History VideoGame / NeedForSpeedUnbound

** Bugatti as a brand makes its return to ''Need for Speed'' in ''Unbound'' after sitting out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'',[[note]]aside from the mobile ''No Limits'' and ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', which as its name indicates, is a remastered version of the 2010 ''Hot Pursuit'',[[/note]] with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.[[note]][[https://www.behance.net/gallery/133697225/Black-Market Posts made by a UI artist]] who worked on ''Heat'' revealed that the game's Black Market DLC was supposed to have a second drop that would have included the Chiron alongside the 2018 Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, but was cancelled after Ghost Games lost their rights to develop ''NFS'' games.[[/note]]

** Bugatti as a brand makes a return to ''Unbound'' after sitting out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'',[[note]]aside from the mobile ''No Limits'' and ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', which as its name indicates, is a remastered version of the 2010 ''Hot Pursuit'',[[/note]] with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.[[note]][[https://www.behance.net/gallery/133697225/Black-Market Posts made by a UI artist]] who worked on ''Heat'' revealed that the game's Black Market DLC was supposed to have a second drop that would have included the Chiron alongside the 2018 Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, but was cancelled after Ghost Games lost their rights to develop ''NFS'' games.[[/note]]

** Bugatti as a brand makes a return to ''Unbound'' after sitting out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'' (''No Limits'' and ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'' aside), with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.[[note]][[https://www.behance.net/gallery/133697225/Black-Market Posts made by a UI artist]] who worked on ''Heat'' revealed that the game's Black Market DLC was supposed to have a second drop that would have included the Chiron alongside the 2018 Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, but was cancelled after Ghost Games lost their rights to develop ''NFS'' games.[[/note]]

* GreenAesop: The game features the Lotus Emira, the first electric car in the franchise since the Tesla Roadster, last seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted]]'' (2012) [[note]]There is also a Tesla Roadster in ''Nitro'', albeit in its concept version.[[/note]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No Audi and Toyota for you, due to the fact those two brands are complete absent in the car lineup. For the latter's case, that has been the same problem ever since after ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed2015''.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No Audi and Toyota for you. Due to the fact those two brands are complete absent in the car lineup. For the latter's case, that has been the same problem since ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]''.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No Audi and Toyota for you. Due to the fact those two brands are complete absent in the car lineup. For the latter's case, that has been the same problem since ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]''.

* GreenAesop: The game features the Lotus Emira, the first electric car in the franchise since the Tesla Roadster, last seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted]]'' (2012).

* PaletteSwap: The convertible and track-only variants of the base models (e.g. the roadster version of the BMW [=i8=] or the Performante version of the Lamborghini Hurácan) return from ''Heat'' (including its DownloadableContent). The lineup now has five different Lamborghini Aventadors and 4 AMG [=GTs=].

** The car customization itself goes insanely further. If you thought vanity items like flashy car neons or rainbow tire smoke ain't enough, here, the game introduces "Driving Effects", a new customization feature that allows players to express or represent themselves with Tags floating above the car's roof, and street art-inspired effects such as cartoon tire smoke and artistic wings when you're airborne. Those effects are in a similar vein as ''VideoGame/TheCrew2''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Continuing the trend started in ''Heat'', the game appears to strive towards the SeriousBusiness aspect of street racing featured during the tuner era of ''NFS'' as well as ''Rivals''. The game's trailer features a car meet-up being interrupted by a police raid and even before said raid, the way street racing is treated in the trailer recalls the "street racing as a BloodSport" mindset of the tuner era.

** Bugatti as a brand makes a return to ''Unbound'' after sitting out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'' (''No Limits'' and ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'' aside), with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.

** Bugatti as a brand makes a return to ''Unbound'' after being gutted out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'' (''No Limits'' and ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'' aside), with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.

** Bugatti as a brand makes a return to ''Unbound'' after being gutted out from three consecutive games after ''Rivals'' (''No Limits'' aside), with their Chiron making a non-mobile ''NFS'' debut.

* RogerRabbitEffect: The game uses CelShading {{Animesque}} characters combined with realistic environments.

The game features an art style that merges street art elements like cel-shading and graffiti art from ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedNitro Nitro]]'' with the more realistic art style of other ''Need for Speed'' games. The map is based in a fictional city called Lakeshore City, which is based on UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. Like previous entries in the series, it features an open world environment and will feature gameplay similar to that of previous entries in the series, being mainly focused on street racing. The game was first revealed by EA on October 6, 2022, and is set to be released on December 2, 2022.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y8XCe7F9E The official reveal trailer]] features an original song called "Shittin Me" by Music/AsapRocky. Of course, the cussing from the song and the title have been censored.

