Meet Tri-City Bay, the new free roaming environment in Need For Speed Undercover where you’ll be able to piss off cops to your hearts content. Within Tri City Bay you’ll find smaller areas such as Palm Harbor, Port Crecent, Gold Coast Mountains, and Sunset Hills. Black Box also promises that Tri City Bay will be the largest NFS world ever constructed – 100 miles of open road. You’ll be able to pick up the game November 18th in North America and November 21st in Europe.
EA Studio Black Box today dropped details on an all-new multiplayer mode coming next month in Need for Speed Undercover, the latest installment of the arcade racing franchise. Called Cops and Robbers, it sets two teams of up to four players against each other, with one team picking up loot and racing to the drop point while the other team tries to head them off at the pass.
When it comes to skateboarding games – you’re pretty much glued to the board. Interestingly, this video shows us how in Skate 2 you will finally be able to get off the board and change things around in real time. Want to Evel Knievel 5 barrels? no problem. Get off your board and move the obstacles where you want them. It also comes in handy just in case you mess up at a slow speed. You won’t hit the ground hard, you’ll just simply jump off and catch yourself.
The game will be hitting Xbox 360 and PS3 sometime next year.
Over the holidays, the gaming community lost one an influential member in Martin Sikes, one of the founding members of Black Box Games. Black Box was probably best known for creating titles like NHL 2K and Sega Soccer Slam before being acquired by Electronic Arts in 2002 and helming the Need For Speed franchise. Sikes and other former Black Box staffers later went on to co-found United Front Games, a start-up studio that formed in the summer of 2007. Sikes, who died suddenly on Christmas Eve, is survived by his daughter, parents Rita and John, and sister Belinda.
Details on memorial services are available at the Vancouver Sun.
Martin Sikes co-founded Black Box Games [Vancouver Sun - thanks, Victor]