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Need for Speed (Video Game)

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Need for Speed (Video Game)	comment	Need for Speed, frequently known by its initials NFS, is a long-running and popular series of racing games published by Electronic Arts focusing on illegal street racing, and it is the publisher's oldest continually-running franchise not under their EA Sports brand. As a result, it has seen many changes and at least four reboots.It started out in 1994 with The Need for Speed, initially with a focus on allowing players to drive the most exotic supercars in a variety of fantastic environments for their time, with games developed mostly by EA Canada for the PlayStation 1 versions and EA Seattle for PCs and non-PlayStation consoles. However, after seeing the success of the film The Fast and the Furious in 2001, EA decided to move the series to tuner car racing in urban environments, starting with Need for Speed: Underground (2003), which was a commercial hit at the time. Free-roaming environments were later added to the gameplay formula starting with Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004) and were expanded upon in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) and Need for Speed: Carbon (2006).However, the success was short-lived as after the critical and commercial disappointments of Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007) and Need for Speed: Undercover (2008), EA retooled the series by experimenting with various developers and gameplay styles for a few years, with two vastly different NFS games being released annually. Games of note after this retool included the two Need for Speed: Shift games (2009 and 2011) by Slightly Mad Studios, which had an organized track racing format similar to the failed ProStreet, and Criterion Games' 2010 reboot of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which went to back to racing with exotics in a fantastic environment that added a focus on online social gameplay with their Autolog system. Autolog would be added in every NFS game since, and was even added in the spin-off to Criterion's own Burnout series, Crash!. EA Black Box (the main developer from Underground to Undercover) tried and failed to take back the franchise with free-to-play MMO Need for Speed: World (2010â€“2015)note since revived by fans in 2017 and cinematic racer Need for Speed: The Run (2011). After a renaming to Quicklime Games in 2012, they were later shut down in April 2013.From there, EA retooled the series again by making Criterion the main developer. However, after the release of a reinterpreted Most Wanted in 2012, the publisher had a new studio called Ghost Games (mostly based in Gothenburg, Sweden, with branches in the UK and later Romania) create the next NFS game. They (with Criterion's help) released the Spiritual Successor to 2010's Hot Pursuit with Need for Speed Rivals in 2013. A film loosely based on the series starring Aaron Paul was released in 2014, but EA released no new NFS game that year.Ghost Games took two years to develop the next title, a complete reboot of the series titled just Need for Speed (commonly known for the sake of clarity as Need for Speed 2015), released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2015, with a Windows version released in March 2016. The subtitle-free installment returned to the tuner culture aspects of the Need for Speed: Underground sub-series. In addition to the 2015 reboot, an original mobile installment called Need for Speed: No Limits, developed by Firemonkeys Studios,note the developers of the Real Racing series and the mobile version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012), was released around the world on September 30, 2015, after an initial beta release in Taiwan and the Netherlands earlier in the year.The subsequent game was Need for Speed Payback, released in 2017. Like the 2015 reboot, it features cops, car customization, and an open world. It's also not an always-online game like Rivals, No Limits, and the 2015 reboot were. Payback is set in Nevada, with a Las Vegas setting as well as the surrounding desert. It is then followed by Need for Speed Heat, released on November 8, 2019. Set in the Miami-inspired Palm City, you'll build your way through racing's elite: participating in the Speedhunters Showdown by day, and risking it all for reputation at night, all the while dealing with the city's rogue police. Although it received a better reception than Ghost Games' previous two titles, it was not enough to save the developer's reputationIn February 2020, EA announced that the Need for Speed IP will go back to Criterion, while Ghost Games will be renamed back to their original name EA Gothenburg and become a support studio focusing on the Frostbite Engine. Criterion's first project in their return was a remastered version of their Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit co-developed with Stellar Entertainment (who helped with the 2018 remaster of Burnout Paradise) in time for the game's tenth anniversary, released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows on November 6, 2020, and Nintendo Switch a week later on November 13. Criterion's next project, Need for Speed Unbound, is the latest major entry in the franchise. Released in December 2022note It was initially scheduled for a 2021 release, but ended up being delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Criterion shifting their focus on assisting DICE with Battlefield 2042, the game features an art style that merges street art elements like the cel-shaded and graffiti-inspired art style of Nitro with the more realistic art style of other Need for Speed games.One consistent feature found in a majority of the franchise's games throughout the years is police pursuits. Lots and lots of police pursuits. After being added to the side in the first game and removed in the second game in 1997, police chases would become the defining aspect of the NFS series starting with Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998). Even the series' reboot, which is based on the originally police-free Underground games, has cop chases. Need for Speed II, Underground, Underground 2, Underground Rivals, ProStreet, Shift and Shift 2 are the only games in the series to not feature police at all. The player also has the opportunity to play as the police in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (PC version only), High Stakes, Hot Pursuit 2, Most Wanted 5-1-0, Undercover,note since technically, you play as an undercover police officer in all versions, although the option to drive police cars is only available in multiplayer modes of PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions, as well as both the single-player minigame and multiplayer mode in the PS2, Wii, and portable versions, Nitro-X, Hot Pursuit (2010), Rivals, No Limitsnote after a 2023 update and in the multiplayer modes of Porsche Unleashed (PlayStation version only), Carbon, Nitro, and The Run (3DS and Wii versions only).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: "NFS", "ND4SPD", or "NEED4SPD" on your plate in most games. In the EA Seattle's release of Hot Pursuit 2, the seventh generation's release of Undercover and Hot Pursuit (2010), all the cars have license plates that say "ND 4 SPD". For the real life pictures of the cars in III: Hot Pursuit, all of the pictures showing the license plate have "NFS 3" edited over them to prevent tracking. A variety of plates were available for players to purchase (mostly with SpeedBoost) in World. High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed had players' profile names appear on their license plates. Truly customizable license plates were finally added in Most Wanted (2012), allowing players to change the text and license plate designs, although the latter is only for multiplayer profiles and not the cars themselves. The following games (except No Limits) have retained this feature. Rivals allows players to change the actual plate designs. Said designs show locations of past games in the series. They would be reused for all of Ghost Games's later entries. Need for Speed 2015 uses a license plate design from Real Life for the first time in the series (that of California). The Showcase Update would later add Rivals' racer license plate designs as customization choices and allowed players to change the plate frames for the first time, a feature that would stick with subsequent games.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The black/red Porsche 911 GT2, shown in the Undercover cover art, gets this. In the PS3/Xbox 360/PC versions, it belongs to Rose Largo, one of the GMAC's crew members (thus making the car in the cover art more of The Artifact). In PS2/Wii releases, this was used by Chase Linh, the Big Bad of the game.note All versions of Undercover has the black/red 911 as their cover car, but only the PS2/Wii versions has it as their central focus.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14931ba5	type	Cel Shading
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14931ba5	comment	Cel Shading: The main graphic style in Nitro, the Wii version of Hot Pursuit (2010), and Unbound.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	The first game was a simulation racer made in collaboration with Road & Track magazine. Starting with the second game, the series switched to arcade-style racing and never looked back (with the exception for ProStreet and the Shift games). As noted above under Darker and Edgier, it also had a lot of very dark content, especially concerning the police chases, that later games did not replicate.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In Hot Pursuit 2, one of the female cop's voice samples contains the phrase "he's really moving down there". In the 3DO port of the first game, when you get arrested: The police from Most Wanted (2005), are all similar to overprotective, Fantasy-Forbidding Fathers, which some people may relate to.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The law enforcement in most of the series are this as they're here to stop street racers including the Player Character from driving recklessly. They can still be villainous, depending on your interpretation. Sergeant Cross from Most Wanted (2005) was this, albeit with an whole different flavor. However, he drops the "hero" part in Carbon where he leaves the Rockport Police Department in order to become a Bounty Hunter and going on a vendetta towards the player.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1645005b	comment	Both Zephyr and F-8 from Rivals. Especially F-8 is so vile as an officer that RCPD kicked him out after the cop career story.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1686e91	type	Live-Action Cutscene
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1686e91	comment	Live-Action Cutscene: This franchise has been using live-action footage since the very first game. Makes sense why EA did a film adaptation, doesn't it?
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1a47a6a7	type	Chronically Crashed Car
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1a47a6a7	comment	Chronically Crashed Car: The BMW M3 GTR is one notable example, despite being one of the series' most iconic vehicles. In both Most Wanted (2005), the game in which it made its main appearance, and Carbon, in which it appears in the prologue by virtue of being an Immediate Sequel of the former, it ends up totalled by the end of each game's initial phase. In Most Wanted (2005) this is Justified in that it's not much crashed as it's revealed that Razor sabotaged the car via unscrewing the oil sump so that it would malfunction while racing against him and thus he would win it, and it appears to be better than ever once you gain it back after beating Razor at the end of the game. In Carbon, however, it gets totaled at the beginning following a chase with Cross, and despite not appearing to suffer any spectacular damage (it crashes sideways against a truck carrying pipes, even though in Most Wanted it would shrug off crashing against trucks carrying logs), it is the last time it's seen in that game. Sure enough, when it manages to make its reappearance at the end of Heat, somehow ending in the hands of the game's final boss Lt. Frank Mercer, the player has to take down the car Hot Pursuit-style via ramming it, and if one's good enough, it only takes a couple of hits before you leave a stranded Mercer desperately trying to start the car again, to no avail.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Sort of. In the second and third games, crashing your car would cause a short riff (that was part of whatever song was playing, depending on track and location) to play. Quite a few of the crash stings in "Flimsy" use several stock scare chords even.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Hot Pursuit 2 had a helicopter that would rain bombs across the road to blow you and your car to smithereens. The PlayStation 2 port amped this up by allowing the helicopter to dump two bomb barrels at once instead of just one, as well as firing a heat-seeking torpedo toward you, and worst of all, dropping spike strip bombs in front of you. All because you were speeding. Most Wanted (2005) sees the return of the helicopter, now stripped of its weaponry. Instead, in Heat level 4 it merely hovers around close to you causing heavy dust to pick up and block your vision, making it easier for you to crash. In Heat levels 5 and 6, it resorts to directly ramming you to force you to crash or flip over. One of the levels in The Run has Jack avoiding an attacking helicopter as he attempts to escape Chicago. Appropriately enough, the trailer it's featured in is called "Death From Above".
