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Need for Speed Reboot Goes Gold

The racing game arrives in November.

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Yet another big holiday 2015 game has "gone gold." The latest title to achieve that status is the Need for Speed reboot from Electronic Arts and developer Ghost Games.

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Writing on Twitter today, the developer said: "We are GOLD! See you on the streets!"

Going gold means a project has completed initial development. It doesn't mean Ghost Games is packing up and moving on to the next thing, as the studio has extensive plans for DLC. As announced previously, Ghost Games has no plans for paid DLC or microtransactions. Instead, fans can look forward to "free content updates" throughout the game's lifespan.

Ghost Games is calling its new Need for Speed a "full reboot." It is due out on November 3 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while the PC edition is coming in 2016. It's the first game in the series in two years; EA skipped a release in 2014, marking the first time it had done so in more than a decade.

For more on whether that year off has made a difference, read our recent preview. You can also check out the game's roster of 51 cars that will be available at launch.

Other games that went gold this week include Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3.

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Let me guess - it's EA/Origin - so you'll get 2 race modes and 3 maps for $60, then a "$50 season pass" that will include new cars you can also "buy" in-game, as well as a few new maps over the course of two years. Yippee!

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Ok, i see a classic Mustang, please tell me there will be some classic Chevy cars up in there, please !!

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I'm just wondering why every car game is using now the rainy/humidity look LOl!! We know you can make realistic rain drops we get it!!

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I kind of wanted to know more about the environment and how big the city will be.

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But But Batman Arkham Knights went Gold a month early, remember?

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Idgaf if it's online only, this game looks FUCKING SWEET. Underground 2 ftw.

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I found the Beta to be ok. So , I will make it a day one purchase.

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I won't buy this mess.Look how crap is fifa 16 online ,I managed to play 8 matches only since I got the game.Now EA want us to buy a game that always online so I can barley play an offline race!!!!!!

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Need for Speed: Rain

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Always online DRM? No thank you, I won't be seeing you on the streets after all! Oh yeah, before I forget...here's my middle finger in your face, EA! You can shove this game and it's nasty DRM up your stinkin' Ahole!

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AMAZING GRAFICS

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I have to admit, the graphics are quite impressive.

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Online Only racing game? lol I'll stick with Most Wanted.

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PC version not gold...Its tarnished and needs more polish.

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I'm definitely getting this.

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so i take it that the vomit inducing camera every time you turn is here to stay?

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Can this game magically transform into Road Rash?

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I knew this game was doomed when EA said they were listening to the fans. The dorks who insist Undergound wasn't the jump-the-shark moment were the loudest, and here we are.

Is a sequel to Porsche Unleashed too much to ask for?

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@ferrarimanf355: It's not much, it's maybe too little. Porche Unleashed was a good game because (as much as I remember) had great controls, good handling, nice looking graphics for its time, but it was just a roaster of 10 or so Porche cars and a few (awesome and memorable) tracks. To make a remake or follow up to that would mean to make a game that's less than The Run, if they want to stay faithful. Aside from the fact that they'll need Porche's permission to make the game -- and I don't think they'll have any issue about that, -- people are now asking for more open world, more cars, cop chases. That's why they made 2 Hot Pursuit remakes. Let's face it, Rivals is a Hot Pursuit remake. For example, fans have been asking for Most Wanted 2 for a while, and when they finally did it, it wasn't what everyone expected. My advice is to let them make whatever they want to. EA is going to push this franchise in a grave just like they did to Medal of Honor.

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Forza 6 will scratch my racing itch this season.

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I will see this game on the streets, literally, like they're just lying on the ground in the rain.

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Underground 2. Still the best.

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Still online only? No dice (no pun intended). I think ill go buy forza 6 and dirt rally and play those until EA gets their shit together.

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"See you on the streets!"

My guess is, you won't see many of us on those streets. Should be plenty of open road for the few who buy this turd.

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@derceto: Racist idiot.

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No you won't. Beta was enough for me. Actually bored me.

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@dexda: I can say the same for Battlefront Beta. Play the hell out of it cause I ain't paying half-ass of a game for $60.

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See me on the streets? I don't know. Will the PC version have a 30 fps (never to be officially fixed) limit for whatever bullcrap reason?

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You might as well cancel that delayed PC version...

I want this game to actually be fun, but dammit I just can't think positively about another online-only EA game, I'm curious to see what kind of disaster the launch will be this time.

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F4 - 9

JC3 - 8

NFSwhatever - 7

Lotta numbers.

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@mattcake: How insightful. Because 2015 is the first time we've seen the release of game sequels.

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As a Need for Speed fan, I sure as hell won't buy this crap.

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@davillain-: Online only, Underground theme- yeah, I'm with you.

I just need to know when the Porsche DLC is coming for Forza Motorsport 6...

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See you on EA Access in a year!

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@mlauber: 6 months lol. Battlefield Hardline is on there and it is barely 7 months old lol.

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See you in the garbage bin!

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there lieing i boughte digital deluix verison and it has a season pass

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@dark_princess29: English spelling and grammar. It's not just for kids.

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@mattcake: hows about get a life and stop thinking your better than others, actually write somthing worth while.

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@xzerocarnagex: *how *getting

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@xzerocarnagex: *you're

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@xzerocarnagex: *something

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@xzerocarnagex: *worthwhile

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@mattcake im not from english im Japanese so learn some respect!:

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@dark_princess29: Yeah whatever. You aren't using the wrong vernacular, just making typos in weird places. And you understood the sarcasm in my post which would be lost on a foreigner. Vampy a friend is she? Laff.

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@mattcake: Lets face it Dark Princess, you were just served!

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