That night, the racers left the city, each travelling a separate path. Some went to Suzuka or Spa, while other found a city named Paradise. A few went to a new music festival in Italy. Some even went back to Bayview and Olympic City, returning to their roots. But wherever they were, all kept racing.

MICK GORDON MADE THE NEED FOR SPEED WORLD MUSIC???? THAT EXPLAINS WHY ITS SO GOOD!

Our accounts, our cars, they're still out there, somewhere, like ghosts, forever forgotten

"Make sure that your car is safety-inspected. Always wear a helment and your seatbelt"

the picture reminds me of all the players leaving the city :( rip nfsw

I dont know why, but this song gives me this sad feeling, it almost sounds like the songmakers knew the game would shut down too early

so depressing when playing the game offline and get to spots were in the past many players met... I feel like crying when I see the empty roads where no one ever gonna drive again on it... :/

Hol' up you mean to tell me that Mick Gordon - the guy behind the soundtrack of *DOOM ETERNAL* - also did the soundtrack for this? holy shit

This Song is heavy It makes EVERYONE crying

My T-Mobile Mazda Speed 3...

I can't listen to this without wanting to cry...

So many memories ... So many hours passed on this beautiful game ... good old days ... Bye bye my Evora and Zonda Cinque :'(

I played this game very little , but the track is so firmly stuck in my head that it's been 4 years since when I first tried to play it. Every time I hear this track I stand with tears in his eyes. 0:21 - This moment brings sadness , melancholy and eerie nostalgia for anything.

2:30 !!!! Best part :D

I can't believe Mick Gordon was this good, even all those years ago. The man really is a bonafide musical genius

those streets used to be filled with us racers...but now its all gone, i remeber i had a s15, with my last moments in a large meetup.

Reminds me of when I was younger and my dad would make a car and race me on this game. Neither of us knew what we were doing. Was the most fun I ever had, and now I’ll never see either of them again.

Rip nfsw :'(

I started to play NFSW one year later they released it, and I gotta be honest, I've never played a racing game such as this one, Need For Speed World, will forever live inside us. I made awesome friends that I met in real life, I raced until I had my car destroyed, I kept running until the very last moment of this game, I spent awesome times with people I didn't knew but turned out to be that they were really awesome, I even reached the F1 Elite. I downloaded this song to take it anywhere I go, to remember those good days when NFSW was the best Need For Speed game out of all of them. Thanks NFSW for making me what I am now, a fan of the races, a fan of speed, a fan of cars, a Need For Speed fan. ;)

"I took my last screenshot at the place where I took my first screenshot of this game..." was a comment I found on another KZfaq video regarding this game. I just felt like it needed to be mentioned here.

R.I.P NFSW 2009-2015 :'(

its been already 2020 and still miss this game. Brings back old times

I listen to this when I'm driving at night at a stormy day.

:( can't listen to NFSW music anymore. So much memories from this awesome game. I wish one day they would bring it back.

GoodBye my old friend ;'(

First heard this song when I joined NFSW and was curious on why it's so haunting and melancholic. Yet beautiful. And now that NFSW is gone this some makes absolute sense. It's as if this song is a song to bid farewell from start!

When I hear this song first time I said: That's good music BUT when I heard this part 2:31 I said: WOW! I think this is one of my favourite song from game soundtracks! :)

good times guys good times

I say that as a player who has played the all of the games in the series from NFS 1994 to Heat.It's clearly the best NFS song ever.

When you realize NFS World has been officially dead longer than it's been alive... the official servers shut down *six* years ago today, while the game only lasted *five* years. Thank God for Soapbox Race World reviving the game, but... damn.

2:28 this part really hit the most because of those memories we play and achieve our dream cars to the game that we wanted through

Press "F" to pay respeck

Lamborghini murcielago roadster Lamborghini murcielago Ford GT Ford Mustang Audi R8 Subaru wrx sti Impreza Lexus LFA Dodge Viper Chevy Corvette Nissan 240 sx and etc Had to leave my garage bc of studying, but when I came back, there was nothing, it was closed, forever. I think it’s Cross. I made a lot of damage to NFS PD Thanks for childhood!)

Lol i remember back then i was playing on a shitty laptop had a lot of fun beating hackers and chatting with my friends doing drag races, this game leaved a lot of good memories i will always remember this games it was one of the greatest NFS of all time shame it all had to end, i guess we can't have nice things don't we, EA.

Listening in 2019?

RIP.

I MISS MY GARAGE!!! It had all my dream car custom made just the way I loved them...

for all the times i went to the local Lan House near my mom's, with a couple of bucks in my pocket, spending hours there, just playing. F NFSW.

I wish it would come back.

I feel like flying in a nice fighter jet late in the night high above the clouds and listening to only this!!!

I was today years old when I realized the same guy who did the soundtrack for Doom also composed the music for my favorite MMO of all time. RIP Need For Speed World, if only I could have been there in its prime.

I am shocked how Mick just in years went from this PERFECTIONAL calm music , to FUCKIN DOOM HARD METAL

MICK GORDON MADE THIS GEM?? HOLY SHIT AAAAAAAA

You can play this game even today via unofficial servers just by downloading the launcher.

I can't believe the guy who made this song also made heavy metal intense DOOM music i really like this menu song

[*] RIP Need For Speed World [*] Ahh. those good ol' days. They won't come back :(

Not Like Other Songs ....Make you feel you are Complete you Don't Need Someone To Complete u..Just Alone 2:30 Feeling Different ..BEST SONG EVER

Note to all NFSW filmers: Everybody that's filmed something from NFSW, please keep what remains from need for speed world. So we can remember it for a good long while! Thanks!

This game had so much possibilities, like canyons, San Juan, Tri City (remember the Rockport Turnpike/bridge?)... BUT EA FLOPPED IT ALL BY FORCING PLAYERS TO PAY FOR "NEW CONTENT" (reskins of cars with some crap on it). Also, THEY REMOVED GLOBAL CHAT! And after that update, i lost my lvl36 account with lovely Zack styled Scirocco and my bff! And that, kids, is why i became cheater. GG EA.

The thing about this game ending was that it was so fucking good that you couldn't go back because it would hurt you way too bad. All the time spent making vinyls, hanging out with your car meet buddies by the observatory, or simply looking over the city at the parking lot by the curvy road where you saw the drifter slide sideways. Didn't even own my own pc but I made sure i made it to the boys and girls Club to play it. Such good times an and I even remember the time there was a glitch where the blue juggernaut dodge charger rt and the treasure hunt porsche cayam s was free for a limited time. 😂 had my friends sign on and get it for me. Crappy cars but they looked amazing. NFS World will definitely be missed man foreal. The memories alone are enough for me I don't want to play the version that was remade it just won't be the same.

i still remember my cheap chrysler and the murcielago lp700-4 i bought after earning lots of cash because of the porsche gift bug in 2013. good times, talking with friends getting tips, leveling up and racing with them crashing their cars haha .. and meeting up in parking lots and stadiums and talking about what countries everyone is from and random stuff about schoollife. i still think this was the true online freeworld racing game. it was the best and will be the best, it is a history. this game made lots of memories in my childhood. i still can't forget that melody that comes out at 0:21 , that one suttle sound makes me think a lot , it is sad that EA took down this game. but it gave me a chance to move on and grow up. played the offline version and the soapbox world version couple of times last year but still doesn't feels right. not much of people and it is so easy to earn money so the game feels meaningless and hopeless. i can get the exotic cars i've wanted but can't get that feel that i earned this and strived for this. i truly miss this game.

AAA THE GOOD OLD TIMES☹️🤧😥

Honestly, EA shutting World down was the best thing to happen to it. Now with SoapBox Race World, we can finally play World as it was meant to be played: free of microtransactions and the pay 2 win system. Finally, I can get a Lamborghini in this game through playing through the game and earning in-game cash instead of ponying up real cash to buy Boost

I miss this game so much. :(

Still sad in 2020 😞

Man NFS World was such a neat conceot

omgggggg i love this song

I hate EA because it thinks that nobody will play old games and servers must be shut down, forever shut... and its getting even worse from EA

I got lagged out on the loading screen in this game...but this song started playing, and I got to hear it all the way through. Amazing, truly.

RIP 2009-2015, It was always there when I have good or bad day. All way school to work. Cass of 2013. Goodbye we will miss you. Recipes. :(

This track is absolutely epic though. It is so fantastic when last time I ventured out to drive on my own. It makes my commute trip seem like an adventure. I could alredy imagine midnight, few cars, the silent Malaysian roads....

2024 and I still can't move on from this masterpiece. With respect of other titles, This arguably will always be the greatest Need For Speed of all-time.

*Mick Gordon When Created this song he was 23-24 Year Old!*

I can't draw a picture of my childhood but i can play music of it to you.

I remember asking my dad that why the game is not working. The rest is history..

Childhood.

I actually participated in the parade around the map. If you saw a Countach Police Car, it might have been me.

Oh my dear 2013, i miss you 🥺🫶

I remember the times hanging out in the Docks, the whole community of this game was just so fucking friendly, meeting alot of new people (some of them I chat with still today) and I just still can't believe it's gone man..

1:11- I love this part!

The nostalgia I'm nearly crying when I hear this music I remember when I downloaded nfsw on every PC in my school and we played

Im crying even though its 2019 almost 10 years since the launch

When I was a little kid, playing this game, driving my GTO around, I still had depression the way I do now, but this game helped me a lot back then. I was never very good at the game but that didn’t matter, I made friends and had fun. Now I play Forza horizon 4 and think back on this game every once in a while. This was the original Forza horizon to me. This music takes me back to the only part of my life that was good back then, or maybe that’s just what my melancholy mind wants me to think.

sadly i never played world but i still had goosebumps first time listening to this because i played underground carbon and mw 05 and know exactly what feeling this music displays... freedom

So calm

Came here after hearing about the Bethesda/Mick Gordon fallout. Had to hear the hype music they all talked about.

The last car i drove on Need For Speed World was the Glorious VIP Pagani Zonda... The memories, man.

Just makes me want to look back at the good times in my past 😢

Mick's a Legend

Listening to this just makes me cry, i can't forget about this absolutely amazing masterpiece, all the fun i've had while playing with all the friends i met ingame. Its impossible to express in words how much i loved the game and all of its content along with the amazing soundtrack.

my farmed Lexus LFA ☹️

I miss this game so much, really hope that they could fully developed the complete map

Brings back memories..... Too many memories.... Plz EA we need another open world mmo racing game....

I remember that day when all players left the city😔

This song = Mirror's Edge+The Fast and the Furious. And it's awesome!

Nunca lo jugué por qué no sabía que estaba este juego, hace un par de años me enteré que existía este juego y la verdad que me dió una pena no poder jugarlo, un juegazo que solo duró 5 años, me hubiera gustado jugarlo en la época y estar en la despedida en el 2015 todos reunidos mirando los fuegos artificiales y haciendo las últimas carreras dentro del juego.

This game is never coming back :( Except Soapbox! RIP NFS World, my childhood.

I don't believe it can hear this song again ,,,😢😢😢

They did so well on the soundtrack for this game, something that's a bit under-appreciated. I absolutely love ambient music, and they have plenty of it in this game. It gives a bit of a lonely feeling though, kind of like Portal 1 and Minecraft.

2023- i still remember the good old times with NFS World, it's a good game, the community loved it soo much, they are now the one holding the pillars of reviving the game, but it will never be the same as when it was under EA development

memories from having an black eclipse and roaming around...

I hope someone finds this gem and make an epic remix out of it

all the racers that left the town have returned,from the festivals in italy to bayview and olympic city.they've returned to make the town alive once more

this song full of darkness and alone....

This Music brings back memories. Good ones ...

Who is still playing this in 2024 ?

I really love the ambient music in this game. This track especially reminds me of music from Deus Ex or Mirror's Edge. I just wish there was more music in the game. Sometimes the game can sound a bit too quite a lonely.

i remember back like 12 years ago i had the Koenigsegg CCX everyday i couldn't wait to get out of school so i could race it. good times man wow time flew so fast

miss is so much! thx for the childhood

I loved this game. I know it had horrible micro transactions, and scummy mechanics, but luckily I was too young to care. I remember playing this game for hours on end, grinding to save up for an Audi S5, which I believe was like $540k. Finally being able to buy it and call it my own was one of the proudest moments of my childhood gaming career. I was devastated when they announced it would be shutting down, but I was lucky enough to be there on that final day when the servers went offline. Even now I still think about this game from time to time, and hearing this music, the nostalgia is hitting me like a bullet. I will forever cherish the memories I have with this game.