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Seen all over the series. The 3DO version of the original The Need for Speed had a guy (called either "Opponent" or "X-Man") who basically served as a rival for the player, as elaborated on the Jerkass example. The only options were to do a race against the clock to improve your skills, or "if you're tired of warming up the bench", take him on in an one-on-one duel while swerving around traffic and avoiding getting arrested by the Cowboy Cop with a loaded shotgun. And he would berate you relentlessy over mistakes you made when racing. Doesn't help that he generally has an insufferably smug smirk on his face when he's mocking you. Thankfully (or perhaps unfortunately), he didn't reappear in the DOS, Saturn and PlayStation ports released afterward, remaining restricted to the 3DO version of the game. Hell, Need for Speed Rivals is named that way for a reason!
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: In Hot Pursuit (2010), during the final roadblock upgrade briefing for police, the game would helpfull notify you that "Porsche Cayenne Turbos are now deployed to add spice to your pursuit." Keep in mind that cayenne is also a type of chili. Now The Run does recursive shout-outs to previous installment's names on their chapters, remarkably "Underground", "Most Wanted" and the last episode, "Hot Finish".
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1fffccf7	type	No Plot? No Problem!
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_1fffccf7	comment	No Plot? No Problem!: None of the games before Underground had any semblance of plot; you simply drive high-price exotic cars in scenic locations, sometimes while running from cops. Porsche Unleashed had Factory Driver side-story that's more of a plethora of Driving Tests and Excuse Plots, rather than Underground's actual storyline. After Underground, the Shift games don't give a damn about story arcs either; you're just doing a driving sim.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_20860a0e	comment	Possibly the player, since street racing is illegal, depending on your prespective. This is slightly toned down in Carbon.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Implied in the first Hot Pursuit with Empire City, the track narrator goes so far to say: "Metropolis gone bad..." when listening on the description in the menu. Rockport and Palmont City in Most Wanted (2005) and Carbon respectively, being portrayed as being in shambles due to the street racing.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_21ec9741	comment	This is actually Exploited in Heat, where it is outright stated that the Palm City Police Department woefully corrupt and abusing their power to get their fleet, and their leader Frank Mercer is caught in a car smuggling operation.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Underground, Most Wanted (2005), and Carbon start like this.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2536f695	comment	Mastering the Bugatti Veyron and its faster version, the Super Sport in any game they appear in definitely qualifies. These cars are very difficult to handle, but, being two of the fastest cars in the world, some skill and a bit of practice can make them almost game-breaking.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	comment	Palette Swap: The Toyota GT86/Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ triplets from the 2015 reboot. In real life, they are all the same car sold under three different brands, since it was a collaboration between Toyota and Subaru (and Scion was an American brand of Toyota). The same could be said for the Vauxhall VX220 and Opel Speedster in Hot Pursuit 2, as well the Pontiac GTO and Vauxhall Monaro VXR in Most Wanted (2005) and Carbon. Fittingly, all the aforementioned cars were produced in different General Motors branches.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2793e42b	type	Only in Miami
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2793e42b	comment	Only in Miami: Tri-City Bay in Undercover is based in Miami, and it's the perfect setting for an undercover infiltration. Heat is set in Palm City, a stand-in for Miami, and it comes with all the sunshine and glitz you would expect.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The "Return of Razor" special event for No Limits has the man himself coming into Blackridge to take over the underground scene. The player must work with an officer from the Blackridge Police Department (who's very concerned that Razor's presence will cause the city to descend into chaos should he succeed) to stop him.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2afb1a9	comment	Limit Break: The nitrous in Underground 2 is refilled with stunts. You start with one full bar in races and Free Roam, but you can fill a second overlapping bar for double the capacity. This mechanic returns in Hot Pursuit (2010). In fact, it's about the only way to win in Exotic or Hyper series when you're a Racer. The fact that the cops' cars are significantly better than yours doesn't help. The nitrous system in The Run is a combination of the self-regenerating nitrous from Most Wanted (2005), Carbon, and Undercover, with the option to accelerate the regeneration with stunts Ã la Hot Pursuit (2010). Need for Speed (2015), Payback and Heat let you choose between a "Time Refill" nitrous (refills over time) or an "Action Refill" nitrous (refills with stunts).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Somewhat of an example, as prior to the Mazda Miata being drivable in Underground, a Bland-Name Product version of the car could be seen as traffic in earlier games.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	Hot Pursuit 2 had a helicopter that would rain bombs across the road to blow you and your car to smithereens. The PlayStation 2 port amped this up by allowing the helicopter to dump two bomb barrels at once instead of just one, as well as firing a heat-seeking torpedo toward you, and worst of all, dropping spike strip bombs in front of you. All because you were speeding.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c	type	Ghost Town
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c	comment	The Need for Speed had the Rusty Springs Raceway and Burnt Sienna.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2de7bbf1	comment	F-8 comes across as this in Rivals overlapping with both Nominal Hero and Knight Templar during the opening narration, having no qualms about putting the racers into walls to stop them and considering any civilian that complains an Ungrateful Bastard. The trope itself becomes deconstructed, with F-8 becoming a villainous Rabid Cop as he brutally took down many racers in the Cop career's ending, and getting fired for his excessive use of brutality.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2f755152	type	Invisible Wall
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_2f755152	comment	All the boroughs in Underground 2, Most Wanted (2005), and Carbon start out locked by an Invisible Wall.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_308ac24f	comment	The police from Most Wanted (2005), are all similar to overprotective, Fantasy-Forbidding Fathers, which some people may relate to.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	comment	Most Wanted (2005) sees the return of the helicopter, now stripped of its weaponry. Instead, in Heat level 4 it merely hovers around close to you causing heavy dust to pick up and block your vision, making it easier for you to crash. In Heat levels 5 and 6, it resorts to directly ramming you to force you to crash or flip over.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_319037b9	type	Dream Match Game
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_319037b9	comment	Dream Match Game: Where else are you going to see cars like the Audi R8, Nissan GT-R, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, Koeingsegg Agera R, Ford Mustang and the Ferrari 458 Italia go head-to-head? Nowhere else. Most Wanted (2012)'s overlapping car classes allow players to use everyday cars like the Ford Focus(es) and the Range Rover Evoque go up against said exotics and possibly win.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_34439d52	type	Rubber-Band A.I.
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_34439d52	comment	Rubber-Band A.I.: Present in every game since the first era, but infamously exaggerated since Underground. Depending on what game you play, you're getting overtaken in split seconds, or you're getting sandwiched by some bumping opponents. Underground 2 actually lets you turn it off, and you'll suddenly find yourself winning races by miles.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_35566274	type	I Let You Win
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_35566274	comment	One of the bosses in Carbon is a (presumably German) guy named Wolf. Subverted again in that if you beat him, he lets out a meek "I Let You Win."
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Nikki Morris in Underground 2 is played by the British Kelly Brook, and while she's apparently playing a invoked Fake American as she hides her accent pretty well though the game, it sometimes does come through. (e.g. "It's over for him! Ovah!") In Hot Pursuit (2010), listen to the woman who reads off each car's description in the vehicle selection menu. She frequently slips between an American accent and a British one, especially on words like "dollars" and "goggles" (for example: the SLR Stirling Moss).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: The Toyota AE86 from Underground 2 onward, and the Tesla Roadster Sport in Most Wanted (2012). Despite their rather dowdy appearance compared to other cars, they have fantastic handling and, in the right hands, beat much faster cars. The latter even has Mods that make it nigh-unstoppable.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	comment	Koenigsegg CCX with modifications. You can't get any more awesome than that!
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3ca175f4	type	Driving Test
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3ca175f4	comment	Before Underground, Porsche Unleashed actually has one in Factory Driver side mode, which consisted mainly of a plethora of Driving Test and Training Stages to test your skills.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3d699462	comment	The Seacrest Tour in Hot Pursuit (2010): a 43-mile, roughly 15-minute race across almost the entirety of the virtual county you've been burning rubber on throughout the game. Tends to be a Curb-Stomp Battle against you if you make too many mistakes. The last racer event in Rivals is just like this, but adds cops into the mix.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3dd3951e	comment	Undercover started out as this assuming the player being a Cowboy Cop infiltrating The Triads and the Tongs. This trope ultimately gets subverted in the final act where a Dirty Cop killed the Triad leader for the deal, prompting the player to clear his name by busting her in a police pursuit involving hundreds of cop cars.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3ec10530	type	Wacky Racing
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3ec10530	comment	Wacky Racing: With licensed Cool Cars, to boot! Imagine Super Smash Bros. as a racing game.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_41d3778a	type	Benevolent Architecture
