Need for Speed "Undercover"

[spaceelf]

I say this every time someone mentions NFS.

All I want is a modern NFS: Porsche Unleashed / Porsche 2000, albeit with many more manufacturers. Give me some cars, lots of open road with amazing scenery and no crappy story line and I'll be happy. Test Drive Unlimited got everything very right and was the last decent racer I played. Some things it could have done without, like the hitch hiker missions and the speed trap stuff, but it did everything else very very well. EA should be looking at TDU as an example of something to aspire to.

Sounds like Burnout Paradise might be right up your alley. I haven't played TDU but BP is unusual compared to any racing game I've ever seen.

[HeyRatFans]

Sounds like Burnout Paradise might be right up your alley. I haven't played TDU but BP is unusual compared to any racing game I've ever seen.

Test Drive Unlimited is really good and highly recommended. If you fancy something that is more laid back, it's absolutely brilliant for just going on a cruise with your mates on XBL. As odd as it sounds, I spent hours on that game just driving around having people follow me / following other people and doing nothing but driving.

I did have Burnout Paradise, but didn't play it much. It's good, but there is too much emphasis on causing havoc by crashing and smashing your way around which doesn't appeal to me much. The old Burnouts were good fun multi-player, but I just can't get in to Paradise. I tend to go for racers with a bit more chivalry lately. Race Driver: GRID recommended elsewhere in this thread is good, I love the sense of speed in that game, and Forza 2 was pretty spectacular if not a little repetitive.

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

I hated ProStreet, hopefully it's not like that! Thanks for the news :)

[sn00pie]

I forgot to add the one thing I loved about Pro Street was the control setup on the PS3. L2/R2 for Accelerate/Brake, L1 for Clutch, and upshift/downshift using the right analog stick. Pure genius! :D

[~WinGz~]

I still play Need For Speed: High Stakes on the Pc, love the fact they have downloadable cars, and tracks for it.

The last Need for Speed I bought was Underground and I sold that a long time ago.

[Rappy Veteran]

Wow I haven't played Need for Speed since the game where you got chased by the police, back on my 100mhz pc.

[Scirwode]

Wow I haven't played Need for Speed since the game where you got chased by the police, back on my 100mhz pc.

My guess is that it's NFS2 :p . I love the Mclaren F1, the Ford GT Concept and the Mercedes CLK-GTR.

Scirwode

[Denis W. Veteran]

ProStreet's intro? "It's time to take racing off the streets."

Yeah, that sounded like BS from the start. Keep NFS to racing on streets and running from cops, not a game where you look at the steering wheel funny and the car rolls off the track and flips. :pinch:

Most Wanted was fun. Carbon was enjoyable after getting used to it for a bit (though it was odd the motion blur was too blurry on my 7800 GT and quite fine on my 8800 GT).

Also, may I suggest something to EA? STOP PIMPING THE F**KING CHARACTERS WITH SOME EGOTISTICAL BADASS PERSONALITIES! Since Underground the protagonist has punks who talk trash to the player as some way to advance the plot. It's really getting old. :rolleyes: At least Carbon's FMV scenes were a lot more lifelike than before. Underground 2 was epic fail with the whole comic book style.

[shan]

Most wanted is the BEST :D

[Rappy Veteran]

My guess is that it's NFS2 :p . I love the Mclaren F1, the Ford GT Concept and the Mercedes CLK-GTR.

Scirwode

Yeah that was it, I would be driving in some mountain range village and the police would be hiding in corners was actually pretty good, I must pick up one of the recent NFS's tho.

[Scirwode]

ProStreet's intro? "It's time to take racing off the streets."

Yeah, that sounded like BS from the start. Keep NFS to racing on streets and running from cops, not a game where you look at the steering wheel funny and the car rolls off the track and flips. :pinch:

Most Wanted was fun. Carbon was enjoyable after getting used to it for a bit (though it was odd the motion blur was too blurry on my 7800 GT and quite fine on my 8800 GT).

Also, may I suggest something to EA? STOP PIMPING THE F**KING CHARACTERS WITH SOME EGOTISTICAL BADASS PERSONALITIES! Since Underground the protagonist has punks who talk trash to the player as some way to advance the plot. It's really getting old. :rolleyes: At least Carbon's FMV scenes were a lot more lifelike than before. Underground 2 was epic fail with the whole comic book style.

To be honest, I actually enjoyed some parts of the Underground 2 comic scenes. Though the parts where they started to explain about "legal" racing was where it became nonsense really, where you can get sponsors and the like, and you had to get a certain star rating for your car to be on a magazine. NFS: Carbon was ok though it was a lot cheesy, the best remains NFS: Most Wanted despite having at most five cutscenes, with the rest using the messenger system.

Scirwode

[Denis W. Veteran]

To be honest, I actually enjoyed some parts of the Underground 2 comic scenes. Though the parts where they started to explain about "legal" racing was where it became nonsense really, where you can get sponsors and the like, and you had to get a certain star rating for your car to be on a magazine. NFS: Carbon was ok though it was a lot cheesy, the best remains NFS: Most Wanted despite having at most five cutscenes, with the rest using the messenger system.

