After being silent for a long time, the two companies, Xinlang and Wangyi, finally made a move.

For a long time, Xinlang has always followed Qin Feng's footsteps, and what Qin Feng launches, they will launch.

This kind of passivity makes them very embarrassed. Not only Wang Zhidong is embarrassed, but also AOL, the financier behind it, is also extremely embarrassed.

Therefore, they have been holding back their big moves, wanting to catch up with Qin Feng.

However, they are only doing social media. At the moment, the functions are very limited, so they are also looking for other directions. Pure social media, including Qin Feng's side, failed to make a profit.

Even if Qin Feng launched a yellow diamond service, it was also pinned on "QQ Farm".

Therefore, AOL is thinking, the only breakthrough is only in the game.

After reviewing the market, AOL and EA reached a cooperation agreement on the current computer hardware performance and network conditions.

The cooperation between the two American companies is undoubtedly very natural, and even natural.

For EA, they look down on the online game market for the time being. However, the news reported back by the American Online that on the Chinese market, relying on a small game "QQ Farm" can earn more than 10 million US dollars a month.

This is still a bit attractive to EA.

Therefore, EA has also temporarily set up an online game department within the company to cooperate with AOL to develop online games.

Of course, the Huaxia market is currently the same global network user market as the United States. Especially there are many people in Huaxia, and this market is very large. Although China is still a developing country, it has great market prospects and great potential.

Therefore, EA has also developed an online game specifically for Huaxia, which is also a popular game under its umbrella: Need for Speed.

Need for Speed, as one of the most popular racing games in the world, can be said to be very popular. One of the fond memories of almost all players.

Different from Japan's "Ridge Racing", "Need for Speed" directly brings all kinds of cool sports cars to the game, allowing players to easily have a sports car dream.

That's where it succeeds.

Released in 1995, it has been a fan-favorite racing game.

The first generation, released in 1995, has no name, it is called Need for Speed, which was originally released on 3DO. As for 3DO, a super-first-class game console at the time, its performance was far behind Nintendo's SFC and Sega's MD, and it can be said that before the PS and SS came out, it was the king of home game consoles.

It was released in 1993, but the price was too high. The selling price of $699 has left all players jaw-dropping.

This was 1993, and a game console sold for $699, which was a robbery. You know, Sega's DC game console, which will debut this year, is only priced at $199.

This was 1998. Five years ago, home consoles sold for $699, which was outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that the 3DO game console sells expensively, but the game sells cheaply, only about $3. This makes game manufacturers how to live, so they have jumped ship and left the 3DO platform.

Eventually, 3DO was reduced to a platform for various H-games. And at the time, most H games were live-action games. Although the price of the game is low, the cost of this kind of game is also low. Just get a shell for the game, and then find some actresses to shoot some restrictive pictures, and that's it.

But this model eventually led to the collapse of 3DO. It sold only 125,000 units a year, and at that time, whether it was Sega's SS or Sony's PS, it could sell more than 200,000 units in a casual day.

Therefore, Need for Speed was also quickly ported to PC by EA.

Of course, the performance of computer PCs at that time was still very poor. In addition, at that time, EA was working with RoadTrack, a professional automotive magazine, and all the car performance included was very specialized.

It was also the first generation with data that was completely comparable to that of a real-life car. But this professionalism also leads to the fact that in the game, some cars with poor performance have no sense of gaming experience at all.

So, Need for Speed wasn't a lot of success, and of course, it wasn't a lot of failure. After all, the capital was preserved, and a small profit was made.

This 1997 second generation also belongs to a transitional version.

Previously, it was released under the DOS version. By 1997, it was the world of the win system. Therefore, the adaptation of the win system makes "Need for Speed 2" tepid.

Nothing too good to perform. After all, the game itself is not optimized enough.

But, soon. This year, the just-released Need for Speed 3, which is also the first "Need for Speed" series of games with a suffix, "Need for Speed 3: Heat Tracking", has become popular.

With the help of the more mature win98 operating system just released, as well as EA's deeper understanding of the win system, as well as the optimization of DriectX, coupled with the superior performance of the current voodoo2, this generation is also popular.

Currently, Need for Speed 3: Heat Pursuit is the hottest racing game in the world at the moment.

It has received rave reviews from the gaming industry and has received rave reviews from almost all game magazines.

In later generations, it was also revered as EA's most successful Need for Speed game.

In the game, in addition to normal drag racing, players can also choose the police car chase mode. In the police car chase mode, the player will not only be the target of the police car, but can also drive the police car. Players can use helicopters and land support to intercept illegal racers in pursuit.

It can be said that the fun of the game is enriched all at once. The whole game has become extremely cool, and the gameplay is also diverse.

It can be said that "Need for Speed" really became famous in this generation.

The terrible thing about the cooperation between EA and AOL is that AOL persuaded EA to develop the now popular Need for Speed 3: Heat Pursuit into an online game version.

It takes considerable courage. Especially for EA, it is a lot of money to turn a game that is selling hot into an online game.

After all, when you launch the web version, the standalone version will definitely be affected.

Fortunately, for the sake of trade-off, for the time being, its online version is only launched for the Chinese market. This is to help AOL to seize the Chinese market. At the same time, it is also an attempt by EA.

If it succeeds and can make money, then it may be possible to launch a corresponding European and American version. After all, all you need is a transplant.

As for the online version, the changes are also very simple. For the features of the online game, it has been changed to an upgrade. Players are constantly running the car to upgrade it and make it even more powerful.

At the same time, the player can choose a faction. Drag racing parties and the police.

From the very beginning, players will have to choose different factions to take on the challenges of the game. This introduced faction mode, which directly made the game explode at the beginning.