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_41d3778a	comment	Benevolent Architecture: Some of those cities look like racetracks with houses.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Underground 2 to the first Underground is a downplayed example.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: Underground starts with a race in a tuned car that's revealed to be a Dream Intro, Underground 2 starts with a borrowed tuned car, Most Wanted (2005) starts with a powerful BMW M3 that is sabotaged and lost in a bet, and Carbon starts with you thrashing that same BMW. Defied in Hot Pursuit (2010). A starter cop mission gives you a Lamborghini Reventon, and things don't get worse from there. Mind you, Hot Pursuit (2010) absolutely loves this trope, heck, fairly early in the game (whichever side of the law you are on), you're gonna get a preview of a handful of cars you won't be driving for a while. The best examples include the McLaren F1, Pagani Zonda Cinque, Corvette ZR1 and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. All of which can be unlocked after a few hours of playing. Another example occurs in the form of the following: More often than not, you'll unlock regular events that you have no eligible cars for (eg. Porsche Patrol, which unlocks much earlier than either of the 2 eligible cars you can use for that event). In such a case, you'll be loaned an eligible car just for that event. Yes, the Veyron and the Koenigsegg CCXR are the last two cars you'll unlock. In Rivals, one of the later Speedlists/Assignments will give you the keys to an end-game car from the opposite side of the law (the Enzo Ferrari for Cops and the Koenigsegg Agera R for Racers) with fully-leveled preset Pursuit Tech. The 2015 reboot subverts this: the first car you get to drive as a "taste" is a pokey, bone-stock, black Foxbody Mustang. After that, you start your career with one of 3 slow cars: either a Subaru BRZ, a Honda Civic Type R, or... a red Foxbody Mustang.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Getting Totaled (either by crashing your car so hard, or flip your car upside-down rolling) treats you a painstakingly cinematic scene of your heavily-damaged car crashing at a certain moments like ramming a traffic head-on or a mishap airborne.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Just about every game in the series, but Hot Pursuit (2010) takes it to the extreme. Think about it, Seacrest County has tall redwoods, a large lake, long rivers, a mountain range up north, long stretches of desert... all presented in Crysis-matching graphics! It just looks absolutely brilliant! Rivals on Windows PCs, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One beats that using the Frostbite 3 engine. The 2015 reboot continues the trend, with Ventura Bay possibly being the best-looking locale seen in the series so far. The PC version exploits this trope to the fullest extent with 4K graphics and an unlocked framerate, which was a huge breath of relief for those coming from the (underwhelming) PC port for Rivals.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: This is a car racing game series that somehow keeps reinventing itself all the time. While all of them share the concept of racing cars, the exact circumstances of it change drastically between them. First, it was about racing exotic cars driving in exotic locations (Hot Pursuit 2 and earlier). Then it became about urban tuners driving in urban environments (Underground to Carbon) with open world elements added in (Underground 2 to Carbon) in nighttime illegal street races (except in Most Wanted 2005, which was during the day), with cheesy plots around them. Then it became about organized racing (ProStreet). Then it went back to open world illegal street racing with cheesy plots (Undercover). Then it was back to organized racing again (Shift) and also brought in cartoonish street races (Nitro). Then back to car tuning and illegal street racing in an open world, but this time with a multiplayer focus (World). Then was thrown back to exotic cars in an exotic location (Hot Pursuit 2010). Then back again to organized racing (Shift 2: Unleashed). Then it became heavily-cinematic racing (The Run). Then it was back again to open world street racing in urban environments, except it was now in the style of Burnout Paradise (Most Wanted 2012). Then it went back to an exotic location again, but still maintaining the open world and bringing back the cheesy plots (Rivals). Then it got an original installment on mobile devices (No Limits). Then it returned to nighttime open world illegal street racing once again with live-action cutscenes returning for the first time in years (Need for Speed 2015). Then it opened up to off-road driving for the first time with a loot box mechanic (Payback). Then it dropped the loot boxes and added a switchable day/night mechanic, combining sanctioned races with illegal street races (Heat). And finally, it was retooled again, now that the franchise has switched main developers once more, with an art style mixing realism with cel-shaded anime-styled characters and graffiti effects (Unbound).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4f0b6445	type	Announcer Chatter
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4f0b6445	comment	Announcer Chatter: The early games had an announcer that would read aloud the countdown to start the race ("3... 2... 1... GO!"), announce your current position whenever you overtook an opponent, and announce on which position you ended the race. Crewmembers in Carbon often fulfil this role; making a comment about how they and the player will win the race before the start, telling the player when they take first place, commenting if the police arrive mid-race, and finally another comment about the player or themselves winning the race (or even complaining if they lose the race). ProStreet has the race announcer going on and on about Ryan Cooper (the player character) with undiminished enthusiasm from the first to the last race. It went to the point a few people were venting their anger on forums after having to listen to the race commentator chatter on and on.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first game was a simulation racer made in collaboration with Road & Track magazine. Starting with the second game, the series switched to arcade-style racing and never looked back (with the exception for ProStreet and the Shift games). As noted above under Darker and Edgier, it also had a lot of very dark content, especially concerning the police chases, that later games did not replicate. Only the first five games had vehicle showrooms with information about the cars, which was dropped later on.note Hot Pursuit 2 and Hot Pursuit (2010) had only a narrator giving information about the cars, and both the 2015 reboot and Unbound had written briefings about them. While Expys of real-life vehicles appearing as part of traffic is a constant across the franchise, the early games featured completely fictional supercars, usually as a bonus car and generally being the fastest car in their given games. These include the Warrior PTO E/2 in The Need for Speed, the FZR 2000 in Need for Speed II, El NiÃ±o in III: Hot Pursuit, and La NiÃ±a and the Phantom in High Stakes. After the latter game, this was dropped, presumably because by then real-life supercars were already starting to catch up with their top speed. The first arcade game in the series was GT, a renamed version of Hot Pursuit 2. Later arcade games used the exact same names as their home versions.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50727f8d	type	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50727f8d	comment	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Or rather, Getting Arrested is a Slap on the Wrist. The ultimate goal of the Pursuit races in World was to keep going for as long as you possibly can (or want) while causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to the state. It's up to you to keep the event going if you lose the police, by actively seeking them back out again. If you happened to get arrested though, all you suffered was a loss of a couple hundred dollars. Same in Most Wanted (2012), expect that when the player is busted they only lose all SpeedPoints that they've accumulated throughout the chase and return to the most recently used Jack Spot. It's rather riskier for Racers in Rivals as the only way they can keep their SpeedPoints (as it's considered currency in that game) is bank them at a hideout. Since the more SpeedPoints they accumulate in a session, the higher their heat level goes up, and the more police will be after them. Worse, if they get busted by a player Cop, that player will get all the Racer's SpeedPoints. Averted in Most Wanted (2005), where you have a limit on how many times you can pay for your infractions when you get busted before the police takes the car you're driving. You can increase the limit, and you can pay with a special marker to make the cops ignore the chase altogether, but both of these options are limited. This also seems to be the case in-universe for both III: Hot Pursuit and the 2010 Hot Pursuit where being stopped means a simple speeding ticket and fine. In III: Hot Pursuit's case, you get as many chances as there are laps in a Hot Pursuit Race and the first time being pulled over will have the cop simply urge you to watch your speed or "pretend your accelerator was stuck". In the latter case, it seems completely trashing the carbotanium body of a Zonda Cinque Roadster means that the racer was issued with a ticket judging by the dialogue in SCPD events.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The premise of Hot Pursuit (2010). "Hey, that guy is speeding! Quickly, lets lay down spike strips, use electromagnetic pulses, call in the helicopters, and ram them off the road! Hopefully off the side of a cliff! That'll teach them a lesson about speeding!" In Most Wanted (2012), getting in a crash with a cop car will always start a pursuit, regardless of who hit who. If you hit the cop, this results in everything listed above. If the cop hits you, they will also do everything listed above. Who knew getting hit by the police was a crime?
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: In the original game, open road tracks disable traffic and cops in multiplayer and tournament modes due to hardware limitations. The manual handwaves this by stating that the cops are all resting in the donut shop. The commercials for Hot Pursuit 2 included a Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago or a HSV CoupÃ© GTS parking near a Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser, and the driver and/or passenger doing various taunts to the police officers in the cruiser, including showing their ass to the officers, using graffiti in a "speed limit" sign to paint a 1 before the 65 to "increase" it, ask them for directions to the nearest bank so they can rob it... and taunting the police with donuts, and then smugly eating those in front of them. In Most Wanted (2005), there's a donut shop in Rockport, and the police unsurprisingly can be seen hanging out there in some cutscenes, such as the intro for the race against Blacklist #13 Vic. Ironically, the shop's giant donut sign counts as one of the game's Pursuit Breakers, meaning that during a police pursuit the player can knock it down so that it falls over police cars to disable them. One of Undercover's "Busted" cutscenes has the officers deciding that the moment they detained you is just the right time for a snack break, bring over a box of donuts, and one of the officers throws his donut at the player while handcuffed and prone on the floor.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Par for the course of a Racing Game. Each game has the player character seeking to become the best driver of the setting and/or competition.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: After the reveal of Need for Speed Unbound, EA changed the app artwork of Need for Speed Payback, Need for Speed Heat, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered so that their logos had the same white/green color scheme as Unbound's logo and made the rest of their artwork greyscale except for their main cover cars.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_54e24bd	type	Slo-Mo Big Air
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_54e24bd	comment	Slo-Mo Big Air: Common in the Black Box-era games. In Most Wanted (2005) this can actually be a hindrance, because you might not be able to see where you're going during a chase due to the camera shifting to a more cinematic angle. Or you get stuck on top of one of the police cruisers and busted. Though all of these can be disabled in the options menu, so you may rest easy.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5534431f	type	Money for Nothing
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5534431f	comment	Money for Nothing: A problem in any game that lets you customize by using cash. You'll end up with a big bank account from winning races yet none of the higher level part tiers will open up so you can buy new swag with your loot. By the time you have the option of buying new parts, very often they won't dent your funds enough that you'll care. Even more so in Shift 2: Unleashed, cars and upgrades are sold at exactly the same price as their bought, meaning you'll wind up with ever increasing amounts of money.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7	comment	Nostalgia Level: In Carbon, the track "Gold Valley Run" is actually a remake of a section of Jackson Heights from Underground 2. The Memory Lane career tier in the PC release of High Stakes has you driving in courses from the previous game.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: In many games that have police, if your heat level gets high enough, cops will start deploying spike strips (or "stingers") with their roadblocks. Even losing one tire to one will cause your vehicle to be very difficult to control, and is usually followed by the cops arresting you. In Most Wanted (2005), pop the tires and it's Game Over.note All the tires, that is, as if you manage to leave at least one tire intact, you'll still drive, depending how fast your car is. In later games such as Carbon or Undercover, you can still drive depending how fast your car is, but you'll end up having a higher risk of getting busted as long you're not getting boxed by the police cruisers.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd	type	Slippy-Slidey Ice World
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd	comment	Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Mystic Peaks in Need for Speed II, the most difficult track in the game, takes place on the peak of a snow-capped mountain in Nepal with numerous tight corners and decreased grip on the roads. Similarly with Country Woods and Summit in III: Hot Pursuit. Two tracks from III: Hot Pursuit that also appear in the PC version of High Stakes have courses that take place during the winter. Stage 5 of The Run takes you in the snowy peaks of Colorado. Be on the lookout for avalanches!
