Patch v1.052 introduced a slightly improved 2x scale vehicle to replicates other vehicles in the game. Replica vehicles were present on the Need for Speed World website on July 3, 2011.
In the month of August, development started for a demo game that would simulate a racing event.
Patch v1.06 is a free update for all players who purchased the game.
The actual game is on the Steam Greenlight.
Reception
Sales
In its first month of release, the game sold over 400,000 units. It was also the best-selling game for April 2011. In its first full month of release, it sold 800,000 units. In January 2012, the game sold 1,200,000 copies.
Critical reviews
The game has a Metacritic score of 86% based on 22 reviews. GameSpot's Macarena Lochini praised the "carefully-designed cars, and the constant stream of objectives that drive the game along", and praised the "lack of problems" due to "several quality assurance testing issues [that] were discovered very early in development, and had nothing to do with the game's actual mechanics". However, the criticism of the game was focused on the game's speed, with Lochini and Mark Powell, of GameZone, claiming it is difficult to gain much speed due to the vehicle speeds being too slow. Chris Watters of GameZone criticised the lack of variety of events, stating that the game felt like Need for Speed: Carbon with a different setting and events. Alex Navarro of GameSpy and Jacki Chaney of GameZone, however, praised the game's graphics and the fact that "obstacles and other hazards are visible", while criticizing its lack of replay value. In an interview with CVG, the game's design director, Jamie Cheng, stated that the game would be moving to free-to-play, and that the team wants to update the game with regular free content releases.
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