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Need for Speed: World
Cover art featuring a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Nissan 370Z being chased by police
Developer(s)	Quicklime Games EA Singapore
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Composer(s)
Series	Need for Speed
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	July 27, 2010 (July 20, 2010 for users who pre-ordered the Starter Pack)^[1]
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online racing game
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Need for Speed: World (previously known as Need for Speed: World Online) was the fifteenth installment in the racing video gameNeed for Speed franchise published by Electronic Arts. It was co-developed by EA Black Box (rebranded as Quicklime Games when the game was developed) and EA Singapore. It was the first freemiummassively multiplayer online racing 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.^[1]^[2]

Need for Speed World was the first massively multiplayer online action-driving game in the Need for Speed franchise. Fans of the previous Need for Speed: Carbon and Most Wanted will recognize the familiar streets of Palmont and Rockport cities.

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.

Gameplay[edit]

Need For Speed World is a free-to-play MMO Racing Game based on the Need For Speed series. Borrowing gameplay from popular NFS titles, Most Wanted and Carbon, players race online against players from all over the globe in the cities of Rockport and Palmont. Choose from over 72 licensed cars consisting of tuners, muscle cars and exotics.
Become an icon of urban car culture in Need for Speed™, Race in and explore a huge nocturnal open world, express your style with authentic car customization and become immersed in a story staring real world legends like Magnus Walker and Ken Block. Need For Speed is an online game. An Internet connection speed of 192 Kbps or higher is required.
In Need for Speed Most Wanted, users will also be able to go head-to-head with their opponents while simultaneously trying to avoid more than six different police cars at once. This time what you have to do is to compete on the streets and your goal is to become the most wanted.
Need for Speed – Most Wanted is a high quality game that works in all major modern web browsers. This online game is part of the Racing, Action, Emulator, and GBA gaming categories. Need for Speed – Most Wanted has 237 likes from 313 user ratings.

A screenshot of early gameplay, when the game was known as Need for Speed: World Online. World combines elements of role-playing with illegal street racing.

World took on the gameplay style of 2005's Most Wanted and 2006's Carbon, focusing on illegal street racing, tuning and police chases, and added some elements to the game such as 'power ups' (somewhat similar to Mario Kart). World was set in a fictional city which combined the cities of Rockport from Most Wanted and Palmont from Carbon into its map design, with redesigned graphics and new locations added to the map to connect the two cities. The game featured over 100 licensed cars consisting of tuners, muscle cars, exotics, race cars and SUVs. Manufactures ranged from Alfa Romeo to Volkswagen and there were over thirty manufactures in the game.

Before September 8, 2010, after reaching level 10 and access to only first tier and some second tier cars, the player would not be able to progress further in the game and would cease to earn any more experience points or cash. To continue the game, the player had to purchase a 'Starter Pack'. Without it, the player was allowed to continue playing the game, but would cease to earn experience and cash.^[3]^[4] On September 8, 2010 World passed one million registrations. To celebrate that, the game was made completely free-to-play and the level cap was removed.^[5]

Performance upgrades and skills[edit]

In the initial release version 4 (July 20, 2010), car performance could be improved via street or pro upgrade kits (purchased with in game cash), depending on the car. Some cars only had street upgrade kits as an option, and the fastest car in the game at the time, the BMW M3 GTR, did not have any upgrade kits. The game also had 'driver skills', three of which directly improved performance (acceleration, handling, top speed) and applied to any car that a player was driving. The skills unlocked as a player leveled up and a player could select up to 49 of 81 possible skills.^[3] Once a skill was chosen, it couldn't be undone, and players would have to start with a new driver or account and level up again in order to choose a different set of skills. In November 2010, with version 5, the upgrade kits were removed and replaced by performance parts, each car having its own set of performance parts.^[6] In May 2012, 'driver skills' were removed from the game and replaced with skill mods, each car having its own set of skill mods. There were no performance skill mods to replace the acceleration, handling, and top speed skills, so the cars ended up being slower. The lowest rated parts or skill mods could be directly purchased for free using in game 'cash', but higher rated parts or skill mods could only be won by chance from card packs, either free 'lucky draw' card packs rewarded at the end of any event, or card packs purchased with real money converted into the games microtransaction currency called 'speed boost'.^[7]^[8]

Visual aftermarket parts[edit]

On March 16, 2011, visual aftermarket parts were made available, and later added to lucky draw in December, 2011. All the in-game cash bodykits from previous versions were removed. Most body kits required SpeedBoost to purchase on May 31, 2011. There were several choices of customisation, some which were exclusive to specific cars. Along with body kits there were spoilers, wheels, neons, hoods, window tint and license plates. Most of these parts, like bodykits, had to be paid with by SpeedBoost. Players could also redeem gifts that they could equip to their cars.

Night Mode[edit]

Night mode was added on Dec 15, 2010. The lighting was also changed from mostly white to the color scheme used in Carbon.

Team Escape Mode[edit]

On March 31, 2011, Electronic Arts introduced a new game mode called Team Escape, a semi-cooperative version of a police pursuit where up to four players participated in a sprint from point A to point B while avoiding numerous cops, within a set time limit depending on the event. For this mode, two team versions of the game's power-ups were released.

Treasure Hunt Mode[edit]

On July 26, 2011, a feature called Treasure Hunt was released. In Treasure Hunt, played during free roam, players would attempt to collect fifteen gems located in various areas. If the player collected all fifteen gems daily, they would get boosts of reputation and in-game cash. Playing the Treasure Hunt mode daily would build up what was known as a Treasure Hunt Streak. Players earned random high-end performance parts or additional power-ups after completing every hunt based on the day count of the streak.