Next Need for Speed coming from EA Black Box, Burnout's not dead

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 2nd 2010 11:00AM

Criterion may have swiped development duties for the upcoming installment in EA's ancient racing franchise, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, but it seems the franchise will land in familiar hands for the series' next iteration. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, EA senior vice president Patrick Soderlund responded to a question about whether Black Box would be behind the wheel of next year's Need for Speed, saying "you can assume that, yes." Later, he cheekily implied that one could safely assume that.

On the off-chance that you don't need the Need for Speed, Soderlund also shared a bit about the future of EA's other flagship racing franchise: Burnout. Soderlund explained, "we haven't made a decision to whether Burnout does this or that, but it's not dead for sure, no," adding that the publisher is currently "prioritizing what we want to do." Here, allow us to help arrange those priorities:

A spiritual successor to Burnout 3: Takedown
A new, non-motion-controlled SSX
Everything else

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: burnout, ea, ea-black-box, ea-canada, microsoft, need-for-speed-hot-pursuit, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (52)

don't let blackbox have need for speed rights.. its blatantly obvious criterion are the ones for the job, just compare the two? ughh rather annoying tbh..

@oggsy92

I agree, give Burnout to Criterion and leave them the hell alone.

@oggsy92

huh? Black Box was the studio that developed Hot Pursuit 2, which was AWESOME. i hope they're developing a HP2 remake for next year; this year's is a bit too much like burnout.

How about EA stop making Need for Speed every year, and make a new Road Rash game. I would also like SSX Tricky 2.

@The 7th Number

I agree wholeheartedly about SSX Tricky 2

@The 7th Number Yes I want another SSX without any motion controller stuff.

I also played Reach today against a The 7th Number. Wonder if that was you...

@The 7th Number

I simply cannot vote you high enough. Critereon did make a joke about why they made bikes in Burnout recently, implying they were testing the bed for a new Road Rash. So here is hoping. Plus, I so agree. SSX is needed very badly!

I love the Burnout series. My favorite racing series by far. I loved Paradise except for the "open world" thing. I just want to select my race from the menu. Burnout 3 was perfect except the difficulty got insane on the end. It was hard to gauge cars coming at you that fast with PS2 graphics with F1 cars. Loved the demo for Hot Pursuit. Hoping I can really just select the race from the menu.

@FriedConsole

Also glad they got rid of the crappy "racing culture" stuff the Need for Speed Most Wanted thing had. Almost as worse as when a game tries for the "urban style" in Xtream games.

@FriedConsole I think the open world thing was the absolute best aspect of Paradise, I loved cruisin and making freeform races when I played online.

It was like racing you could do anything you wanted with, plus all the challenges and stuff hidden everywhere.

@wcarnation

I personally would have liked if it was a bit of both, free play a bit then when I'm done "choose" exactly what race I want from the menu screen.

@wcarnation

Problem was that races all ended at the same 4 or 5 points. So all the races seemed way too similar after a while.

@FriedConsole

They need to bring back the smash mode from Burnout 3. That will be sick in HD!!

@FriedConsole
I agree, except the open world thing. I loved that about Burnout. Joystiq: I thought Paradise was a spiritual successor to Burnout 3. It was the best burnout I've played since burnout 3. All the free content they gave you... almost made you think it wasn't published by EA.

@FriedConsole So if it was a problem, fix it in the sequel!

Plus, weren't you creative? Didn't you make whacky ass races that snaked around and backtracked over themselves while forcing everyone to race as a van that felt like it was made out of butter?

@FriedConsole

that's why i DIDN'T like the demo all that much, though. too much like burnout. if they wanted to make a burnout-style game, they should have just made a burnout game. i hope the sequel to this HP is more like the original HP2.

Griffin, you missed out a little ditty called MIRRORS EDGE 2.

WHAT

Seriously?!

@Ukgamer66

OH GOD YES. PLEASE!

in all seriousness, Mirror's Edge was some of the most pure fun i've had in video games in a while. the gameplay was exhilarating. it's easily in my top-10 favorite games ever.

