Yes, as the urban graffiti will also reveal, Ryo is who you must meet again for the final showdown, should you win the huge number of events laying ahead. Saying stuff like they must have lowered the standards letting guys like Ryan in on the racing, guarantees Ryo a good a*s kicking at the end of the game. Ryan is busy making a name for himself at one of the events when this hot-shot street racer, Ryo Watanabe, shows up and starts dissing him.
The game follows Ryan Cooper's career as a legal street racer. In fact, as EA themselves put it, NFS ProStreet brings gamers together for 'competing at the highest level of street racing,' a motto which, unfortunately, doesn't quite go for the PlayStation 2 version of the game. Well, to put it in short, ProStreet is the first NFS game that takes the series to a much higher level of racing, adding driving simulation elements to the already appealing arcade-ish ones the series is well known for. You're probably wondering why this would count as one of EA's biggest, most ambitious projects to date. Just six months ago, Electronic Arts made one of their biggest announcements ever: that a Need For Speed: ProStreet was under heavy development at the company's studios.