The last of those three was a collaboration with the franchise’s new overseers, Ghost Games, who struggled to find an identity for the future of the series on their own, but finally managed to establish a solid foundation with 2019’s Heat, which introduced a high stakes day night cycle that rewarded players who completed races during the more dangerous nighttime, when a higher Heat meter means more aggressive cops would be giving their all to ensure you lose your newly-earned payday. While the British developer has been largely relegated to assisting with the latest Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefield games over the past few years, Criterion’s previous work with Need for Speed was well received at the time and continues to be looked back upon as some of the series’s best modern entries, including 2010’s Hot Pursuit, 2012’s Most Wanted and 2013’s Rivals.

For the first time in nearly a decade, Burnout creator Criterion Games has returned to work on the latest Need for Speed entry.

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