It’s a big year for racing games. At this year’s E3, every single press conference featured at least one driving game, and many seem to be boasting similar next-gen features. In a crowded category including Gran Turismo 6, Forza Motorsport 5, DriveClub and The Crew, EA showed off Need for Speed Rivals, the latest entry in the long-running series and the first title from EA's Ghost studio in Gothenburg.
In an interview with IGN, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau explained why he thinks Rivals stands out from the pack, plus commented on whether he thinks Need for Speed will continue to be an annualized franchise.
“I think we do a really good job capturing the feel of driving and getting the chase-or-be-chased feature,” Gibeau told IGN about Need for Speed. “A lot of the driving games we go up against are simulations. The way that we think about it internally is, that’s like going to the symphony. Ours is about going to a Jay-Z show. It’s rock and roll. It’s in your face. It’s a lot more about the visceral feel of driving through a billboard, doing a jump, but doing it in an authentic car, a car that looks and feels like a 911 should drive. We like to tell the stories of cops and racers. We like to tell stories in an open world. We think that the racing category, it used to be like 20 percent of the business back on the PS2. Now it’s single digits as far as a percentage of the overall business. We think that there’s a lot of innovation required to continue to keep driving as a category expanding. We think it’s the open world approach. We think it’s the competition approach. We think it’s the multiplayer approach.”
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/28/how-need-for-speed-rivals-competes-with-other-next-gen-racers
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