jakop92
join:2004-08-19
Santa Rosa, CA
| Need for speed *sigh*
EA will release yet another NFS disappointment in November:
Need For Speed Undercover.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLeJHsCEtA
It looks exactly like Most Wanted. Just a few new cars here and there.. maybe some different levels and TADA! Slap it all in a box and sell it for $60.
What are these series coming to... ugh. Same old recycled piece of junk. Not to mention.. it is FAR too arcade to be fun. I do enjoy a little bit of arcadish, but this game goes too far.
I'm not even going to bother wasting my money.
Let alone even if I knew how to pirate games, I wouldn't bother to since it looks like garbage.
Am I the only one here? |
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Cabal
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Quake110
join:2003-12-20
Ottawa, ON | The one I liked was NFS Porsche Unleased. The physics were great and those arcade games just become dull after a few times playing them. |
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i90
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Quake110
join:2003-12-20
Ottawa, ON | I also like NFS 4, it had a 2 player system that few PC games have, *a rarity*.
And one cool thing the old NFS games had: CAR DAMAGE!!! And it also affected the car performance. |
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jakop92
join:2004-08-19
Santa Rosa, CA
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Undercover is nothing but MW recycled with a few new cars. They advertise it as usual, you know... all the good brand new stuff blah blah blah. Same piece of crap. Literally.. the graphics looks the same. Except for the amount of blur. Looks like the same engine tweaked (to a shittier extent). I mean shoot.. they are trying to milk us of our money since they know there was large fan base for the NFS series.
I agree. Hot pursuit was fun. I absolutely loved porshe unleashed. That was an awesome game. But everything since and including nfs underground has been GARBAGE!!!
I have to say GRID was basically everything NFS should be, with an exception of that it does not have free roaming cities, exotic/european/muscle cars and the po-po. Still much better then NFS trash. |
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Quake110
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1 edit | said by jakop92  :I have to say GRID was basically everything NFS should be, with an exception of that it does not have free roaming cities, exotic/european/muscle cars and the po-po. Still much better then NFS trash. I've watched the review of GRID »www.gamespot.com/xbox360/driving···o-review and I have to say it's a HELL lot better than the new NFS shit EA seems to get out. |
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JIGA
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There are a few new modes added to this game.
quote:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_S···dercover
Gameplay
There will be the return of many ways of racing in Need for Speed Undercover. Sprint, Circuit, Highway Battles (a new mode involving racing on a highway with heavy civilian and police traffic), missions (where the player performs specific missions usually involving the Tri-City Police Department), the "Cops and Robbers" mode, and a new gameplay mode called "The Heist"
Police
Little information has been released about Undercover's police system, but it has been confirmed by EA that the police vehicles will include helicopters. The police vehicles will be drivable by the player. EA also confirmed that "there are some modes which give you access to the range of police cars. They're a lot of fun to drive and they have sirens. It has also been mentioned that, "The police are much tougher this time around, they will now preform PIT maneuvers.
One named police officer is Lt. Keller.
Online
EA has confirmed that there will be an new online mode by the name "Cops and Robbers" where four players will have to deliver a package to a drop point. The other four players will be police trying to stop the transportation of the package. There will also be regular racing online modes from previous NFS games, along with the brand new Highway Battle mode.
Frank Gibeau (President of the EA Games label) has stated that due to the fact that the sales of ProStreet didn't live up to EA's hopes for the game, the Need for Speed franchise will go back to its roots. John Doyle (Developer at EA Black Box) has hinted Undercover will feature a brand new game mechanic and a "Most Wanted-ish" sandbox style of gameplay. It will have an all new damage system.[9] Andy Blackmore, (Senior Vehicle Concept Artist at EA) explained how the Porsche 997 GT2 character car was "conceptualized" in the game and then brought to life for the game from a brief description to being approved by Porsche.
So it's not exactly the same. I don't think the graphics are even the same... it's on a different engine than what Most Wanted used. They may look the same but there could be subtle differences between the two.
I didn't play Carbon or ProStreet, so no opinion on those two titles. I did enjoy Most Wanted though, and since Undercover will allow you to drive the police vehicles I will definitely pick this one up. |
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jakop92
join:2004-08-19
Santa Rosa, CA | reply to jakop92
IMO regardless of what small little gadgets/cars they have 'added' it still looks like the same game that has been recycled. Same piece of junk. |
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quanta
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It's a racing game...how much can change?
Undercover features cops, and you can play the cops, just like Hot Pursuit III.
