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Need for Speed: World
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2010 to 2015 massively multiplayer online racing video game
Game data
Metacritic 62- Released
- 2010-07-27
- User rating
- 2.94 / 5
- Genres
- Racing, Arcade, Massively Multiplayer
- Platforms
- PC
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Game details · IGDB
Need for Speed: World was the fifteenth installment in the long-running racing video game Need for Speed franchise published by Electronic Arts. This iteration was co-developed by EA Black Box (rebranded Quicklime Games before closing in 2013) and EA Singapore. It was the first freemium MMORG in the Need for Speed series (though Motor City Online was originally conceived as a Need for Speed game) and was available on Microsoft Windows. World was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. However, people who ordered a "Starter Pack" had an early "head-start" in the game, which started on July 20, …
- Released
- 2010
- Genres
- Racing, Simulator
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
- Engine
- EAGL
- Franchise
- Need for Speed
- Developer
- EA Singapore, Quicklime Games
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
Key facts
- Developers
- EA Black Box / Quicklime Games (2010–2013) EA Singapore Easy Studios (2013–2015)
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Composer
- Mick Gordon
- Series
- Need for Speed
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Release
- WW : July 27, 2010
- Genre
- Massively multiplayer online racing game
- Mode
- Multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Need for Speed: World (previously known as Need for Speed: World Online) is a massively multiplayer online racing game published by Electronic Arts, and the fifteenth installment of the publisher's Need for Speed franchise. It was co-developed by EA Black Box (rebranded as Quicklime Games during the game's operation) and EA Singapore, with Easy Studios and EA Vancouver later taking over operations during its run. It was the first freemium game in the Need for Speed series and was available on Microsoft Windows. World was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. However, people who ordered a "Starter Pack" had an early "head-start" in the game, which started on July 20, 2010.
Need for Speed: World, along with other EA free-to-play titles Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, and FIFA World, went offline on July 14, 2015. However, fan preservation efforts resurrected the game as an unofficial freeware title; the first known fan-run servers went online in 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Need for Speed: World” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.