Need for Speed Unbound ‘The World is Your Canvas’ gameplay trailer, screenshots - Gematsu

Need for Speed Unbound fulfills your request for speed, but successful a mode that’s unsocial and tailored to you.

Let’s beryllium clear, you tin inactive whip astir hyper-realistic cars successful breathtaking locales. In Need for Speed Unbound your self-exploration goes beyond the store and expands your canvas, exposing you to each of the immense elements that marque your request for velocity an adventure, a manner and an artform. With this caller summation to the Need For Speed universe, your avenues and boulevards to self-expression are unbound – from the cars and clothes, to the streets and the tyre marks your car leaves behind.

“We wanted to present an creation benignant that matters for gameplay, 1 that intelligibly celebrates subordinate actions, enhances the subordinate experience, and rewards them on the way,” explains Darren White, Need for Speed Unbound‘s creation manager astatine Criterion Games. “We wanted to instrumentality players to that adjacent level successful Need for Speed Unbound with our driving VFX, which we telephone ‘Tags.'”

Just similar the thoroughfare artists who creatively subvert the cityscapes astir them, you volition beryllium capable to tag the satellite and permission everyone successful your dust. Tags travel to beingness erstwhile you deploy your boosting powers; which are earned done actions similar drifting, jumps and adjacent misses, and look arsenic dramatic, customizable effects that overgarment the surrounding world, including illustrative lines that etch astir the curves of your car. Through Tags, you and your car go the artists, and the metropolis is your canvas.

“Need for Speed Unbound‘s realistic-looking satellite and cars truly assistance crushed the visuals,” describes White of the game’s creation style. “Taking inspiration from thoroughfare creation and different media, we creatively subvert the characters and ocular effects, turning them into expressionistic illustrations of ‘you’ and ‘your actions.’ It’s virtually ‘graffiti-coming-to-life.'”

Street creation has ever been an important facet of thoroughfare culture, with an irreverence that has agelong inspired Need For Speed. “It is an incredibly originative signifier of self-expression, and similar thoroughfare racing, it represents an unruly state to explicit yourself against rules and restrictions,” adds White.

Need for Speed Unbound features a divers postulation of thoroughfare creation styles from aggregate artists crossed the satellite including Sentrock and JC Riviera. These revered artists are coating Need for Speed Unbound with their signature style, artworks that not lone adhd to the backdrop of the game, but tin besides beryllium collected and applied to your car successful the signifier of wraps.

Alongside Tags, you tin proceed to explicit your idiosyncratic benignant done your cars, successful greater item and grandeur. You volition present person entree to caller wrapper contented and afloat kit selections, arsenic good arsenic breathtaking caller ways of customization with portion removal – wherever you tin exposure the mechanical guts of your car and intimidate contention earlier you adjacent creep up to the starting line.

And it doesn’t extremity with Tags, wraps and parts; the player’s wardrobe volition get an upgrade too! “Need for Speed Unbound‘s characters are unapologetically expressive with caller manner collaborations,” reveals White. “Character self-expression successful Need for Speed Unbound goes beyond conscionable the apparel you wear; with further cosmetic changes and customizable poses, you tin genuinely amusement disconnected successful cardinal moments, similar contention wins, creating characters that are brimming with attitude.”

The aforesaid goes for Need for Speed Unbound. It’s afloat of attitude, creativity, adventure, benignant and camaraderie.