I’m a regular poster on the Neogaf forums and a few days ago, I posted in the ‘E3 predictions’ thread on Neogaf.
My post referenced to hopes of seeing Underground 3 announced at E3 this year.
The post right after mine was made by a poster named Ghost_Ben with a .gif which to my eyes says “I can’t wait”…
Now, Ghost_Ben…Ghost Games…?
Sure, so I clicked onto his profile and this post was his first ever on Neogaf. I decided to click on his Twitter homepage link and sure enough, Ghost_Ben is indeed the community manager for Ghost Games and EA who specifically looks after Need For Speed.
Anyway, here’s the link to the thread and Twitter page:
Even if it’s real it’s going to be another cash grab. People thought the new Most Wanted would be an amazing game because it was called Most Wanted, in reality it wasn’t anywhere near as good as the original Most Wanted.
Whilst I think it will be an Underground game, I’m not sure it would be any good.
The originals were brilliant and the original Most Wanted was pretty good too but the games since have become more about drifting Veyrons around tight bends at 250mph using nitrous whilst ramming a Veyron police car off the road and avoiding a spike strip rather than for enthusiasts to modify and tune their cars before racing them and exploring the map.
If they do another Underground game it will just be Veyrons and Aventadors with wide body kits, lots of nitrous and ridiculous police cars based on a poor game engine with no feel or skill. This won’t cut it in a genre with the quality of Horizon 2 and quantity of The Crew.
I might be cynical but I’ll believe a good new NFS game when I play one.
I agree, the developpers should go back, see the elements that made Carbon, Underground and Most Wanted so great, and re-assemble all of it, it would be awesome.
Carbon was the last good “Classic” Need For Speed. The story was pretty good and it ended the Most Wanted cannon. It also introduced muscle cars which was really cool. NFS Shift 2 however is my favorite ever Need For Speed. The game was not a “classic” by any means though. There was no story, it was all track racing and the wild customization wasn’t there like it was in previous games. That being said the rim selection was off the charts, works conversions were awesome, the Speedhunters partnership was great, it had a lot of variety in cars especially after DLC and between the Legends Collection and the game it has the best track list of any console game I have played to date!
One I enjoyed was HP 2010, good design and hardly any bugs imo. Did only a few things game-play wise but it did them very good, better than rivals in some ways, spent hours playing it and even to this day MP lobbies are being filled
Yes! The only NFS games between 2005 and now that are actually pretty good are Most Wanted (the original) and ProStreet, i could ABSOLUTELY go for an Underground 3! I mean, Shift was okay, Hot Pursuit 2010 was okay, Most Wanted 2012 was okay, but Underground 3 is definitely up there for anticipation.
As long as it’s not like NFS World, that digital free-to-play was [insert profanity here], if you wanted a blue screen that was the way to do it!
By looking at the teaser trailer, looks like Need for Speed is really coming back to it’s origins. Whether you look at the modified cars (classic Need for Speed-like), or again night time as well as cops, map, I am very optimist that Underground 3 (who said it was that game anyways), is going to be, awesome… enough to forget Forza for a while.
Didn’t the developpers say it is a project they have been working on for a while?
I agree, I think this game is really going to need a demo. Yes, modified Veyrons and Aventadors were half of the problem but the other half was the poor physics and handling, maps and general gameplay.
I admit the trailer looks good but a demo would better show me if the developers really have ‘learned their lessons’ as they like to keep saying.
