At the very beginning of the year, a job offer from TiMi Studios (a subsidiary of Tencent Games) had revealed the development of a certain Need For Speed Online Mobile which we had never heard of. At the time, we even learned that the game, designed using the Unreal Engine 4, was going to undergo a first phase of testing. Today, if Electronic Arts has not made anything official yet, a Reddit user shared 47 seconds of gameplay which, according to him, are precisely drawn from a test session organized recently. According to the insider’s explanations, the version presented contained three vehicles (the McLaren F1, the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ and the Gallardo), had controls similar to those of Need For Speed Edge, and allowed to walk around in a map based on that of Need For Speed Heat (with however some modifications). Obviously, this preview did not include a single player mode, and the police were absent subscribers. Last detail: all this took place on iOS.
For the record, it’s TiMi Studios that we owe Call of Duty Mobile and Pokémon Unite, and it’s a safe bet that its teams have been called upon for Apex Legends Mobile (which will be released on May 17) and the future Assassin’s Creed Mobile. As for Need For Speed, Electronic Arts has confirmed that the next major episode will be released during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 (between October 1 and December 31).