Need for Speed
Need for Speed is the longest-running racing series in games, and this collection charts its restless search for an identity. The early entries chased exotic cars and cop pursuits on open roads; the Underground games pivoted to night-time street culture and aftermarket tuning, reshaping the whole franchise; the Shift titles briefly gambled on cockpit-level simulation.
What stays constant is speed as spectacle rather than motorsport accuracy. The series even jumped to film in 2014 with a movie built around the same pursuit-and-tuning fantasy, and its soundtracks have long been a selling point in their own right. Nearly every entry here is a game, which is honest to what Need for Speed is: a console and PC staple that keeps rebooting its tone every few years, swapping cop chases for canyon duels for open-world car culture, never quite settling on one answer.
The Need for Speed franchise spans 24 games, 1 films, 1 music in the CrossBinge catalog.
Films
Games
- The Need for Speed (1994)
- Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998)
- Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)
- Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
- Need for Speed: Underground (2003)
- Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
- Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
- Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
- Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007)
- Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)
- Need for Speed: Shift (2009)
- Need for Speed: World (2010)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)
- Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed (2011)
- Need for Speed: The Run (2011)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)
- Need for Speed: Rivals (2013)
- Need for Speed: No Limits (2015)
- Need for Speed (2015)
- Need for Speed: Payback (2017)
- Need for Speed: Heat (2019)
- Need for Speed: Unbound (2022)