Need for Speed Going Back To It's Roots?

EA Games president Frank Gibeau [url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185908.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;10]recently revealed[/url] a new strategy that the EA Games will take on the Need for Speed series. Gibeau thinks that the unexpectedly low sales of ProStreet are the result of the series drifting too far from what consumers expected. Instead of giving open world police chases, ProStreet was legal closed track tuner racing. The next Need for Speed, Gibeau promises, will return to it's roots and once gain have an open world including a new 'highway battle' mode.

[i]Unfortunatly it seems that EA doesn't recognize the first titles in the series as the roots. So forget about exotic supercars, closed world point-to-point exotic tracks like in [url=http://wiki.nfsunlimited.net/wiki/The_Need_for_Speed]The original Need for Speed[/url] game, but think more like the superhits Need for Speed Underground and Need for Speed Most Wanted.[/i]