If we consider the genres of games on the computer, the race has always had a huge number of fans. For many years, gamers around the world have been competing with a computer or with each other to find out who is faster, who is cooler, who better pump their car and decorate it. And the leader in this race for more than twenty years remains the Feed for Speed series, which already has two dozen games. At the same time, she manages not to lose a gram of relevance and always maintain the interest of fans, as well as attract new users who want to try their hand at speed competitions. A distinctive feature is the fact that in the Need for Speed series all parts are different from each other - they have their own chips, their own directions, and so on. So you can safely play all twenty projects - and not one will seem to you the same as the previous one.
The first games (1994 - 2000)
Old-school gamers like to remember those times when in the Need for Speed series all parts totaled only five pieces. The first one was released in 1994 and was simply called The Need for Speed. This game is unique to the series, because it was one of the few that used a realistic model of driving a car - in most other issues, preference was given to arcade. Three years later, the developer released the second part called "Need for Speed II", which is more consistent with the canons of the genre. There was also a lot of freedom of action, that is, you were not limited by invisible walls around the track. However, a real breakthrough was the episode Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, which presented a full-fledged model of the competition between the rider and the policeman, which will later be found more than once in the games of the series. The fourth part, which appeared on sale a year later than the previous one, was called "Need for Speed: High Stakes" and offered users a wide selection of different racing modes, as well as introduced models of car damage for the first time. The final in the initial series was the episode Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, which narrowed the lineup to Porsche, and also saved the game from arcade, returning it to realistic control. As you can see, in the Need for Speed series, all the parts have serious differences among themselves and allow you to feel completely new emotions.
A new beginning
After such success, the developers took a break, and many gamers thought that the series would not return, that under the brand Need for Speed all the parts had already been released. However, everything turned out to be completely different - in 2002 the world presented the game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, which became the continuation of the traditions of the third part of the series and, in fact, gave rise to a new tradition of the fact that in the subsequent episodes there was almost always a regime of confrontation between racers and policemen. However, it was 2003 and Need for Speed: Underground that showed that this series will live happily ever after. Firstly, from a simple set of tracks, a transition was made to the city in which you need to advance along the career ladder of a street racer, performing various tasks. With the money you earn, you can buy new cars or improve existing ones, and you also have the opportunity to decorate your car in a variety of ways. Naturally, the wave of success was caught, and a year later the project "Need for Speed: Underground 2" was released, which expanded the possibilities of the previous game and allowed you to travel around the city in free mode. But after that, the developers decided not to develop the same idea, but to broaden their horizons, so in 2005 the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted was released, in which the driver-policeman returned to the theme again, only it was done on the basis of Underground achievements 2, of course, with the introduction of new cars, tracks, modes, as well as significant improvements in graphics. Here is such a solid foundation laid for the Need for Speed series 1 part.
Searches for a new
Naturally, this did not end there, and in the Need for Speed series the list of parts was just beginning to expand. So, in 2006 the game "Need for Speed: Carbon" was released, which fully continued the previous project, only slightly reduced the number of police races, focusing on street racing, and the hallmark was the ability to recruit a team of racers and distribute duties among them race. In 2007, there was a return to realism - the game Need for Speed: ProStreet was a mixture of an arcade simulator with real racing, taking from the latter a realistic damage model with the possibility of a complete stop of the car. In 2008, developers again touched on the topic of police officers, only this time Need for Speed: Undercover offers players a very interesting opportunity - to act as a cop undercover, which should catch street racers. But the 2009 project Need for Speed: Shift was very different from all the previous ones, because it completely returned the gamer to realistic control of the car, absolutely abandoned arcade and immersed users in the world of ring rally racing. In the same year, a small Need for Speed: Nitro project was launched for consoles like Nintendo - it returned the game arcade and simplicity. After Shift, this game became as part 2 of Need for Speed after the first - a major turn.
Lately
In 2010, something incredible happened - the NFS series, and specifically the Need for Speed: World project - turned out to be online. Now players from all over the world could compete with each other in MMO mode, which was a real breakthrough in racing simulations. In the same year, the developers decided on a courageous step and released Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, that is, a complete remake of one of the first games in the series in which the name was not even changed. But everything else was redone, and it turned out a real masterpiece about police racing. The year 2011 was marked by realism, as the game Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed was released, which took into account all the lessons of the original and became much more exciting. Next came the Need for Speed: The Run project, in which a lot was changed, and for the first time, the ability to get out of the car, as well as QTE moments, was added. Given the success of 2010 in terms of a remake, the developers decided to repeat it, and in 2012 the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted appeared, which became one of the most successful in history. But this is still not over - ahead of you is the new Need for Speed series - the last part of Need for Speed: Rivals.
the last part
Under this brand, quite a lot of racing simulators have already been released. But what is the latest Need for Speed game? The last part is a combination of all the best from previous episodes. It is called Need for Speed: Rivals, appeared on sale relatively recently - in 2013. After that, the developers took a break, but they did not finish the series - in 2015, gamers are waiting for another novelty.
Future series
Do not think that at the game of 2013 it is worth forgetting about the Need for Speed series - new parts will still be released, and there will most likely be quite a lot of them. The next release is scheduled for 2015 - then the game Need for Speed: No Limits should be released. While not much is said about her, but from the available information it becomes clear that this game will be typical of the series - street racing, pumping a car, chasing with the police. However, who knows what kind of surprise developers can bring?
Summary
To summarize, the naked eye shows that even after 20 games, the NFS series is booming. She is the most successful in her genre and one of the most popular in principle.