Need for Speed is an open world racing video game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts, released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2015, and to be released for Microsoft Windows in 2016. It is the twenty-second installment in the long-running Need for Speed series, and is a full reboot of the franchise. It marks the series’ second eighth generation installment, and was the first Need for Speed title to only be on eighth generation hardware. It marks the franchise’s first return to the import scene and tuner culture focus since the release of 2010’s Need for Speed: World.

The story revolves around the player and a small ragtag group of racers waiting to be noticed by any of the game’s five icons, all of them being real-world motorsport and street racing figures. Spike (Adam Long) wants to impress Magnus Walker, Amy (Faye Marsay) wants to impress Akira Nakai, Robyn (Christina Wolfe) wants to impress Risky Devil, Manu (Howard Charles) wants to impress Ken Block, and Travis (Leo Gregory) wants to impress Shinichi Morohoshi.

As the game progresses, the player earns money and reputation among the other drivers and people he meets along the way. Once the player becomes the ultimate icon, the final challenge is against the icons of the game and also against Travis, Spike, Amy, Robyn, and Manu. After the race, the final cutscene includes of them all taking a group photo together but the player wears a mask to hide his true identity.

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