There will be the return of many ways of racing in Need for Speed Undercover. Sprint, Circuit, Highway Battle (a new mode involving racing on a highway with heavy civilian and police traffic) main missions (where the player performs specific missions usually involving the Tri-City Police Department). the "Cops and Robbers" mode, and a new gameplay mode called "The Heist", however very little is known of this mode so far. Many multiplayer modes will be featured in side quests littered around the city in single player but there will be no drift events as there were in other NFS games.
Undercover will feature a new "open-world" map consisting of over a hundred miles of road and a large highway system making it the largest Need for Speed "open-world" environment EA has ever created. The city is called Tri-City, and consists of four boroughs called Palm Harbor, Port Cresent, Gold Coast Mountains, and Sunset Hills.
