Electronic Arts must really, really have a Need For Speed. So desirous of rapidity are they that they have announced not one new Need for Speed title, but three.
Need for Speed SHIFT, Need for Speed NITRO and Need for Speed World Online are set for launch on multiple platforms throughout 2009.
NITRO is a DS and Wii title described as having a ‘unique visual style’ (our best guess – some kind of cel-shading affair). NFS World Online is – as you might expect – an online, massively multiplayer racer that is planned to be free-to-play and will launch in Singapore initially, with a western release by next Christmas.
SHIFT sounds like the most interesting. Launching on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and PSP, SHIFT is intended to be a more serious racing simulating and is – randomly – being executive produced by Micahel Mann, director of Heat, Miami Vice and that 1950s crime thing with Dennis Farina that always used to be on ITV at 1 AM.
via Gamasutra
