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unusual facts about Need for Speed: The Run



...And the Circus Leaves Town

The song "Hurricane" featured in the 2006 video game, Need for Speed: Carbon.

A cause des garçons

The Riot in Belgium remix of the song is featured on the soundtrack to the Electronic Arts video games Need for Speed: ProStreet and Euro 2008.

Are 'Friends' Electric?

"Are 'Friends' Electric?" was featured in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon.

Black Dialogue

The song "Let's Move" was featured in the EA video games Need For Speed: Most Wanted and NBA Live 06, and 'Party Hard' was featured on EA's Skate 3 and DLC for DJ Hero 2.

Blue Board

He later went on to an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia, then a long career in the video game industry, including as co-founder of Black Box Games (now part of Electronic Arts, where he worked as a programmer on the Need for Speed series of racing games, among others), before his sudden death while sleeping on December 24, 2007 at age 39.

Body kit

Games include Need for Speed: Underground (2003), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 (2003), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Ridge Racer 7 (2006), Juiced series (2005), The Fast And The Furious Tokyo Drift (2007), MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (2009)

Born Too Slow

The song was first featured on EA's Need for Speed: Underground in 2003, with the single being released later that year.

Bullwinkle's Restaurant

Bullwinkle's featured a token operated arcade section featuring over 100 popular video games and redemption games such as Need for Speed: Underground, NASCAR, Let's Go Jungle!.

Car crusher

A car crusher also featured in Need for Speed: The Run, Jack is seen tied to the steering wheel of his red Porsche Carrera 911, on a crusher in a junkyard, before Janella Salvador/Habib Diator's death.

Death by Sexy

The track "Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang!)" was featured in a 2008 Nike commercial directed by Guy Ritchie, which included the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimović, Cristiano Ronaldo, Cesc Fàbregas, and Ronaldinho and is also featured in the 2006 video game Need for Speed: Carbon

DJ Fakts One

The Fakts One produced song "Let's Move" was featured in the EA video games Need For Speed: Most Wanted and NBA Live 06.

EAGL

It is the main engine used in some of EA's games, notably the Need for Speed series, but was also used in a few sports titles from EA Sports.

Exient Entertainment

It is known for its ports of various games on the Madden NFL, FIFA, Need for Speed, The Sims and Tiger Woods PGA Tour series for Electronic Arts and the DJ Hero series for Activision.

Floor Thirteen

Since then, EA Games has placed the song in the games Need For Speed: Undercover and The Sims 3.

Give Me Fire!

The song "Mean Street" is featured in the game, Need for Speed: Shift.

Krystal Forscutt

She appeared in the video game Need for Speed: ProStreet, which makes her the first Australian to have a character in the game.

McLaren P1

The P1 starred in the announcement trailer for the Xbox One racing game Forza Motorsport 5, and is a playable racer vehicle in the games Need for Speed: Rivals and Real Racing 3.

No W

This version of the song is featured on the video games Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Tony Hawk's Underground 2; though the version featured in the latter retains the George W. Bush speech at the beginning, the former does not.

Paul Pape

He also stars in the Need for Speed video game franchise Need for Speed: Undercover as Lt. Jack M. Keller of the Tri-City Police Department.

PlayStation Move

Sony has stated that it will be available in Late 2012 at a price of US$39.99, and will support games like LittleBigPlanet Karting, Gran Turismo 5, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Burnout Paradise, and MotorStorm: Apocalypse, among others.

Riverboat Gamblers

They have also appeared on the soundtracks to the videogames Tony Hawk's American Wasteland ("Hey! Hey! Hey!"), Madden NFL 07 ("On Again Off Again"), Skate 2 ("Uh Oh!"), Rock Band 3 ("Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead"), FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, ATV Offroad Fury 4 ("True Crime") and Need for Speed: Most Wanted ("Blue Ghosts").

Saki Kaskas

Theodosius Kaskamanidis (born 1971 in Krefeld, Germany; better known as "Saki Kaskas" or "Captain Ginger") is a Greek video game music composer, best known for his soundtracks of the Need for Speed series.

Stay Too Long

The Pendulum remix was also used on the video game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, and a short version is used on the video game The Sims 3: Pets trailer.

Synetic GmbH

The game, roughly similar to Electronic Arts's Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, featured a broad selection of Mercedes cars ranging from classic Silberpfeil racing cars to contemporary high-performance cars.

Tathva

NFS: Most Wanted: Blur the dials of the speedometer and experience the adrenaline rush.

Thank You for the Venom

It was featured in Need for Speed: Underground Rivals for PSP.

Total Magique

"Fight and Kiss" is featured on the video game Need for Speed: Pro Street, while "Psychic Kids" is featured on the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.

Toyota Supra

Some of the most notable appearances include the Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Need for Speed, and Midnight Club series of video games and The Fast and the Furious film series.

We Are Wolves

The song "Psychic Kids" is featured on the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and the song "Fight and Kiss" is featured on the video game Need for Speed: ProStreet.


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