Need for Speed Unbound is again with a second 12 months of reside service.
Developer Criterion issued a 12 months two roadmap blog post, saying: “Surprise! We’re nonetheless right here, and never simply right here — we’ve got a complete 12 months’s price of content material coming to you!”
One other 12 months of content material is deliberate from a small crew, Criterion confirmed, though it warned gamers: “We’ll be trustworthy and admit we will’t construct all the pieces everybody needs proper now, however we will resolve collectively what NFS needs to be sooner or later.”
“Our imaginative and prescient is that via our second 12 months of reside service, you may, for the primary time, start to play the final word NFS expertise in a single place,” Criterion mentioned. “Your suggestions and gameplay will assist form the long run of this iconic franchise.”
Followers can count on 4 new volumes of content material within the subsequent 12 months, every launching each few months. No less than one new main mode, two new vehicles, and a brand new Speed Go (with non-compulsory premium monitor) arrive as half of every quantity. “And once we say vehicles, we imply vehicles within the NFS sense, like nobody else creates,” Criterion teased. “We aren’t simply speaking base fashions right here and inventory paint there; we’re speaking vehicles that include totally customizable physique kits with a myriad of interchangeable elements so you may tweak your experience simply the way in which you need it.”
Extra occasions, challenges, ranks to earn, and new development are additionally half of the plan, as are bug fixes and enhancements. “We see this as a 12 months to check and study and perceive what works greatest for you,” Criterion added.
Need for Speed Unbound launched late 2022, receiving a 7/10 from IGN’s overview. “Need for Speed Unbound hasn’t strayed very removed from the basics of 2019’s Warmth, however its daring new animated model impresses,” we mentioned.
EA has remained quiet on the long run of the collection since, and is but to announce a model new Need for Speed sport for the long run.
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