Why are you so shocked? It's
nothing new!
On topic - I really enjoyed NFSU2 on PlayStation2 back then,was a good and cool GAME,before I had NFS High Stakes (I believe NFS4) on old PS,was good for that time. Later I tried NFS Carbon,that was $#!t,tried later another NFS (don't remember the name,was more racing game,no cops and stuff),it was even worse. Tried NFS World when it was beta,got annoyed as it had no gamepad support,at least didn't found anything about it,so I'm done with NFS. For nostalgic sake could play around with some older ones some day,but I'll never buy a new one,don't see a reason why.