The development team at Criterion Games knows how to make a racing game from its work on the Burnout series. And it also knows how to make an open world driving game with its experience with its last game Burnout Paradise. But for the team's upcoming title Need For Speed Hot Pursuit it got some help from a fellow Electronic Arts dev studio.

As reported by Eurogamer, Digital Illusions (yep the team behind the Battlefield first person shooter titles) came in to help out Criterion's art team by filling in a lot of the art assets to the game's open world. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit is four times the size of the one Criterion made for Burnout Paradise. We will see how both teams' efforts work when the game is released in mid-November.