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: Most exotics and hypercars in Hot Pursuit (2010) are the fastets cars in the game, but are the most susceptible to get totalled. The BMW M3 GTR, the (supposedly) ultimate car in Most Wanted (2005), gets destroyed at the start of Carbon after being lightly hit by falling pipes. Which is odd, considering the amount of crap it goes through in the final pursuit of Most Wanted (2005).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Police AIs in any of the NFS games that feature them invoke this trope religiously. Slightly averted however if the player straps down as a cop themselves in the Hot Pursuit games and Rivals, but is still invoked when the player arrives on the scene and the initial pursuit units step back and allow the player to act. Undercover started out as this assuming the player being a Cowboy Cop infiltrating The Triads and the Tongs. This trope ultimately gets subverted in the final act where a Dirty Cop killed the Triad leader for the deal, prompting the player to clear his name by busting her in a police pursuit involving hundreds of cop cars. The police AI in the 2015 reboot was so amazingly dumb it was actually difficult to gain the achievement of escaping a two-star pursuit, simply because baiting them into chasing you was hard to begin with, and then you had to go out of your way to babysit the police into increasing your wanted level. Needless to say, this was very much thoroughly fixed by the time Heat's night-time police was rolled out.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	type	Bribing Your Way to Victory
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: Some versions of Carbon, ProStreet, and Undercover all let you unlock cars and parts early by paying real money. World was definitely this as well, as a lot of the nicer cars cost SpeedBoost (which was a real-money-based currency in that game).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: At least half of the (normally) playable Need for Speed II cars, such as Ford GT90, Ford Indigo, Italdesign Cala, and Isdera Commendatore. In general, concept cars and prototypes are the epitome of these. Dodge Challenger Concept, Nissan GT-R Proto, you name it.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: On many occasions, you'll be surprised to discover that the police SUV is in fact much faster than the given game's fastest car running at top speed. Those police SUVs were especially annoying in World; after an update was added to the game to make pursuits in higher Heat Levels tougher, it seemed that in every Heat Level 5 pursuit there are always two more Rhinos coming at you every ten seconds. Ironically, in the original Hot Pursuit,note the PC release the police AI was a lot dumber, making the very hook of the game much easier than its single player! Exaggerated in Most Wanted (2012). While the racers aren't really bad, it's the Fairhaven Police Department, who is totally cheap. It has cars with variable top speed (not even a Veyron Super Sport can outrun them without few difficulties), it loves to stalk you at will, and continuously spams roadblocks on roads where crossroads are absent or just far away. They can also wreck you without warning from behind (as opposed to a shunt) and a bulk of the city doesn't offer alternate routes, meaning even if you're in a cooldown area, you could be surrounded in one or both directions of swarming cops coming to continue the chase. And plus, if you just do one single misstep, they can easily bust you without even trying or when you manage to escape from them, but it's too late. Also, cop cars can and will spawn around you as soon as you approach a repair shop. In Hot Pursuit 2, after the cops use the spike strips for the first time, more spike strips, not flanked by cop cars, will be on the road, and will be darker, so you can't see them, and you get busted after unknowingly running over them.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Big Bad of Most Wanted (2005) is nicknamed Razor. Subverted in that the game's files reveal that his real name is Clarence Callahan, and his performance whenever you have to race him makes him rather anti-climatic, even with the M3 GTR. One of the bosses in Carbon is a (presumably German) guy named Wolf. Subverted again in that if you beat him, he lets out a meek "I Let You Win." Spike in the 2015 reboot. Subverted in that he's a young, non-threatening guy who's on his father's trust fund.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	comment	Sure, its cars are largely outdated by today's standards, but the first The Need for Speed deserves special merit for including Cool Cars from all three main genres of cars, so there's a little something for everybody. Love beautiful exotic cars? The Lamborghini Diablo, Ferrari 512TR and Porsche 911 Carrera are for you. Prefer raw muscle power? Give the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 and Dodge Viper RT-10 a shot. Enjoy timeless Japanese tuners? Can't go wrong with the Acura NSX, Mazda RX-7 and the Toyota Supra Turbo.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_62f74908	type	Road Block
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_62f74908	comment	Road Block: Used in the Hot Pursuit games, Most Wanted games, Carbon, Rivals, and No Limits; the usual way to clear them is by either squeezing through a narrow opening, or ramming your way through. Can be deployed by cop players in Hot Pursuit 2, Hot Pursuit (2010), and Rivals. In Rivals specifically, anyone can deploy police road blocks in OverWatch on the Need for Speed Network. The correct way to get through them in Hot Pursuit (2010) is to shoot a gap just a little larger than your car (earning a dodged roadblock bonus). The computer regularly aims for them, but they do clip a cop car from time to time, which can lead to an easy takedown or bust. Also in Most Wanted (2012), there's even tactical road blocks made up of impassible armored trucks that are used to guide players in a certain direction during events.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	type	Critical Existence Failure
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	comment	Critical Existence Failure: In Hot Pursuit (2010) and Rivals, the damage modeling usually means that cars on the verge of being wrecked look the part - but they're still perfectly capable of driving like new until that last sliver of health is gone. In addition, it is possible to get caught in a pileup at a roadblock with other drivers, leading to some hilarious, spectacular moments as one watches cars suddenly become wrecked by a fender bender.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6552b710	comment	As a cop, you are always this in some of the installments that lets you play as them (Hot Pursuit games and Undercover for example), since you're the only cop trying to chase down the street racers, or in Undercover's case, taking down The Syndicate.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_659702b0	type	Photo Mode
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_659702b0	comment	Photo Mode: Most games since Carbon (the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions) have a photo mode that allowed players to move the camera around their car.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_681077c5	type	Wide-Open Sandbox
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_681077c5	comment	Wide-Open Sandbox: Bayview in Underground 2, Rockport in Most Wanted (2005), Palmont City in Carbon, Tri-City Bay in Undercover, Fairhaven in Most Wanted (2012), Redview County in Rivals, Ventura Bay in the 2015 game, Fortune Valley in Payback, and Palm City in Heat. Seacrest County from the 2010 Hot Pursuit would also count if the free roam wasn't optional. Motor City in Motor City Online, Olympic City in the first Underground and Blackridge in No Limits avert this trope.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Daft street racing with a straight face is what the games are basically about. The police in Hot Pursuit (2010) and Rivals have dedicated speed enforcement units with tricked-out cars to match those of racers.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6ca52003	type	Master of All
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6ca52003	comment	Master of All: Generally, in most of the games post-Underground, you play a singular street racer who rises through the ranks facing off against a Quirky Miniboss Squad of the city/state's racing crews. Usually, each one uses a particular kind of car type, while you have access to all the types and progressively beat them at their own game. Payback subverts this with you playing as a crew who fufill a race equivalent of Fighter, Mage, Thief typing, rather than one racer using them all.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	type	Marathon Level
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	comment	Marathon Level: Event 30 of Championship mode in the Black Box release of Hot Pursuit 2: Ten laps on Palm City Island. It takes about half an hour to complete. Event 29 in Hot Pursuit 2's Ultimate Racer mode is an 8-race tournament, with 3 laps per race. Takes even longer. You have to finish first in the tournament to unlock the next event, but fortunately you can restart individual races without having to start the whole tournament over again. Tournaments in the Special Edition of Need for Speed II and III: Hot Pursuit have you race on all of the tracks in the respective games (excluding the unlockable Monolith Studios in Special Edition of Need for Speed II and Empire City in III: Hot Pursuit) with four laps per race, meaning on some of the later advanced tracks such as Mystic Peaks or Summit, this can take upwards of over ten minutes, doubly so with Class C vehicles. Both PC and PlayStation releases of High Stakes have this as their final career event, driving around most of the tracks the player has previously driven in different time and weather conditions. The Collector's Edition of Carbon has the checkpoint track "Around the World" in the challenge series, in which the player has to drive Kenji's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX around Palmont City. The Seacrest Tour in Hot Pursuit (2010): a 43-mile, roughly 15-minute race across almost the entirety of the virtual county you've been burning rubber on throughout the game. Tends to be a Curb-Stomp Battle against you if you make too many mistakes. The last racer event in Rivals is just like this, but adds cops into the mix. "On the Dream Team" in the 2015 reboot. You'll face-off against the main cast including the Icons in a race around the whole Ventura Bay. Endurance races in Shift 2: Unleashed also counts as this, with each race averaging from 30 minutes to about an hour to complete.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	type	Cosmetic Award
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	comment	The platinum Trophy for the PS4 version of the 2015 reboot is titled "I Feel the Need...", once again explicitly referencing the film that gave Need for Speed its name.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: For the most part, starting with Underground in 2003, the plots are just there to get you on the road at extremely high speeds. Usually introduced at the beginning and quickly forgotten until the end (and sometimes not even then). Before Underground, Porsche Unleashed actually has one in Factory Driver side mode, which consisted mainly of a plethora of Driving Test and Training Stages to test your skills. The entire story of Rivals (which seems to be some kind of one-on-one war between a recently-recruited cop with the call sign "F-8" and a rising street racer named "Zephyr") really only seems to exist to give the characters some philosophical monologues.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: The full title of the original The Need for Speed game is Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, as EA collaborated with automobile magazine Road & Track to match vehicle behavior and mimicking the sounds made by the vehicles' gears. To distinguish it from the original 2005 game, the 2012 reinterpretation of Most Wanted was sometimes promoted as Need for Speed: Most Wanted â€“ A Criterion Game.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_744e3311	comment	If playing as a cop in other games like Hot Pursuit (2010), you are still indulging in Police Brutality such as destroying properties and other cars, making you a villainous Rabid Cop at the worst.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_75eb8771	type	Mad Libs Dialogue
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_75eb8771	comment	Mad Libs Dialogue: Many of the games with cop chatter use the same dialogue, with the only difference being what car the player was driving (and the color of it), as well as the location of the pursuit. It was well-done in III and onward, as well as the in-game track guide, there are occasional slip-ups but it's hard to notice. There's even a generic "sports car" line for add-on cars, special cars like the El NiÃ±o, or cars that aren't sold in North America. A classic example from the Hot Pursuit games: Or even this example in the PC version of High Stakes:
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_765a84eb	type	Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_765a84eb	comment	Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: Spike Strips? EMP? Nah, only a metal wound in Hot Pursuit (2010) and Rivals. Most Wanted (2012) (which lacks EMPs) even has instant repair shops and reinflatable tires to handle spike strips. Averted in other games though, as the pursuit is basically over if you hit the Spike Strips.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_779a531f	type	Improbably Cool Car
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_779a531f	comment	Improbably Cool Car: Too many kids seem to be able to get ahold of Lamborghinis. Especially the Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni (250 units produced) and the Sesto Elemento (20 units produced).note To put it in perspective, not even the filmmakers behind the 2014 film couldn't get ahold of a Sesto Elemento, and as a result had to resort to a replica of its chassis mounted on a kart-type car. The cops in general in many games have unlikely cop cars. While Most Wanted (2005), Carbon and Hot Pursuit (2010) slightly averts the trope a bit, by having cars that are justifiable (Ford Crown Victoria-ish units as Local level and Pontiac GTOs at State level; the Crown Victoria being one of the mainstay fleet cars of numerous police departments in the United States, and if you consider similar-looking GTOs being in use by the Aussie police forces as an example of proper usage of said car), the other games have cop cars that are either unlikely, would be extremely cost-prohibitive, or not justifiable. The Run is probably the most egregious offender on this; not only it featured the Ford Police Interceptor Concept as the "base" police unit (a car that went into production in late 2012, even though the game was released in 2011), but it also featured the Dodge Charger SRT-8, Nissan GT-R, and even the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni as patrol cars. Add to that that other games in the series having a fleet of hypercars as police units at least have the excuse of taking place in a single city that's usually singled out as having a street racing problem, but The Run is supposed to take place across the entire contiguous United States. Any game featuring the Pagani Zonda Cinque counts as an example of this.note Technically, there are only ten: Five coupÃ©s and five roadster versions. "Cinque" is Italian for "five", hence the name. The McLaren F1 LM in Hot Pursuit 2, which then returned in DLC for Most Wanted (2012). Stretching that even further, the model used in Most Wanted (2012) was its prototype, the XP1 LM. Then it appears again in Rivals for the police side with its respective variants. The Koenigsegg CCXR, of which there are only four of them made! Yet, there is a police version with blue carbon fiber. The aforementioned Koenigsegg One:1 from Rivals. It goes as far as to be featured in four different incarnations - one racing and three police variations corresponding with each branch of RCPD (Patrol, Enforcer, Undercover). In real life, only six One:1 hypercars had been made, yet the online mode allows the cop players to assemble entire fleets based exclusively on this car if they so wish. Same also goes for other DLC cars - Jaguar C-X75 Prototype, Lamborghini Miura Concept, etc. Even the "speedster" type of vehicles (with no windshield and roof to speak of!) gets more ridiculous. In 2010 version of Hot Pursuit, racers can drive Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss Edition (of which only 75 units exist). Most Wanted (2012), however, brings one-of-a-kind Lamborghini Aventador J to the table as part of game's Ultimate Speed DLC pack. Need for Speed II was even worse, featuring Ford GT90s, Indigos, Mustang Mach IIIs, Italdesign (BMW) Nazca C2s and (Lamborghini) Calas, all of which, for those who are confused, never went into production! III: Hot Pursuit then had the Italdesign (Alfa Romeo) Scighera (which had only been available in the PC version, the PlayStation version had the aforementioned Nazca C2). You could also have the just as rare Spectre R42 and the Lister Storm as official car add-ons. Carbon, ProStreet and Undercover all feature the Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Camaro concepts, due to the 3rd and 5th respective generation production versions of these iconic American muscle cars arriving later. ProStreet in particular has a Nissan GT-R Proto (a pre-production Super Prototype) available alongside a production model Nissan GT-R (R35). The iconic BMW M3 GTR is an interesting case. Protagonists of different Need for Speed games tend to drive the version of the car which is specifically made to compete in major racing events (American Le Mans Series is the biggest example). 2005 version of Most Wanted also features the road-homologated version of M3 GTR available strictly for Quick Race mode; only 10 of those had been made for real-world clients. Darius' signature ride is Audi Le Mans quattro, a prototype concept which is known as a basis for Audi R8 - another recurring supercar in later Need for Speed rosters. On the less exciting end of the scale, Peugeots, Vauxhalls, Fiats, Alfa Romeos and Renaults in North America.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_7bd8307f	comment	Undercover has the player character, who was tasked to take down the crime ring using such tactics. He eventually managed to put down the Dirty Cop who's behind the scenes all along.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_7df9b299	type	Score Screen
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_7df9b299	comment	Score Screen: Used in all the games, though the Most Wanted games also tally up your pursuit score like this.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	As the name says, the Most Wanted series (2005 and 2012 games). The first game is about to compete in underground world for being the "most wanted" for the cops, as well having a Rabid Cop bother you during the game. The second one is more like previous Hot Pursuit series in which you've to race and earn points to get into the Most Wanted list.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_848153ef	type	Viva Las Vegas!
