Need For Speed: The Run

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Item Description

Three thousand miles, $25 million and a mob debt chasing you the whole way: Need for Speed: The Run turns the series into a cross-country road movie. EA Black Box built the 2011 entry around Jack Rourke, a driver in over his head who enters an illegal race from San Francisco to New York to pay off some very dangerous people, with Christina Hendricks as Sam Harper, the fixer who gets him a place on the starting grid.

Instead of an open city, The Run is a sequence of point-to-point stages strung across the map of America. The route climbs out of San Francisco, cuts through the Nevada desert and Las Vegas, plunges down snowy passes in the Rockies, where one stage has you outrunning an avalanche, and grinds through the dense traffic of Chicago before the final push toward Manhattan. Many races ask you to pass a set number of rivals before the stage ends, which gives the campaign a satisfying sense of climbing the field mile by mile, and checkpoint resets let you recover from a wreck without restarting the whole run.

It runs on DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, the technology behind Battlefield 3, and that shows in the dramatic swings of lighting and weather from desert glare to blizzard whiteout to rain-slick city streets at night. Brief on-foot sequences, played as quick-time action between races, push the cinematic angle further. Autolog, the series' friend-rivalry system, was built in to surface friends' stage times as targets, and a Challenge Series of standalone events extends the driving beyond the story.

Reviews were mixed, with many critics wishing the campaign ran longer, but nothing else in the series feels quite like it. The Run is Need for Speed's one big swing at a single, story-driven journey across a continent, a blockbuster-style experiment that sits apart from the open-world entries on either side of it.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 2011
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Black Box
Genre: Racing
Players: Single player, Multiplayer

About the game

Need for Speed The Run lures players into an underground world of illicit, high-stakes racing. The heat is on - and it isn't just the fuzz who are after you. Entering the race is just the beginning as you blow across borders, weave through dense urban traffic, rocket down icy mountain passes and navigate narrow canyons at breakneck speeds. Powered by DICE's state-of-the-art Frostbite 2 engine, Need for Speed The Run takes the action racing genre to new heights with stunning visuals and car physics that hug the road even at top speeds all built around a gripping storyline. The cars are hot, the racing is intense and the story will have you at the edge of your seat… all the way from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Empire State building.

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Watch gameplayNeed For Speed: The Run on Xbox 360

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