Criterion developing another Need For Speed
Criterion Games is developing another Need For Speed game, a job advertisement for the developer has revealed.
According to the job listing, the studio is “looking for talented Cinematic Artists to work on the world’s number one, multi award winning, arcade racing franchise.”
So why do we think that’s Need For Speed?
Well, earlier in the same description the job ad refers to Need For Speed as being “the bestselling racing brand in the gaming world” that has “won a ton of awards”. It doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together.
According to the listing, players should expect “entertaining, compelling in-game cinematic action sequences” from the racer, as well as “intense car action sequences, terrifying jumps, insane crashes and epic car chases”.
Criterion first got involved with the Need For Speed franchise with last year’s critically-acclaimed Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. The superb open-world racer went on to win a BAFTA and become the highest rated game in Need For Speed’s history.
But this isn’t the first time it’s been suggested that Criterion could be working on a sequel to Hot Pursuit.
Earlier in the year another job ad revealed that Criterion was developing a game with “believable, open world AI Racing Drivers”.
Could a sequel to Hot Pursuit be on the cards for 2012?
This year’s Need For Speed, Need For Speed: The Run, was developed by EA Black Box. The game launches in the UK tomorrow.
To be honest i was hoping that Criterion Games would have been in development of their own game i.e Paradise 2 as that game was way better than most NFS games (apart from the underground series). Unless the need for speed games involve some form of free roam with customizeable cars then there never will be another good need for speed as the underground series or Hot Pursuit
EA please stop hiring Criterion Games to make your sh*t games, get some other crappy company like Black Box to do so
You have to be kidding me, Criterion come out with one of the greatest classic NFS games of all time and you say EA should dump them?! Pull your head out the sand mate, Criterion developing good, classic NFS titles are what the masses have been screaming for for years. I’m an avid sim racer, but I’m not a one-eyed fanboy. I play GTR2, Gran Turismo, Forza, Need For Speed, iRacing and many other titles. Criterion are an A-grade developer and thoroughly deserve to lift the franchise out of the ever-sinking quagmire that EA has buried the series in. Let Black Box have the dodgy Fast & Furious end of the stick, Hot Pursuit is where the real racing is at… and don’t anyone mention Shift, or I’ll shoot ya!