Game: Need for Speed Undercover

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At the very first glance at the game, you are thrown into a police chase, this becomes difficult if you don't know the controls of the game. A bad place to start but it does force you to get to know the car quickly.

The storyline seems very similar to the first Fast and Furious storyline, "Your an undercover cop trying to make it into a street gang to find some stolen cars."

The storyline doesn't help to keep you involved in the game, because the whole way through the game its just...

(race until your Wheelman level goes up, watch boring bad acting cut scene, where the actors look at the camera like their talking to you, even though they're talking to you on the phone in there hand, and then beat that person in a race, or steal a car from the cop's then rinse and repeat)


The upgrades for you car are still very basic, Street, Race, and, Pro, which are unlocked during different parts of the game, but you are given some control of specifics like more torque in low or high RPM's, and the duration or force of the Nitrous Oxide, etc but the visual additions to the Car like spoilers and vinyls (Sticker and stripes for the car) etc, are very limited

Even tho there are not many cars to choose from, the simulation of each different car is very well done. My favourite car in the games is the Shelby Mustang GT, and in every need for speed game i have played they all drive the same, and i assume very close to the mechanics of the real car, the gear changes are very quick, the drift from the handbrake is very fluid and easy to get use to, and the regular brake are about useless, which is true to the car (The original car used very basic brakes and suspension for the amount of power and torque that was being produced by the engine)

There is no reason at all for the open world, because you can teleport to every single race using the GPS, or by just hitting the down directional button which brings you to the closest race. This is where a lot of need for speed game have failed in the past, they put in an open world but don't use it, so it just becomes redundant. Need for speed Underground 2, is the only game where they have used this open world by making it that you had to find garages for different kinds of upgrades and you had to drive to every race on the map, which improves the games length and gives the driver more time to master the car.

This game feels very much like just another Need for Speed game spat out of the factory, there is nothing new to interest the player apart from better graphics and some classic car's to drive around. Another Miss for the Need for Speed Franchise.

Docfox01 Signing Out

Rating:
4 out of 10 Stars (Good Graphics, Good Cars, Bad Story, Bad Sandbox)