Need for Speed Shift
Need For Speed Shift seems to be a departure from the usual series. While up until this point the NFS games have been pretty much devoted to taking what people liked from the Fast and Furious movies (crazy, awesome, street racing), and ditching the BS story. It’s a formula that seems to have done pretty well with the series releasing new iterations nearly yearly, and selling like crazy.
Serious racing games can typically be divided into two categories. Simulated, or Arcade-y. Arcade-y racers are the fast paced, easier to play ones like Crusin’ USA, Burnout, Motorstorm, etc. Simulation racers tend to appeal to aspiring professional driver. These are games like Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, etc. They offer incredibly realistic driving mechanics, and usually an insane amount of car customization. They are much harder to control, and you have to be a pretty amazing driver/player to really appreciate them.
While I’ve always typically labeled the NFS series as being somewhere in the middle, it usually tipped over into the arcade-y side of things, but Shift seems to be aiming for the other direction.
While the game is straying away from its street racing roots, a lot of what was great about that style of racing has carried over into this new game. Style plays a big part of how you drive now. You can either be a precision or aggressive driver. There’s a point system that gets you points for each impressive maneuver you pull off. These are grouped in aggressive or precise tricks. A simple example, is carefully driving so that you pass a car within inches of hitting it and come out without taking any damage, or just ramming it out of the way. As you rack up these points your driver level and style will change. The style will either be precision or aggressive and depending on which you end up as you’ll unlock some different events to take part in. Also your driver level increases with the points you earn. You can get up to level 50 and each level awards you some bonuses for more customization and sponsorships.
There are also tons of badges you’ll earn for various things while you race. They act as a sort of in-game achievement system and there are a TON of minor badges which lead to different levels of major badges.
Of course you still earn cash to buy new cars, and there’s a wide selection available. If you’re too lazy to earn the cash you can simply purchase cars off online with real cash, but I would hope you don’t support a pay model like that. You can also deck them out however you want with a fairly robust customization mode, and despite being more of a sim racer; you can still outfit your cars with Nos for that added boost of street racing power.
The game features Career mode, quick races, and online. The second two are pretty self explanatory, but the career mode is really deep.
The first race is a great concept; it’s a one lap track with no driver assists on. Depending on how you do, the game will recommend some default settings for you to play with. The settings are nicely worded too, so if you suck like me, you don’t feel like a real noob for having to choose “easy” like in other racing games. The main settings are opponent difficulty level, driving assists, full or visual only damage, and manual or automatic transmission. They’ve really tried to put a setting in there for every type of gamer, but I found myself having a hard time getting the sweet spot. The setting either had me blowing by ALL the competition and just cruising through the race unopposed, or flat out losing every race. It was tough to strike a balance.
The races in career mode a quite varied. There are quite a few different race events and a ton of locations that open up as progress. To unlock new events you need to get stars from races. You can get 1-3 stars for getting 1-3 in any race, and there are two additional stars per event which are tied to completing certain goals (getting so many points, or drifting so much.)
Overall, if you were a NFS fan, but started to get bored with the series, this may be a good time to come back. If you’re not a huge racing fan, then this probably won’t get you into the series, but for big sim racing fans it’s a great tie over until Forza 3 and GT5 land.
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awesome game!
looks like race driver grid :/
would you recomend it instead of left for dead 2 coz for xmas im gettin a ps3 or xbox 360 and i mite get this game
oh, for playing left or dead 2 you must get xbox 360, and xbox also has nfsshift…i got the ps3 but its your choice.i would tell you that i prefer nfs or other action games than left or dead, but i dont know anything about lod2 so i cant tell you more!
whats the name of the song of the world tourawsome!!!
lool 6:04 he flopped the drift around the corner haha. and 7:48. i wanna see how he crashed around the corner lol this game is FANTASTIC i’m getting a ps3 and im getting this!
this game is amazing gonna have it in less than a month on my PS3 slim wach me unboxing my ps3 in the video responce
for ps3 is like for pc it isn’t any diference
it’s left FOR dead.
Same just im not doing a video on it lol cant wait for this game
I finished in the exact same time as you
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its fantc
In like the first few NFS there was some hot chick talken to you now some Australian fuck.
hes not Australian hes british u racist fucker
fuck people who aren’t racist
u sure? lol the british got some fucked up teeth.
i think this not more need for speed but some rally race game, the other nfs were illege street race’s nice chick nice car’s nice tuning i think this game sucks..
SO FREAKING AWESOME
when you put it in 1st person and you crash does it do what it does on the advert with the brain and heart? plz reply
no LOL but when u crash badly ur vision gets blurred and u cant see
how do they do the world cup thing. it is cobfusing. reply with answer
Why the fuck is that RS Cosworth left-hand drive?
when you crash bad you can here the guy moan and you can hear his heartbeat until the screen clears up
does anyone have framerate hitches when playing for the ps3 version in SD?
@homey1986
yes I have stuttering all the time in SD,
haven’t got HDTV.
i play with 80 frames per second on the
PC version and the graphics are also better.
Must say this is brilliant I tend to play it during the summer with my uncle he is totally awesome at it. I managed to download it utterly free for my sony ps3 from here; 115 games. com there are hundreds and the best thing is they are all free oh also 0:31 to 3:41 was superb
@leninjim6 this is a scam. don’t go here….its obvious
Excellent game the screen at 0:34 really is fantastic I got this game for free at 115 games . c o m They have the latest PS3 games to pick from but the best thing is they are all free superb game and website
great fun its always played a lot at the weekends with my friends they are brilliant at it. I actually got it totally free for my ps3 here: 115 games . com there are literally thousands and the best part is they are all totally free btw 0:24 – 2:44 was superb
very good driving
Must say this game is amazing fun its often played frequently during the summer with my brothers they are very good at it. I was lucky enough to get the game totally free for my sony ps3 from: 115 games |DOT| com they have literally thousands best thing about it is they are all free oh btw 2:14 was magnificent
gt4 is better
kann man das auf pa3 s player spieln
I play it right now.. im painting my car.. but it wont change colors! I click L3 and everything. it wont change. need help..
@kawi3000 Its Left 4 Dead. Apparently you don’t own the game.
I won the chapionship YEEEES SKILL FOCUM AND DETERMINATION FOR THIS
and also i have my driver level to 50 and im earning 40,000 when i win a race
@pimpintom69 should be ITALIA BROOO
learn drive dude
this game go hard.