Need for Speed "Undercover"

[gazebee_]

I'm running this on my MBP (see specs below). Does anyone have similar specs so I can tweak the most performance out of the game? It's not horrible, I kind of enjoy the arcade feel and music to this, I quite like it in fact. The only thing bothering me really are the glitchy shadows.

[Rix]

The game is good i don't know what you man are chatting about

I'm playing it on 360 and those games i have to force myself to turn off

"Ok one more race.. Nah maybe another.. Ok last one DEFINATLEY"

I'm not too far into it but i'm enjoying it.

I've found all the latest N4S games too be better on consoles rarther than pc.

Some people play them on old pc's which obviously can't make them look as nice as they should,

I don't know why they bother.. I know graphics shouldn't make a game but it's like trying to watch a action movie from a CAM vs a Blueray disk, you know?

The graphics are good, everything is a bit too shiny though.

[TCA]

i willhave to check this new one out aswell... i have owned NFS:MW and Carbon bought pro street played it for 10 mins and didn't even like it... waste of money/time so i took it back and exchanged it for something else at GS

[uniacidz]

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: .

Scirwode

PC Version

Now i want some of what you have been drinking or smoking cos you must be seeing things.

Is like chalk and cheese. on the PC Version

Race Drive Grid knocks this out the park in gameplay, graphics and in physics.

NFS has been going downhill and i have played all of em except last 3 (which includes this)

Major disappointment. And i am using full graphics settings, everything on full. (under Win XP SP3)

[fusi0n]

I am a big fan of NFS. However this game has serious issues. Yet people will take up for it, this isn't something we should stand for. How can we let them release a game that has serious graphic issues? IA issues? game play errors? We should be all writing the emails and expressing our concern. I think this game would be great and would have scored much higher if only they delayed the game and fix these issues.

[NeoXY]

....7 hours in 50% through career.

God damn I like it.

I'll tell you what this game is. This game is the Transformer. The movie, as a movie is crap. Writing is crap, acting is cheesy, no real story line what so ever, all the bad things you can say about a bad film. But when you walk out of that theater, you just don't care do you? You go, god damn son I got my 10 dollars worth and walk away happy.

This is what this game is. A crap game but is entertainment to absolute no ends. Having my Audi TT zoom around the way it does, most satisfying feeling ever...

[macster]

Undercover is not a bad game but seriously the standards have slipped since Most Wanted... Damn I miss that game.

What happened to the NFS developers? EA got greedy and made they port to too many platforms?

[sn00pie]

I'm trading in Midnight Club LA for this. I've read the reviews and I think that this game will deliver on what I want it to deliver. I was one of the few people who enjoyed Pro Street alot. The car sounds and tuning is pretty much all I care about, and Pro Street was quite good in that department.

As far as people complaining its too easy, its better than too hard. Midnight Club is quite hard, you can be racing, and say you make one mistake, in most cases you fall too far behind to win, and you end up having to race again.

I'm hoping to pick it up tonight or tomorrow, and will deliver my thoughts on it after :D

PS: How do you guys like the car sounds? I've heard they sound awesome.

[Denis W. Veteran]

I'm running this on my MBP (see specs below). Does anyone have similar specs so I can tweak the most performance out of the game? It's not horrible, I kind of enjoy the arcade feel and music to this, I quite like it in fact. The only thing bothering me really are the glitchy shadows.

Could you post your settings? I really can't believe that putting everything on its highest settings and running the game at 1280x1024 can result in such poor performance, given the visual quality of the game's environment. (Quick specs: Q6600 overclocked to 3 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, slightly overclocked 8800 GT)

GRID's visual quality is almost night and day compared to this, yet it runs at a fluid 50+ FPS.

@Jasur: Your system's pretty similar (except CPU and amount of RAM). How does it run for you?

[uniacidz]

Could you post your settings? I really can't believe that putting everything on its highest settings and running the game at 1280x1024 can result in such poor performance, given the visual quality of the game's environment. (Quick specs: Q6600 overclocked to 3 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, slightly overclocked 8800 GT)

GRID's visual quality is almost night and day compared to this, yet it runs at a fluid 50+ FPS.

@Jasur: Your system's pretty similar (except CPU and amount of RAM). How does it run for you?

Ran fine for me

Just seemed weird the behaviour of the car and the physics.

