Under the Hood: Turning up the Heat

Some should just stop asking for another Carbon, Most Wanted or Underground. I know this will irritate some people but theses games made their time. Nothing will guarantee a remastered version will work nowadays. Specially from how old they are and that Carbon already had it’s remaster on PS3. We all had fun playing at these, cherished it during our childhood but NFS is far more than that and needs to go beyond these 3 games. Break with traditions. They came at a period where car culture was at it’s peek and revolutionised the genre by taking a huge risk: they made something that was not even a thing at the time (Underground). They didn’t try to add things people conceived as cool like they do today to please a community, charts, journalists, reviewers and all that stuff. No! They invested a lot of effort and passion into making what they believed was cool, make their vision of Need For Speed and hoped people would like it. Sure, these games were far from being perfect but it had so many things to reinvent how you’d conceive driving that it felt whole. I can still today remember myself driving in the streets winning a high speed race and go to another event where I could blow up my engine if revved too high in drags or slip like no real car could and risking to loose everything at a small mistake during drift evens. All that in my poopy taste green with yellow neons car. Yes, I had bad tastes as a child. But it felt good, challenging and rewarding. Specially with the unique aspect of the car you grew attach on. Would I too be happy to see it back? Yes, with today’s technology, I would also expect more for a better longevity of the game tho. I also miss too those times on Carbon, Most Wanted and even before that with Hot Pursuit 2 on ps2 and their blazing fast pursuits where I would count the cops out and those still alive, trying to avoid a helicopter that would drop literally anything it could to knock me on the side, up to even the driver (joking). But they need to start making their vision of NFS again and not what people expect to see. So forget the remaster idea, stop asking for a sequel to Most Wanted, Carbon, Underground,... And let’s hope to see one day, in a NFS game all the core components balanced out together in a single game that doesn’t feel empty even after finishing it 😉. 

Ps: I’m not saying to hold off great ideas. Only sit back and think about it first.