Need for Speed NITRO Getting Style

Need for Speed NITRO, the upcoming Wii game from the series, is getting a bit more stylized with some outside help. EA announced that it is getting together with tokidoki, i am 8-bit, and Upper Playground to deliver custom in-game car designs for a variety of vehicles that include the Lamborghini Gallardo, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger R/T, Volkswagen Type 2 and Subaru Impreza WRX. There are also more than 140 'brushes' in the game that players can use to custmoize their ride even further.

This makes me excited about the direction that EA has taken the Need for Speed series in because it was getting pretty stale. The original Need for Spees games were some of my favorite races on the PSOne, most notably the original Hot Pursuit. The PS2 outing were okay but after the first Underground title it just became sort of meh.

Now they have tailored three different games to the system they are working with, and NITRO is the Wii's(and DS') game. By using these amazing artists on the Wii game they are definitely going for a highly stylized look, and it will serve that game well. I can only hope that they are rolling out a simialr attention to the PS360 game and PC versions. The entire press release can be found at the link. Feel free to hit the comment section.





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