Do racing games desire a story? Need For Speed: The Run proved that story modes in racing games are literally sort of lame. All you want is a few fast cars and great track design to make a good racing game. Need for Speed Rivals appeared like it’d be ditching the type of stories that bring about stuff just like the Need for Speed movie, however the latest trailer for the title leaves one skeptical.

In a brand new Need for Speed Rivals trailer released today, the narrator lays it on thick as we’re introduced to a worldwide where the police are under investigation for using excessive force to bring down street racers. The police aren’t going to let these racers embarrass them, however, and are actually pursuing them with extreme prejudice. The trailer than ends with a melodramatic one-liner about how the cops were once rivals, but now they’re enemies.

It’s really silly installed, but we are able to only hope that it doesn’t get within the way of the sport. In spite of everything, racing games never take advantage of a narrative mode. All we have to know is that there are cops and racers, and that these two sects of cars will occasionally butt heads.

In the top, we will only hope that we come to be with a game that’s like a cross between Need for Speed: Most Wanted and wish for Speed: Hot Pursuit. The rest, and things might get messy.

Need for Speed Rivals will launch November 19 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The PS4 and Xbox One versions will launch three days afterward November 22.

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