Need for Speed Unbound

Need for Speed Unbound is a high-energy street-racing game for PlayStation 5, developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. Start at the bottom and race to the top of Lakeshore’s underground scene, taking on weekly qualifiers and The Grand, the city’s ultimate street-racing challenge. Tune and customize your cars, outsmart the police, and express your style through a vibrant graffiti-inspired visual identity and a global soundtrack led by A$AP Rocky, AWGE, and an original Brodinski score. Release Date: December 2, 2022.

Core Game Features:

• Race to The Grand: Build your reputation from the bottom of Lakeshore’s street-racing scene and take on weekly qualifiers as you work toward the city’s biggest race.

• Precision-Tuned Custom Cars: Upgrade performance, tune handling, and personalize an extensive garage of vehicles with custom parts, bodywork, effects, decals, and visual details.

• Outsmart the Cops: Every race builds heat. Use new escape mechanics, route choices, skillful driving, and quick decisions to control the chase and disappear before the police close in.

• Distinct Street-Art Style: Combine realistic car models with a bold graffiti-inspired visual language, expressive driving effects, and a personal fashion style for your Lakeshore identity.

• Separate Single-Player and Multiplayer Campaigns: Play through a focused single-player journey and take your custom rides into online multiplayer events, challenges, and competitive street racing.

• Lakeshore Free Roam: Explore a living city filled with traffic, pedestrians, shortcuts, rivals, events, garages, and opportunities to show what your ride can do.

• Global Soundtrack: Race to a genre-defying soundtrack featuring hip-hop and international influences, led by A$AP Rocky and AWGE, alongside Brodinski’s original score.

• PS5 Immersion: Feel accelerator slips, jumps, collisions, tire grip, and nitrous through DualSense adaptive triggers and responsive haptic feedback, with Tempest 3D AudioTech adding detail to every engine and tire sound.

Story and World:

Lakeshore is a street racer’s playground, but reaching its pinnacle requires more than a fast car. After a robbery tears apart a friendship, the player must rebuild a reputation, earn money, assemble a precision-tuned garage, and navigate a scene controlled by rival racers and relentless police pressure. Each race carries a risk: raise your heat for greater rewards, choose the right route through the city, and escape before the pursuit becomes overwhelming. Between events, customize your vehicles, refine your driving style, select your outfit, and prepare for the next qualifier. Need for Speed Unbound blends open-city driving, competitive racing, police chases, car customization, expressive street art, and an international soundtrack into a stylish PS5 racing experience.

Keywords: Need for Speed Unbound PS5, Criterion Games, Electronic Arts, Lakeshore, street racing, racing game, police chase, car customization, tuning, The Grand, weekly qualifiers, graffiti style, A$AP Rocky, AWGE, Brodinski, DualSense, 4K 60fps, online multiplayer, single-player campaign.