Electronic Arts has announced a Need for Speed The Run Limited Edition, because it had no other choice: every game needs a "limited edition," obviously.
What you're getting with the limited "while supplies last" edition of the game are cars and additional challenges. If you want the 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S, the Lamborghini Aventador, and 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, you'll need to run to the store on day one and buy The Run. If you want five in-game challenges that no one else gets (unless they also picked up the limited edition), you know what you have to do.
Need for Speed The Run is out November 15 for all of the usual suspects, but this limited edition is for Xbox 360 PlayStation 3, and PC only.
Isn't the online pass thing just business as usual for EA now? All of their recent big releases that include multiplayer functionality have had it. Especially considering the last NFS game had it as well, I'm sure this one will too.
So to get the full first day experience, I have to spend more than the typical $60 entry fee. Its days like this I feel like finally spending a year on my book and movie backlog.
So they strip out some cars and hold them hostage to "encourage" people to buy the game?
I don't know enough about how well this game drives. Is it hyper-realistic like Gran Turismo/Forza, super-arcadey like Ridge Racer, or somewhere in between (which is what I'd prefer)?
@OneRed,
from what we saw the game will be crap so i don't think you loose anything if you won't get it. from all the previews and information released it seems like even more arcadey game than Criterion's Hot Pursuit ever was - seems like there's bumper car physics known from Ridge Racer or Fran Turismo series aswell, sadly.
the graphics is not that great - i don't care about the overall looks, but lack of car damage in the game working on Frostbite 2.0 engine is disturbing.
plus it looks like there will be severe lack of content - on few screenshots they showed entire list of events and there seem to be only 40-50 of them. with the way this game is built and the fact that each event takes about 5-10 minutes that's really slim - especially that aside from autolog there's nothing else from what we've seen.
there's still Forza 4 and Driver San Francisco so i'm good. new WRC and F1 games look good too.
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