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I have seen so many of those ideas for next NFS games around Reddit, and I got inspired to do more of them. However, since I am more of a supercar-leaning NFS person with some tuner leanings (ie. High Stakes-style), or a ProStreet/Shift person who loves track races, I would come out with new story ideas.

The idea for Tokyo-based settings is nice, but it's still far-fetched. I would want to set the new story around European-based locations with rebooted versions of old NFS tracks (like what Ghost Games rebooted Palm City Island).

Here's my idea:

The story opening would begin with the player who gets invited to Speedhunters Showdown Tournament in Empire City, and participates in the sanctioned, legal street circuits along with their opponents in pimped detailed race cars based on everyday cars, old junkers and moderate luxury cars ranging from Audi S3 Sedan, Mini Cooper S JCW hatch, VW Golf GTI to even Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ, Nissan 180SX and old Chevy Camaro. (High level ones would add exotic and hypercars like Chiron and FXX-K Evo.)

As the story progresses, you're invited by someone to an unknown street racing team who's also taking part in Speedhunters Showdown Tournament, and get involved into illegal street racing at nights. This is where the first street arc begin, and it takes cues from Underground and High Stakes.

As for the areas, I have three ideas around, but since Criterion Games is based in UK, I would take some UK-centric style for the first two locations, and completely different for the third.Empire City: Greater Manchester, Birmingham, or Yorkshire.Celtic Ruins: Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands, or somewhere in Scotland.Mystic Peaks: Eastern European areas like those in Belarus and Bulgaria.

Now the street arc goes on:

Arc 1: Empire City

Most opponents in this arc race through the streets of Empire City, mostly circuit and sprint races. Most of their cars were like 86/BRZ, S-Chassis Silvia, old Mustang, Civic, Z4, or even A45 AMG and BMW M2 Competition. The police cars were altered, and most of them are not Crown Vics anymore (Crown Vics are not in UK), so they're replaced with Mini Cooper JCW hatchbacks, Ford Mondeo saloons, and maybe Aston Martin DB11 if there's a chance

Arc 2: Celtic Ruins

This is where the drift arc start. Many of the drift crews put their hands on the twisty roads throughout the Celtic Ruins, and as a one-on-one trial or two, they'll try to push you out off the cliffs of Celtic Ruins, so scoring and position are keys here. Most of their cars are Porsche Caymans, BMW M2 Competitions, Mercedes CLA45 AMG, Ford Focus RS and so on. The police cars are less noticable, but they'll bring in aggressive ones such as Mercedes CLA45 AMG, Porsche 911 Turbo S, and possibly Range Rover Evoque to block the racers from passing the Celtic touge.

Arc 3: Empire City

Back to the Empire City, you found your home garage got burnt down by someone, and the authorities, both the police and Speedhunters organization were also alerted and they have to find out who's going on. Since you're revealed to be an undercover police officer, you assign the cop role this time (like in Undercover and Rivals). There are Hot Pursuit challenges (to bust some street racers wandering around for stealing parts and such), Highway Battle (similar, but on highways), and Jobs (something like escort someone from dangers). As a cop player, your choices are:

* Mini Cooper JCW Hatchback* Range Rover Sport SVR* Ford Mustang GT* Audi S3 Sedan or RS3 Sedan* Subaru WRX STI 2015* Mercedes CLA45 AMG* Audi RS5 Sportback* BMW M5* Lotus Exige S* Jaguar XJR* Land Rover Defender* Chevrolet Corvette C7 or C8 (unlockable if C8)* Mercedes AMG GT (unlockable)* Nissan GT-R R35 2017 (unlockable)* Aston Martin DB11 (unlockable)* McLaren F1 (unlockable)* Porsche 911 Turbo S (unlockable)* Lamborghini Huracan Evo LP640-4 (unlockable)* Lamborghini Aventador S (unlockable)* Koenigsegg Agera or One:1 (unlockable)* Koenigsegg Regera (unlockable)* Koenigsegg Gemera (unlockable)* Bugatti Chiron (unlockable)

After certain events, you'd get notified that some police officers were escaped to Mystic Peaks in Eastern Europe, and you're assigned to find the exploits of them.

Arc 4: Mystic Peaks

This is the ultimate final arc where a giant throwback to High Stakes (and other classic NFS) become prevalent. And it has the touge-style street racing centering around exotics and grand tourers in an Eastern European hillclimb settings. On one side, a secret racing club exclusively uses the exotic supercars and grand tourers from Nissan R35 GT-R, Aston Martin DB11, Ferrari F40, Lamborghini Diablo, to Koenigsegg One:1, Bugatti Chiron, or even Hennessey Venom GT. On other sides, the police forces are also employing the similar tactics such as bringing the cop GTs/supercars such as Lamborghini Huracans, Bugatti Chirons and Nissan GT-R R35 to the hot pursuit scene. No Crown Vics, no Dodge Chargers, no Ford Explorers, only Huracans, Chirons, GT-Rs and even Aventadors.

You're tasked to infiltrate the street racing team and provide some intel to the cops, but things get complex from there. The cops are not the clean guys either, and the police force who used supercars are the corrupt police force who wag their money from busting street racers' cars and instead of disembodying them like in Heat, they turned those exotic racers into police machines for own profit. The leader of the police force in Mystic Peaks is revealed to run the street racing gang there, and there's where you gonna dismantle them for real.

Proving you're not guilty anymore, the police in Empire City and Celtic Ruins forgive you for the infiltration of illicit street racing scenes, but other police officers were never lucky anymore as they're kicked out and arrested for corruption (like Chase Linh and Danny Shaw in previous NFS games). You can still continue Speedhunters Showdown Tournament like usual, and the law enforcement are still keeping an eye on you if you do illegal street racing however

Post-game: You're back in Empire City and also given unlocked free roam for Celtic Ruins and Mystic Peaks. There are side-story mini events and unlockable stuff as usual, including the Factory Driver-style events such as delivering other cars without police pursuits, to Black Market-style events where you do a series of races for the tasks.

As for Speedhunters Showdown Tournament, I have written before, but some changes to fit the aesthetic would be good. And yes, this type of event will also be in both Empire City, Celtic Ruins and Mystic Peaks, since it has gone global.

Submitted August 02, 2020 at 08:01AM by Not-A-PCMR-person https://ift.tt/3gna16f