In the very first news about the game they said the game will be single player and multiplayer.
Single player will not need an online connection to play it.
I doubt that, the last good NFS game that had a decent split screen session was Need For speed HP2 from 2002. Yeah i know MW 2005 and Carbon had some sort of split screen racing, but that was on closed part of the map, you couldent free roaming like you can in most online sessions today. It would be much work if they should made the singleplayer with a sort of split screen-co-op, plus the game are just a few months from beeing realased. Most gaming companies today dont care about split screen, it actually surprise me that so many of you young kids today care about that. Because that is what i grewed up with in the 90s when i was a little boy, compared when you and your friends grew up when internet was getting much better.
