EA’s new Need to have for Speed leaks, appears to be whole-on anime

The following Have to have for Pace will lean tough into an anime aesthetic, if the screens from an overseas merchandise listing are any indicator.

On Wednesday, customers of the Want for Speed subreddit spotted the leaked listing for Need to have For Pace Unbound via Japanese retailer Neowing. The listing states the new video game will launch in December. Electronic Arts has an announcement coming Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT, when it will expose more about the future match.

The Neowing web page integrated 5 screenshots, watermarked NFS Unbound, demonstrating a range of tuned-up cars, presented realistically, but with cel-shaded, anime-design motorists and other NPCs in the frame. In one particular monitor, a avenue racer throws hand-drawn, star-formed sparks and its tires depart a two-dimensional smoke trail as it can take a corner.

According to a machine-translated solution description of Require for Velocity Unbound, the recreation will aspect songs (and an in-video game visual appeal) from rapper A$AP Rocky, with a soundtrack generated by Brodinski, a French composer and DJ.

A cartoonish version of rapper A$AP Rocky leans on a customized street car, with A$AP and AWGE branded stickers, on a slick city street. — Rapper A$AP Rocky will evidently appear in NFS Unbound

“Bringing graffiti to existence in a completely new visible design and style, merging the most current street art with the most practical vehicles in Want for Speed history,” the description claims, conveying the unorthodox visual type.

“Go to meetups and show off your type with numerous goods, which includes confined version equipment, from the world’s most up-to-date style,” the listing adds. “Then incorporate the finishing touches to your car’s design and style, reworking it with special wraps and slash-out goods to match your legendary personalized automobile, and take the direct in races and set your winning pose higher than the levels of competition.”

Neowing’s web page lists only PlayStation 5 for Require for Velocity Unbound, which implies the recreation may possibly be a new-technology start only. Each and every mainline Have to have For Speed recreation, going back to the series’ starting in 1994, has released on Home windows Computer system, way too. Polygon on Tuesday arrived at out to an Electronic Arts agent for additional aspects on the up coming Need for Speed, but the publisher declined to remark, other than mentioning the countdown to Thursday’s reveal.

The leaked screens confirm that the activity is designed by Criterion Games (which consists of Codemasters Cheshire, which EA acquired in 2021). Criterion’s latest Require for Speed initially specific a 2021 start, right until EA assigned Criterion to assistance EA DICE with previous November’s Battlefield 2042.

A promotional screenshot for Need For Speed Unbound shows a street racer against a blurred background, with hand-drawn star shapes over its spinning wheels — This graphic from a Japanese retailer’s early product or service listing exhibits the merging of real looking vehicles’ presentation with anime-fashion highlights and accents in ‘Need For Speed Unbound’

However, right until Tuesday’s teaser tweet, EA manufactured no announcement about the subsequent Need for Velocity title other than telling investors just one was coming by the finish of 2022.

The Have to have for Velocity franchise was sent back to Criterion Game titles immediately after 2019’s Need to have for Pace: Heat, the last of 3 titles formulated by the now-dissolved Ghost Game titles. None of the a few generated the form of crucial or professional reception that Criterion’s Need to have for Pace: Warm Pursuit (in 2010) or 2012’s Have to have for Pace: Most Required delivered.

More than the past 10 years, Criterion Video games has generally been regarded for supporting DICE on Battlefield 5, Battlefield 2042 and Star Wars Battlefront 2. Its most the latest racing titles have been the 2018 remaster of the open-world traditional Burnout Paradise, and a 2020 remaster of Scorching Pursuit.