Sounds promising enough! I’m not sure I’m wild about the anime aesthetics, but Chicago should make for a great racing playground. Of course, take all this with a grain of salt for now. If the game is indeed coming this year, hopefully we get a reveal sometime soon. It’s going to be photorealistic, but it’s going to have, on top of that, there’s going to be anime elements. When you see maybe a car commercial or something like that, and the car’s driving around and cartoon flames are flying off it and stuff, and sparks are flying, and it looks like it’s out of an anime? That’s the kind of aesthetic they seem to be going for. And I wonder if that’s what they mean when they say they’re going to do a fictionalized version of… Chicago. It’s called Lakeshore City. What do you think? Do the rumors have you interested in the next Need for Speed? Or are you reserving your excitement until you see the game?

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