'We wanted to make something fast, fluid and uninterrupted - a rewind-free experience that demanded more forgiving route design. 'We removed blind turns, so you’d always have time to react to the challenges in the route, and we removed hard-stops in the scenery,' the team says. The map design has been finetuned for the gameplay of arcade street racing, rather than simulation racing, which the NFS franchise is best known for. 'There’s a massive city to explore, and the surrounding countryside gives you these cool panoramic city views while you drive.' 'We stretched reality a bit, fusing Miami and Florida with Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to provide us with some much-needed elevation and big vistas, and to inject a little variety,' reads the blogpost.

In our opinion those are the best NFS games, so they're already off to a good start. In the accompanying blogpost to explain the design of Need For Speed Heat's map, EA have said they wanted to recapture the feel of fan favorites Most Wanted (2005) and NFS Underground. Need For Speed Heat map Need For Speed Heat map of Palm City features plenty of twisty turns © EA Then, far to the south in Cape Castile, there's a rocket launch site and test facilities which is sure to be explosive. There's also the obligatory industrial port area to force you into tight squeezes between shipping containers, gridded city streets for downtown drifting and plenty of hills, valleys and cliffside routes to up the danger factor on your run from the police. Up to the north-west of the map is an off-roading area in a quarry, and then there's the abandoned Palm City Raceway for track driving courses and testing out your new cars at high speeds, as it's right next to your garage.

The Need For Speed Heat map has been revealed, and EA are giving us a little peek under the hood of Palm City to find out what its Miami-inspired world has to hide.Īs you might expect of a coastal city, there's plenty of beach strip to show off your ride on, but there are several other driving arenas to test your drifting skills too.

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