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Need For Speed
Need For Speed (NFS) is a series of racing video games by Electronic Arts, released on platforms including the 3DO, personal computer, PlayStation, PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and various other gaming platforms. The games consist mainly of racing with various cars on various tracks, and to some extent, include police pursuits in races.
The Need for Speed series was originally developed by Distinctive Software, a game studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to Electronic Arts' purchase of the company in 1991, it had already created popular racing games such as Stunts and Test Drive II: The Duel. After the purchase was made, the company was renamed Electronic Arts Canada. The company capitalized on its experience in the domain when it began developing the Need For Speed series in late 1992.
Electronic Arts Canada continued to develop and expand the Need For Speed franchise for many years. In 2002, another Vancouver-based gaming company, named Black Box Games, was contracted to continue the series with the title Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. Black Box Games was acquired by Electronic Arts shortly before the game's publication and the company was renamed Electronic Arts Black Box and became a part of EA Canada. Since then EA Black Box has been NFS's primary developer.
The Need for Speed series was originally developed by Distinctive Software, a game studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to Electronic Arts' purchase of the company in 1991, it had already created popular racing games such as Stunts and Test Drive II: The Duel. After the purchase was made, the company was renamed Electronic Arts Canada. The company capitalized on its experience in the domain when it began developing the Need For Speed series in late 1992.
Electronic Arts Canada continued to develop and expand the Need For Speed franchise for many years. In 2002, another Vancouver-based gaming company, named Black Box Games, was contracted to continue the series with the title Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. Black Box Games was acquired by Electronic Arts shortly before the game's publication and the company was renamed Electronic Arts Black Box and became a part of EA Canada. Since then EA Black Box has been NFS's primary developer.
The Need for Speed (1994)
The original Need for Speed was released for 3DO in 1994 with versions released for the PC (DOS) (1995), PlayStation & SEGA Saturn (1996) following shortly afterwards. Most cars and tracks are available at the beginning of the game, and the objective is to unlock the remaining locked content by winning tournaments. The first version featured chases by police cars which remained a popular theme throughout the series - the so-called Hot Pursuit editions (Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Carbon) have sold better in the marketplace than intervening versions. The initial version also featured an obnoxious opponent who taunted the player if the computer won the race or the player is arrested (if the player is ticketed several times).The first installment of the NFS series was the series' only serious attempt to provide a realistic simulation of car handling and physics without arcade elements except Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, which is the most realistic. Electronic Arts teamed up with automotive magazine Road & Track to match vehicle behaviour, including the mimicking of the sounds made by the vehicles' gear control levers. The game also contained precise vehicle data with spoken commentary, several "magazine style" images of each car interior and exterior and even short video-clips highlighting the vehicles set to music.
Need for Speed II (1997)
Need for Speed II featured some of the rarest and most exotic vehicles ever available, including the Ford Indigo concept vehicle, and features country-themed tracks from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. A new racing mode was also introduced in NFS II dubbed Knockout, where the last racers to finish laps will be eliminated until the only leading racer remains, and wins.Many fans of the first edition of Need for Speed were disappointed to find NFS II was arcade-like instead of preserving the realism of NFS.[verification needed] Though the gameplay was arcade-like, the levels were intricately well designed.[verification needed] In addition, track design was more open-ended; players could now "drive" off the asphalt, and even cut across fields to take advantage of shortcuts.
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998)
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit added Hot Pursuit mode, in which the player either attempted to outrun the police or be the cop, arresting speeders.NFS III took advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the CD-ROM by featuring audio commentary, picture slideshows and music videos. This game also is the first in the series to allow the downloading of additional cars from the official website. As a result, modding communities have sprung up to create more vehicles which would otherwise be unavailable to the game.
Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)
High Stakes (North America title) and Road Challenge (European and Brazilian title) was released in the summer of 1999. It was widely criticised for being too similar to NFS III, especially due to the fact that all of the tracks from NFS III were contained in NFS HS/RC (amongst others).[citation needed]Nevertheless, High Stakes introduced several new types of gameplay: High Stakes, Getaway and Career. High Stakes is a racing mode in which the reward was the losing player's car. Getaway requires the player to outrun a pursuing police vehicle for a given time period. Career mode incorporates a monetary reward system that allowed a player to purchase vehicles and performance upgrades while earning cash by racing in a chronological set of tournaments. It is also the last game in the Need for Speed series for PC to feature a split-screen two player mode introduced in Need for Speed II.
