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@@AlexKrowson nope. Oversimplified final version and less of what this was. Not to mention how post launch didn't really capitalize on the intended theme of the game, instead relying on nostalgia by volume 7-9 and lackluster on the first six.
I really love how the cars here somehow show “emotion”, like with the part is shows the 4 star heat screen 1:10 when the Nissan turns to the cops cars and they turn and “look at you” in a dark area, just showing that those cars are going to deal with you more seriously and put fear in facing them. *sigh* If only they allowed criterion to cook…if only…
Looks like they toned it down a lot for the retail version. Most likely for the public and I think they were right. A lot of people just hate the graphic pop ups for some reason. I think it’s one of the best visual things about the game. Something fresh and new that isn’t objectively bad
if criterion goes all out with the scrapbook grafitti/heat's neon artstyle in the retail version it'd go crazy, it's like prostreet/ssx on tour's aesthetics on crack also love the use of eurostile font here
It's very unlikely that UNITE will be able to do this because this concept is most likely no longer compatible with the current version of the game. And such major changes will certainly impact the core gameplay, which is impossible without major changes to the core game.
@@cxlciummmiv All custom body kits were planned as content for Heat, but since Ghost Games was closed... they used the content for Unbound. The map Lakeshore City is also largely a copy from Palm City.
@@KnockX9227even several cars from unbound: Nissan Silvia s14 Mazda rx8 Bmw m3 e92 2012 convertible Porsche boxster mercedes benz c63 convertible ford Mustang convertible 2019 (additionally) were planned to be included too, as a part of black market update
That XP screen screams GRID 2 lmfao, but this is awesome. Much more stylish than the final product. Wish more racing games do something like this, instead of the clean, bland and boring style UI that we have since 5000 B.C.
Man, this gave Unbound so much more personality and Character instead of what we actually got. If we got this I don’t know if as many people would’ve complained the cartoon effects. The game would’ve felt more intense as well, and I noticed hidden customization options on some of the cars.
Sad that not only EA killed off their creativity through limitation and failure to unleash the true potential, but the community rejected this idea altogether due to the aesthetics. Criterion is just a sad case of when devs don't get a chance to cook, TWICE.
I liked this look more than the ending, there are certain things that EA cuts from NFS just like it was with Carbon, Undercover and 2015 that I think are unnecessary
If anybody makes a mod with this kind of look, I would love to be a character in the mod, specifically one who would still help you, but would also scold you if you pushed your luck and importantly laughed in your face when you failed horribly specifically a character who's not entirely helpful but also kind of a toxic friend
Everything looks great here except for the character customization. If they kept it as an anonymous player with this type of intense art style it would’ve added to the immersion.
this looks like straight fire, shame they didn't use these visuals. I think this just goes to show just how incredible Unbound could have been (visually, at least) had they not been forced to work on Battlefield 2042, or given more time
I am so glad the final game didn’t turn out like this. I was actually worried that the game would look like this when it was announced that there would be ‘anime’ effects. The animations and colours are way too much, almost burns my retinas 😭 Thank god EA for once made the right decision.
Okay, so it has some bits from Burnout Paradise (this racer has race for X many times), and the rest is kinda, similiar, but looks better, to me at least. It looks so flashy, almost like FH4's studio, combined with NFS Hot Pursuit lettering And they were only planning to gave us penalty fee on busted? Not a whole cash taken? That was a rip off
Explains the extra long intro beginning every race. After a while it's really boring to sit through and look at. A good portion of these ideas exist in the game with minimal execution
@@X1xRiGox3X unite are just spotlighted as modders. i believe they could at most give criterion some ideas for the next title but nothing more than that.
Put all that work in to give us a half arsed game 😂 the first "next gen" need for speed game turned out to be so bad, especially with the bugs that they'll never ever fix 😂
@Brawltendo ofc i do man im just sick n tired. the fact they forced the need fr SPEED games onto an engine that cannot do speed at fucking all is still the dumbest thing on earth. seldom few games do what nfs does and for that to be so underutilized because ea is getting shitter is ANNOYING
@@Brawltendo not sure about pre nfs 2015 games but 2015, payback, heat, unbound are all made in the frostbite engine, the same engine that battlefield was made in. the things that frostbite does good, it does well, but driving fast is not one of them. the most common example of this is dragon age inquisition and sprinting on horses; the horse isnt going any faster, the game just shows you speed lines to trick you. the same thing happens when you reach speeds around 250-300 in each of the newer nfs games is that frostbite is not made to render anything at that speed! so the game has to actively slow you down to stop it from shitting itself which is why there's fringe complaints about sense of speed
@ the speed limiter in newer NFS games is likely for balance reasons rather than world streaming. NFS ProStreet does the same thing and that predates Frostbite (the speed limiter code in the newer games even dates all the way back to ProStreet). You can easily mod that soft limit out and the world streamer keeps up just fine unless you’re going unreasonable speeds that you’d never actually reach under normal circumstances.
