EA’s brand-new Need for Speed leakages, looks full-on anime

05.10.2022

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An anime-style male racer wearing a blue jacket and beanie stands in front of a heavily decorated car in a screenshot from Need for Speed Unbound

The following Need for Speed will certainly lean hard right into an anime visual, if the displays from an overseas product listing are any type of indicator.

On Wednesday, members of the Need for Speed subreddit spotted the dripped listing for Need For Speed Unbound by means of Japanese merchant Neowing. The listing states the brand-new game will certainly introduce in December. Electronic Arts has an announcement coming Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT, when it will certainly expose a lot more regarding the following game.

The Neowing website consisted of 5 screenshots, watermarked NFS Unbound, revealing a range of tuned-up automobiles, offered reasonably, however with cel-shaded, anime-style motorists and also various other NPCs in the structure. In one display, a road racer tosses hand-drawn, star-shaped triggers and also its tires leave a two-dimensional smoke route as it takes an edge.

According to a machine-translated item summary of Need for Speed Unbound, the game will certainly include songs (and also an in-game look) from rap artist A$AP Rocky, with a soundtrack generated by Brodinski, a French author and also DJ.

A cartoonish version of rapper A$AP Rocky leans on a customized street car, with A$AP and AWGE branded stickers, on a slick city street. — Rapper A$AP Rocky will evidently show up in NFS Unbound

“Bringing graffiti to life in a completely new visual style, merging the latest street art with the most realistic cars in Need for Speed history,” the summary states, clarifying the unconventional aesthetic design.

“Go to meetups and show off your style with many items, including limited edition gear, from the world’s latest fashion,” the listing includes. “Then add the finishing touches to your car’s style, transforming it with unique wraps and cut-out items to match your legendary custom car, and take the lead in races and put your winning pose above the competition.”

Neowing’s web page listings just PlayStation 5 for Need for Speed Unbound, which recommends the game may be a new-generation launch just. Every mainline Need For Speed game, returning to the collection’ start in 1994, has actually introduced on Windows COMPUTER, as well. Polygon on Tuesday connected to an Electronic Arts agent for even more information on the following Need for Speed, however the author decreased to comment, apart from stating the countdown to Thursday’s expose.

The dripped displays validate that the game is created by Criterion Games (which includes Codemasters Cheshire, which EA acquired in 2021). Criterion’s most current Need for Speed initially targeted a 2021 launch, up until EA designated Criterion to support EA DICE with last November’s Battlefield 2042.

A promotional screenshot for Need For Speed Unbound shows a street racer against a blurred background, with hand-drawn star shapes over its spinning wheels — This photo from a Japanese merchant’s very early item listing reveals the combining of sensible automobiles’ discussion with anime-style highlights and also highlights in ‘Need For Speed Unbound’

Still, up until Tuesday’s intro tweet, EA made no statement regarding the following Need for Speed title apart from informing financiers one was coming over completion of 2022.

The Need for Speed franchise business was sent back to Criterion Games after 2019’s Need for Speed: Heat, the last of 3 titles created by the now-dissolved Ghost Games. None of the 3 created the type of essential or business function that Criterion’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (in 2010) or 2012’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted provided.

Over the previous one decade, Criterion Games has actually generally been recognized for sustaining DICE on Battlefield 5, Battlefield 2042 and also Star Wars Battlefront 2. Its newest auto racing titles were the 2018 remaster of the open-world standard Burnout Paradise, and also a 2020 remaster of Hot Pursuit.