* CharacterCustomization: Character customization from ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' returns, but not only you customize your avatar with different hairstyles, masks, and clothing, but you also even change your character's winning pose!

* MissionPackSequel: Not the game itself, but the car lineup. Basically about ''all'' of the cars from ''Heat'' are carried over in ''Unbound'' with just a few added cars.

* PaletteSwap: The convertible and track-only variants of the base models (e.g. the roadster version of the BMW [=i8=] or the Performante version of the Lamborghini Hurácan) return from ''Heat'' (including its DownloadableContent). Basically, the lineup now has five different Lamborghini Aventadors.

** The game's cover features Music/AsapRocky's real-life car, which if not for the fact that it's a not-at-all-cheap Mercedes-Benz 190E [=2.5-16=] Evolution, would basically count as a RiceBurner, as its customization includes a huge spoiler, being painted half-black and half-white, a gilded grille, and having its rear bumper completely removed.
** The car customization itself goes insanely further. If you thought vanity items like flashy car neons or rainbow tire smoke ain't enough, here, the game introduces "Driving Effects", a new customization feature that allows players to express or represent themselves with Tags floating above the car's roof, and street art-inspired effects such as cartoon tire smoke and artisitic wings when you're airborne. Those effects are in a similar vein as ''VideoGame/TheCrew2''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np-4jX7EkJQ The World Is Your Canvas Gameplay Trailer]] features a souped-up [=S14=] Silvia, with the "Driving Effects" as mentioned above, complete with a huge spoiler and appendage, a roll cage visible and its roof completely chopped off.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Continuing the trend started in ''Heat'', the game appears to strive towards the SeriousBusiness aspect of street racing featured during the tuner era of ''NFS''. The game's trailer features a car meet-up being interrupted by a police raid and even before said raid, the way street racing is treated in the trailer recalls the "street racing as a BloodSport" mindset of the tuner era.

The game features an art style that merges street art elements like cel-shading and graffiti art with the more realistic art style of other ''Need for Speed'' games. The map is based in a fictional city called Lakeshore City, which is based on UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. Like previous entries in the series, it features an open world environment and will feature gameplay similar to that of previous entries in the series, being mainly focused on street racing. The game was first revealed by EA on October 6, 2022, and is set to be released on December 2, 2022.

* TheBusCameBack: Various car models not seen since the tuner era of ''Need for Speed'' make their return in this game. One of the promotional images for the game includes a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX which, unless you count the mobile ''No Limits'', had previously only appeared in the ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Underground]]'' games (1, ''2'', and ''Underground Rivals'').[[note]]Other types of Eclipse went as far as to appear in ''Undercover'' and the now-defunct online ''World''.[[/note]]

* GreenAesop: The game features the Lotus Emira, the first electric car in the franchise since the Tesla Roadster seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted]]'' (2012).

** The game's cover features Music/AsapRocky's real-life car, which if not for the fact that it's a not-at-all-cheap Mercedes-Benz 190E [=2.5-16=] Evolution, would basically count as a RiceBurner, as its customization includes a huge spoiler, being painted half-black and half-white, and having its rear bumper completely removed.
** The car customization itself goes insanely further. If you thought vanity items like flashy car neons or rainbow tire smoke ain't enough, here, you can even add driving effects, such as cartoon or scribbly smoke, a la ''VideoGame/TheCrew2''.

* ColorMotif: The game loves the color green. One of ''Need for Speed''[='=]s promotional tactics for the game was to replace the covers of ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHotPursuit Hot Pursuit Remastered]]'' (2020), ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' (2019), and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'' (2017)--the last three games released prior to ''Unbound''--on Steam, [=PlayStation=] (Store and consoles), and Xbox (Games Store and consoles) with covers [[SplashOfColor that were completely in black and white except for one car]][[note]]the Pagani Zonda Cinque in ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', the Polestar 1 in ''Heat'', and the Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R in ''Payback''[[/note]] and featured each respective game's logo in white (for ''Need for Speed''/''NFS'') and green (for the subtitle).

* LogoJoke: 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''[[note]]except for the Switch version of that one[[/note]] so that their logos had the same white/green color scheme as ''Unbound''[='=]s logo and [[DeliberatelyMonochrome made the rest of their artwork greyscale]] [[SplashOfColor except for their main cover cars]].

** The game's cover features Music/AsapRocky's real-life car, which if not for the fact that it's a not-at-all-cheap Mercedes-Benz 190E, would basically count as a RiceBurner, as its customization includes a huge spoiler, being painted half-black and half-white, and having its rear bumper completely removed.

