"Need for Speed World is the world's first MMO racer - a completely new entertainment experience for speed junkies all over the world," producer John Doyle boasted in today's announcement, apparently overlooking EA's long-defunct Motor City Online-originally a Need for Speed title-and Invictus' free-to-play online racer Project Torque. Those interested can sign up for a shot at participating over at. Prior to the game's public launch, the studio is conducting an ever-expanding closed beta, with the English portion kicking off today. Check back soon for a full hands-on preview.Black Box's free-to-play massively multiplayer racer Need for Speed Online (PC) is now slated to make its public launch in summer 2010, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. Need for Speed World is due out this summer for PC. With fourteen distinct entries in the long-running franchise, they’ve got plenty of varied settings to choose from. De Vellis assured me that its developers, EA Black Box and EA Singapore, will continually expand the game post-launch, periodically bolting on additional fan-favorite locales from other Need for Speed titles. And when the game launches this summer, EA expects tens of thousands of players to be driving around at once inside it.īut NFS World will grow still larger. The regions are connected as one seamless entity you can race from one end to the other without any loading screens. The game world in NFS World is an amalgam of new areas and of cities from the Need for Speed franchise’s greatest hits: the beta I saw included such places as Palmont (from 2006’s Need for Speed: Carbon) and Rockport ( Need for Speed: Most Wanted, 2005).
EA showed off a closed beta version of the game at a recent press event in New York City, and when I asked producer Marc De Vellis about the game’s main draw, he proudly proclaimed, “It’s the biggest Need for Speed arena ever.” Need for Speed World, an upcoming PC-exclusive racing MMO, is no different. Massively multiplayer online games aren’t only “massive” because thousands of people play with each other at the same time, but also because of the immense game worlds that they offer.
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