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_848153ef	comment	Viva Las Vegas!: While the boroughs controlled by the first three bosses from Carbon appear to be stand-ins for regions of California, the fourth one controlled by Darius, Silverton, appears to be a stereotypical depiction of Las Vegas; glitzy, neon-lit casinos and all. The setting of Payback, a region called "Fortune Valley", which includes Silver Rock City and is evocative of the usual Nevada settings (a glitzy, neon-lit city of gambling and high stakes). Beyond the casinos lie vast regions of deserts and canyonlands in the surrounding area.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_868e6134	comment	Songs in the Key of Panic: III: Hot Pursuit did this if you were using the rock or techno Variable Mix pertaining to the track, the music would switch to a short, intense loop when you were being chased by the police, then there was a more intense loop when they were close. Rom Di Prisco opted for shorter, three-to-five second loops while others like Matt Ragan and Saki Kaskas had longer chase loops around fifteen-to-twenty seconds long. Similarly with Most Wanted (2005) where the more police and heat you had, the more intense the music became whereas it became more triumphant when you were starting to lose heat. Rivals as well, the music used more intense variance depending on your status or the music slowed down but remained tense if you or your suspects were escaping.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_87802c9a	type	Rice Burner
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_87802c9a	comment	Rice Burner: Quite possible since Underground, given the games' extensive customzation options. The game has often been accused of encouraging the behavior in real life. The gameplay mechanics encourages them, with Underground 1 visual customizations contribute to points for more visual customization unlockables and specially customized cars, and Underground 2 outright enforce minimum points required for several story-progressing events. Thankfully from Most Wanted onwards they're sensibly made optional with visual customizations in Most Wanted, Carbon, and Undercover, only serves to reduce the "heat" (police recognition) of your car (those who hate ricers can simply repaint their car or changing minor modifications) and in ProStreet, both Shift games, Nitro, the 2015 reboot, and Payback completely optional. Funnily enough, this trope was mocked during High Stakes (which released 4 years before Underground). In the game's opening cinematic, a riced-out Honda Civic Expy joins a race against a bunch of Porsche 911s, Corvettes, Diablos, and all other sorts of cool cars. When the race starts, all the powerful exotics take off at high speeds while the Civic expy barely moves an inch before its engine explodes. The customization aspect was also included in both High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed, but were limited to certain parts due to hardware limitations.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: Hot Pursuit (2010) and Shift 2: Unleashed offer "loyalty bonuses" if you played a previous game in the series, usually in the form of additional experience points. Playing Hot Pursuit (2010) also unlocks two additional cars in Shift 2: Unleashed: a Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster in "NFS Edition" colors, and a Lamborghini Reventon in a Seacrest County PD livery. Most Wanted (2005) and Carbon awards $10,000 in cash if the player have a save file of the previous games stored in their memory card.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: V-Rally and V-Rally 2 were unrelated games, but were nonetheless sold in North America with the Need for Speed prefix. In fact, they were even sold as a Test Drive game for the Dreamcast market.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Possibly the player, since street racing is illegal, depending on your prespective. This is slightly toned down in Carbon. Both Zephyr and F-8 from Rivals. Especially F-8 is so vile as an officer that RCPD kicked him out after the cop career story. Averted in Undercover, which the protagonist is actually an undercover cop. Also averted in track-racing installments, given no illegal street racing elements were included. If playing as a cop in other games like Hot Pursuit (2010), you are still indulging in Police Brutality such as destroying properties and other cars, making you a villainous Rabid Cop at the worst.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Need for Speed II. It starts with an intro video of two cars racing which then turns to light, and in the game itself, the music is more upbeat, most of the cars are Super Prototype, and the tracks are more varied in design, from the racetrack Proving Grounds, the futuristic Outback, to the cross-country Mystic Peaks, to the point that one reviewer call it like "driving on magic mushrooms". Nitro is definitely this, with cartoonish art styles and gameplay to boot.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8a295a46	comment	The intro sequence for Need For Speed II shows a bunch of exotic cars racing along at fast speeds. Except for the McLaren F1, which calmly strolls by a road past the screen, a bunch of fallen leaves flying on its wake. All in slow motion. In the words of a YouTube commenter, the F1 is so alpha it doesn't even need to go fast to show off how awesome it is.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: The Speedbreaker from Most Wanted, Carbon and Undercover. Also counts as Game-Breaker, since it makes your car extremely dense, impossibly responsive, and essentially unstoppable.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: Most of the wrecks, takedowns, busts and crashes in Hot Pursuit (2010) that involve rolling the car multiple times, launching cars off of cliffs, brutal head-on collisions with traffic and sending supercars into walls while going at speeds climbing over 240+ MPH. Especially in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss, a car that literally has no roof and no windshield! A roll-over in that car would clearly kill the driver. Zephyr in Rivals finishes his last event in a high-speed collision with a police roadblock. He seems to have been critically wounded, but then his car's engine starts...
