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Need For Speed Series Coming To An End?

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Like many gaming corporations, EA has been hit with the reality of a declining economy, and is bit-by-bit cutting back on their expenses. News has emerged across the net, claiming that EA's Black Box division will be eventually shut down, meaning that future Need For Speed titles may soon see no light of day.
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MUGEN - 375 days 8 hours ago
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1 - I hope
I hope they do, NFS went down hill since most wanted and even then I would rather play Hot Pursuit 2.
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Danja - 375 days 8 hours ago
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Hot Pursuit 2 is the last great game in the Franchise IMO...

but I agree this franchise can be put to rest now....

Midnight Club is better
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SaiyanFury - 375 days 5 hours ago
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NFS came to an end after the PS game Need for Speed 3. Since then it's become an arcade style racing game more than a simulation. I loved the original Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, but after that it went downhill. I tried Carbon but found it very average. Gran Turismo is the last bastion for my racing games.
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Kleptic - 375 days 5 hours ago
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yeah it hasn't been NFS since the PS1 era imo...I can't remember HP2, but owned the first HP, as well as High Stakes for the PS1...and they were a lot of fun back then, with great cars...

but since then its been very NFS: ghetto 1, 2, 3, 4, etc...not one decent game in the franchise for years...and the franchise gets like 8 games a year...

who knows though...EA is usually pretty good at pointing its anus in gamer's directions with this kind of stuff...if its not NFS, they'll just ghetto up some other once decent franchise...so their really is no real way to win...
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hay - 374 days 22 hours ago
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Hot Pursuit 3 would be awesome. First one was incredibly fun.
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BrianC6234 - 374 days 20 hours ago
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If EA is smart they'll make a real Need for Speed game. Enough of this Underground garbage. I'd like to see a game with graphics like GT5 Prologue but a Need for Speed game. With great police chases. Give us a real Need for Speed game with next gen graphics. I think that would sell great.
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Hot_tea - 375 days 6 hours ago
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2 - Good riddance.
They ruined the franchise with this 'kiddie' street racing crap.
Night time street racers bore the pants off me.
Hot Pursuit 2 on the ps2 was so awesome, what happened????
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Antan - 375 days 6 hours ago
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NFS Should never of changed from the early days. It was all about the exotic cars racing over lush winding country roads. For me last Test Drive is what NFS should of been. I await the next TD installment with high hopes.
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Kleptic - 375 days 5 hours ago
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EA could remake the original or NFS 2 in HD with all those exotic cars...for the PS3 and 360...and make an absolute killing I would imagine...it WAS a great franchise...and had a very strong brand, and always had the best cars (if you remember, the original GT was trashed by NFS car wise, as NFS had all the licenses to the best cars)...

then came Paul Walker and that absolute disgrace of a movie...that made a ton of money...and here we are today...EA still milking that same hardened teet as much as possible...

NFS is crap now...unless they try to return to the roots of the series, i'll never bother even looking in a NFS game's direction...
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HDgamer - 375 days 5 hours ago
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4 - NFSU was the best IMO
Thats pretty much the only games I liked from the whole series. If they made a sequel to that just like Underground 2, custom music, better cars, custom tracks and missions. I would pay for that, but if its gone then its gone.
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MC_KOOL_K - 375 days 5 hours ago
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5 - Loved the 3DO version {It went down hill after that}
it felt so real at the time, that i was afraid to crash, and when you did crash the crash sequence was amazing, and the sence of speed was amazing

i really thought that it was going to become the most realistic driving game ever

what i really want from a driving game is a sequence where your driving up a twisting hill and you get stuck behind a convoy of trucks and you have to time your moves to make it threw and maybe a few cops in the mix

to be honest devolpers just dont deliver the goods
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r1sh12 - 375 days 5 hours ago
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6 - yay
the whole modification thingwas taken too far, why would supercars need modifying.
After NFS underground 2 it just got boring, nothing new.
hopefully the series end this boring rubbish like the drag races where you have to burn youre tires to 'grip'. the older quarter mile drag race in the first nfs underground was good.
the best NFS games in the series:
need for speed 2
hot pursuit 1
hot pursuit 2
underground 1
and thats it!!!!
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zonetrooper5 - 375 days 4 hours ago
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Black Box studios made the excellent Skate so its kinda sad to see them being closed down. On the other hand, if they only canned the NFS series then I would be happy, less milking from EA.
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BrianC6234 - 374 days 20 hours ago
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EA does seem to bring out too many NFS games. Like Madden, a new one every fall. Why? Instead just spend more time on the game and give us a real racer. Hopefully Criterion won't let them ruin Burnout. Those games are much better now.
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Jamegohanssj5 - 375 days 4 hours ago
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Please do please.

TGSI
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VMAN_01 - 375 days 3 hours ago
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I agree guys NFS HP2 was the last great NFS until they went into that tuner bs.
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BobTable4Four - 375 days 2 hours ago
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11 - Amazing...
Just about everyone who comments on this site has the reading comprehension of a first-grader. You believe everything you read on this site.

Read that article again, no where did any of it say they were going to can NFS. The author just stated Undercover is doing poorly and EA might be making more staff reductions. EA has studios all over the world they could cut staff from. It was the author's own "guess" that NFS was at an end.

Feel free to comment on what it mean for NFS to come to an end but please, treating that "article" as the truth (at least for now) really shows how easy it is to make gamers believe anything.
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DA_SHREDDER - 375 days 1 hour ago
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good.
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itani - 374 days 23 hours ago
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Who cares?
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xwabbit - 374 days 23 hours ago
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I have liked all NF games rlly, the 2 most i liked where HP2 and the first Underground one.
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Sevir04 - 374 days 23 hours ago
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15 - they have tried but theyhave failed miserably.
NFS is rubbish. They can bury this stale franchise. it looks like Skate 2 is set to be the same thing. Skate was awesome. Skate 2 looks like it's on track to be the next rubbish series tony hawk.

I pray dead space franchise stays amazing because EA messes everything up. Dont even get me started on Madden
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pshizle - 374 days 22 hours ago
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17 - my favoirte need for speed series was
UNDERGROUND!
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Lumbo - 374 days 19 hours ago
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The last one i liked was Hot Pursuit 2, after that they went the boring ghetto night/day pimp_my_ride way and dropped the most important parts, like the police chases with PLAYERS as cops, the fun with roadblocks and the lush races over winding landscape tracks in cool cars.

The whole "free roaming" garbage can drop dead for all i care. I thought Pro-Street was the worst in the series, but EA managed to get below that with the latest installment. The series is dead, i am not buying another NFS, ever.
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