* ColorMotif: The game loves the color green. One of ''Need for Speed''[='=]s promotional tactics for the game was to replace the covers of ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHotPursuit Hot Pursuit Remastered]]'' (2020), ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback Payback]]'' (the last three games released) on Steam, [=PlayStation=] (Store and consoles), and Xbox (Games Store and consoles) with covers [[SplashOfColor that were completely in black and white except for one car]][[note]]the Pagani Zonda Cinque in ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', the Polestar 1 in ''Heat'', and the Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R in ''Payback''[[/note]] and featured each respective game's logo in white (for ''Need for Speed''/''NFS'') and green (for the subtitle).

The game features an art style that merges street art elements like cel-shading and graffiti art with the more realistic art style of other ''Need for Speed'' games. The map is based in a fictional city called Lakeshore City, which is based on Chicago. Like previous entries in the series, it features an open world environment, and will feature gameplay similar to that of previous entries in the series, being mainly focused around street racing. The game was first revealed by EA on October 6, 2022, and is set to be released on December 2, 2022.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y8XCe7F9E The official reveal trailer]] features an original song called "Shittin Me" by Music/AsapRocky. Of course the cussing from the song and the title have been censored.
* TheBusCameBack: Various car models not seen since the tuner era of ''Need for Speed'' make their return in this game. One of the promotional images for the game includes a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX which, unless you count the mobile ''No Limits'', had previously only appeared in the ''Underground'' games (''1'', ''2'', and ''Underground Rivals'').[[note]]Other types of Eclipse went as far as to appear in ''Undercover'' and the now-defunct online ''World''.[[/note]]
* CharacterCustomization: Character customization from ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHeat Heat]]'' returns, but not only you customize your avatar with different hairstyles, masks and clothing, but you also even change your character's winning pose!
* ColorMotif: The game loves its color green. One of ''Need for Speed'''s promotional tactics for the game was to replace the covers of ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', ''Heat'', and ''Payback'' (the last three games released) on Steam with covers [[SplashOfColor that were completely in black and white except for one car]][[note]] the Pagani Zonda Cinque in ''Hot Pursuit Remastered'', the Polestar 1 in ''Heat'', and the Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R in ''Payback''[[/note]] and featured each respective game's logo in green.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Continuing the trend started in ''Heat'', the game appears to strive towards the SeriousBusiness aspect of street racing featured during the tuner era of ''NFS''. The game's trailer features a car meet-up being interrupted by a police raid, and even before said raid, the way street racing is treated in the trailer recalls the "street racing as a BloodSport" mindset of the tuner era.
* GreenAesop: The games features the Lotus Emira, the first electric car in the franchise since the Tesla Roadster seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted (2012)]]''.

* LogoJoke: 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 [[DeliberatelyMonochrome made the rest of their artwork greyscale]] [[SplashOfColor except for their main cover cars]].

* PaletteSwap: The convertible and track-only variants of the base models (e.g. the roadster version of the BMW [=i8=] or the Performante version of the Lamborghini Hurácan) return from ''Heat'' (including its DownloadableContent). Basically, the lineup now has 5 different Lamborghini Aventadors.

** The game's cover features Music/AsapRocky's real-life car, which if not for the fact that it's a not-at-all-cheap Mercedes-Benz 190E, would basically count as a RiceBurner, as its customization includes a huge spoiler, being painted one half black and one half white, and having its rear bumper completely removed.
** The car customization itself goes insanely further. If you though vanity items like flashy car neons or rainbow tire smoke ain't enough, here, you can even add driving effects, such as cartoon or scribbly smoke, a la ''VideoGame/TheCrew2''.

* GreenAesop: The games features the Lotus Emira, the first electric car in the franchise since the Tesla Roadster that was last seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted (2012)]]''.

** The car customization itself takes a step insanely further. If you though vanity items like flashy car neons or rainbow tire smoke ain't enough, here, you can even add driving effects, such as cartoon or scribbly smoke, a la ''[[VideoGame/TheCrew The Crew 2]]''.

The game features an art style that merges street art elements like cel-shading and graffiti art with the more realistic art style of other ''Need for Speed'' games. The map is based in a fictional city called Lakeshore City, which is based on Chicago. Like previous entries in the series, it features an open world environment, and will feature gameplay similar to that of previous entries in the series, being mainly focused around street racing.
It was first revealed by EA on October 6, 2022, and the game is set to be released on December 2, 2022.

* GreenAesop: The Lotus Emira. The first electric car since the Tesla Roadster that was last seen in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted2012 Most Wanted]]''.

* PimpedOutCar: The game's cover features Music/AsapRocky's real-life car, which if not for the fact that it's a not-at-all-cheap Mercedes-Benz 190E, would basically count as a RiceBurner, as its customization includes a huge spoiler, being painted one half black and one half white, and having its rear bumper completely removed.