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8e92e125	comment	The cops in general in many games have unlikely cop cars. While Most Wanted (2005), Carbon and Hot Pursuit (2010) slightly averts the trope a bit, by having cars that are justifiable (Ford Crown Victoria-ish units as Local level and Pontiac GTOs at State level; the Crown Victoria being one of the mainstay fleet cars of numerous police departments in the United States, and if you consider similar-looking GTOs being in use by the Aussie police forces as an example of proper usage of said car), the other games have cop cars that are either unlikely, would be extremely cost-prohibitive, or not justifiable. The Run is probably the most egregious offender on this; not only it featured the Ford Police Interceptor Concept as the "base" police unit (a car that went into production in late 2012, even though the game was released in 2011), but it also featured the Dodge Charger SRT-8, Nissan GT-R, and even the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni as patrol cars. Add to that that other games in the series having a fleet of hypercars as police units at least have the excuse of taking place in a single city that's usually singled out as having a street racing problem, but The Run is supposed to take place across the entire contiguous United States.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The player character in every Need for Speed from Underground through Undercover and the 2015 reboot. Doesn't count for older games, Shift games nor Criterion's installments since they have no story.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: Cheat codes in Need for Speed II allow you to drive civilian cars, including limousine and school bus which can punt opponents around like a cat playing with its toy. The police helicopter in High Stakes. You can only use it in a test drive, it hovers just above the road like a car and it's surprisingly slow. The most difficult race in the Challenge Series in Most Wanted (2005) puts you in a very tight checkpoint time trial with an AI traffic Dodge Grand Caravan-expy minivan.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_90328f91	type	Unscrupulous Hero
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_90328f91	comment	Sergeant Cross from Most Wanted (2005) was this, albeit with an whole different flavor. However, he drops the "hero" part in Carbon where he leaves the Rockport Police Department in order to become a Bounty Hunter and going on a vendetta towards the player.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	comment	Most Wanted and Carbon had Municipal and FEDERAL Law Enforcement Units with Chevrolet Corvettes, Undercover had the Highway Patrol sporting Nissan GT-R's and the Locals driving Dodge Challengers (Lamborghini Gallardos and Ford Mustangs in the PS2/Wii versions), and one has to wonder what the budget is for the Seacrest County Police Department in Hot Pursuit (2010) and the Redview County Police Department and VRT in Rivals that allows them to maintain a fleet of a variety of expensive exotics in the motorpool. Even Blackridge Police Department in No Limits had access to McLaren 650S and P1 during certain events! Both Tri-City Bay and Seacrest County justified this (thinly) as they obviously have a very serious street racing problem each, and the street racers are, themselves, driving extremely high-powered exotics. The cops are just responding to the escalation, though the $1.5 million cost for a single Bugatti Veyron is best left unmentioned. In Rivals' case, it is justified that the Redview County PD and VRT are a bunch of Rabid Cops funded by the federal government.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Underground 2 uses still photos retouched to be make to look like the pages of a graphic novel for the cutscenes (a concept that appears to have inspired Carbon - Own the City and the reformulated 3DS/Wii version of The Run for its cutscenes, which are actual comic book-style drawings), while Unbound goes straight by putting cel shaded cartoon characters in a realistic environment (with Nitro having previously used full-blown cartoon style for both its characters and enviroment).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_91cecc1e	type	Exaggerated Trope
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_91cecc1e	comment	Many of the antagonists and opponent racers in the games are this in the second era, but this trope is taken to its zenith in the Underground games, where everyone and their grandmother acts like this to you - just see Dude, Where's My Respect? above.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Generally, cars appear in consecutive games (or at least most of them) in the series until its company produces a successor, then it's phased out. There were some exceptions, however: The Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) and the Toyota Supra appeared in 1994's The Need for Speed, then disappeared from the series until Underground, although the Supra appeared in the online Motor City Online. The Acura NSX, also appearing in The Need for Speed, had it worse. It didn't return to the series until 2007's Need for Speed: ProStreet. And just to rub salt into the wound, while the Supra and RX-7 became mainstays of the franchise, the NSX was put on another bus after 2011's Shift 2: Unleashed, where it remained until the second-generation NSX returned in 2017's Need For Speed: Payback.note It was all due to licensing issues, due to Honda not allowing their cars being used among police chases prior to the 2015 reboot. Similarly, the McLaren F1 appeared first in Need for Speed II and missed two games (not counting the Porsche-exclusive Porsche Unleashed) until Hot Pursuit 2, then missed the Underground games, Most Wanted (2005) and Carbon, and only returned as a DLC car in ProStreet. It would fully return in the base game in Undercover. Alternately, one of its limited edition models, the F1 LM, first appeared in Hot Pursuit 2 (alongside the standard model), then reappeared in Most Wanted (2012) as part of the Ultimate Speed DLC Pack and again in Rivals as a Redview County Police Department unit. In between II and Hot Pursuit 2, its racing version, the F1 GTR (in its "Long Tail" and "Short Tail" variants) appeared in High Stakes. The Lamborghini Diablo SV (which first appeared in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit) followed a similar pattern to the aforementioned F1, but it returned much later, in DLC packs for Hot Pursuit (2010), The Run, and Most Wanted (2012). It wasn't included in the base game again until the 2015 reboot. Ferrari is the biggest example, due to licensing issues — after appearing in all but Porsche Unleashed in the First Era, it missed the entire Second Era, returned as a console-exclusive DLC pack in Shift, then returned full force in Rivals.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_92b95d47	type	Prolonged Video Game Sequel
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_92b95d47	comment	Prolonged Video Game Sequel: Early games mostly focused on arcade-like gameplay and the fantasy of racing super cars. But with subsequent entries like Most Wanted (2005) and Heat, this trope comes into play, with their career modes taking noticeably longer to complete than their previous entries (the Underground duology and Payback, respectively). The first Underground introduced the concept of street racing and tuner car culture into the city, but the sequel Underground 2 expanded them with more gameplay options such as free-roaming and extensive customization beyond the bodykits and performance parts.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The Lincoln Navigator, Hummer H2 and Cadillac Escalade from Underground 2 play to this. Then when have the Volkswagen Type 2, Porsche Cayenne GTS, Hummer H2 SUT and Ford SVT Explorer Sport Trac Adrenaline from Nitro. The Ford F-150 Raptor and Range Rover Evoque serves as this in Most Wanted (2012). With the appropriate mods installed the former can plow through dozens of police cars at high speed. We also have a few of these like BMW X6 M and Mercedes G-Wagon in Payback and Heat.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: ...the police chopper in Hot Pursuit (2010) lacking complete navigation skills. For some reason, it prefers to navigate between spike drop points by flying along the roads with all their twists and turns, instead of simply flying straight over the terrain. The traffic AI's IQ in Most Wanted (2012) is downright idiotic under the right circumstances. It cannot understand the concept of driving around crashed cars, instead preferring to stop for a moment, then drive straight into them. On the off chance that it does go around a crashed car, it will only manage to do so after repeatedly backing up, changing directions slightly, and driving forward again, which usually results in hitting the crashed car a few times more. This can result in massive pileups, as car after car tries to plow straight through a mounting pile of traffic. The "Kings" in ProStreet are actually a lot worse than the AI driven cars leading up to their levels, Nate Denver and Karol Monroe being the worst offenders.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Slowly happens to Razor and Cross in Most Wanted (2005), as well as Darius from Carbon. Chase Linh at the end of Undercover after being arrested by the police.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: You may have remembered some advice you got back in Most Wanted (2005) about slamming into the rear of a police car if you had to hit a roadblock as the cars were weighted towards the front. Do not do this in Hot Pursuit (2010) or Most Wanted (2012)... In the Criterion games, one of the ways to earn nitrous as a racer is by driving in oncoming traffic (something similar happened in Underground 2). This is not the case as a cop, and doing so can cause many unnecessary crashes.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bad of Most Wanted (2005) is nicknamed Razor. Subverted in that the game's files reveal that his real name is Clarence Callahan, and his performance whenever you have to race him makes him rather anti-climatic, even with the M3 GTR.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9723e2cd	type	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9723e2cd	comment	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Most Wanted and Carbon had Municipal and FEDERAL Law Enforcement Units with Chevrolet Corvettes, Undercover had the Highway Patrol sporting Nissan GT-R's and the Locals driving Dodge Challengers (Lamborghini Gallardos and Ford Mustangs in the PS2/Wii versions), and one has to wonder what the budget is for the Seacrest County Police Department in Hot Pursuit (2010) and the Redview County Police Department and VRT in Rivals that allows them to maintain a fleet of a variety of expensive exotics in the motorpool. Even Blackridge Police Department in No Limits had access to McLaren 650S and P1 during certain events! Both Tri-City Bay and Seacrest County justified this (thinly) as they obviously have a very serious street racing problem each, and the street racers are, themselves, driving extremely high-powered exotics. The cops are just responding to the escalation, though the $1.5 million cost for a single Bugatti Veyron is best left unmentioned. In Rivals' case, it is justified that the Redview County PD and VRT are a bunch of Rabid Cops funded by the federal government. The Fairhaven City Police Department in Most Wanted (2012) has Chevrolet Corvettes, Dodge Chargers, and when they can't stop the racers, they bring a ton of invincible S.W.A.T. trucks for roadblocks. Their cars are also capable of clinging to walls and ceilings, multiply and link together to form a giant wheel, stacking on top of each other and spinning like a tornado, defying gravity and can combine to become a giant robot. What the actual fuck? This is actually Exploited in Heat, where it is outright stated that the Palm City Police Department woefully corrupt and abusing their power to get their fleet, and their leader Frank Mercer is caught in a car smuggling operation.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Not done directly, but is played with in Most Wanted and Carbon. Cars which aren't sold in America (such as the Fiat Punto and Vauxhall Monaro VXR etc.) are simply referred to as "sports cars" over police radio chatter, where as others are called out by their manufacturer.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_97c6b148	type	Allegedly Free Game
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_97c6b148	comment	Allegedly Free Game: World was a pretty bad case of this. It relied on the classic trick of a two-tiered currency system, with one tier being in-game money and the other, SpeedBoost, required you to pay real money. You could still go anywhere in the in-game world you'd like and play any events so long as you had the car for it, but SpeedBoost was required to get most of the best cars, card packs, and so on. The mobile No Limits is also free-to-play, but surprisingly it handles the model much more tastefully (for one thing, you can actually earn its premium currency by completing daily assignments and other events). That said, the "fuel" concept (that is anytime you launch an event, including just restarting it, it costs you a limited resource that only gets replenished in time intervals unless you pay the premium currency) is very much of the "free-to-play" origin. It didn't help that the races are rather short either, making players feel like they've finished the race before even starting it. And lately, the game also pushes mandatory ad breaks (that can only be bought over with real money) often after finishing races.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: Mastering the Bugatti Veyron and its faster version, the Super Sport in any game they appear in definitely qualifies. These cars are very difficult to handle, but, being two of the fastest cars in the world, some skill and a bit of practice can make them almost game-breaking. Same with the El NiÃ±o and La NiÃ±a in III: Hot Pursuit and High Stakes/Road Challenge respectively, an extreme amount of top speed and acceleration and an extreme lack of handling, but this only applies to lead foots as letting off the gas will increase the turn rate dramatically and gain you a very high edge in class A races.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9c550e26	comment	Word Salad Title: A lot of the songs in earlier titles that are developed by in-house artists have some pretty weird names such as "Snorkeling Cactus Weasels", "Refried Jumping Beans", "Little Sweaty Sow", "Cerebral Plumbing", etc.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: As a cop, you are always this in some of the installments that lets you play as them (Hot Pursuit games and Undercover for example), since you're the only cop trying to chase down the street racers, or in Undercover's case, taking down The Syndicate. You are especially this in Hot Pursuit (2010)'s Cop mode. Unlike the Hot Pursuit events on the racer side, you are always the only cop after several racers in Hot Pursuit events, and your arrival to Interceptor events is often treated like Superman just arrived on scene. As a racer, you are always this no matter which installment you are on, even when you're racing on tracks. Carbon would be one exception.