Another innovation is the introduction of damage models. Vehicles which have been involved in accidents featured visibly crushed car bodies and suffered from performance penalties. After a race in Career mode, the player is given the option to purchase repairs. The mode also allows players, for the first time, to upgrade cars, although the feature simply consists of switching between three upgrade levels for each car.
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Album: Need For Speed 4 OST
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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)
Porsche Unleashed (North America and Latin America title), Porsche 2000 (European title) or simply Porsche (in Germany) is different from the previous versions because it featured only Porsches and featured a wealth of information regarding them. The cars handled more realistically than in any other NFS game, and there is an in-depth catalogue of different Porsche parts that span throughout the years. The player had to win races in the Evolution career mode to unlock cars in chronological order from 1950 to 2000. Porsche Unleashed also featured a Factory Driver mode, where the player had to test Porsches with various stunts and move on with his career. The game is also the first in the series since the first NFS game to not feature a split screen mode. However, the game did contain a well constructed LAN multiplayer feature.[citation needed] In later years, it was released for the Game Boy Advance.In terms of game construction, it is most often hailed as Need For Speed's best collaborated effort to bring forth one singular car brand and amplify and deepen the depth of knowledge both on history and motor functions. It features historical videos and many pictures of old photos of Porsche vehicles. The Evolution concept was a hit for many people, creating many new Porsche fans due to the game's high level of academia and depth of Porsche cars. The Factory Driver was also a different kind of unlocking, except to do with performing and excelling in certain slaloms, speed races, deliveries, etc. Many of the missions were considered to be really difficult. In addition, the graphics of the game were relatively impressive for the time the game was released.
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Album: Need For Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed
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- Tracks list:
1 Activator (Morphadron)
2 Aircon (Cypher)
3 Aquadelic (Captain Ginger)
4 Champion (Cypher)
5 Choose Your Enemy (Cypher)
6 Cold Fusion Power (Morphadron)
7 Dr. Know (Morphadron)
8 Funky Phreakout (Morphadron)
9 Gimme the Power (Morphadron)
10 Hack the Planet (Morphadron)
11 Injector (Cypher)
12 Let the Music Move You (Morphadron)
13 Loser (Morphadron)
14 MetroGnome (Captain Ginger)
15 Orion (Cypher)
16 Psychonaught (Captain Ginger)
17 Rezidue (Morphadron)
18 Rock This Place (Morphadron)
19 R U Ready (Morphadron)
20 Sentient (Cypher)
21 Stealth Run (Morphadron)
22 Sub Zero (Cypher)
23 The Moebus (Morphadron)
24 Twin (Cypher)
25 The UK Sound (Morphadron)
26 Warm Storage (Morphadron)
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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 was the debut Need for Speed title from the newly formed EA Black Box (created after the purchase of Black Box Games in Vancouver), and the first Need For Speed for the "sixth-generation" of consoles. Hot Pursuit 2 draws primarily from the gameplay and style of NFS III; its emphasis was on evading the police and over-the-top tracks featuring lengthy shortcuts. Although the game allowed players to play as the police, the pursuit mode was drastically less realistic than preceding versions of NFS; players merely needed to "tap" a speeder a certain number of times to arrest them, as opposed to using actual police tactics such as the PIT maneuver to immobilize a speeding vehicle.This was the first Need For Speed version since the start of the series that did not feature a true "in the driving seat" camera view, complete with steering wheel, dashboard etc. In some ways this can be considered to be the landmark in EA's move from realistic racing to arcade street racing.
Hot Pursuit 2 is also the first Need for Speed to forego an original instrumental rock/techno soundtrack in favor of songs sung by licensed song artists under the EA Trax label.
Need for Speed: Underground (2003)
A complete re-imagining of the series' formula, Need for Speed: Underground shifts focus to the import tuner culture, offering a career mode that features a storyline, and a garage mode that allowed players to fully customize their cars with a large variety of brand-name performance and visual upgrades. Races take place fully at night, and police pursuits were also forgone-characteristics that were reused in the sequel Need for Speed: Underground 2. Instead of hundred-thousand dollar exotics, Underground featured vehicles associated with import tuner culture. This, plus the increasingly arcade-like controls, became points of controversy for NFS fans. Despite this, Underground was commercially very successful. Download Need For Speed - Underground soundtrack!
