. Like massive frame-pacing issues. screen tearing, latency. If any game ever truly needed to be remastered, it this one for sure!
A pulled retailer page previously listed a November release date.
No NFS released since Hot Pursuit (2010) has came close. The Ghost Games NFS games were just dreadful (to me they were anyway, 2015 was okay I suppose). Would love to replay this and I hope it has an update for next-gen as well.
I loved Most Wanted as well (on PS3, I think it released in 2012). After that, it has gone downhill, but the latest games are slowly coming back up. I loved NFS Heat, but it needs to get better before it comes back to same level as NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted.
Then again, NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted were likely better because they were from Criterion (in fact, those were the last 2 games from criterion in nfs series).
I would be excited but NFS is basically dead in the water at this point, a shell of its former self.
good read,thanks for the poster
Car physics seemed kind of off but it was still fun. Definitely reminded me of NFS:HP 2 that I put hours and hours into. I'm not sure if it's good to release a new one each year though. In sports games you can update rosters at least but in this there's only so much you can do with cars. We'll see though.