Criterion-developed Need for Speed coming 'next year'
by Christopher Grant 
on Nov 9th 2009 8:10PM
"In recent years, we failed to put adequate resources behind the franchise and, as a result,
quality suffered," EA Games label president Frank Gibeau said of the
Need for Speed franchise, currently in the midst of a reboot with the well received
Need for Speed: Shift, the recently released
Need for Speed: Nitro, and the we're-not-sure-that's-going-to-work
Need for Speed: World Online. But there's a fourth post-reboot
Need for Speed title
in development at Criterion Games, the devs behind the excellent
Burnout series.
Removing any doubt that the series will miss an opportunity for annual exploitation (again, the massively multilpayer online racing of
World Online doesn't count!) Gibeau said "Next year's
Need for Speed has been under development now for some time at our award-winning Criterion Studio." We're not sure what type of
Need for Speed Criterion is creating, but we wouldn't be surprised if it was heavy on the crashing.