Album: Need For Speed - Underground
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- Tracks list:
1 Doomsday
2 Born Too Slow
3 Out Of Control
4 Two - Lane Blacktop
5 Kimosabe
6 The Only
7 Broken Promises
8 Fortress Europe
9 Invisible
10 And The Hero Will Drown
11 The Wonders Of You
12 Action Radius
13 Quarter
14 Sucked In
15 Snapshot
16 Ride
17 Supermoves
18 Glitterball
19 Swallow
20 Get Low
21 Smashing The Gas (Get Faster)
22 Who's Who
23 Keep It Coming
24 Body Rock
25 Need For Speed
26 24's
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
Need for Speed: Underground 2, the sequel to the commercial hit Need for Speed: Underground, was released on November 15, 2004. A demo of the game was placed as a "late" easter egg in finished copies of the EA Games and Criterion Games collaboration Burnout 3: Takedown, and completed versions of NFSU2 also have a demo of Burnout 3 in the game.In Underground 2, the story continues, but there are new racing modes such as the Underground Racing League and Street X, new and more tuning options, as well as a new method of selecting races-just driving around the city (similar to Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club II) and selecting race "beacons". Also included is an "outrun" mode where a player can challenge random opponents on the road and the race leader will attempt to distance themselves away from the opponent to defeat the opponent (similar to Tokyo Xtreme Racer). Underground 2 also introduces several SUVs, which could be customized as extensively as other Underground 2 vehicles and used to race against other SUV racers.
The customization features in the game was significantly expanded to modifications that have no actual effect on vehicle performance. The sound systems, for example, could be put in the trunk of cars, but served no purpose other than sheer flash (like the numerous carbon-fiber parts throughout the game that do not alter the performance characteristics of the vehicles). The game also features more extensive product placement for companies with no connection to auto racing, such as integrating the logo for Cingular Wireless, an American wireless communications company, into the game's messaging system and displaying it on-screen for much of the gameplay.
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Album: Need For Speed - Underground 2
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- Tracks list:
1 Riders On The Storm (Fredwreck Remix)
2 I Need Speed (Capone)
3 I Do (Chingy)
4 That'z My Name (Sly Boogy)
5 LAX (Xzibit)
6 Lean Back (Terror Squad)
7 Switch/Twitch (Fluke)
8 Rush Hour (Cristopher Lawrence)
9 Rocket Ride (Soulwax Remix; Felix Da Housecat)
10 Hard EBM (Sin)
11 Mind Killer (Jagz Kooner Remix; Freeland)
12 Nothing But You (Cirrus Remix; Paul Van Dyk)
13 E - Ville (Sonic Animation)
14 The Death and Resurrection Show (Killing Joke)
15 Give It All (Rise Against)
16 Scavenger (Killradio)
17 Notice Of Eviction (The Bronx)
18 No W (Ministry)
19 In My Head (Queens Of The Stone Age)
20 Determined (Mudvayne)
21 I Am Weightless (Septembre)
22 Crashing Foreign Cars (Helmet)
23 Back On A Mission (Cirrus)
24 Black Betty (Spiderbait)
25 Nobody (Skindred)
26 Skeptic (Snapcase)
27 The Celebration Song (Unwritten Law)
28 The Keys To Life Vs. 15 Minutes Of Fame (Atmosphere)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted was released on November 15, 2005, and is one of the first games released for the Xbox 360. Police chases make a comeback and represent a significant body of the gameplay, and includes the Grand Theft Auto-like free-roaming of Underground 2, but with less extensive vehicle customization features than in the Underground series. The story mode is presented in a significantly different style from Underground, with CGI effects mixed with live action. The mode also features a blacklist, consisting of 15 racers that the player must beat one-by-one to unlock parts, cars and tracks.A special "Black Edition" of Most Wanted was also released, which features additional races and challenges, and two bonus cars, a specially-tuned BMW E46 (M3) GTR and a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, and also includes a Black Edition-only behind-the-scenes DVD. Both versions of Most Wanted are available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, and Windows-based PCs. Only the standard edition of Most Wanted is available for GameCube and Xbox 360 ("Black Edition" was not produced for these platforms).
