Need for speed (series)

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• Resetting a vehicle during a pursuit will automatically bust the player (unless the police units are very far away).
• The Speedbreaker is one of the most useful tools for players to use within pursuits as it allows them to make quick changes in direction and scout roadblocks.
• Police vehicles are instantly destroyed after a flipover, although sometimes it is not the case if one happens to be flipped by another police unit or by a traffic vehicle.
• In Need for Speed: Carbon, players get a small time setback in Cooldown mode if they are located near a police vehicle.
• The choice of vehicle should be taken into consideration when engaging in police pursuits; Heavy vehicles are useful for ramming through roadblocks but may be inferior in their handling capabilities. Sports cars are useful for swerving out of the way of SUV units as well as quick getaways due to their nimbleness and speed but are not suited for ramming through roadblocks or oncoming SUVs.
• Cross will always stay near the player once he has appeared in a pursuit but he will not bust the player if they have stopped their vehicle. He will instead stay a short distance away from the player’s vehicle.
• Large trucks carrying loose cargo can be rammed to cause their loads to fall onto the road in Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Police vehicles will instantly stop or be destroyed in Need for Speed: Carbon.
• Police vehicles in front of the player will likely be preparing for a rolling roadblock.
• In exclusive high heat level pursuits, the dispatch announces the heat condition as 5, despite the heat level being higher than 5.
• It is easier for players to ram through roadblocks if they collide with the rear of police vehicles as the front is heavier.
• Cop vehicles can not be affected by spike strips. The same is true for traffic vehicles.
• The police in Most Wanted, Carbon, and the PlayStation 2/Nintendo Wii releases of Undercover use the same police siren sounds. The PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 releases of Undercover as well as World also share different sirens to the previous titles.

Supercharged

The Supercharged Rhino Unit is a high speed police SUV. These units appear at Heat Level 6 alongside Chevrolet Corvette Federal Undercover Cruisers in Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Carbon.

They appear in a special Black Edition Challenge in Need for Speed: Most Wanted as the only vehicles at Heat Level 7. They appear in a few special Need for Speed: Carbon Challenges at Heat Level seven and eight alongside Undercover Federal Cruisers.

They are utilised as roadblocks. They will attempt to stop the player by ramming head on into them at high speed, ramming them off the road and boxing them in. They are capable of keeping up with players at very high speeds. Supercharged Rhino Units are worth $25,000.

Gameplay

Need for Speed: World is set within the fictional Tri-City. The location is a mixture of Rockport from Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Palmont City from Need for Speed: Carbon.

Players progress through the game by participating in race events and engaging in police pursuits. Player’s progress is measured by their current Driver Level with a cap upon reaching level 60.

Players are offered a Lucky Draw Card Pack after completing an event or finishing a police pursuit.

Free Roam

Players are allowed to drive around both Palmont City and Rockport within free roam. Players can see other players driving around in free roam but are unable to collide with them in any manner.

were removed from free roam on November 16th, 2011 resulting in players no longer being able to initiate pursuits by ramming police vehicles. Police chases are only possible by joining Pursuit Outrun events.

Event Types

Need for Speed: World features a variety of gamemodes:

• Drag — Multiplayer Only
• Circuit
• Meeting Place
• Pursuit Outrun — Singleplayer Only
• Sprint
• Team Escape — Multiplayer Only

Trivia

• «The Need for Speed» is a quote by Peter «Maverick» Mitchell in Top Gun, a 1986 action drama film directed by Tony Scott about United States Naval Officers training at the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School. It stars Tom Cruise as Peter «Maverick» Mitchell, and Anthony Edwards as Nick «Goose» Bradshaw, whom share a line of dialogue prior to a training exercise; «I feel the need… the need for speed!»
• The Black Edition of Need for Speed: Most Wanted was released to mark the series’ 10th anniversary.
• Need for Speed: Heat marks the series’ 25th anniversary.
• Early entries in the V-Rally series are often mistaken for being part of the Need for Speed series. They were published by Infogrames, and developed by one of its teams which would later become Eden Games. However, Electronic Arts bought the publishing rights to the series for North America and associated it with their Need for Speed brand to make up for the lacking interest for rallying at the time within the United States:
  • V-Rally, published in Europe by Infogrames for the PlayStation in July 1997 as V-Rally: Championship Edition, was published in North America by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation on November 4, 1997 as Need for Speed: V-Rally.
  • V-Rally 2, published in Europe by Infogrames for the PlayStation on June 30, 1999 as V-Rally Championship Edition 2, was published in North America by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation on November 16, 1999 as Need for Speed: V-Rally 2, and later published in North America by Infogrames for the Dreamcast on October 18, 2000 as Test Drive V-Rally.

