Unlike in recent Need for Speeds, you don't have to make your car ugly just to score points what's more important is tweaking its performance.

Whereas in Carbon this was purely a cosmetic function, in Pro Street every tweak you make affects the physics model (and consequently the performance) of the car, and an in-game wind-tunnel mechanic highlights this for you. Like Need for Speed: Carbon, Pro Street offers a lot of customization options, including the remarkably full-featured Autosculpt widget that lets you mold body panels pretty much any way you'd like. A Wii version is also coming, but it'll obviously look and play quite differently. It's truly a next-gen racer, and the images you see here are 'visual target' screens using the game's engine and are indicative of what the team is striving for on the PS3 and Xbox 360. The game is headed for release at the end of this year, and we were lucky enough to get the first look at it in action. 'The Fast and the Furious vibe is dated, and the culture has matured. The result? 'It's all about authentic street racing,' Mann declares. Rather than unleash yet another pink-lit street racing variant, Senior Producer Mike Mann and Producer John Doyle have set about redefining the game and sending it off in a new direction. With four games released in four years, no one is more aware of the potential for franchise fatigue than the development team at EA Black Box in Vancouver. The Need For Speed Series is one of the most successful in EA's stable, behind unstoppable forces like Madden and The Sims.

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