We'll be listening to the users and the community as today's 'gurus' are the users. They tell us what they want. This won't matter one bit if the game itself is rubbish, but thankfully it's looking like that will be far from the case. The driving model is sharp, with even the usage of keyboard controls feeling slick and convincing. Almost as importantly, server and bandwidth issues should be few and far between, as even when playing on Canadian-hosted servers, latency issues are negligible.
And as Gaudechon says "We've always felt that you can have loads of cool features, but if it's not a smooth experience, people won't come back to the game. Like these guys playing 'golf' with garbage cans and cars, these other guys doing car beauty contests in the stadium, taking photos.
If you give power to the community, you find that they support the game more than you can and it's one of the successes of MMOs such as World of Warcraft. Here's a Terrifying thought: the Need For Speed series has been around for 16 years. Spookily, seconds after writing that sentence, a press release appeared in my inbox for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, developed by Criterion, some eight years after Black Box made its sequel. This is confusing, so listen carefully: four years ago, Black Box made the half-decent NFS: Carbon, a pseudo-open world affair, the core engine of which is being used for NFS: World, a game that represents the series' opening foray into the massively multiplayer online space.
This is that most rare of genres: a driving-based MMO. As such it comes with all the trappings of traditional MMOs - levelling, guilds of sorts , personalisation and socialisation, all wrapped in shiny graphics and accessible gameplay. It may use a four year-old engine, but the game's been worked on for some time, and the cars, features and world have all been refreshed.
Black Box don't want to leave anybody out, so its team is optimising down to netbooks and up to new graphics slingers. So will anybody will be able to play World? I tried the beta on an ancient laptop, and while it ran, it wasn't exactly fun. Upstairs on my monster gaming PC from Alienware World was a different matter, boasting an instantly familiar Need For Speed look and feel, with the keyboard proving perfectly functional during a few hours tearing round what looked like San Francisco.
As Abney says, "This is a level of quality that has never before been seen in a free online game. When Abney says World is free, it's not strictly true. Technically it is, but you will eventually reach a point at which microtransactions are the only way you'll be able to progress.
These will enable you to buy - or rent - new cars, and crucially stock up on power-ups. It's these modifiers that largely define the three I 'classes' - Race, Explore and Pursuit - each of which has specific power-ups -kind of like Blur. For instance, if you specialise in Races, you'll be looking to stock up on Nitrous, and maybe a bit of Slingshot, which enables you to instantly catch up to the car in front.
Need For Speed World is the free, online version of the hugely popular arcade style racing game franchise. The game is a massively multi-player open world game, with which you can interact and race with many other players from around the planet. The game lets you add new friends to enter contests or compete against each other in races. The game does require you to have a user account to start playing. As soon as you set-up your account you can begin with creating a driver profile and choose your first car from an initial selection.
As with other arcade role playing games, you need to start completing objectives; winning races, to gain experience points. Need For Speed World has quite intuitive gameplay, but the arcade-style handling does mean that it is not really realistic or accurate. There are some fun things you can do in the game, such as take turns at full speed or drift.
You can also boost the speed of your car to force opponents out of the way. Overall, the arcade style is great fun to play, albeit not very realistic. The graphics are quite smooth and the gameplay is very good for an MMOG. The downside is that the other players in free mode are only shown as ghosts and you can drive through them. We don't have any change log information yet for version 1. Sometimes publishers take a little while to make this information available, so please check back in a few days to see if it has been updated.
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