Even on full settings, looked terrible. I dunno why others say looks good cos compared to GRID, it looks crap.

The cars in NFS remind me of the NFS Underground cars and trucks. Knowing my luck, there will be a white truck that appears whenever.

[ahfunaki]

Well let me start off by saying this game is much better than Pro-Street.

It's definitely not the best NFS, but it's still enjoyable.

If you are looking for a decent racer with arcade style handling and decent customization with the cars, I would say this is a good choice.

I'm not upset that I bought it...

[Stalk3r]

Wow, I'm blown away as I didn't think EA could successfully replicate the feel of Most Wanted after the two f*ckups that were Carbon and Pro Street...but indeed they have and Undercover imo is awesome. Some people have criticized the graphics for not being on par with today's standards but that claim is unfounded imo and I just love the magic hour 'effect'. I also downloaded a 100% finished gamesave to check out some of the better cars etc. before starting in career mode from scratch and the handling on the speedier vehicles is mighty unrealistic but I can live with it I guess.

All in all a big thumbs up from me :p

[ViZioN]

GRID's visual quality is almost night and day compared to this, yet it runs at a fluid 50+ FPS.

Totally agree. GRID's graphics are much better. I don't know about anyone else but there seems to be graphics tearing? I've got all the settings up full and AA AF on and it still doesn't look great. The handling on the cars is waaaay off too. Or at least it was on the crap heap of a car they give you to begin with. It's no where near as good as Most Wanted

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Honestly, at this point I'd be happy if they re-made Most Wanted with better graphics and more cars. :/

[darkz]

why they always make it arcade. they all should play m3 challenge to see what the handling should be.

physics&handling from m3 + damage model from grid + map&police from nfsmw = perfect racing game

[ViZioN]

Honestly, at this point I'd be happy if they re-made Most Wanted with better graphics and more cars. :/

Would be nice wouldn't it :p

[Scirwode]

I've only just started playing it after having the game sit on the table for the past 5 days due to me having to work :p . So far, I think I made the right choice in buying this game. I gave Pro Street a miss because I knew it was going to be bad and I was right. The first time I looked at Undercover, I knew that it wasn't going to be as good as Most Wanted but for the most part EA did held up its promise that it would be similar to it.

Some of the positives are the car selections, which will certainly satisfy anyone, from the slow Nissan 240SX to the behemoth that is the Bugatti Veryon. I certainly enjoyed the highway battle as I feel that is one of the better race modes in the game. The graphics are alright, though they are not the best as GRID is better in this area, I will admit that. The world is very large and I did find time to just roam around just for the fun of it.

The downside is that there are too few pursuit breakers and getting to them is a little hard. The Heroic Driving Engine is pointless though the U-Turn is extremely useful for evading police. I also can't seem to find an option to change my name, other than displaying "Player" which I find annoying. The police, who though seems to pick up a couple of tricks such as the PITT manoeuvre, are a bit docile compared to their MW counterparts. Car handling is a bit of a miss, but thankfully you can adjust it to your liking and so far I've had no trouble with it. Also, when I connected my Xbox 360 controller to my notebook, it seems to have the keys mapped differently compared to the manual. You can easily map it again but it is annoying.

Overall, better than NFS:Pro Street by a mile but still quite far from Most Wanted. That said, I'm not complaining that much :D .

PC Version

Now i want some of what you have been drinking or smoking cos you must be seeing things.

My mistake, I forgot about GRID and I do find the graphics in that game to be very nice. However, I just couldn't get into that game as there wasn't much for me to do, not to mention I had problems with how the car handles.

Then again, maybe I'm just a lousy player :p .

Scirwode

[Caleo Global Moderator]

Bad game is bad.

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Honestly, at this point I'd be happy if they re-made Most Wanted with better graphics and more cars. :/

hmm yes, yes and yes!

[sn00pie]

Picking this up today :)

[t0mbi]

anyone get slowdown on the 360 when there's a few cars on screen and maybe a collision or two?

[stephen_0002]

Well I think this game is very sweet! IMO it's on the same level as MW, but i wouldn't say it's a huge improvement. Just, polished in terms of graphics. Cops seem to learn a few new tricks as well.

[Dizzei]

I stil think Most Wanted was the best hands down, i've avoided every game since as they play and look like crap :(