@@MlodyM2112 i believe its something recorded by criterion to show off the visuals. the ones we got in the final are way more toned down than what they've had here.
i cant fathom how ANYONE. with eyes, a brain, functioning anything. could say no. we're gonna work on something that is barely possible today. and it will just have to be ANOTHER, half-baked nfs title. it pisses me off to no end that people with a passion wanted to do right by its community and instead of letting it cook they hire a new chef to finish the dish quickly. It taste fine, but it could be sooo much better. im angry. and it sucks that i need 12+ mods to get the experience i wanted from this game.
well say hello to the blackbox era nfs titles aswell. ea always crunched their developers and all of the cut content from these games just proves that point even further. undercover and mw2012 had it the worst when it comes to cut content.
It's not just EA who cucked Criterion twice now, but also the fact that the community was collectively having L-takes on the overall aesthetic of Unbound. Never forget that the community vehemently pushed for this aesthetic to be removed.
Looks not very organic and kinda generic, also too long and too overloaded, i bet it will be annoying after few play sessions, released version way better, imho
@@drrnvevo maybe if they will polish it, but in the video it's like mix of forza, crew motorfest (i know there was no crew motorfest at the moment, but now) and heat
i mean it's not really generic when the game just screams "visuals" in your face. yeah the final version was toned down and would perhaps be better for "replayability" purposes but wouldn't the same thing be said about most wanted, carbon, pro street? those games also scream style but no one complained about them.
@@cxlciummmiv no-no-no-no! It's very different. Carbon, MW and Pro Street have a style like unbound, where it's organic and wise. I called this alfa demo generic because of design choices, like character in front of big display, fonts, icons, camera angles, smoothness, transitions and etc. It's like Finals meet Heat + Forza Horizon and it's not even a game, just bunch of cutscenes. It's early concept so it's okay to be generic and not polished. There is not that much individuality and style here, looks more like too much trying to be stylish and losing it because of that. Idk how to describe it, it feels cheap and generic.
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Since you guys really loved this video, I've made an entire video dedicated to showing Unbound's development. Check it out here:
ua-cam.com/video/HJV8-47eA-U/v-deo.html
criterion has proven to have so much potential with mw12 alpha and now unbound alpha im wondering how much EA has really limited them
ea limited every single developer that they've had with crunch times and rushed releases.
Most Wanted 2 prototype could saved the franchise if was not scrapped, damn.
EA had nothing to do with it in this case, probably Criterion itself decided to tone it down
@GamersPlayBR No, its EA fault because they put Criterion to help fixing Bugfield 2042, being a trouble for Unbound development.
Wow I am actually little mad we didn't get something like this
What do you mean? It's exactly what came out
@AlexKrowson it's very much tone down and much simple in terms of the ui and effects
@@AlexKrowson nope. Oversimplified final version and less of what this was. Not to mention how post launch didn't really capitalize on the intended theme of the game, instead relying on nostalgia by volume 7-9 and lackluster on the first six.
@@sleepy8500 all of that is pre rendered not ingame
@damizz899 some of them were rendered in game
Early 2021 (and did you know NFS unbound was supposed to be released in 2021, but got delayed for Battlefield 2042)
yeah, and now most of criterion were sent over to help with battlefield once again.
@@cxlciummmiv pretty dumb move tbh, it'll just destroy NFS further in the future
instead bf2042 during launch is really buggy af
@@Naffacakes98so how opinion the future of battlefield?
