Need For Speed: The Run

Adrenaline junkies and speed fiends will find themselves on the wrong side of the law in Need for Speed: The Run.

Players will take control of Jack, a driver on the run from cops and crims alike in a cross-country race from San Francisco to New York after a prize of US$25 million.

Players will blow across borders, weave through dense urban traffic, rocket down icy mountain passes and navigate narrow canyons at breakneck speeds.

Powered by DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine, Need for Speed: The Run aims to take the action racing genre to new heights with stunning visuals and car physics that hug the road even at top speeds all built around a gripping storyline.

“This is the year that Need for Speed goes to the next level,” says Jason DeLong, Executive Producer at EA.

“We think that Need for Speed The Run is going to surprise people with its intense, thrilling story and big action feel. But the game would be nothing without hot cars and crazy-fast chases. So that is what we’re delivering - explosive racing that will have players flirting with disaster at 200-miles an hour.”

Need for Speed: The Run is the 18^th title in the NFS franchise, and will be released for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and 3DS on November 17.

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Even though it’s one of the best-selling franchises of all time, some may have missed that Need for Speed: The Run is coming out in less than two weeks on November 15 aka retail apocalypse for games. Despite competition from Assassin’s Creed Revelation, Mario 3D Land, and Saints Row: The Third that week (among a hundred other games), The Run keeps looking good every time we see it. This newest trailer details how the racers online works, with the races looking nice and on foot missions thankfully absent.

The cross-country multiplayer races are promising, and the graphics are top of the line, but can it beat the great online of last year’s Hot Pursuit? And if you need anything else to sell you on the game, The Run will soon have a fancy new commercial that involves the director of all things shiny and fast, Michael Bay. Once enough people like or share a teaser for it on the official Facebook for the game, EA will release the Transformers director's ad to the world. And if you don’t think Michael Bay knows commercials, you never saw this.
 
Watch the Official Teaser Trailer.