Need for Speed: Rivals is an racing video game set in an open world environment. Developed by Swedish and British developers Ghost Games and Ghost Games UK and developer Criterion Games, this is the twentieth installment in the long-running Need for Speed series. The game is set to be released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2013, it will also be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as a launch title for both platforms in the same month. Need For Speed Rivals is being created by an 170 man team, 100 from Ghost Games, and 70 from Ghost Games UK.
Rivals features a full career progression for both Cop and Racer. When playing as a Cop, there are three types of career that can be followed - patrol, enforcer, and undercover.Progression is by means of Speedlists for Racer and Assignments for Cop, which are sets of objectives which involve dangerous driving, maneuvers, and race standings. When the player completes a set of objectives, the player levels up and unlocks items, and is presented with another set of objectives to choose from.The Autologsystem, a competition-between-friends system developed by Criterion for Hot Pursuit and since used in other titles in the Need for Speed series, factors into the progression system, comparing how quickly the player complete an Assignment or Speedlist to other players' times and posts them to a Speed Wall for local and global leaderboards.
