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Need for Speed: Unbound Has an Ace Up Its Sleeve

Need for Speed: Unbound has been revealed, and with Criterion Games serving as the developers, the game has a good chance of pleasing fans.

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porkChop589d ago

"Through 2012's Need for Speed: Most Wanted, it demonstrated that it knows how to take a Need for Speed game and knock it out of the park."

You're joking, right? Their take on Hot Pursuit was good, but the Most Wanted reboot wasn't good at all. It was boring, had no visual customization, and the way you collect cars really killed a big part of the NFS experience.

I like what I've seen so far of Unbound so I'll give them the benefit of doubt, but I'm not going to pretend their last NFS was good.

RaidenBlack589d ago

As far as I can remember ... NFS Most Wanted came after NFS The Run .... and The Run was so bad (with qte running on foot) ... that the simpler purely driving focused Most Wanted-2012 (with no humans in the game) was better appreciated
I didn't like the weird style of that Most Wanted either ... but was still better than The Run and Undercover.
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 is still one of my favorite racing games.

porkChop589d ago

Yeah that could have been a factor. But I'll be honest, I played The Run years after release. The story was weird and the QTEs were terrible, but I thought the actual driving felt much better than other NFS games at the time. And I kind of liked how the races flowed through different regions and weather. Though that game had a *ton* of big issues like being limited to changing cars at certain points, performance issues, etc.

MrBaskerville588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

I think they ran out of time developing Most Wanted. Such a weird game and seem like they just slapped something together last minute after creating the world and physics.

I think Ghost were closer at getting it right, but their games also seem a bit rushed. Heat was quite good, actually. Just give them one more year to develop a game and I think they could hit it out of the park.

Blaze929589d ago

"and with Criterion Games serving as the developers, the game has a good chance of pleasing fans."

The Criterion NFS games are literally some of the worst. Where is Ghost Games at? smh

LucasRuinedChildhood588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

Nah, Hot Pursuit is easily to best NFS game since the PS2 era. It's brilliant, and at least Most Wanted (2012) was fun to play. It just shouldn't have been called Most Wanted.

I'd rather play a game that's actually fun rather than praising bad games and giving them brownie points just because they're trying (and failing) to imitate NFS Underground.

Ghost Games delivered a decade of mostly poor racing games offering little enjoyment. Their games are some of the lowest rated games in the franchise, and that's well deserved. NFS 2015 (some of the worst rubber banding I've seen in a racing game) and Payback were disasters and Heat gets a lot of praise simply because it isn't as bad as those.

Given the lack of quality arcade racing games last gen, their handling of the franchise was really disheartening.

Criterion are a much more talented studio by a mile. NFS Unbound will probably be the first new NFS game I enjoy in a decade. Jesus

LucasRuinedChildhood588d ago (Edited 588d ago )

Also, the top comment on the NFS Unbound trailer is "Remember guys, we just want a fun game to play!"

lol. People don't normally say stuff like that for a franchise that's remained fun, and didn't go downhill in quality. It speaks to the audience's frustration with Ghost Games' output for the last decade.

Profchaos589d ago (Edited 589d ago )

For me 2012s NFS most wanted was a poor imitation of the 2005 game. They lost its soul on the way to making it a next gen remake which wasn't actually required as most wanted was actually a launch title for the 360.

Imo 2012 most wanted was so sterile and boring abandoned the adt style and lost the sense of speed.

The only positive from that remake was the fact I got to take it on the go with the vita for free with the PS3 version

MrBaskerville588d ago

They really needed a vision for Most Wanted. It' such a stylistic mess, like what is going on what the insanely out of place mission introductions? They were so weird and the style was all over the place.

Ryzza5588d ago

Please just let CG make more decent Burnout games instead of making awful NFS games.

moriarty1889588d ago

Agreed. Criterion are much better just sticking to Burnout. Their NFS games just don’t feel right imo.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos13h ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H96h ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX45m ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

banger886h ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk773h ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos1h ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

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F1 24 Q&A - Codemasters Talks AI Improvements, Confirms NVIDIA DLSS 3 (Frame Gen) Support

With two weeks left before the launch of F1 24, Wccftech interviewed Codemasters to discuss some of the improvements fans will find in the game.

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Dfooster1d 21h ago

So it looks like they have abandoned unreal for future iterations of the game and are sticking with ego. So that means no decent VR support on PC and none on console seeing as the ego can't handle it properly. I think I'm done with this franchise it's turned into fifa with a hefty price tag and no innovation from one year to the next. Time for someone else to have a go at this licence

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Japan: Nintendo death threats suspect charged by police

Japanese police have charged the man responsible for sending death threats to Nintendo.

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ZeekQuattro1d 16h ago

All that because a canceled event. Dude needs to rethink his life. Videgames ain't that deep.

gold_drake1d 16h ago

i dont quite understand the motivation behind that sorta thing.