This is a real aspect of design where the time of day could have affected many aspects of atmosphere and game-play requirements, again the lack of room for imagination never ceases to amaze me or is that disappoint? Of course, if you are exceptionally rubbish at racing games EA has provided the opportunity to purchase additional car improvements with Microsoft points, so for just 300 points you can feel like a winner, this is a novel use of the points system but not necessarily a positive one.Įnvironments though vast in scale are again simply poor versions of those seen in NFS Most Wanted, but this time appearing drab, lacking in creativity and lifeless, to feature racing in one form of lighting is simply lazy, to virtually copy an older title in the series is without recourse. That feedback simply doesn’t feel consistent, the whole execution having a feeling of being poorly tested and unimportant, so, on the whole, you just turn in, let off the power and it should all take care of itself. They feel like toy cars at best, that doesn’t mean arcade handling shouldn’t be simple but whenever you drive a car in a 3D environment it should work by a basic philosophy so you really feel in control, you know when to brake, when the car will slide, when the car will grip.

The steering response feeling like you’re driving a unicycle rather than a 400bhp 4 wheel drive sports car. On a project with this much budget and by the worlds richest gaming publisher you simply expected better.īut enough of the story, we just want to race and dodge some cops so the first thing that gives any concern would be the handling, which is certainly among the worst of any version.

All of this split up with a range of dreadful filmed intros and acting that wouldn’t be out of place on a 15-year-old Sega CD title. So you win races, win time trials, evade the ever more vicious cops and dig yourself deeper into the underground racing scene until you don’t know whose side you’re on. You begin the game in a top of the range Audi sports car only to have that taken away, you’re then forced to watch one many poorly executed film clips which see you start with a lower range car, winning street races, adding performance upgrades and getting yourself noticed by the said syndicates, all feeling very déja-vu.

Entitled Need For Speed Underground, you take the role of an undercover cop working his way into the street syndicates of the “Tri-city”, not the most original concept but is the constant reuse of “The Fast and the Furious” storyline its undoing? BlackBerry Tablet OS, DS, iOS, Mobile, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, webOS, Wii, Windows Phone, XB360Įvery year when we see the regular raft of EA franchises making their annual appearance and of course no Christmas charts would ever be complete without the inclusion of a Need For Speed title.

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