SSX4 PLEASE

I was under the impression that there already was a spiritual successor to Burnout 3 in Split/Second. At least that's what it feels like to me.

@baby sea tuna

Nah, Split/Second needs traffic and "crash mode" to get close to being a spiritual succesor to B3. It's a good start, just not enough...Burnout-ey.

Step 1: Clone the Criterion team
Step 2: Have one team make Burnout 6 while the other works on SSX5
Step 3: PROFIT

A new non-motion controlled SSX **with Rahzel**.

I like Atomika and all, but Tricky has the best soundtrack of the SSX's and it's time to get back to that, including Rahzel.

I want a SSX Game not stupid motion control .PLEASE I want to have a Xbox controller in my hand

I'd rather see a new SSX game than another car game

Evolution to SSX Tricky and Burnout 3 would be AWESOME.

If they do another Burnout Paradise game we're going to have some problems because that game was GARBAGE.

SSX held true to their name throughout the series however each release declined a little bit.

EA can you please re-open EA Sports BIG, that was one my favorite game studios.

SSX Tricky 2 would be amazing. I would pay twice as much as normal just to get the chance to relive Tricky again.

@Zachdamac
why don't you just pay a normal amount and buy it preowned?

I loved Burnout Paradise so so much. I'd love to see a Paradise 2.

@wcarnation
Same here, and seems like im one of the few that's not bothered by having an open world in it

@wcarnation

Agreed. It was also one of the best online communities. I could actually go into a random online game and people would be working together to get those challenges and not screaming obscenities at each other. What a great game.

Burnout peaked at 3 or 4.
3 being my personal fave.

Paradise just didn't do it for me.
The whole open world thing, well,
sucked.

Please please please make a successor to BO3
with very little choice in the "which route to take"
nonesense.

@Istari Spartan

Agreed. It is hard to race and look at a map at the same time.

@FriedConsole Not really... I played Burnout 2, 3, and Revenge and it wasn't hard for me to get used to at all.

I would like an SSX5 game that has two modes, simple kinect motion-controller and then the regular controller-based play like the old games. This ensures that I can play the game with a controller like it's meant to be played, and the kinect mode ensures that it sells many more copies to the masses so that they make an SSX6!

DO IT ALREADY!!

I never got the chance to play SSX 3, blame Jade, HTCP and Jak II. Was it better than Tricky? Cause I loves me Tricky!

Well, that's good Burnout is not dead. I love Burnout. Being playing Burnout since Burnout Takedown on PS2 and being loving them ever since.

On another note, I hope EA/Black Box smarten up and make NFS Underground 3. That would be great. Definitely a must-buy for me!

EA needs to stop making new games for their franchises every year and maybe they could bring back some good stuff like SSX and Burnout, please stop milking Need For Speed

A new ssx game!? FINALLY!

@Aero02Feline

Who's gonna break the bad news to this guy?

@Aero02Feline

Or girl.. Hate to be classed as sexist :P

@oggsy92 i have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

@Aero02Feline

"i have no idea what that's supposed to mean."

There is no new SSX game. Please tell me you read the article. Griffin wants a new SSX game, that's all.

It was one of his favorite series back in the PS2 era, after all. Who could blame him?

@PreGHz I did read it but i was a little slow on the uptake. it slowly came in to my mind before "i said waaiit that was just a joke".Meh it was the morning and i was hopeful for that game, so i believed it. Sorry 'bout that. -.-

Funny you say that, because I bought SSX3 from Gamestop yesterday because I know EA has abandoned the franchise.

After the success of Burnout Paradise, why the hell would it even cross their minds to kill off the Burnout Series!?

I would love a new SSX right about now and a return of Crash mode.

I had been soooo stoked about this one until I played the demo. I don't know, there's something about it that just felt... strange. I'm probably going to cancel my preorder and rent it first now.

There is already a spiritual successor to Burnout 3 Takedown, it's called Burnout Revenge. How about they make a Burnout Revenge 2.

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