I really love how the cars here somehow show “emotion”, like with the part is shows the 4 star heat screen 1:10 when the Nissan turns to the cops cars and they turn and “look at you” in a dark area, just showing that those cars are going to deal with you more seriously and put fear in facing them. *sigh* If only they allowed criterion to cook…if only…
Looks like they toned it down a lot for the retail version. Most likely for the public and I think they were right. A lot of people just hate the graphic pop ups for some reason. I think it’s one of the best visual things about the game. Something fresh and new that isn’t objectively bad
i just like the game because it stands out. they went balls out with the effects and it helped them stand out.
The community hatred on these aesthetics speaks for itself.
if criterion goes all out with the scrapbook grafitti/heat's neon artstyle in the retail version it'd go crazy, it's like prostreet/ssx on tour's aesthetics on crack
also love the use of eurostile font here
@@drrnvevo Eurostile
Eurostile.
@@D4rkNFS oh okay yeah i can see the very small difference between both lol
Somehow this is felt like grid 2 and prostreet combine together 😂
Totally
Yes, totally
MW12 bgm just rocks man 🗣️🗣️🗣️
These art concepts are better than 2022 (retail) version. Wonder if UNITE team will revive these concepts into this game.
nah I'd like the current version. The beta was better if ZZZ add car roam feature
It's very unlikely that UNITE will be able to do this because this concept is most likely no longer compatible with the current version of the game. And such major changes will certainly impact the core gameplay, which is impossible without major changes to the core game.
@@KnockX9227 agree with you. These concepts cannot suit the current version and it's likely impossible to bring back them.
@@Vijay-tq9rcI learned when it came to mod makers never say never. As long as there’s evidence it exists there’s someone who could remake it
No they won’t and the game is basically at the end of it’s lifespan for content updates
If Grid 2, Forza Horizon 1 and NFS Prostreet had their youngest siblings:
It has some heat essence or is just me?
yup
the Legendary custom body kits were also originally intended for Heat, and were then taken over into Unbound due to the closure of Ghost Games
@@KnockX9227 that's interesting to hear, i knew only about the aventador's k.s. bodykit and the bugatti's. nothing about the rest tho.
@@cxlciummmiv All custom body kits were planned as content for Heat, but since Ghost Games was closed... they used the content for Unbound. The map Lakeshore City is also largely a copy from Palm City.
@@KnockX9227even several cars from unbound:
Nissan Silvia s14
Mazda rx8
Bmw m3 e92 2012 convertible
Porsche boxster
mercedes benz c63 convertible
ford Mustang convertible 2019
(additionally)
were planned to be included too, as a part of black market update
would actually love this night club styled art style a nfs game
0:05-0:08 Unfortunately, these character mapping actions are not available in the main game.
final visuals in the game are great, but i would eat them up so more if they were as spectacular as this.
FIIIIIIIINE visuals, EA being EA maaan. Loved the SIUUUUUUU at 0:41 hahaha!!!
That XP screen screams GRID 2 lmfao, but this is awesome. Much more stylish than the final product. Wish more racing games do something like this, instead of the clean, bland and boring style UI that we have since 5000 B.C.
We could have got ourselves a Midnight Club in NFS style. The style, and the characters reek of Midnight Club II.
0:26 that 350Z cut bodykit & spoiler much better than we had in the game
probably got cut out due to licensing issues. still, its clean.
@@cxlciummmivthe fenders and spoiler reminds me of Veilside 350Z
this look so cool this how nfs unbound should have looked
The presentation.. Such identity
They had the perfect formula all the way back in 2021… wtf why did they not keep it?
Forced to work on battlefield
0:40 you can unlock this victory dance in game by either mods and/or cheat engine
The early alpha game kinda got some heat vibes on it
Woah!! They shoulda kept it like this
This has some heat and some grid vibes dude
this is 10x better than we got
0:06 Banners would have a much better use if this would be in online
Man, this gave Unbound so much more personality and Character instead of what we actually got. If we got this I don’t know if as many people would’ve complained the cartoon effects. The game would’ve felt more intense as well, and I noticed hidden customization options on some of the cars.
In fact some scenes remind me of NFS assemble 0:36
Sad that not only EA killed off their creativity through limitation and failure to unleash the true potential, but the community rejected this idea altogether due to the aesthetics. Criterion is just a sad case of when devs don't get a chance to cook, TWICE.
yuuppp
another reason to hate nfs community
I liked this look more than the ending, there are certain things that EA cuts from NFS just like it was with Carbon, Undercover and 2015 that I think are unnecessary
I wish they kept some of this stuff
1:05 it feels like NFS Heat style
Damn this is way better then what we got
big grid 2 energy
Lowkey either the loading screens/ information given about something is presented in a way that is eye candy. And you can skip them if you want to!
