Need for Speed "Undercover"

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I'm not seeing great comments around here :rofl:

So nothing has changed, the last great NFS was Porsche Unleashed. Everything went "ricer" after that.

We need a good racing game on PC where you can mod your car (not rice your car) and play online but an arcade-style game like Initial D.

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I'm not seeing great comments around here :rofl:

So nothing has changed, the last great NFS was Porsche Unleashed. Everything went "ricer" after that.

We need a good racing game on PC where you can mod your car (not rice your car) and play online but an arcade-style game like Initial D.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 was pretty sweet. Everything beyond Underground for me went :x

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Have you really looked closely at the videos? For one thing, the graphics of this game is the best I've seen in a racing game. Not to mention the new driving techniques and the amount of cars they have, plus the first appearance of a Ferrari for the first time since NFS: HP2, the huge map that they've built which is certainly an improvement to the track base NFS: Pro Street. Sure, they might reuse some things from the old games, but I'm willing to forgive them as it's not easy to create entirely new content for each game, look at NFS: High Stakes, where they reuse all the tracks from NFS:III but no one complained then :rolleyes: . Yeah, really similar to MW :rolleyes: .

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I'm enjoying it :) great graphics and car list (Y)

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I hate it, i hate it a lot.

The performance is REALLY choppy no matter what resolution i set and driving too fast it starts to stutter then the FPS drops to near unplayability then you drive round a corner and the track just dissappears and the game freezes, then after 10 seconds after its cached everything in the game just carries on without warning making you go flying off into cars or the side of the track, the graphics are laughable.

Whats the point in adding free-roam when you can just tab tab tab tab your way through the game.

I was excited about this game but im bitterly dissapointed and im going to take it to a swap shop to see if i can offload it on someone else.

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After playing a little more, I like it a bit more, but... the GFX are still awful... (specially the shadows...and everything but the cars, which are the only thing well designed).

Probably the sound FX are the best of the game (NOT the music, which sucks, except a couple of tracks), the engine sounds, the turbo, etc... it's a treat for the ears.

The controls still feel wrong... (IMO the cars feel like if they are 10cm above the ground) plus I don't see the way to enable vibration on my 360 pad connected to the PC.

Story wise... oh god... what-a-waste!!! The thousands of dollars spent on the Maggie-Q scenes, and the "bad guys"... and they suck!! I haven't finished the game yet but so far it's a disaster, Maggie doesn't even get to show her looks (which at least would've made the appearances of her semi-worthwhile), since she's dressed like an FBI-or-whatever agent in suit. Bring back Brooke Burke, tyvm.

And the difficulty seems too easy, i'm not even a regular gamer and I haven't lost any event so far, dominating most of them.

Besides all of this, I'll keep playing a bit more, because It has a nice selection of cars... and I like racing games... and after all, this title is "passable".

But my heart is still with GRID.

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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I played the game for the first time today and here's what I think. Firstly, the graphics aren't all that great but the sound is surprisingly good. The shadows are pixelated and the environment looks like it's ODing on HDR. The cars, however, look and sound just as good as they did in NFS: Carbon. Okay maybe the cars sound a little bit better this time around. Secondly, the handling is actually not that bad. I'd say it's on par with NFS: Most Wanted. Thirdly, the game itself is way too easy. I've pretty much dominated every single event I participated in. I'm already a level 2 Wheelman after 15 minutes of playing the game. Finally, the story is atrocious. The live action sequences are short, pointless, and very pixelated. Overall I give this game a 3.5/5. Rent it if you're bored and really want to play a racing game. If not then buy GRID. It's much better!

PS: I played the PC version and it ran fairly well on my gaming rig: Intel E6750, 4GB DDR2 RAM, HD 4870.

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I played it mostly to full effects, antisotropic filtering, v sync and stuff, at 1440x900 with an 8800 GT, plays nice, but yes, there is the occasional frame-freezing for a second, and seems quite similar to most wanted, I'll continue playing to see if it gets better, I agree that most of the cutscenes look a bit pixelated, cant understand why they didnt made them hi-def

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Denis W. Veteran

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Played it a bit...

What are they doing? Trying to make some cheap movie flick or something? In-game UI's so spartan the game brings you right into the action without offering you the choice to tweak your performance settings. Speaking of performance, at all settings at high it's not running at constantly low FPS but the movement of the camera is incredibly choppy. Just like ProStreet, maybe even worse. The graphics quality doesn't justify all this glitching; Crysis causes performance problems but for legitimate reasons at least.

I'll resume playing it more later, but at this stage I can justify all the sub-60% scores this game's getting so far. :hmmm:

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Hmm sounds like what I was afraid of :( EA just haven't learnt, obviously all those extra people EA supposedly had working on this game were busy doing something else...

You could call me a dedicated NFS fan, as I own just about every NFS released (except TNFS and Motor City) and I'm skipping this one. The NFS engine needs to be rewritten properly, adding extra effects to hide the problems is not a solution. I'd rather EA took a few years to redo the engine and create a proper NFS, obviously that is just a pipe dream :laugh:

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Denis W. Veteran

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Yeah, I agree. They need to go back and redo this engine that has powered all their games since Most Wanted. Difference is Most Wanted was the only, keyword ONLY game in the bunch that had the right level of blurring. Carbon was a bit over the top, ProStreet went over, and this game? TOO MUCH BLUR.

I recall Most Wanted had a problem with multicore CPUs; it would stutter like crazy and you'd have to either alt+tab out of the game or run a command line tool to set the affinity on the game's EXE. Guess this game's no different, three years after Most Wanted. I have a Q6600 and 8800GT, surely I should expect rather fluid gameplay at 1280x1024 given the detail of the environment? Also about whoever mentioned the shadows were messed... indeed they are. They're as glitchy as Most Wanted's shadows... that still hasn't been fixed yet :hmmm:

Apparently there's two teams working simultaneously on the NFS games. So team number two's halfway through the next installment of NFS. Wonder what they're planning next? *shudder*

Request number one would be to bring back the frontend UI and stop making a hybrid movie/game, mmkay? Sheesh, L4D doesn't really have a plot yet that game nails the movie/game concept far better than this...

edit: Read Richard Hammond's post, glad I'm not alone. Yeah seriously, free roam when you can tab-tab-tab your way through? Right :rofl:

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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I miss the good 'ol NFS: Underground days. I remember the "Post your cars" thread. And then NFS: Underground 2 came out and that made things even better. After NFS: Most Wanted, the NFS series took a huge plunge into ultimate failure. NFS: ProStreet was nail #1 on the coffin and NFS: Undercover is nail #2.

Anyway, I knew from the screenshots that it was using the same graphics engine as ProStreet. That should have been a good enough warning for me.

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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What's the storyline like? The last story I enjoyed in the NFS series was Most Wanted. I've never played Hot Pursuit and everyone keeps talking about it so I might try to get hold of a copy.

The storyline is absolutely rubbish. It has clich? written all over it. Some of the cutscenes are no longer than 30 seconds. The NFS: Most Wanted storyline was much better. As for Hot Pursuit, it was a great game. It's quite old now so the experience may not be the same for you.

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I miss the good 'ol NFS: Underground days. I remember the "Post your cars" thread. And then NFS: Underground 2 came out and that made things even better. After NFS: Most Wanted, the NFS series took a huge plunge into ultimate failure. NFS: ProStreet was nail #1 on the coffin and NFS: Undercover is nail #2.

Anyway, I knew from the screenshots that it was using the same graphics engine as ProStreet. That should have been a good enough warning for me.

post your car thread!! i loved that :p memorys!

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