Trivia

• Traffic models from the game were reimported from Criterion Games’ .
• The slowest tier of cars began with Tier 1 in Need for Speed: Carbon, but this is reversed in Need for Speed: Undercover.
• There is a mission titled «Transporter» in which the player has to deliver a package whilst driving an Audi S5. The title is a reference to the 2005 movie — Transporter 2.
• Need for Speed: Undercover is dedicated to the memories of Inderjeet «indy» Johal and Martin Sikes. Sikes was the co-founder of Black Box Games and Johal was an engineering director involved with Black Box for several years.
• Undercover was the last Need for Speed title until Need for Speed: The Run to be heavily involved with a plot and characters.
• Undercover is the last Need for Speed title to use the fictional Police Civic Cruisers first seen in Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
• Undercover is the last Need for Speed title to be released for the PlayStation 2.

Special Releases

Special Editions (Boxed)

Some entries in the Need for Speed series were sold through retail as boxed products with a unique edition alongside its regular boxed counterpart or re-released as a boxed unique special edition that included additional content.

Special Editions (Downloadable)

Some entries in the Need for Speed series were sold with downloadable content available through online stores that would include additional content for a regular edition of a game.

Unique Localisations

Many games in the Need for Speed series are localised for multiple languages, but some unique localisations are re-releases that include altered content for promotional purposes in the region, are released only for a specific region, or have been edited into a region specific product.

Arcade Cabinets

Multiple games in the Need for Speed series have been adapted into coin operated arcade cabinets by Global VR.

Virtual Reality

Some games in the Need for Speed series have been re-released for platform specific virtual reality hardware.

Compilations

Various games in the Need for Speed series have been bundled together and re-released as a single bundled product for specific regions and platforms.

Promotional

Need for Speed: Top Speed was released on October 1, 2002 as part of America Online’s online-only AOL Games’ First Play programming initiative. It was used to promote both MacGillivray Freeman’s 2002 IMAX film; , and the all-new Porsche Cayenne Turbo.

Vehicles

Main article: Need for Speed: The Run/Cars

Vehicles in Need for Speed: The Run are divided into performance tiers and fitted with visual modifications. These pre-tuned vehicles are branded as special edition vehicles, namely Signature Edition and NFS Edition vehicles. Compared to their stock counterparts, they are performance tuned and often ranked in higher tiers.

The handling of each car is also given either an Easy, Normal, Challenging, Very Difficult or Expert difficulty rating. Some vehicles are restricted to The Run mode. In this mode and during a race event, players can also swap their vehicle in gas stations, which are placed in certain locations.

A Team Need for Speed BMW Z4 GT3 can be unlocked in the game so long as the player has played Shift 2 Unleashed, Hot Pursuit (2010), World or Undercover.

Customisation

Need for Speed: The Run’s producer — Alex Grimbley denied that Need for Speed: The Run would feature any form of vehicle customisation.
This statement was retracted after some trailers and screenshots of the game featured visually modified vehicles.

A Gamespot trailer released on November 2nd, 2011 features official confirmation that body kits and selectable body paints can be placed on vehicles.

In Need for Speed: The Run, players can equip body kits on to their vehicles and also paint the vehicles. There are cosmetic body kits known as Style Pack kits and Aero Pack kits. Visual customisation can be performed in gas stations and in the View Cars mode.

Equipment

Road Block

The time required to co-ordinate and set up a blockade will be a factor in how the FVPD is able to manipulate or deter the escape options for a suspect.

Spike Strip

They are laid out with the intention of appearing like an escape route for a suspect to lure them across the laid out strip and deflate their tyres. The tyres of any vehicle running over a spike strip will be shredded, allowing FVPD units to pin that vehicle more easily.