If anybody makes a mod with this kind of look, I would love to be a character in the mod, specifically one who would still help you, but would also scold you if you pushed your luck and importantly laughed in your face when you failed horribly specifically a character who's not entirely helpful but also kind of a toxic friend
look at the light streak fx when crashed tho... cool
We almost got ronaldo's siuuu celebration in nfs before GTA 6. 😂😅
They have those burnout like takedowns…
Ok seriously, what is up with the visuals of the alpha/beta builds of NFS games looking so much cooler than what we ended up getting?!
EAs shitty management
Next NFS has to be like that or better
This is WAYYYY BETTER than the final version, no cap!!!
This stuff looks super cool... But I can see why they toned it down. It's so flashy that it could grow rather tiresome after a short gaming session..
This looks better than the original game
This is super cool why didn't they go with it?
Perhaps the nickname and name were tested on a character named Kai.
eh i doubt, probo just a developer's name lol
Everything looks great here except for the character customization. If they kept it as an anonymous player with this type of intense art style it would’ve added to the immersion.
1:49 I'm so glad this crap didn't end up in the final game and that they finally tuned down the Burnout crash cams
this looks like straight fire, shame they didn't use these visuals. I think this just goes to show just how incredible Unbound could have been (visually, at least) had they not been forced to work on Battlefield 2042, or given more time
cool showcase
This is way better
Wait did shawty just hit the CR7 Suiii celebration? 🤣
Codemasters evo/ evolution studios are try making onrush takedown aren't they? 1:49
criterion back in early 2021
More interesting style, result screen and loading screen than now.Why...
This is Bad Ass, i cannot believe they didn't use this concept. im so mad right now
Why are they not using the earlier concept...
Because deadlines
Early Blender showcase...
Where did you find this?
the link is in the desc
As much hate as Unbound gets it’s undeniably on the right track. I can’t bring myself to hate Criterion simply because Ea cucks them
Remember what they took from us.. man i hate EA and their stupid focus group tests
Probably a mod or a fan concept
no it's real
it's directly taken from a developer's portofolio.
What is the Name of the Music?
nfsmw 2012 main menu theme
0:24
Please tell me I'm not the only one who got sidetracked..
side tracked by what??
yeah i'll be honest i also got a bit sidetracked lmao. but who didn't? i would've loved it if animations remained like that in the final game, lol.
@@russellm2367 By.. something
@@cxlciummmiv my man 🤝
biggest highlight is the use of colours, in final game everything is so dull too much use of grey n black in UI. Suffers the same issue as Forza 7
I am so glad the final game didn’t turn out like this. I was actually worried that the game would look like this when it was announced that there would be ‘anime’ effects. The animations and colours are way too much, almost burns my retinas 😭 Thank god EA for once made the right decision.
song?
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012 - Options Theme
Damn where’d this come from
A concept artists portfolio who worked on unbound ig
i found it on reddit, i've linked the post in the description, the guy didn't say much though.
@@cxlciummmiv my comment states where it's from.
Okay, so it has some bits from Burnout Paradise (this racer has race for X many times), and the rest is kinda, similiar, but looks better, to me at least. It looks so flashy, almost like FH4's studio, combined with NFS Hot Pursuit lettering
And they were only planning to gave us penalty fee on busted? Not a whole cash taken? That was a rip off
Explains the extra long intro beginning every race. After a while it's really boring to sit through and look at. A good portion of these ideas exist in the game with minimal execution
Why is this a common theme with triple a games where they're wayyyyyyyyyy better during alpha but the final product is complete shit
Deadlines and Optimization issues…
@@axl1632 yup
I mean this is nice but release version is better imo. This is too much
music?
@coilstrike nfsmw 2012 main menu music i believe
some of the effects are a bit much, but the countdown, delivery mission cutscenes, after-race results and the crash cam effects are actually lit
I heard the next NFS is codemasters devs and Unite team
Where did you hear that? Any more details?
@@X1xRiGox3X unite are just spotlighted as modders. i believe they could at most give criterion some ideas for the next title but nothing more than that.
I expected something more like anime.