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a4cb54b4	comment	Shifting Sand Land: Desert levels appear in multiple titles. The Need for Speed had the Rusty Springs Raceway and Burnt Sienna. Need for Speed II had the Outback. III: Hot Pursuit and High Stakes had Redrock Ridge and Lost Canyons. Hot Pursuit 2 had Desert Heat and the Outback.note The point-to-point equivalent is Rocky Canyons, though it's primarily set in Outback. All three only appear in the PlayStation port of the game. Carbon had parts of Silverton and certain canyon levels, which present desert terrain and plant life. Hot Pursuit (2010) and The Run had desert levels. Payback is set entirely in a desert.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a4ffefce	comment	Underground starts with a race in a tuned car that's revealed to be a Dream Intro, Underground 2 starts with a borrowed tuned car, Most Wanted (2005) starts with a powerful BMW M3 that is sabotaged and lost in a bet, and Carbon starts with you thrashing that same BMW.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Somewhat of an example, as prior to the Mazda Miata being drivable in Underground, a Bland-Name Product version of the car could be seen as traffic in earlier games. The Volkswagen Beetle, which was a traffic car in II, becomes a player-usable vehicle in Nitro, and later Payback and Heat, in the latter two actually being able to be turned into an exceptionally fast vehicle after being modded. The black/red Porsche 911 GT2, shown in the Undercover cover art, gets this. In the PS3/Xbox 360/PC versions, it belongs to Rose Largo, one of the GMAC's crew members (thus making the car in the cover art more of The Artifact). In PS2/Wii releases, this was used by Chase Linh, the Big Bad of the game.note All versions of Undercover has the black/red 911 as their cover car, but only the PS2/Wii versions has it as their central focus.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Every third game seems to be centered about cop chases. The third game was III: Hot Pursuit, the sixth game was Hot Pursuit 2, the ninth game was 2005's Most Wanted, the twelfth game was Undercover, the fifteenth game (after Shift and Nitro) is 2010's Hot Pursuit,note Actually the sixteenth game, after World) and the eighteenth game is Most Wanted (2012), again (after Shift 2 and The Run).note Actually the nineteenth game, again because of World.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f	comment	Need for Speed 2015 uses a license plate design from Real Life for the first time in the series (that of California). The Showcase Update would later add Rivals' racer license plate designs as customization choices and allowed players to change the plate frames for the first time, a feature that would stick with subsequent games.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: Hot Pursuit (2010) allows Cops and Racers alike to shoot ranged-damage EMP blasts and drop tire-deflating spike strips at each other. Cops can even order helicopters to do the latter for them and call in roadblock units; Racers have Jammers that can interfere with police department equipment, preventing them from using the aforementioned weapons, as well as Turbo boosts for extreme bursts of speed. Rivals takes the concept further with its Pursuit Tech system. All six weapons from 2010 make a return note Spike Strips are Cop-only this time around, alongside electrostatic fields (allowing both sides to block EMP lock and zap anything that touches them), omnidirectional pulses for racers and forward pulses for cops, and stun mines for racers.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	type	Final Boss
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	comment	Final Boss: Eddie in Underground, Caleb in Underground 2, Razor in Most Wanted (2005), Darius in Carbon, Ryo Watanabe in ProStreet, Chase Linh in Undercover, Jawad in Nitro, Marcus Blackwell in The Run, Jamie Campbell-Walter in Shift 2: Unleashed, the Koenigsegg Agera R in Most Wanted (2012), Zephyr in the Cop storyline of Rivals, the entire RCPD in the Racer storyline of Rivals, Marcus King in No Limits, the five Icons for each of the career paths in the 2015 reboot - including all of them alongside your allies doubling as a True Final Boss, Lina Navarro in Payback, Frank Mercer in Heat, and Yaz in Unbound.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b0155044	comment	Always Night: Every race in the Underground games was at night, which was justified given the illegal street racing that made them up. Carbon did this as well after its predecessor inverted it. The 2015 reboot also does this.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: After the games started to gain a plot, they also started to feature at least one attractive woman whose role, save a few exceptions, was mainly limited to provide fanservice, with some promotional materials even featuring them draped sexily over one of the game's cars. There's Amy Walz and Cindy Johnson in Underground, Brooke Burke and Kelly Brook in Underground 2, Josie Maran in Most Wanted, Emmanuelle Vaugier in Carbon, Krystal Forscutt and Sayoko Hohashi in ProStreet, Maggie Q in Undercover, and Irina Shayk and Chrissy Teigen in The Run.note Incidentally, all of them were developed by EA Black Box. (ProStreet was particularly egregious on this, as Forscutt and Hohashi do not even have speaking roles in it.) It says something that it took until the 2015 reboot, whose main female characters were played by actresses who did not have modeling careers, to completely avert this.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	type	Variable Mix
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	comment	III: Hot Pursuit did this if you were using the rock or techno Variable Mix pertaining to the track, the music would switch to a short, intense loop when you were being chased by the police, then there was a more intense loop when they were close. Rom Di Prisco opted for shorter, three-to-five second loops while others like Matt Ragan and Saki Kaskas had longer chase loops around fifteen-to-twenty seconds long.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: Most Wanted (2005) paints the whole scene brown and orange with the Visual Treatment set on full; Carbon later replaced it with high-tech blue. ProStreet removed it completely, but Undercover goes to a gold-orange. However, the option has been completlely dropped since Shift.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Played straight in the Underground games, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be lapped five times by the end of the race. Underground 2 had the added bonus that pretty much everyone in it treats the player as some sort of country bumpkin, for some reason. (Even Rachel, who's ostensibly on your side, somewhat condescently tells you "This is the big city, you know?" at the start of the game.)
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b6ca5345	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b6ca5345	comment	It's subtle, but while playing as a Racer in Hot Pursuit gamemodes in... Hot Pursuit, the A.I. police does actually engage the A.I. Racers racing with you. It doesnâ€™t sound like a big deal, if it wasn't for the fact that they could have simply made the Police and Racer A.I. only engage you to save the trouble. They don't hold back either, the Police can be seen and heard ramming, administering EMP strikes, and Spike Striping your fellow Racers all around you. However, that doesn't stop...
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b9a27725	type	Stopped Numbering Sequels
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b9a27725	comment	Stopped Numbering Sequels: After III: Hot Pursuit, though that game, Underground, and Shift each got numbered sequels specific to their sub-series.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: There's quite a few, so take a seat. European versions keep the Need for Speed name, but usually had a different subtitle. For example, Porsche Unleashed's subtitle was simply 2000 for the German edition. This practice ended with the release of Hot Pursuit 2. The Japanese versions were sold as the Over Drivin' series until the release of Underground (Japan did not get Porsche Unleashed or Hot Pursuit 2). There were also a few Japanese-exclusive editions of the first game, including an all-Nissan edition (Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial). Despite the name, it featured more than the company's Skyline series of sports cars, as it included various Z-cars and the R390 Le Mans racer. For an in-universe example, Hot Pursuit 2 had "both" the Opel Speedster and the Vauxhall VX220. For those who don't know, the latter is essentially the same car as it is known in the United Kingdom, where it's sold by Vauxhall (Opel and Vauxhall being sister brands, both being owned by General Motors). The only difference is the lack of roof on the VX220 while the Speedster had a slightly higher acceleration. Another in-universe example: Most Wanted had the Pontiac GTO and the Vauxhall Monaro.note Both of these are also marked-based variations of the HSV CoupÃ© GTS, which appeared in Hot Pursuit 2 by itself. The main differences are the GTO's unique front grille and the Monaro's darker taillightsnote For the HSV CoupÃ© GTS, it has the Monaro's front grille and the GTO's redder taillights. The GTO has a marginally higher top speed when fully tuned, while the Monaro has marginally better handling. Other than that, they're basically identical.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ba9073e6	type	Land Downunder
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ba9073e6	comment	Need for Speed II had the Outback.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	comment	Used in the Hot Pursuit games, Most Wanted games, Carbon, Rivals, and No Limits; the usual way to clear them is by either squeezing through a narrow opening, or ramming your way through.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Certain installments like High Stakes, Underground 2 and Most Wanted (2005) tend to have these at random, either having rain pour during a race, or driving on wet roads. Ghost Games installments in particular love this, having rain in every of the games' weather mechanics (Payback is the exception).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c2d978fe	comment	Cheat codes in Need for Speed II allow you to drive civilian cars, including limousine and school bus which can punt opponents around like a cat playing with its toy.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: No Limits actually limits how many events you can race in until you run out of fuel. When you run out, you have to wait a while or spend gold for a full refill before you can race again. Even then, the fuel system is not the only limiter found in the game.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	comment	Broken Bridge: All the boroughs in Underground 2, Most Wanted (2005), and Carbon start out locked by an Invisible Wall. Most Wanted (2005) has the added element of construction equipment and fortified barricades blocking off a certain road which leads to (coincidentally) a literal broken bridge used to escape in the final pursuit. World had this for two areas; one to block access to an incomplete road linking Kempton and Downtown Palmont with Downtown Rockport, and another south of Downtown Rockport past a toll booth that would have apparently allowed access to Tri-City Bay. Most Wanted (2012) averts this, except for access to Hughes International Airport, which can only be accessed if one buys the Terminal Velocity DLC pack. Rivals does this at the beginning of the game during the tutorial missions. After those are completed however, the whole of Redview County can be accessed. III: Hot Pursuit has a variation of this trope. The first four courses in the game have closed alternate routes that deviate from the main path and, in the PlayStation release at least, the ones with the alternate route as the main course can be unlocked by winning the tournament, albeit with a different weather or time of day.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Coastal course in the original had a half-buried Statue of Liberty on the beach at the finish line. No option to scream "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you all to hell!", though. If you wrecked the Lamborgini Diablo in the 3DO version of the original The Need for Speed, the Jerkass opponent racer would tell you: In ProStreet, the announcer quoted one in the Drag Race: "I love the smell of burnt tyres in the morning. Smells like victory!" In Undercover, taking down your targets until their critical condition prompts you to "Finish Him/Her." There's quite a few in Hot Pursuit (2010)'s achievement/trophy list. Just so you know who made the game, there's an achievement/trophy called "Burnout" that requires the player to fully charge up the Nitro Boost and use it all in one go. To drive that point home, one of the routes in game is called Point of Impact. One achievement/trophy requires the player to win a certain event in a "bee yellow" Camaro. The name of the achievement? "Flight of the Bumblebee". There's another achievement/trophy called "Iron Man" that requires completing three police events in an Audi R8. And there's one called "Shaken, Not Stirred" that requires completing an event in an Aston Martin vehicle. Speaking of James Bond and Astons, there's another Aston-only event called "Do look after it". Finally, there's one called "Godzilla" that requires completing a certain police event in a Nissan GT-R Spec V with no weapons used, a reference to the film series and the Affectionate Nickname of the car in question. One of the Racer events in the Lamborghini Untamed Downloadable Content pack is called Cannonball and has the player racing against the clock and police in a Lamborghini Countach. The event even has a small homage to the opening credits of that film in the opening intro to the event. In a bit of a throwback, hitting top speed in the Lamborghini Diablo SV on a coastal road nets you the achievement "The Diablo You Know", referencing both III: Hot Pursuit and the coastal tracks "Atlantica" and "Aquatica". In certain events in Shift, the other drivers are called Izabel Diaz, Karol Monroe, Nate Denver, Gavin May or Hendrick Dehn amongst others, names you encountered in earlier NFS games. The franchise title is inspired by a quote in Top Gun: "I feel the needâ€¦ the Need for Speed!" In Hot Pursuit (2010), an F-14 can be seen flying near the desert portion of the Memorial Highway. In the 2014 film, Benny, Tobey's team pilot, insists to be addressed as "Maverick". In addition, the film's tagline is "Feel the Need". The platinum Trophy for the PS4 version of the 2015 reboot is titled "I Feel the Need...", once again explicitly referencing the film that gave Need for Speed its name.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The two Underground games and ProStreet were more colorful than the rest of the second-era games, and so is the 2015 reboot compared to Rivals. Shift and Nitro were downplayed examples to Undercover.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d139ffaf	comment	Then was thrown back to exotic cars in an exotic location (Hot Pursuit 2010).
