Need For Speed: The Run Is A Real Video Game, Teaser Trailer Released

Hurriedly announced after a teaser trailer leaked on a retail website, EA has confirmed that Need For Speed: The Run is a genuine video game due for release on PlayStation 3 this year

by Sammy Barker Fri 29th Apr 2011

Need For Speed: The Run Has Been Officially Announced By EA For Release This Year.

The game's pushing the Need For Speed franchise back into the realm of underground [...] illicit, high-stakes racing, after Shift and Hot Pursuit both took the series in different directions. Fascinatingly, Need For Speed: The Run is being built within DICE's amazingly pretty Frostbite 2 engine, resulting in some spiffing visuals according to EA.

This is the year that Need for Speed goes to the next level, revealed executive producer Jason DeLong. We think that Need for Speed The Run is going to surprise people with its intense, thrilling story and big action feel. But the game would be nothing without hot cars and crazy-fast chases. So that is what were delivering explosive racing that will have players flirting with disaster at 200-miles an hour.

Fans of competitive racing will be pleased to learn that Autolog will return for Need For Speed: The Run. At this point, how could it not?

The game's being developed by EA Black Box and is currently pencilled in for a November 18th release in the UK and November 15th release in North America. Hit up the teaser trailer after the jump.