FVPD units are fitted with run-flat tyres that are designed to remain rigid in the same manner as an inflated tyre after being punctured.

Killswitch

A lock on will take time to achieve after a suspect has been targeted, but this can be interrupted or evaded by ramming the unit using the killswitch.

A suspect vehicle that has been hit with a killswitch will have its engine deactivated for a short period of time before its ignition is restored and its engine can start again.

Игровой процесс Need of Speed

Игры серии обладают похожей механикой и базируются на схожих принципах, которые могут незначительно изменяться в зависимости от направленности конкретной игры. Так или иначе, большинство особенностей были заданы еще в 1995 году, в дальнейшем разработчики принялись доводить до идеала уже реализованные идеи, одновременно с этим постепенно внедряя новый контент.

Самый интересный пример — модель управления. В некоторых играх геймеру придется прилагать немало усилий, чтобы остаться на трассе, тогда как в других игра серии все намного проще. Другое заметное отличие — физические повреждения, так как в отдельных играх машины неуязвимы, тогда как в других могут повреждать внешние элементы, например, бамперы. Главной задачей игрока является участие в гонках и заездах. В карьерном и турнирном режимах геймер стартует с довольно простым авто, а чтобы разблокировать действительно мощные модели, придется выигрывать все доступные гонки. Во всех играх серии был реализован неплохой мультиплеер. Играть можно было как по интернету, локальной сети и разделенному экрану.

Тюнинг также прошел немало изменений. В первых частях он, в основном, затрагивал внутренние части автомобиля, внешний изменять было нельзя. Главным образом затрагивались такие части как АБС, контроль тяги и другие опции, позволяющие подстроить управление под себя. Начиная с Underground 2, геймеры получили намного больше инструментов по кастомизации внешнего вида своего авто. Кроме того, появилась система оценки «красоты» машины по десятибалльной шкале. Высокая оценка жизненно необходима для того чтобы игроком заинтересовались вымышленные журналы и предложили небольшую фотосессию, что позволит продвинуться в сюжетной линии и получить доступ к новым трассам, автомобилям и возможностям.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Bio

If it weren’t for Razor, Toru would still be hangin’ around at the docks dreamin’ of the Blacklist. This fool thinks he’s got a sleeper, calls it reverse psychology. The only thing stock on his ride is the paint. Toru likes to keep his car mint so give him a bump when you can.

Events

Players will receive 180,000 bounty upon completing a pursuit milestone and 114,000 bounty for each speed camera. It is necessary to achieve eight race wins and accumulate a higher bounty than Bull to challenge him.

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

Stock

References

Differences

• The Van in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit appears to resemble the 1994 to 2006 Fiat Ducato. In the PC release, it appears in white, while in the PlayStation release, it appears in yellow.
• It is depicted to be based on the Toyota Hiace in Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed. The Van is seen in purple only.
• A 2000 to 2006 Ford Transit resembling variant of the Van can be spotted in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2.
• In Need for Speed: Underground and Need for Speed: Underground 2, the Van bears a strong resemblance to the 2003 to 2008 Ford Econoline. It also has six different liveries in game files, but only one of them is used in both games.
• The Van in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is based on the 1978 to 1991 Ford Econoline and only appears with a grey body colour. The same model appears in the PlayStation 2 and Wii releases of Need for Speed: Undercover and Need for Speed: World.
• The Van that is featured in the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 releases of Need for Speed: Undercover is based on the Van featured in Burnout Paradise.

Gameplay

The title moves away from the simulation based mechanics seen in Need for Speed: ProStreet. A new handling physics engine was introduced in the game known as the ‘Heroic Driving Engine’. Vehicles in Undercover can directly turn 180° whilst performing hand brake turns.

Free Roam

Undercover takes place in the fictional Tri-City Bay Area. It is divided into four major districts; Gold Coast Mountains, Palm Harbor, Port Crescent and Sunset Hills. The game only takes place during the day. The city is connected by long highways that follow the perimeter of the city.