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Album: Need For Speed: Most Wanted
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- Tracks list:
1 Avenged Sevenfold - Blinded In Chains
2 Bullet For My Valentine - Hand Of Blood
3 Celldweller - One Good Reason
4 Celldweller feat. Styles Of Beyond - Shapeshifter
5 DJ Spooky and Dave Lombardo - B-Side Wins Again feat. Chuck D
6 Diesel Boy + Kaos - Barrier Break
7 Disturbed - Decadence
8 Evol Intent, Mayhem and Thinktank - Broken Sword
9 Hush - Fired Up
10 Hyper - We Control
11 Ils - Feed The Addiction
12 Jamiroquai - Feels Just Like It Should (Timo Maas Remix)
13 Juvenile - Sets Go Up
14 Lupe Fiasco - Tilted
15 Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
16 Paul Linford and Chris Vrenna - Most Wanted Mash Up
17 Paul Linford and Chris Vrenna - The Mann
18 Rock - I Am Rock
19 Static-X - Skinnyman
20 Stratus - You Must Follow (Evol Intent VIP)
21 Styles of Beyond - Nine Thou (Superstars Remix)
22 Suni Clay - In A Hood Near You
23 T.I. Presents The P$C - Do Ya Thang
24 The Perceptionists - Let's Move
25 The Prodigy - You'll Be Under My Wheels
26 The Roots and BT - Tao Of The Machine (Scott Humphrey's Remix)
Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
Need for Speed: Carbon sees the return of nighttime-only racing, and a selection of cars similar to that of Most Wanted, including compact cars and sports cars associated with import culture, American muscle cars, and supercars. Carbon also introduces a new feature wherein the player is allowed to form a "crew," to which members with different abilities may be chosen that aid the player in races. Drift events returned to the series in Carbon.The game was released on November 1, 2006 for Windows-based personal computers, followed by video game consoles and handheld game consoles. Carbon's handheld port is known as Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City. Drag racing was removed from the series, but a new type of race called "Canyon Duel" was added, where the player and a game boss take turns racing down a canyon, trying to stay as close to the leader as possible.
Another new feature is "Autosculpt", which allows players to custom-fabricate their own ground effects, rims, hoods, and other parts. The cars featured on the front cover of game are Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX and Dodge Challenger.
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Album: Need For Speed: Carbon
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- Tracks list:
1 Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang! (Eagles of Death Metal)
2 Signs of Life (Every Move a Picture)
3 Are Friends Electric (Gary Numan & Tubeway Army)
4 Ride a White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix (Goldfrapp)
5 Scorpio (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Fiv)
6 Hurricane (Kyuss)
7 Luv Me or Hate Me (Lady Sovereign)
8 Fighting in Built-Up Areas (Ladytron)
9 Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix; Ladytron)
10 Thee Small Faces (Metro Riots)
11 Skateboard P Presents (Show You How to Hustle (Pharrell feat. Lauren)
12 No Love (Roots Manuva)
13 What It Look Like (Spank Rock)
14 Hype Boys (Sway)
15 Around the Horn (The Bronx)
16 I'm No Good (The Vacation)
17 Good as Gold (Tiga)
18 Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix; Tigarah)
19 Washing Up (Tiga Remix; Tomas Andersson)
20 My Friend Dario (Vitalic)
21 Joker and the Thief (Wolfmother)
22 People Always Talk About the Weather (Junkie XL Remix (Yonderboi)
Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007)
Need for Speed: ProStreet is the latest released title in the Need for Speed series. Key features of the game include realistic damage, a return to realistic racing (instead of the arcade-like racing of previous titles), modelling, burnouts and more.The game was released on November 13, 2007 in North America and on November 23, 2007 in the UK.
Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)
Need for Speed: Undercover is the next game in the Need for Speed franchise, confirmed by Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello, due by the end of the 2008. The game has a significantly longer development cycle than previous games. And now the most important part!
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I've found soundtracks from six parts of this world famous series.
- Need For Speed 4 OST
- Album: Need For Speed 4 OST (High stakes)
- Need For Speed 5 - Porsche Unleashed
- Album: Need For Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed
- Need For Speed - Underground
- Album: Need For Speed - Underground
- Need For Speed - Underground 2
- Album: Need For Speed - Underground 2
- Need For Speed: Most Wanted
- Album: Need For Speed: Most Wanted
- Need For Speed: Carbon
- Album: Need For Speed: Carbon
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OhMe wrote...
I was not at all familiar with the Need For Speed Series so thank you for the heads up.
Posted August 15, 2009
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Hi Alex cool lens. I see how passionate you are about this music.
Posted July 14, 2009
by Avare
Hello there! My name is Alex.
I'm an audioproducer. Working on radio. Making music for games and I really love to play video games! Especially race s... (more)
I'm an audioproducer. Working on radio. Making music for games and I really love to play video games! Especially race s... (more)
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