It seems like TiMi Studios and EA are now working on a new online open-world mobile game in the Need for Speed franchise, codenamed Need For Speed Online Mobile, that will be designed in Unreal Engine 4. First found by a Redditor, recent job postings on Tencent Careers have revealed that Tencent is looking for 3D animators, design specialists, gameplay planners, and project managers among other positions in and out of Shenzhen and Shanghai.
Tencent has began hiring employees for the new Need for Speed mobile game
One of the job postings for gameplay planning has the following responsibilities- “The design of the various gameplay modes of the big world realistic racing mobile game or the design of the racing 3C experience; the compilation of various related design plans and demand lists; the decision-making and follow-up of various tasks in the research and development process to ensure quality and smooth communication within the group; follow Advance and analyze statistical data, formulate follow-up optimization plans based on data and feedback, and follow up specific development.”
This confirms that the game will be a mobile game and also would have a large open world that players would be able to explore. With Need for Speed Online Mobile being in their development pipeline also, there’s no room for doubt here.
Both TiMi and EA are major AAA game developers with the former having way better expertise in mobile games with titles like Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon Unite, and Arena of Valor under its belt. That means that we can expect a great open-world experience as it’s not really something that has been done too often on mobile.
This experience could be similar to Need for Speed: World, which was an open-world experience released on PC more than a decade ago.
For now, that’s all the information that is available publicly. There’s no release date either but it’ll probably be announced in the near future.
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