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Frant
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| Quote: | Need for Speed: Shift will launch on PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP this autumn - as will Need for Speed: Nitro on Wii and DS. Need for Speed: World Online will be released to the Asian online PC market this summer, before heading West in the winter.
Need for Speed: Shift will be made by Slightly Mad Studios of GT Legends and GTR 2 fame, with help from EA Black Box producer Michael Mann and EA Games Europe bigwig Patrick Soderlund.
Shift focuses on simulation racing - not just the realistic movement of cars, but also driver behaviour. This, EA marketing boss Keith Munro told Eurogamer, is what will set the game apart. Also, less baggy jeans and hip-hop.
"The urban underground was a manifestation of style in some past Need for Speed games for sure, but Shift focuses less on these style cues and more on mirroring the driver experience, that athleticism of being in a wickedly-intense race, and what it really feels like to be behind the wheel," Munro told us.
A flashy 3D HUD that mimics driver head movement, inertia and G-force will help achieve this. There's a cockpit view that lets players freely look around using the right thumbstick, too.
Munro reckons serious car enthusiasts will "love" Shift, and that mainstream racers will also get on board. He's quite excited.
"Need for Speed Shift is amazing and I think it will blow people away," said Munro. "The tech behind that game, the details that only a team with such racing pedigree could accomplish, and the ability to make you feel the intensity of a race is unprecedented. I can't wait for our fans to begin experiencing it!"
And, he added: "Regarding any new Need for Speed girls I can't comment, but I'll definitely mark down one enthusiastic vote for Josie Maran." Steady on. |
Seems they didn't kill off the franchise after all. They did sack the Black Box team, but at least one of them is now working with Slightly Mad Studios. Very surprised when I read this though.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/revamped-nfs-series-launches-this-year
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 14:24 Post subject: |
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Slightly Mad Studios, Simulation, 3D HUD, Need for Speed, Josie Maran, this autumn? 
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 14:47 Post subject: |
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Every NFS announcement = people excited and then one year later, people disappointed after leeching the game.... I bet it's gonna be the same for this one...
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 14:55 Post subject: |
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they're inching the series closer towards need for speed: shit
then no one's gonna be disappointed no more.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:12 Post subject: |
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I dunno. Calling the game 'Shift' is like an invitation for easy insults, so they must be confident that the game will prove otherwise.
What I want is another GRID. >____>
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:27 Post subject: |
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Shift can stand for "the shift from shit to good."
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:29 Post subject: |
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this is perfect, I have faith in the need for speed series again! 
I wonder if it will be free-roaming or circuit racing....or both!
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:31 Post subject: |
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Great news in my opinion! That development team sure know what they´re doing in car simulation.
PGR 4 is a good example of how an arcade car racer that also tries to make you feel like the real thing should be.
And I´m more of a circuit racing than free-roaming.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:34 Post subject: |
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woot check out first screenshot! 
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:35 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:35 Post subject: |
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Same here, prefer circuit (or p2p) racing, not open city or world. I did like MW and TDU, but I prefect closed tracks.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:37 Post subject: |
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If NFS Shift is really developed by the makers of GTR2 and GT Legends, then I guess it could become a really good game. But then again EA could force them to make it shitty.
Also i thought those games were made by Simbin. Iv'e never heared of Slightly Mad Studios.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:38 Post subject: |
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Yay, that actually looks a lot like GRiD.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:38 Post subject: |
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Wow, this actually sounds great.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:39 Post subject: |
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AHAHAHA this looks like Grid with NFS slapped on it... But the cockpit looks <3.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:40 Post subject: |
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doesn't look that bad.. could be just an illusion though. who knows what sort of hideous textures hide behind all that blur?
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:40 Post subject: |
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| greenblood82 wrote: | If NFS Shift is really developed by the makers of GTR2 and GT Legends, then I guess it could become a really good game. But then again EA could force them to make it shitty.
Also i thought those games were made by Simbin. Iv'e never heared of Slightly Mad Studios. |
It was made by 10tacle studios, and that is the team behind Slightly Mad Studios at present.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:50 Post subject: |
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blimey created gt legends an simbin created GTR2, if Im right...
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 15:55 Post subject: |
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That isn't a Grid replacement either, because there will be Grid 2.
They say "call it Grid 2" symbolically to emphasize how similar the two games look. Did you really need me to say this sentence? 
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 16:51 Post subject: |
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Hehehe... This is fucking stupid.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 17:11 Post subject: |
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Hmmm ?
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The new games, expected to be released later this year, are "Need for Speed Shift," a first-person racing simulation for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; "Need for Speed World Online," a multiplayer action-driving game for the PC; and "Need for Speed Nitro," an arcade-style racing game developed by EA Montreal for the Nintendo Wii and DS. |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 17:15 Post subject: |
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Screenshots look alright, but with NFS games of late, there was no problem with the graphics. All down to the gameplay. If it truly is a reboot, then I imagine this will be its last chance. If they still manage to mess up when given free-reign to get away from the street-racing modding scene, then... byebye NFS.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Jan 2009 17:15 Post subject: |
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In other words, EA fired their in-house developers (200 from Black Box was sacked) and bought Project Ferrari and renamed it? Now that's the EA I know.
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