The next installment of the Need for Speed franchise is currently in development at Ghost Games, slated for 2015, and today a new career opportunity ad seeking a Narrative Director gave us a tidbit of information on what we can expect.
Nothing wrong with a good narrative, I have faith in the current developing group putting together a good raw game-play experience in a fundamental sense, but they need to add some flavour and a good story does just that.Ghost is now looking for a Narrative Director to join the team. As a Narrative Director you will be reporting to the Senior Producer and be responsible for how story is told in the game, how it enhances and supports the gameplay and creates emotional connections in the game. This is crucial in creating a compelling game experience.
It's clearly tough to put together a story in a racing game though, so if it's anything like The Run then I don't think they're in for a winner.
Good to see them trying though, but they need to make the gameplay environment and feel more unique imo. For instance, That's part of the appeal of the Underground games of old, the whole tuner culture scene added some flavour and felt a little bit more grounded in reality. Even MW and Carbon had their distint look and feel.