Undercover features car damage, like High Stakes.
Undercover features Porsches and Lambos, much like NFS2.
Undercover has a sandbox world, like NFSU et al.
Undercover, like ALL NFS games except NFS:PU, feature arcadish driving.
I didn't like Pro Street, but this one I'm willing to try.
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| said by quanta :It's a racing game...how much can change? Quite a bit actually, thing is, did they?
Knowing EA, probably not.
I personally prefer the arcade type of racing instead of SIM.
SIMs feel too - restricted.
Too much like they are fighting the feel of racing to be "Life Like" at the cost of being playable.
I'll try this one, but I don't expect too much from it.
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1 edit | I'd say the NFS franchise has had some welcome improvements since the the bad ol' days of HP2.
(Yes, I believe HP2 was terrible compared to NFS2 and NFS3. They had police helicopters dropping barrels of toxic waste on you for goodness sakes.)
Rubberbanding and AI cheating has been greatly reduced. Graphics and car selection has greatly improved. We can now drive ricers, exotics or American muscles.
Car customization is a fun activity; whether it makes your cars better or more attractive is subjective, but it's an optional activity.
Demanded features such as cop chases and damage models have been incorporated.
Building these enormous sandbox worlds with destructible environments has been a great addition.
They've added new driving modes such as drifting, drag racing, canyon racing and highway battles.
Clearly the NFS games have CHANGED. One may not LIKE these changes but there's been changes nonetheless. |
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JIGA
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| There have been a lot of great improvements, but I would like the roots of NFS series to come back with the current changes we have.
It would be nice to have a more "full game". Exotic series, ricer series, pro/muscle series. Kind of like 3 or 4 games in one. |
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mrchris
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North Babylon, NY | reply to jakop92
Just give up the NFS series, EA...you're just recycling just like the sports games and Sims series. |
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JIGA
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Has anyone else picked up NFS:Undercover? It's actually quite good! I haven't even touched RA3 or WoW in over a week now.
They have finally gotten back to exotic/super cars. Here are a few from the game.
- '06 Corvette Z06
- '70 Chevrolet Chevelle SS
- '67 Chevrolet Camaro SS
- '08 Camaro Concept
- '67 Corvette Stingray
- '71 Challenger
- Gallardo LP 560
- '06 Murcielago LP 640
- McLaren '94 F1
- '07 Benz SLR McLaren 722
- '06 911 Turbo
- '06 911 GT3 RS
- '05 Carrera GT
- Shelby '67 GT500
- Shelby'08 GT500 KR
Graphics are decent, more of the same as Most Wanted, but the gameplay is so fun I can look past the graphics. They have added some new racing modes which are pretty damn addicting.
Highway Battle where you must get in front of your opponent and then gain 1k feet gap before you win, very fast high speeds. (Highways)
Escape, evade the cops. (open city driving)
Cost to State, rack up X amount of money to the state by taking out cops and just overall being a menace, then evade before time runs out. (open city driving)
Outrun, take the lead and then lose your opponent (Open city driving)
Then you have the normal circuit runs, sprints, and a few others.
The story line is kind of... bleh, but I really don't care for that. The vehicle customization is a lot better, but could still use more. I spent over a hour and a half last night making a replica of the Nissan Skyline from 2 Fast 2 Furious last night. Turned out pretty good.
The only negatives I have... it's a port and a nasty one at that. The menus are all setup for game pad usage + keyboard which is annoying. The game does have a few bugs and does not like to be alt-tabbed. When modifying car parts the game will freeze maybe 5% of the time. When alt-tabbing, if you alt-tab maybe 5+ times you will come back to 1FPS and will have to restart the app.
Overall, I'm really enjoying the game. Been playing it since last Friday and haven't stopped. I'm really looking forward to getting the Tier 2 and 1 vehicles unlocked. I'm already hitting 194 in my Skyline with Tier 2 parts, I can't imagine what the McLaren or the 911's will do! |
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The Flash
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JIGA
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| said by The Flash :Should have picked up some L4D instead dude. I will once they add in more then 2 campaigns for vs. |
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Smith6612
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I loved Hot Persuit 2! I still have that game for my PS2 and I'll play it from time to time when my PC bores me (which is not often). |
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Mchart
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The last NFS that I played and actually thought was decent was Hot Pursuit. Everything after that was royal crap. Hot Pursuit 2 was a damn joke - They made it way way way more arcadey. As another user said - They had police helicopters dropping barrels of toxic goo on you.
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