Early development has Undercover known as The Chase in mid-2007.Considering the amount of work that was put into the Flick-It system for Skate alone (Of which you can look up on Youtube, there's a fair amount of prototype footage for how Skate worked) it is surmised this is the reason why Black Box was split into two: one team would work on Prostreet, the other on Undercover, with some overlap in between. The video theorizes that this resulted in a massive stretching of resources for the Vancouver company, considering that at this time, they were also working on their new non-racing IP, which would soon become Skate. As a result, Black Box got their reprieve and their 2007 release in Prostreet. By late 2006, EA Black Box realized that they would need more time to get Undercover off the ground.There was also an emphasis on amping up the amount of live action cut-scenes then what was present in MW 2005 and Carbon combined. Alongside races, you were going to on what eventually became jobs in the final game.

Devs were searching for a more serious tone in the game then past NFS titles.

However, unlike MW 2012 which was designed as a MW 2005 sequel right from the jump, this was short lived, as there exists no leaked concept art of this iteration of Undercover.

This game was theorized as a sequel to Most Wanted, and the internal files present within the game support this.

Though it's also presented in this video that it is more and likely the game left the conceptulization stage about three months after Carbon's release.

Not much is known on when Undercover started in development, but the video theorized that the absolute earliest year it existed was 2003 via two pieces of concept art which can't really be tied to any of the games in development around this time period.

Like the last thread on MW2012, I am going to break down the video via bullet points of what I think is the juiciest stuff to make into the video.

GrandTheftAero has released another video of cut concepts and theorizing for NFS games, this time focusing on what is known (and definitely is, no question about it) as the worst game in the series: Undercover.

Nfs undercover free