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Anonymous
8 years ago

So how is the NFS Universe Connected?

I know plenty of people ask this but how is the entire Universe connected? Luckily Payback connects the main titles I'll be explaining: Most Wanted (2005), Carbon, Prostreet, and The Run (shocker I know). Now let's state the obvious MW and Carbon. Carbon shows the events that led to MW and shows the events that unfold after with Cross quitting the Rockport PD to become a bounty hunter and continuing his chase after RC (Ryan Cooper). During Carbon we see Cooper uncover the truth about the money stolen from the bag in the game's intro cutscene. Long story short RC beats Darius and rides away both with the R8 and a free man. Cross we assume continues being a Bounty Hunter for a time... more on that later. Fast forward to Prostreet where we see RC trying to become a legal racer and champion over all the other racers in the legal leagues to which he has success in, but that didn't last long as in Undercover he quickly went back to his old ways and was arrested (Via Easter egg). From Most Wanted to Payback we can assume RC has been racing for 12 years or so. To Payback we see the name Cooper in the Outlaws Rush in the finale of Payback and shows that has to be RC still kicking it years later (man he has to be old). As for Cross we know he is credited with ending the Blacklist so that had to catch the House hence why he was an officer on the FVPD, but we don't know from how long. We do know that Cross quit (Via courier mission Easter egg) and stated that he will return to Rockport. I also think the House will attempt to stop cross since he has seen the corruption first hand (and great DLC idea). Now to Aki from Prostreet. From what we know he was dethroned as Drift King by RC. This loss from what I'm guessing has to have made Aki and his crew run in illegal drifting for a few years successfully with Aki again becoming DK since they appear in Payback until Mac defeats them (wonders what will happen to them again). From what we know for now is that Rockport, Palmont, and the Prostreet leagues all exist alongside Fortune Valley. Now for The Run, this follows the story of Jack Rouke as he races in a cross country race to win a cash payout to pay a debt back to the Mob. He is aided by an old friend of his who I assume has to also be a Fixer. Now the Mob also know Jack is in the race so they have one of their "families" send a man by the name of Marcus (and looks very similar to the Marcus in Payback might I add) but fails. I know from the end Jack I assume accepts another race with a massive payout which I assume is our same Payback race as it collected top drivers from around the world. If this is correct then was Rouke last year's champ, and does this also mean that the real USA is also a part of the universe? Also could The House be the same Mob that tried to end Jack and upon his failure cut Marcus and his "family" out too? This is only a theory but I'm thinking yes and that it is all connected so much that the possible future DLC content explains better upon this.

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  • goldenONX's avatar
    goldenONX
    5 years ago

    There is 1 BIG problem with that theory. We have totally no evidence (literlly nothing) that RC is the character in mw and carbon. We know he had a past with illegal street racing but that means he could also be the character from ug1 and 2 except from mw and carbon. Heck ya he could even be none of those so he started in pro street.

  • roamingwolf405's avatar
    roamingwolf405
    5 years ago

    Actually, in the race with Aki kimura when Mac is drifting and aki says he is the drift king, mac says “you was beat a few years back though right, Ryan I think?” 

    and he makes some response to that can’t remember even though I literally just beat this mission 😂

  • IEDxNinja's avatar
    IEDxNinja
    10 months ago

    actually youre wrong about ryan cooper. and alot of it. and if you actually think about it when the protagonist in carbon evades the scene at the flashback race and he leaves palmont city with a red bag full of "cash" but it was actually swapped out by darius' guy so howd he get the fund to buy such and expensive race car? its simple he goes to underground(kinda like how the fast and furious tokyo drift was release before the Han was released into the franchise and dom said "han was family" tokyo drift happened after han nd the torretos were introduce. well the same applies here.) and races in olympic city beats the boss goes to underground 2 and beats the boss in that one(never has the main characters name ever was released untill nfs prostreet so whos to say ryan cooper wasnt the guy in nfs u1 and nfs u2 and mw and carbon) sells everything and then goes to mw(not sure how that actually all started and how the main character actually knows of mia that well never know) with the bmw then flees there and goes to back palmont walks away from the illegal racing after being the boss of all territories and goes to prostreet and beats all the bosses then goes to undercover and gets arrested then reappears sometime later in the story from others point of view as a legend based name while razor is in jail. the bmw got taken by darius and sold to someone thru black market and then Frank stole and put it in the shipping container and the crew of heat found out it was a hot car and abandoned it but how it got to rockport from Palm city is a mystery that wasnt shown but i heard someone from payback bought a car off a guy from carbon but if that fake or true theres no evidence stating its true or fake. and razor then gets outta jail(all thought it doesnt actually like razor did) and requests the bmw specofically. its not a coincidence that someone calls and says they want you to go steal it and deliever to them. im not sure if that nfs shift 1 and 2 are connected i think those were just their attempt at simulator style racing and didnt succeed but nfs the might or might not be connect. but reading all this stuff makes me want to go back and play them all one by one lol but being as im a father of a 7 month old daughter and work 2 jobs i really dont the time to go and play all these videogames

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