Car Showcase

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The Need for Speed/Car Showcase

Need for Speed II/Car Showcase

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit/Car Showcase

Need for Speed: High Stakes/Car Showcase/Showroom

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed/Car Showcase

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed/Porsche Chronicle

Car Showcase is an in-game audiovisual media section featured in the first five Need for Speed titles.

In it players are presented to general stats, performance, technical, and historical information about a selected vehicle, with additional features including 360° interior views, live action videos, as well as a slideshow of the vehicle in real life.

Games[]

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed[]

Main article: The Need for Speed/Car Showcase

Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' GT-R[]

Showcases in Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' GT-R, a localised Japan release of Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed for Sega Saturn, are referred to as the "Car Database". It has the same traits as the original Need for Speed for Sega Saturn, with the exception of not including a history section.

Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial[]

A showcase feature appears in Nissan Presents: Over Drivin' Skyline Memorial, a localised Japan release of Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed for PlayStation, although it only consists of a single narrated video presentation for each car.

Need for Speed II[]

Showcases in Need for Speed II include a dedicated slide show section, among other database categories:

Stats: General information, performance, transmission, mechanical data, and voiceover
History with voiceover
Slideshow
Video

"Menu" and "Romulus 3" by Rom Di Prisco are used as menu themes, including showcase.

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit[]

In Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, 360° interior views are introduced in the PC release.

Stats: General information, performance, transmission, mechanical data, and voiceover
History with voiceover
Car interior (PC)
Slideshow

"Monster" by Crispin Hands is used as showcase theme in the PC release, whilst the PlayStation release has the song "Sirius 909" by Rom Di Prisco.

Need for Speed: High Stakes[]

PC[]

The PC release of Need for Speed: High Stakes features:

Stats: General information, performance, transmission and mechanical data
360° car interior
Slideshow with voiceover

The song "Callista" by Saki Kaskas is used as both the showcase and car selection showroom themes.

PlayStation[]

Showcase in the PlayStation release is referred to as "Showroom", and only consists of the car rotating whilst general information is displayed as text and a voiceover describing the selected car.

The song "Groovalicious" by Rom Di Prisco is used as the showroom theme.

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed[]

PC[]

Showcase[]

Car showcases can be accessed from the Porsche Centre showroom whilst buying cars, and players can access general stats, performance, and technical information. Commentator speeches were not made available.

Statistics
General
Chassis and drivetrain
Performance data

Porsche Chronicle[]

Main article: Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed/Porsche Chronicle

PlayStation[]

The PlayStation release of Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed does not feature showcases. However, players can visualise a short information list for each car. It also features the "Video Showcase", a short video montage composed of historical Porsche footage.

Trivia[]

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) do not feature showcases, but they feature a voiceover narrating information about a vehicle the player has selected.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted includes a Showcase menu function, although it only gives the player a 360° view of their car, bearing no resemblance to the feature of the same name which appears in the series' early titles.
The console version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) as well as Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered include a Video Showcase in the "extras" section. Unlocked upon completing racer milestones, the videos consist of real life footage with music or voiceover, although only available for ten vehicles:
Need for Speed (2015) and Need for Speed: Unbound feature brief car descriptions in text form.

Media[]