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No phantom quick time events, sequences, or walk too much emphasis on the history for Need for Speed: The Run to the recent event, held in Paris, during which Electronic Arts has enabled us to bring back the next chapter in the saga. After probably burned the acceptance that the project has been controversial at E3, the American publisher has continued substantially for the road taken by the most recent opportunities to meet with the game (which took place in late July in Guildford EA, and in August the Gamecock): leave the stage to the heart of the experience, the races. We therefore had access to a variety of locations prepared at all points, which put to the test on three different tracks, PlayStation 3 format.

But first a recap: As the boys remembered by EA Black Box occurring on site, The Run of Need for Speed ​​series ventured for the first time with real environments. The crazy competition that sees the protagonist Jack across America, from Frisco to New York, with the goal of pocketing the $ 25 million at stake, is in fact an opportunity to combine business (recreational substance) with pleasure (of a higher degree of identification). And then the 2 Frostbite, DICE's new graphics engine, which will debut a few weeks before the release of The Run, Battlefield 3 . The developers claim that this technology was able to implement things in a Need for Speed ​​had never seen: a rendering of particular quality, locations of great extension, high interactivity and animations of exceptional characters. Not only that, the versatility of the Frostbite 2 allowed them to quickly create fairly wide variety of content that should characterize the game, almost immediately getting the high quality they expected, which allowed them to focus a lot on balance and finish, to the point that say that it is the Need for Speed ​​cleanest I have ever created.

Assist other team mates from the Auto log, developed by Criterion, which updates the system on the results and the progress of friends, creating many small continuous stimuli to get in competition with each other and various psychological dynamics, and assorted social networks, which will be present in an even more extensive one's life on the road. And then, let others know that they were the first to have reached a certain state, when not quite New York, must have a wry taste very special.

Two of the songs were already known to play tested: it was Desert Hills and Independence Pass. In the first set on a sunny highway in Nevada, on board a Porsche 911 Carr era S had to exceed ten rivals at any cost, even playing dirty, maybe using some shortcuts on dirt or trying to bring back traffic to our advantage. The second, set among the snows of the mountains of Colorado, we saw, always driving the same car, struggling with Survival Mode: The goal was to reach the valley before our opponent, trying to not be overwhelmed by massive avalanches caused some guns do not exactly artificial. With the last competition was unveiled for the first time the Battle Mode, which has seen speeding on a BMW M3 at speeds well beyond the limits imposed by law in a peaceful stretch of countryside located between the South Dakota and Minnesota, where Perhaps it was necessary to do against three contenders, trying not to be last in the occurrence of certain checkpoints, under penalty of elimination.

Common denominators of these are the characteristic traits of adventure driving model of Need for Speed, full of concessions from reality, but at the time itself has a certain "heaviness" that makes it both immediate and satisfying, high doses of NOS and the feeling that they are traffic or avalanches, factors external to the actual competition which touches all must be confronted are essentially scripted. Which, in the event of a catastrophic event capable of generating an appreciable affect on the game play spectrum of shades (from the view of pack size to be confused with the way more and more dangerous obstacles, to bury the player) is fine too? Some random proposition routine vehicle "civilians", instead, would like to find in the full game, since, thanks to the Rewind function, the long run you might feel a little sense of spontaneity. That is the worst enemy of the thrill of real fuel experience who wants to be a real thriller with four wheels and that on several fronts, primarily the audiovisual sector, already appears on the right track.