[ALL] Need For Speed: Most Wanted

[Twigg4075]

No but AC3 does, which I mentioned in my post.

Not getting that day one. I still have AC:B and AC:R to play so that would be pointless. I know I'll probably play NFS right away.

If I can get Walmart to price match maybe I'll get both NFSs and...I don't know.

 

[IamMedellin]

No but AC3 does, which I mentioned in my post.

yup yup, obviously Twigg needs his Old man glasses when visiting the forums...

 

[Swarley]

Not getting that day one. I still have AC:B and AC:R to play so that would be pointless. I know I'll probably play NFS right away.

If I can get Walmart to price match maybe I'll get both NFSs and...I don't know.

We know you aren't. Med was referring to what I was buying on Tuesday lol.

 

[Twigg4075]

We know you aren't. Med was referring to what I was buying on Tuesday lol.

My b.

I thought he was responding to my post about trying to get Walmart to price match.

 

[Handleit_44]

#GrowUp

 

[Twigg4075]

Too bad LBP Karting is coming out the following week because I would probably get that considering it's a cross-buy game.

 

[Twigg4075]

#GrowUp

Go sit on your gold controller.:bucky:

 

[Handleit_44]

NFS Most Wanted on PS Vita is the full PS3 experience

Next week sees the keenly anticipated release of Need for Speed Most Wanted, the latest release from Criterion Games – the legendary UK racing specialist behind the Burnout series and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, the phenomenal 2010 entry in EA’s long-running street racing franchise.

That the PlayStation 3 version is very, very good should come as no surprise, but somewhat more unexpected is the amount of care the studio has lavished on replicating the experience on PlayStation Vita. Producer Matt Webster and his team have squeezed almost the entire experience onto the handheld, and even found room for a little bit of extra content exclusive to the system.

We sat down with Matt earlier this week to find out exactly how Criterion has pulled it off.

PlayStation.Blog: What was your goal when you first started developing the PS Vita version of Most Wanted?

Matt Webster, Producer at Criterion Games: It was to make the same game – that was the goal. As much as we possibly could, we wanted to deliver all the great things about the console version of the game: an open world, freedom, choice, variety, highly connected. All those principles looked like they were achievable on the machine, so that was what we set out to do.

PSB: What were the main challenges you met during development?

MW: You just run across performance challenges. Some of those are fundamental, which you learn to overcome as development progresses, and others you have to make some compromises.

PSB: What kind of compromises are we talking about exactly?

MW: It is exactly the same game [as the PlayStation 3 version] apart from traffic density and number of players online. But I think that the asynchronous play is actually going to be more important.

PSB: How exactly does that work?

MW: So, if you play the single-player game, and then play muliplayer, any Speed Points you earn in SP also drive your MP progression, and that’s true when you play the game on PS Vita too. Anything you earn on PS Vita carries across to the console version. It’s a unified scoring system.

Everything you do in the game earns Speed Points. Speed Points determine your position on the Most Wanted list. Am I outscoring my friends; have I reached the necessary score threshold to take on one of the Most Wanted drivers in the solo game; what speed level am I at in MP; what have I unlocked, and so on. I can push up my Speed Point level on PS3 multiplayer when I’m mobile with PS Vita, and vice versa.

PSB: The easy option would have been to contract an external developer to work on the Vita version but you decided to keep it in-house. Why?

MW: It was something we wanted to do. It looked like the machine was going to be capable of delivering what we wanted to do. And the way that we work is very iterative – build, play, change, build, play, change – that’s how we work. When you go external it generally only works when you’ve got a finished game, otherwise there are too many moving parts.

So, it looked like something we’d be able to do and we were going to be able to push ourselves in some new directions. It was difficult, but we’re not ones to shy away from a challenge.

PSB: Do you think a massive open world racing game like Most Wanted is a good fit for a portable gaming device?

MW: I do. The game is about freedom and choice. We have a saying – ‘not playing the game is the game’. What that means is that not playing the authored experience that most games deliver for you actually is very important and a really significant part of the game.

The way that these devices are used – they’re picked up, they have some play, and they’re put down. It might be high frequency play, but not necessarily high amplitude, where I’m spending long sessions with it. Our game can work in either of those scenarios. I think the asynchronous part of it is going to be really powerful on that device – do something, have Autolog pick it up, and send it back.

I think it will turn out to be something that PS Vita owners didn’t realize was possible on that machine – it is quite a significant achievement to do an open world game to the level of quality that we’ve managed. And then to have something as highly connected as it is – that’s something fresh and new. I think it will find a really good home on PS Vita.

PSB: What kind of exclusive PS Vita content have you included?

MW: There are some exclusive PS Vita races and events in there for players to discover. It’s another way for players to earn exclusive SP – it’s an extra reward for having the game on multiple devices and it allows us to do something specifically tuned to that device.

PSB: Have you used the PS Vita’s unique features in any way?

MW: We’ll use the touch screen for changing music tracks and in some parts of the interface but the rest of it… you have to use those things where they serve a purpose, otherwise they’re just a gimmick. You run the risk of it not being taken seriously. We’ll absolutely use it when it makes sense to use it.

PSB: Presumably you’ll be supporting the PS3 version post launch with DLC. Will that also apply to the PS Vita version?

MW: Well, we’ll clarify that when the time comes.

 

[Handleit_44]

 

[jms493]

Well the question is if they are the same game they why do I want it on my Vita then? Can I take my save from ps3 and play on VeETa?

 

[Handleit_44]

Well the question is if they are the same game they why do I want it on my Vita then? Can I take my save from ps3 and play on VeETa?

Whatever progress you make on the Vita will transfer over

I'm definitely getting both versions now.

 

[jms493]

Whatever progress you make on the Vita will transfer over

I'm definitely getting both versions now.

very nice...

 

[Handleit_44]

http://www.twitch.tv/gamespot

 

[BrntO4Life]

We did a livestream at work for this earlier today. I really want to own it now...

 

[Swarley]

We did a livestream at work for this earlier today. I really want to own it now...

Who's this Brnt fella? Says he has a lot of posts, but for the life of me I can't remember anyone with that name.

 

[Price]

So you work for Machinima... jealous...

 

[JayDizzle]

Who's this Brnt fella? Says he has a lot of posts, but for the life of me I can't remember anyone with that name.

Seems familiar but I can't quite place it.

I like the cut of his jib though.

 

[Twigg4075]

Well the question is if they are the same game they why do I want it on my Vita then? Can I take my save from ps3 and play on VeETa?

Whatever progress you make on the Vita will transfer over

I'm definitely getting both versions now.

That isn't what that interview said. It said that the race tokens (or whatever they are) that you earn will carry over between both platforms, not game saves.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Who's this Brnt fella? Says he has a lot of posts, but for the life of me I can't remember anyone with that name.

Seems familiar but I can't quite place it.

I like the cut of his jib though.

Love you guys too.

 

[IamMedellin]

Love you guys too.

HEY IT"S BRNT!?!

HI Brnt :wave: