Need for Speed: The Run is a racing video game, the 18th title in the Need for Speed franchise, and is developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. The game is described as "An illicit, high-stakes race across the country. The only way to get your life back is to be the first from San Francisco to New York. No speed limits. No rules. No allies. All you have are your driving skills and sheer determination as you battle hundreds of the world's most notorious drivers on the country's most dangerous roads. In The Run, players will participate in an "underground world of illicit, high stakes racing," in a race from San Francisco to New York, with stops through Las Vegas, Denver, Detroit, and many other locations. The cops aren't the only ones after the player though, as the player "blows across borders, weaves through dense urban traffic, rockets down icy mountain passes and navigates narrow canyons at breakneck speeds." The Run is powered by DICE's Frostbite 2.0 engine, thus making the game the first non-shooter game to use the engine, which provides visuals and car physics that "hug the road even at top speeds all built around a gripping storyline." The Autolog feature from previous Need for Speed entries returned.