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NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT

22 October 2009
5 stars
Comments:10
Platform :
PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360
Developer :
Slightly Mad Studios
Publisher :
Electronic Arts
Rating :
E
Release :
OUT NOW
Game Summary:

Need for Speed SHIFT is an all-new simulation racing IP that combines the true driver's experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars.

Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver's perspective through the combination of perception based G-forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the brutal experience of a first person crash dynamic. Need for Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every bump in the road, the strain in the corners and the shocking speed of braking and accelerating in a race car.

The all-new driver profile is the ultimate extension of the true driver's experience. This system gives each player a unique persona based on a player's driving skill and style - aggressive or precise. Driver profile impacts how a player unlocks cars, overall career progression and online matchmaking. In Need for Speed SHIFT, how you drive is who you are behind the wheel.

The game features 72 fully-licensed cars, ranging from classic cars to modern sport cars. Cars in the game include the Bugatti Veyron, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Koenigsegg CCX, Pagani Zonda, Corvette Z06, Ford GT, Honda S2000, Mazda RX-7 FD, Nissan Skyline GT-R 34, Toyota AE86, and the 2009 BMW M3 GT2.

With 18 tracks in total including real world circuits and fictitious tracks like the Brands Hatch and a London circuit, combined with all the amazing cars, awesome high-def graphics, and the realistic speed and handling, Need for Speed SHIFT has to be the best release in the series to date!





















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  • lango017

    An average attempt at stealing marketshare when GT5 was being released for christmas '09. Now GT5 is pushed back, people have had time to play it and realise it is....well..... average.  Perhaps on other platforms it works OK, but for me on the PS3, I'm glad santa got it for me as I would not have spent the money on it. Bring on GT5

     

  • ben52220

    It needs to go back on the streets with police

  • lancer_boi

    looks good but it looks like its got da same threme as pro street

  • Fergy666

     why does this say brands hatch is ficticious? its real?

  • mpz28427

    still don't know if i'm going to buy this one or not, one of the best parts of the old games is free driving and out running the cops, from what i've seen of this so far it has none of this.



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