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September 2009
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The editors liked
Easy to pick up and play
Robust single player campaign
Fun and exciting
Excellent cockpit camera
Intense
Edge-of-sanity racing logic.
Makes a point of rewarding you
Regardless of your driving style
Very good assortment of tracks
Sense of speed borders on scary at times.
Gorgeous visuals
Great sense of speed
Excellent balance
Dashboard camera
The editors didn't like
Drifting events are lame
Music doesn’t work well with loading screens
Multiplayer lacking in modes
Might not be obnoxious enough for some people.
Default controls are overly sensitive
Modest car selection
Drifting events are prohibitively difficult
Career mode is very barebones
Online play rewards other drivers for spinning you out.
Abstract: Racing games tend to lend themselves into two categories. The arcade type - like Burnout or the simulation type, like Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport. With this version of Need for Speed: Shift (the fifteenth incarnation in the series I mi...
Abstract: Need for Speed: Shift takes the NFS series in a decidedly different direction than we have become used to, and the result is a more focused, more polished, and overall better game. It looks and sound great and features perhaps the best cockpit view the...
Makes a point of rewarding you, regardless of your driving style, Very good assortment of tracks, Sense of speed borders on scary at times.
Default controls are overly sensitive, Modest car selection, Drifting events are prohibitively difficult, Career mode is very barebones, Online play rewards other drivers for spinning you out.
In trying to offer something for everyone, this jack-of-all-trades racing game is unlikely to completely satisfy anybody. ...
Abstract: Need for Speed: Shift is a racing game that tries to do a lot of things, and the good news is that it does most of them well. The bad news is that Shift does very little that other racers havent done before it, and it excels at nothing. The racing, th...
Abstract: I've long held the opinion that it was just a matter of time before console-based racing games caught up with the sophistication of their PC-based brethren. Initially the console variants suffered from a lack of sufficient horsepower to deliver the re...
Abstract: I’ve been a big fan of the Need for Speed series since the first game released in 1994. Over the past 15 years EA has delivered just as many sequels – some good (Hot Pursuit), some great (Porsche Unleashed), and some not so great (ProStreet). They eve...