Scirwode

Most Wanted did a good job taking advantage of text and phone calls, if a bit too much. In Carbon it simply screamed T-Mobile begging for some product placement as you use the damn thing less than five times in the game.

Most Wanted's character bio FMVs were okay. Carbon's character bios were C-O-R-N-Y beyond belief. :laugh: I was over at a friend's house with another friend trying Carbon on his PC. When the first crew member's video came up we replayed it three times just laughing at how dumb it was. :laugh:

I hope they do not ever, EVER bring back the 'you must dress your car to look like a sissy twelve year old's Barbie model car or you cannot continue' scheme. That was incredibly dumb and really emphasized flash over substance in cars.

[Scirwode]

Most Wanted did a good job taking advantage of text and phone calls, if a bit too much. In Carbon it simply screamed T-Mobile begging for some product placement as you use the damn thing less than five times in the game.

Most Wanted's character bio FMVs were okay. Carbon's character bios were C-O-R-N-Y beyond belief. :laugh: I was over at a friend's house with another friend trying Carbon on his PC. When the first crew member's video came up we replayed it three times just laughing at how dumb it was. :laugh:

I hope they do not ever, EVER bring back the 'you must dress your car to look like a sissy twelve year old's Barbie model car or you cannot continue' scheme. That was incredibly dumb and really emphasized flash over substance in cars.

I heartily agree (Y) .

Scirwode

[Foub]

I liked NFS: HP II the most. Though, NFS: Porsche wasn't too bad. I had bought NFS: MW Black Edition as well and liked it, but not as much as NFS: HP II.

[spaceelf]

I didn't hate having to make your car more interesting looking, but having to put all the random logos and crap on it was lame. It got to be massive overkill.

[ozgeek]

NFS HS is my most favourite NFS game. NFS MW comes in second. All other NFS games don't exist to me.

[Minifig]

Can someone explain to me how being "Undercover" will be any different than Hot Pursuit and Hot Pursuit 2 ?

Please,.. don't even begin to say the obvious like "Your car doesn't look like a cop car when you pull people over?".. because if EA is doing something as lame as that to the NFS franchise which has been dying for years...

F*** Them.

[Acceleration]

Possibly Undercover cop like character in single player mode?

Damn. Possibly if they reversed things that annoyed me so much about Carbon and Pro Street.

Things that annoyed me.

Same storyline with differences though Underground Underground 2, Most Wanted and Carbon.

Carbon had good graphics but too short in single player mode.

I also think that the day/night driving mix of races would be good.

Carbon was more buggy for the PC for me than what i'm used to. I was not impressed.

Pro Street seemed dodgy.

Ok, seems a lot to overcome.

Maybe I should go back to playing Forza 2, GRID and GT4.

[kilimanjaro]

NFS: High Stakes > Porsche Unleashed > Most Wanted > Carbon .

The rest were mediocre, with Pro Street being the worst of the lot.

[Dc'1]

Will be better than ProStreet.

Couldn't be worse...

[The2]

NFS: High Stakes > Porsche Unleashed > Most Wanted > Carbon .

The rest were mediocre, with Pro Street being the worst of the lot.

I agree. I could drive HS for hours.

[Skulltrail-old]

Sounds a bit dodgy.

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Need for Speed Undercover announced

Will be better than ProStreet.

What isn't? ProStreet is the worst fking game of the entire Need For Speed series. I played it a couple of times, and almost fell asleep at the wheel. Not only are the graphics demanding but the gameplay itself is boring, Race Driver GRID has a similar plot but with much more "punch" to it.

I'm glad they are coming out with another game, hopefully it won't suck like ProStreet. Being the police rocks.

[shadowless911]

First of all GRID is all you said puts ProStreet to shame.

Secondly, Carbon and ProStreet were both horrendous and really boring, Most Wanted is the last and greatest release from NFS Franchise and one of the best driving games out there, and since they made two letdowns till now, maybe the third time they get it right I hope. :D

[Skulltrail-old]

First of all GRID is all you said puts ProStreet to shame.

Secondly, Carbon and ProStreet were both horrendous and really boring, Most Wanted is the last and greatest release from NFS Franchise and one of the best driving games out there, and since they made two letdowns till now, maybe the third time they get it right I hope. :D

You really think so? When Carbon came out I was pleased, not as pleased as NFSMW but decent pleasure. When I saw a teaser of ProStreet I thought it would be a decent game, not the best but somewhere up there. I played it and almost died... it was, as you said, "horrendous." Do you really think they will have the balls to finally come up with a better game? I honestly doubt it, especially because they made such a controversy over ProStreet.

[Stalk3r]

First of all GRID is all you said puts ProStreet to shame.

Secondly, Carbon and ProStreet were both horrendous and really boring, Most Wanted is the last and greatest release from NFS Franchise and one of the best driving games out there, and since they made two letdowns till now, maybe the third time they get it right I hope. :D

Couldn't agree more.