I really been thinking bout a way EA and Blackbox could get NFS back on the map. In my opinion The Run was a decent game but with everything focus on story it lost it key elements like the ability to make your car unique and yours. My ideal is to take key elements from all the NFS games to combine and make an Ultimate title.

I'd say if they took the Customizable parts from the Underground series , the story element from The Run. Open city from Most Wanted,Carbon, and Undercover. Physic engine/ Cockpit camera from Shift 2 Unleashed. I think it would make for a intense and more realistic Street Racing game. I really want to see a Cockpit camera in one of the Need For Speed games based on the Illegal side of racing.

Shift 2 featured the best engine for excitement in my mind, it was very fast paced. I love the crash effects and the fact that you had to really earn a victory but not really like most NFS games where driving is easy but the AI is insane.