Single Player

• Checkpoint — Players must finish the race within a given time.
• Cop Takeout — Immobilise police vehicles within a pursuit.
• Cost to State — Achieve a target cost to state during a police pursuit.
• Circuit — Up to eight players complete the specified number of laps along a closed track.
• Escape — Escape a police pursuit within a given amount of time.
• Highway Battle — Players have to battle against their rival as well as congested traffic and cops in outrun events along the highways of the Tri-City Bay.
• Job — Career mission, race or battle.
• Outrun — Players have to stay ahead of their rivals for a certain amount of time.
• Sprint — Up to eight players compete to be the first across the finish line in a closed A to B event.

Multiplayer

• Cops and Robbers — Two teams of up to four Cops and Racers must attempt to deliver a series of money flags.
• Sprint — Up to eight players compete to be the first across the finish line in a closed A to B event.
• Highway Battle — Players have to battle against their rival as well as congested traffic.

Nintendo DS

• Criminal Scramble — Players participate as the cops and chase down racers. (Nintendo DS)
• All-Points — Players participate as the cops and chase down street gang bosses. (Nintendo DS)

PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable & Wii

• Sprint — Up to four players compete to be the first across the finish line in a closed A to B event.
• Circuit — Up to four players complete the specified number of laps along a closed track.
• Driver Job — Career mission, race or battle.
• Chase Down — Players have to bust criminals and chase down their rivals at the same time. (PSP, PS2 & Wii)
• Lap Knockout — The last racer to finish a lap is eliminated until a single racer remains. (PS2 & Wii)
• Tollbooth — Players must complete a checkpoint route within a set amount of time. (PS2 & Wii)
• Timed Circuit — The racer in first place when the timer runs out is the winner. (PS2 & Wii)
• Highway Battle — Players have to battle against their rival as well as congested traffic.

Sixth Generation

• Cops & Robbers — Two teams of up to two Cops and Racers must attempt to deliver a series of money flags. (Wii)
• Getaway — Two teams of one player as a Cop and one player as a Racer. The Racer must escape from the Cop. (PS2 & Wii)
• Heist — Players must collect cash and take it to the safe house. (Wii)

Driver Profile

The Driver Profile keeps a running tally of how many events a player has participated in, won and lost as well as their average finishing position in both. Players can find details of their Driver Profile in the Safehouse section of the game.

Reputation

Reputation — also known as Rep — is the amount of experience a player has earned in Need for Speed: World.

The amount of reputation a player has is indicated by a large blue bar along the top of their screen. A player will increase their Driver Level by earning a certain amount of reputation.

Players can earn reputation by completing Circuit, Drag, Sprint, Pursuit Outrun, Team Escape and Treasure Hunt events. The amount of reputation a player earns differs depending on the specifics of each event type.

Circuit, Sprint & Drag — Players earn more reputation by; completing the race in a high finishing position and successful use of power-ups.

Pursuit Outrun — Players earn more reputation based upon; the total amount of disabled police vehicles, cost to state, pursuit length and infractions when they evade. Players will only earn a small amount of bounty if they’re busted.

Team Escape — Players earn more reputation depending on how many players cross the finish line and how many team power-ups are used. Players will earn the maximum amount of reputation if all four players cross the finish line.

Treasure Hunt — Players earn reputation by collecting all 15 gems that have been hidden at specific locations shown on the minimap.

References

Trailers

Need for Speed The Chase
Pitch Trailer

Sponsor

Trivia

• The player always logs in the rap sheet with Cross’ account.
• The database oddly shows that the number of police vehicles immobilised by Razor and Taz in a single pursuit is higher than their highest number of police vehicles involved.
• The number of times the player has been busted during the final plot-related pursuit of the game is still counted, even though the pursuit automatically restarts if the player is busted. The best way to prevent this is to manually restart or quit the pursuit if the player is about to be caught.

Light

The Light Rhino Unit is the smallest police SUV. It has no bull bars across its front grille, it has the lowest suspension, different road tyres and standard police rims. These units appear at Heat Level 3 alongside Pontiac GTO State Cruisers in Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: World.

They are utilised as roadblocks and will attempt to stop the player by ramming head on into them. Light Rhino Units are worth $10,000.

The Light Rhino units are the easiest to disable as they are lighter by comparison to the other Rhino units, are unable to change direction quickly and easily flip over when hit with sufficient speed.