With less than 24 hours to go until the long-awaited reveal of EA and developer Criterion’s latest Need for Speed game, a full name, plus a release date, and screens have leaked online.
All this comes via a listing, still live at the time of writing, on Japanese retailer Neowing’s website – which, assuming its veracity (highly likely given the nature of the assets and details included), corroborates virtually all previous rumours circulating around the game in recent months.
First is the name, Need for Speed: Unbound, which tallies with a report from Insider Gaming at the end of September, as does Neowing’s listed release date of 2nd December this year.
Additionally, the box art and screenshots featured in the listing support a report back in April that the new Need for Speed would combine photo-realism with “anime elements”, while the accompanying blurb says the game will take place in Lake Shore – lining up with earlier claims it would be set in a fictionalised version of Chicago, known as Lake Shore City.