Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights

Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights is a racing video game co-developed by Execraft and Ghost Games, and published by Electronic Arts. Released worldwide on November 17, 2029 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows, it is the 25th entry of the Need For Speed series, made to commemorate the franchise's 35th anniversary. This game features the mixed story plot crossover between Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Need for Speed: Carbon, with the original characters are made by Seven Arcs Pictures the creator behind Lyrical Nanoha series, as well as the vehicles are Auto Modellista art style which marked itself apart from others of the same genre with cel-shaded graphics, which gave a hand-drawn and cartoon-like appearance.

Gameplay
Need For Speed Hot Import Nights plays similarly with its two games, Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Need for Speed: Carbon. Players take the role of multiple protagonists and progress in the career mode by beating a series of various race events. Career mode will see players completing races and tuning their vehicles as they advance through the game. Careers splits into 2 cities, the Bayview and the Palmont, with each seeing an increase in difficulty. Players will be able to enter a new district of Bayview and also access through Palmont as they advance through the game alongside new parts and vehicles.

General gameplay has a multiple career mode campaigns: Ruka/Sara/Josh/Mick, The Yagami, The T.F.K. The 21st Fest and Mach, each campaign has different protagonist roles with different story, for instance: Ruka, Sara and Josh campaigns are story plot from Underground 2 all the way to Carbon, while The T.F.K. campaign is only Carbon's plot with a touch of Undercover.

Free Roam
Like Underground 2, players can drive around the city of Bayview and Palmont. Bayview is divided into five districts with different aesthetics and roads within each, while Palmont is divided into 4 boroughs just like in Carbon: Downtown, Kempton, Fortuna and Silverton. The new city is called the Infinity Highway and this also treated as the city which connected between Bayview and Palmont. Players can visit Tuning Shops, Car Lots, and race events seen around the entire city. Player can use a GPS to help navigate around the city.

Events
Note: All race events are no traffic appeared with exception of 10 crew outrun.


 * Circuit - Players compete against other racers in closed circuits with a set number of laps.
 * Sprint - Players compete against other racers along closed roads from Point A to Point B.
 * Drag - Speed and shifting races without traffics. Players compete against other racers along a closed straight road. The winner is the racer to complete the stretch of road in the shortest time.
 * Drift - Players have to slide around corners in order to gain points along a closed circuit. Players earn more points depending on the speed and angle of their slide. The winner is the racer with the highest amount of points at the end.
 * 10 Crew Outrun - Similar mechanic of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3's 10 outrun mode with a touch of Canyon Duel's. The leader must overtake 10 opponents before the timer runs out. The chasing player stays ahead for 5 seconds, the opponent is overtaken and additional 30 seconds timer is awarded for the player. If you overtaken the first opponent, then the next opponent will appear. If you defeat 10 opponents in succession, it means you have successfully completed this event.
 * Speedtrap - Speed-focused sprint races. Participants pass through a series of checkpoints along a course that record their speed at that point. The racer with the highest total speed recorded combined across all points by the end of the event is the winner. Once the first racer crosses the finish line, the score of the other participants will be slowly reduced as penalty until they cross the finish line.
 * Checkpoint/Tollbooth - Time-limited checkpoint/tollbooth races. Unlike other race events, tollbooth/checkpoint races aren't against any opponents. Each tollbooth/checkpoint event begins at a tollbooth or checkpoint and the player's objective is to reach the final tollbooth or checkpoint before running out of time. The player passes through other tollbooths and or checkpoint along the way, which act as checkpoints; additional time is awarded when the player passes through them.
 * Street X - Players compete against other racers in closed circuits along tight corner roads with a set number of laps. Also Nitrous and Speedbreakers are unavailable in Street X race.
 * HIN Racing League - Players compete against other racers in a tournament on a closed race course. Racers get points after each race based on their position. The winner is the racer that has collected the most points after the final race. Each URL win unlocks a car in the car lots.