Put all that work in to give us a half arsed game 😂 the first "next gen" need for speed game turned out to be so bad, especially with the bugs that they'll never ever fix 😂
nfs amfrei beta
It's way better
Damn they look pretty cool actually, i wish if it kept like that, pretty sure battlefield 2042 is responsible for this mess..
yeah, and the next nfs title is also at risk cause of battlefield yet again. dunno what's going on in ea's head but they look clueless.
Why does it look like Call of Duty with cars lmao
Mw2012 music? Wth😂
the worst thing to happen to nfs as a franchise is ea and the fucking frostbite engine
You do know EA owned the series since the beginning right lmao
@Brawltendo ofc i do man im just sick n tired. the fact they forced the need fr SPEED games onto an engine that cannot do speed at fucking all is still the dumbest thing on earth. seldom few games do what nfs does and for that to be so underutilized because ea is getting shitter is ANNOYING
@@sp4cedr4g0n how does the engine have anything to do with that
@@Brawltendo not sure about pre nfs 2015 games but 2015, payback, heat, unbound are all made in the frostbite engine, the same engine that battlefield was made in. the things that frostbite does good, it does well, but driving fast is not one of them. the most common example of this is dragon age inquisition and sprinting on horses; the horse isnt going any faster, the game just shows you speed lines to trick you. the same thing happens when you reach speeds around 250-300 in each of the newer nfs games is that frostbite is not made to render anything at that speed! so the game has to actively slow you down to stop it from shitting itself which is why there's fringe complaints about sense of speed
@ the speed limiter in newer NFS games is likely for balance reasons rather than world streaming. NFS ProStreet does the same thing and that predates Frostbite (the speed limiter code in the newer games even dates all the way back to ProStreet). You can easily mod that soft limit out and the world streamer keeps up just fine unless you’re going unreasonable speeds that you’d never actually reach under normal circumstances.
This is not a mod?????????
nope, actual nfs unbound alpha/beta footage
@@cxlciummmiv What????
@@MlodyM2112 i believe its something recorded by criterion to show off the visuals. the ones we got in the final are way more toned down than what they've had here.
@@cxlciummmiv im don't Believe. Different to Heat is BIG
@@cxlciummmivno they arent the visuals in release are amazing lol
lol damn bro poor nfs, could’ve been a lot better
Always criterion stuff not use better original idea because deadline
i cant fathom how ANYONE. with eyes, a brain, functioning anything. could say no. we're gonna work on something that is barely possible today. and it will just have to be ANOTHER, half-baked nfs title. it pisses me off to no end that people with a passion wanted to do right by its community and instead of letting it cook they hire a new chef to finish the dish quickly. It taste fine, but it could be sooo much better. im angry. and it sucks that i need 12+ mods to get the experience i wanted from this game.
well say hello to the blackbox era nfs titles aswell. ea always crunched their developers and all of the cut content from these games just proves that point even further. undercover and mw2012 had it the worst when it comes to cut content.
It's not just EA who cucked Criterion twice now, but also the fact that the community was collectively having L-takes on the overall aesthetic of Unbound. Never forget that the community vehemently pushed for this aesthetic to be removed.
Looks not very organic and kinda generic, also too long and too overloaded, i bet it will be annoying after few play sessions, released version way better, imho
overloaded i agree but this isnt generic at all
@@drrnvevo maybe if they will polish it, but in the video it's like mix of forza, crew motorfest (i know there was no crew motorfest at the moment, but now) and heat
Yes it is look generic, the graffiti kinda to much
i mean it's not really generic when the game just screams "visuals" in your face. yeah the final version was toned down and would perhaps be better for "replayability" purposes but wouldn't the same thing be said about most wanted, carbon, pro street? those games also scream style but no one complained about them.
@@cxlciummmiv no-no-no-no! It's very different. Carbon, MW and Pro Street have a style like unbound, where it's organic and wise. I called this alfa demo generic because of design choices, like character in front of big display, fonts, icons, camera angles, smoothness, transitions and etc. It's like Finals meet Heat + Forza Horizon and it's not even a game, just bunch of cutscenes. It's early concept so it's okay to be generic and not polished. There is not that much individuality and style here, looks more like too much trying to be stylish and losing it because of that. Idk how to describe it, it feels cheap and generic.
... Детский сад какой то...
how is it a kindergarten exactly?
What the f is this? It's awful
It was an early alpha concept showcase a concept artist released on their portfolio.
I found it beautiful