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Games in the series include:
* '''''Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed'' (1994):''' Contained point-to-point open road tracks and several closed racetracks. The open roads featured AI traffic and police cars that chased the player. Was originally released on the 3DO console, and was later ported to the [[
* '''''Need For Speed II'' (1997):''' Expanded on the car selection of the original with several contemporary concept cars, like the Ford Indigo and Ford GT90. The game abandoned open road courses for arcade circuits. PC Gamer magazine criticized many of the tracks extravagant and unrealistic scenery -- comparing many of them to being akin to driving on magic mushrooms. ''NFS II'' also had a special edition release for the PC, which added some new cars, a new track and 3Dfx Glide support.
* '''''Need For Speed V-Rally'' (1997) & ''Need For Speed V-Rally II'' (1999):''' The [[Market-Based Title|American market branding]] of ''V-Rally'', an unrelated rally racing title made by the French developer Eden Studios and published overseas by Infogrames. ''V-Rally 3'' would be published without the NFS branding in 2002. Eden Studios would also develop the Playstation version of ''Porsche Unleashed'' and the very old-school-NFS-like ''[[Test Drive]] Unlimited''.
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* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]: The opening of ''Undercover''.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: You in almost all Need for Speed games. Of note are the beautiful, treacherous tracks in Hot Pursuit 2K10. When you get to, or have to, drive a Corvette [[ZR 1]] through hairpins at 200mph, you have to learn to drift well fast.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Played straight in Underground 1&2, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be [[Epic Fail|lapped five times by the end of the race.]] Averted in [[Pro Street]] where, if you perform good enough, the
* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]
* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]]: In earlier installments, the only options for vehicles were rear-wheel drive and four-wheel drive, which made this almost literally true. ''Hot Pursuit 2K10'' has only two types: Rear Wheel Drive and All Wheel Drive.
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