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d6519b1b	comment	The reason why F-8 got fired at the end of the cop career in Rivals.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The V-Rally series (which only bore the NFS name for branding; was eventually passed to the Test Drive name later). Beetle Adventure Racing was envisioned as a Need for Speed title for the Nintendo 64 but eventually became a VW Beetle-focused racing game. The Shift games are trying to draw a divide between themselves and the rest of the franchise, with the second game dropping the name and being called Shift 2: Unleashed, albeit still using the stylized "n" logo the franchise used at the time.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_db1260c5	type	World Tour
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_db1260c5	comment	World Tour: The biggest theme of Need for Speed II, which had tracks set in eight different countries.Which? Norway, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Greece, Nepal, United States; Mexico only appears in the Special Edition. The theme got revisited to a slightly lesser extent in High Stakes, featuring seven countries.Which? United Kingdom (Scotland, England), Germany, United States, Canada, France, Spain, Italy; the last two are merely settings for Formula One-themed closed circuits. Both ProStreet and the two Shift games have a sanctioned take on this trope, with races held on fixed race tracks and drag strips as well as street tracks in different countries. Nitro explores five different cities (six in the DS version of the game) with different road conditions and a top racer in each.Which? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cairo, Egypt; Madrid, Spain; Singapore; and Dubai, UAE. The DS version also features San Diego, USA.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	In the original game, open road tracks disable traffic and cops in multiplayer and tournament modes due to hardware limitations. The manual handwaves this by stating that the cops are all resting in the donut shop.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_dcff8307	type	Multi-Platform
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_dcff8307	comment	Multi-Platform: Among the big three racing game franchises (the other two being PlayStation's Gran Turismo and Xbox's Forza), this franchise is the only one to be available on both brands' platforms as well as computers.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: The PC version of High Stakes demonstrates some pretty fancy artificial intelligence that is usually unnoticed by a lot of players. In Classic and Time Trap modes, the police react to the first call of them engaging pursuit with a speeder - usually the next unit up the road will lay out a roadblock or spike strip to hopefully intercept them. The police helicopter plays a big part in Getaway mode, and is a minor convenience in other modes. In Getaway if they spot the speeder (if they're not hiding in a tunnel), they will call out them out, all the police AI react and start swarming towards the location and the speeder's location will appear on the radar. Unlike later games (see below), in High Stakes if you haven't already been chased by the police in a race it's entirely possible to drive right by them with no consequences if you're doing the speed limit and not being reckless. This would be useful if not for the game's tendency to spawn police cars just far enough down the road behind you that by the time your radar goes off for you to slow down, they've already seen you and initiated pursuit. It's subtle, but while playing as a Racer in Hot Pursuit gamemodes in... Hot Pursuit, the A.I. police does actually engage the A.I. Racers racing with you. It doesnâ€™t sound like a big deal, if it wasn't for the fact that they could have simply made the Police and Racer A.I. only engage you to save the trouble. They don't hold back either, the Police can be seen and heard ramming, administering EMP strikes, and Spike Striping your fellow Racers all around you. However, that doesn't stop...
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: The first two NFS games both had "Special Editions" released roughly six months to a year after the originals. The first NFS Special Edition had two new tracks, Windows 95 support, an expanded soundtrack and various updates to the game engine, while NFS2 Special Edition had one new track, six new cars, the "Wild" mode, and support for 3D graphics cards.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e32c80d9	comment	The commercials for Hot Pursuit 2 included a Lamborghini MurciÃ©lago or a HSV CoupÃ© GTS parking near a Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser, and the driver and/or passenger doing various taunts to the police officers in the cruiser, including showing their ass to the officers, using graffiti in a "speed limit" sign to paint a 1 before the 65 to "increase" it, ask them for directions to the nearest bank so they can rob it... and taunting the police with donuts, and then smugly eating those in front of them.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e431c24c	comment	Zephyr in Rivals finishes his last event in a high-speed collision with a police roadblock. He seems to have been critically wounded, but then his car's engine starts...
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e5421161	comment	Funnily enough, this trope was mocked during High Stakes (which released 4 years before Underground). In the game's opening cinematic, a riced-out Honda Civic Expy joins a race against a bunch of Porsche 911s, Corvettes, Diablos, and all other sorts of cool cars. When the race starts, all the powerful exotics take off at high speeds while the Civic expy barely moves an inch before its engine explodes. The customization aspect was also included in both High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed, but were limited to certain parts due to hardware limitations.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e5898915	comment	In-Vehicle Invulnerability: If you knock out a car in Hot Pursuit (2010), the most you might see the driver do inside is just shake his head in disappointment. No fear. This happens even if the racer in question uses a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss Edition, which has no windshield or roof. Averted in that if you wreck a cop, they sometimes request EMS. In Carbon, it's possible for each Crew Boss end up falling off the track during a canyon duel and wreck their car. However, this will not affect the game's storyline, though.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e5e8fcf0	comment	The first game had a bonus edition available only in Japan that only had Nissan vehicles available to be driven.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_e73e6672	comment	Hammerspace Police Force: Good god, yes. Do these games' police do anything all day besides pursuing the player??
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	If you wrecked the Lamborgini Diablo in the 3DO version of the original The Need for Speed, the Jerkass opponent racer would tell you:
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ec02c97e	comment	Defied in Hot Pursuit (2010). A starter cop mission gives you a Lamborghini Reventon, and things don't get worse from there. Mind you, Hot Pursuit (2010) absolutely loves this trope, heck, fairly early in the game (whichever side of the law you are on), you're gonna get a preview of a handful of cars you won't be driving for a while. The best examples include the McLaren F1, Pagani Zonda Cinque, Corvette ZR1 and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. All of which can be unlocked after a few hours of playing. Another example occurs in the form of the following: More often than not, you'll unlock regular events that you have no eligible cars for (eg. Porsche Patrol, which unlocks much earlier than either of the 2 eligible cars you can use for that event). In such a case, you'll be loaned an eligible car just for that event. Yes, the Veyron and the Koenigsegg CCXR are the last two cars you'll unlock.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ed8ca7e1	comment	Penultimate Weapon: The BMW M3 GTR in Most Wanted (2005) definitely counts. As its performance during the final pursuit can show (not to say that it's something to scoff at, mind you), you can get much better results from a fully tuned Vauxhall Monaro by the time you recover it.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_ef43c232	comment	One of the Racer events in the Lamborghini Untamed Downloadable Content pack is called Cannonball and has the player racing against the clock and police in a Lamborghini Countach. The event even has a small homage to the opening credits of that film in the opening intro to the event.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_f4158af7	comment	Everybody Owns a Ford: The first game had a bonus edition available only in Japan that only had Nissan vehicles available to be driven. Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed. No points for guessing the only brand of cars you get to drive.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Underground 2 was the winner of GameSpot's "Most Despicable Product Placement" award in 2004. After all, this was the game that had a Burger King and/or a Best Buy every couple of blocks and the Cingular logo on the HUD at all times. And just to make things worse, that permanent Cingular ad turned out to be short-lived, as the Cingular brand was dropped the next year and replaced with AT&T. Hot Pursuit (2010): "Roadblocks of the SCPD in association with FORD." & "Porsche Cayenne Turbos now deployed to add spice to your roadblocks." The Run has the K&N, Old Spice and AEM challenge series and every petrol station is a Shell one,with their premium brand fuels clearly shown. The Ford Motor Company is everywhere in Rivals; there is a racer hideout with the Ford logo on the walls as well as advertisements for the Mustang to the left and right of it, three of the game's twenty-five achievements are tied to Ford cars, the Mustang from the then-unreleased film is one of Zephyr's vehicles, and the first DLC car added to the game was the 2015 Ford Mustang via a free update. Due to the 2015 installment's partnership with Speedhuntersnote the partnership between NFS and Speedhunters begun with Shift six years prior, actual aftermarket manufacturers that have partnered or been featured in Speedhunters such as Rauh-Welt Begriff (a renowned Porsche tuning shop, with its owner, Akira Nakai, being featured as a character in-game and also an opponent.) and 6666 Customs (owner of Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk) are going to appear in full form instead of generic parts. Ken Block's presence in the game also mean the Monster Energy drinks will be featured as well.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_f79b419e	comment	The Most Wanted: The first title (Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed from 1994) and the Hot Pursuit series (1998, 2002 and 2010) introduce the police to the series since the first title, with the racers being chased by the police and having as objetive not just win the races, also avoid to get caught by cops. As the name says, the Most Wanted series (2005 and 2012 games). The first game is about to compete in underground world for being the "most wanted" for the cops, as well having a Rabid Cop bother you during the game. The second one is more like previous Hot Pursuit series in which you've to race and earn points to get into the Most Wanted list. Rivals is about racers and cops in which you've to choose a side. If you're a racer, you compete to become the most wanted and get famous. On the other hand, if you're a cop, you've to chase racers until you get with the top racer, the most wanted on the police list, and receiving help of the FBI even when your character becomes a Rabid Cop and eventually becoming in what you tried to stop.
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Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Played straight in the Underground games, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be lapped five times by the end of the race. Underground 2 had the added bonus that pretty much everyone in it treats the player as some sort of country bumpkin, for some reason. (Even Rachel, who's ostensibly on your side, somewhat condescently tells you "This is the big city, you know?" at the start of the game.) Played with in Most Wanted (2005). Razor will occasionally call you up to taunt you, but as the game goes on he starts a slow-motion Villainous Breakdown. Averted in ProStreet where, if you perform good enough, the DJs will constantly praise you.
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Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Time Trial / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Trial-and-Error Gameplay / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Updated Re-release / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Variable Mix / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Long-Runners / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Voice Clip Song / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wacky Racing / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wanted Meter / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	What a Piece of Junk / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	What the Hell, Player? / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wide-Open Sandbox / int_fd5d7b47
Need for Speed (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_fd5d7b47
Forza Motorsport (Video Game)	seeAlso	Need for Speed (Video Game)
NeedforSpeed	sameAs	Need for Speed (Video Game)
NeedForSpeed	sameAs	Need for Speed (Video Game)
Christopher Walkenthrough (Web Video)	seeAlso	Need for Speed (Video Game)

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