The trailer for Need for Speed Edge has now been presented in Korea. The racing MMO aims to bring the Need for Speed franchise to Asia.
Currently, G-STAR is taking place in Korea, an important gaming fair there, and Electronic Arts showed a trailer for “Need for Speed Edge,” a Free2Play MMO produced for the Asian market. Korea, really all of Asia, is a PC market; consoles are hardly represented there. Major Western franchises that are strong on consoles are trying to establish themselves there with “MMO” versions of their brands. This doesn’t always succeed; for example, “Borderlands Online” was recently shut down.
The racing MMO Need for Speed Edge is the next attempt. A 3-day beta is set to start in South Korea on November 26. Early reports say that the graphics look fantastic, and there will not only be races, but players can also tune or trade cars, and even create their own vehicles.
Need for Speed Edge is developed by EA “Spearhead Studios”; the publisher in Asia is the MMO specialist “Nexon.” The Frostbite 3 engine, which is also used in Star Wars Battlefront , serves as the engine for NfS: Edge.
