The return of the Easydrive system that was seen in Burnout Paradise facilitates this too. Rather than having a fairly regimented progression system that unlocks all the cars you need, like in nearly every other racing game (including previous Need for Speed titles), if you can find a car in the world, you can ‘jack’ it, and it’s then yours to drive. This freedom has expanded into the roster of vehicles as well. As well as being free before an event to go where you wish, once you finish you can immediately go off to chase other people and take them down or cause nuisance and annoyance. For starters, Paradise was an open-world driving game, but with set boundaries (events ended and you were just frozen there whilst other competitors finished, for example).
However, it’s not simply just Burnout Paradise with licensed cars it’s much more than that. The influence and experience of the former has permeated through the very fibre of the latter. Set in the city of Fairhaven, there’s a lot of similarities between Burnout Paradise and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It’s early days, but it has to be said, they’ve made the right decision. Now, with Need for Speed: Most Wanted, they’re rebooting another popular iteration.
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With the release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Criterion Games managed to make the transition from the incredibly popular Burnout series to Need for Speed with ease. Although we’ve had great games like Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, Need for Speed: Underground and Need for Speed: Shift, we’ve also had several average, or even poor, titles, such as Need for Speed: The Run and Need for Speed: Undercover.
The Need for Speed series has had a long, and varied, history.