Need for Speed Rivals is a 2013 open world racing game where racers and police use pursuit technology against each other in Redview County. The EMP is one of those weapons, allowing an officer to lock on and temporarily disable a target vehicle, and the warning tone tells the targeted driver an attack is incoming. Clips of the alert later spread through gaming videos and soundboards, where creators reuse it as a universal locked-on or system warning sound far beyond racing games.