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Next NFS? (Need For Speed: Undercover)Next NFS? (Need For Speed: Undercover)
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Mike Geise 6/17/2008 9:19 PM
Nuts4Ford forwarded a article to me today about the next Need For Speed title.
I cannot yet confirm if this article is legitimate but in summary the NFS development team will be going from a 12 month to 24 month development cycle and the next title would be called: NFS: Undercover.
EA's John Riccitiello says that the company was torturing its Vancouver team with a rigorous 12 month development cycle, but that has now been changed for the better.At the William Blair & Company's 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference, he indicated that he was pretty disappointed with Need for Speed last year.
"I thought it was an okay game, in terms of gameplay. It's not good. But who wanted Pro Street? It was a sort of made up, put numbers on the side of your car and pretend to drive your Ferrari where? Or your Porsche where?"
This year, the company will be releasing Need For Speed: Undercover - a game with a very strong mission structure that Riccitiello compared to The Transporter.
"For those of you who ever saw movies like The Transporter - it's sort of a cult classic among people with a B-movie mentality, which fits me perfectly.
"I liked it. I apologize. For those of you with no taste, and you liked it too, we can go have a Schlitz after this."
He said that the new title is a much richer proposition with a huge, embedded storyline behind it. Thanks to the strong narrative hook, he feels really good about the title.
Riccitiello noted that the Vancouver Need For Speed team had been working for eight consecutive years on a 12 month development cycle.
"Last summer we added head count and split the team in two, so now there are two teams on a 24 month cycle. And this is sort of their first 16 and-a-half month game...Because we didn't do it far enough ago to give us a full two year dev cycle."
Next year's game will be a full two year development cycle, he said.
"We were torturing a very talented group of people up in Vancouver, which makes it harder to be as innovative every year. So, I think we are going to get better from here.
"I'm confident that Undercover is a much better game than Pro Street, and I expect that from this point forward they will do a lot better."
Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/riccitiello-we-were-torturing-vancouver-studio
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Im unsure how to feel about this right now. It could be promising, however at the same time, it could turn out to another Underground ricer style game (god forbid).. But if EA decides to keep alot of what we had with the physics and graphics of Prostreet, with some minor additions and modifications, Undercover could be a reasonable play.
I want cops.
NOOOO it will be a next crap - Undershitleveler not Undercover
I want storyline shaped by the player.
i thought they made these games in the HQ at Redwood City like 20 miles away from where i live. oh well can't wait. i got all NFS games...hopefull it has the same type of gameplay as NFSPU or NFSCarbon or MW
I hope it's going more NFSMW style, I like the of the missions, somewhat like in HP2 (deliveries and quotas n stuff)
Up to PU was evolution. After PU, things went weird. A couple of nice features came out of it (after PU)... And, imo, PS brought back THE nfs that falls along the same lines as PU, and with some nice upgrades... Even though there were no cops or persuit mode...
Would be a shame if they do not try to build what they have with PS (and not talking about a sequel - just the physics, features, and aspects of the game). With that being said, I will probably be reading... However, I am not thinking - "we'll see" - the way I did prior to the release of Carbon and then Pro Street
well it looks as a cool name! and with the info provided it might be a nice add IF the don't screw it up AGAIN...
another thing pops up into mind, HOW IN HELL will they fit "highway battle" into Undercover?
lol tho it will be weird calling is NFS:UC? lol!!! or a UG3? i'm fine with it as long as it's good and not Full of BS ad's, those took serious GPU and CPU power and were crap...
It Needs C-O-P-S! And Being " Undercover" Maybe They Could Make It Like HP2 where You Could Be The Cops Chasing The Fugitives.
The name looks great! I must try it!!!
This has been confirmed. It will be called Undercover.
EA needs to come up with something innovative, otherwise the next NFS will be pretty bad, even if it did return back to the way it was many years ago.
If you ask me, ditch the storyline, as that can take a lot of time to develop scripts for it (and EA was never good at it anyways, at least not for NFS). Instead focus on smaller details, and make something we haven't seen before.
Going for the 2 year cycle is also a good idea (finally!) Having a new half-assed NFS every year gets boring rather quickly. I'm surprised they even managed 8 years.
Ah well, we'll see how it is when it comes out.
The Transporter, huh? That was a great movie.
Today I was thinking of NFS Revenge where one doesn't have the option to restart. But there will be a series of events back to back where we can make up and even dominate later on. It will be great for online play and head to head competition.
i want a teaser trailer! =p
If they do make NFS 12 with police they should make Dodge Charger NARCs.
Why NFS ProStreet is bad? I am sure they work hard for the game and the graphics was REALISTIC. I goto Import Tuning website and I saw a real building and a NFS ProStreet building, looks real!
Yes indeed Prostreet was realistic but!!!
I just couldn't get ride of NFS MW...
I liked the "true" videos ( cuz there was real characters there) even with the blur effect
I want to go to the street and do anything I want... be chased by coops (or the other way around)
Bring back some of the MW PLEASE :(
Lts just wait & see...
I have been to the NFS website http://www.needforspeed.com and have seen confromation that Undercover is the new NFS title
NFS Undercover - cool game!!!
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I think it would be cool if you can turn things on and of like the cops cause it's really cool to be chased by cops but if you just want to drive they are really anoying
LOL thats what they are suppose to be!! (annoying)
They should do a "world" with night & day (controlled by the system clock or chosen by the player) and weather changes more realistic (hail; fog; etc) not just sunny & poor rain.
Just with this set (Time & weather) I would bought the game for sure.
Oh I almost forget... bigger cities ( or in case of only one make it BIG)
We call it NFSU?
does any1 knw if the car mods for most wanted can be done with the ps2 version of the game??
if not can some1 tell me how 2 download the full pc version of the game from my computer??
I hope it has BMW M3 GTR and Mitsubishi IX-MR. Or all cars in ALL NFS series. lol
i wanna be a cop in this game!!!
ea is comprised of a bunch of dumb asses...they need to stop releasing retarded racing games with fucked up story lines.
that is all
i think i speak for every1 when i say the following is expected: night/day transition, cops, free roam, plenty of brand-name cars(as always) and in depth customization, huge city/world, and IMO handling like carbon (or pro street but i never tried it)
hopefully we can cruise around like nfsu2, I like that game, As always they should have a good soundtrack. the only thing it think that pro street missed was a proper cruise around.
it would be cool to have night/day transition, COPS, and free roam and also it will be awsome to be a cop with your own storyline. i hope nfs undercover has some of this things and online racing it will be cool if they had it on the wii and showed the wii graffics potential to the maximum.
I think the movies in nfsmw r ok but they are better than nothing. I think undercover should be very realistic (by not hitting 450km/h on a straight and still having a engine that lasts 4ever) and it should have consequences, like damaging your car(like nfs pro street) but also having 2 order and wait 4 car parts to replace damaged ones in your car.
Even if it is released, i probably wont have enough proccessing power(i only have 1.7ghz that is not enough 4 prostreet but im hoping 2 get a iMac)