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Murr Newbie

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While i am excited and looking forward to this game (the first time i've anticipated a NFS Game in a while), I still crave a switch back to the street racing scene.

 

Hater's gunna hate I know.... but I really enjoyed Underground and Underground 2.

 

From that point every NFS game after that I played I enjoyed less and less as they shifted momentum from Street Racing in the night to more track based racing.

 

With Hot Pursuit I'm glad to see NFS series drop from the track based / ultimate driving sim game that it's been trying to be on a few occasions and back the fun that was Hot Pursuit. Clearly Criterion have made a major stamp on the franchise now as from the demo, from the look of it... it just screams Burnout (well to me anyways)

 

And now that the NFS series has taken this step back to one of the best in the series (the old hot pursuit and hot pursuit 2 was hell-a-fun!) I'm hoping that next year they may consider to revist the underground, street racing, 'rude boy' if you will car modding games.

 

judging by the fact that recently Shift 2 was announced and again looks like a track based game, i guess my wants are miles away from ever happening.

 

Just me that liked Underground 1 & 2 more then any other NFS game since then? anyone else like to see a NFS Underground 3?

James Newbie

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I loved 1 and 2, Especially 2, I still don't why they got so slated, handling was perfect and you could mod your car to however cool you wanted :)

Murr Newbie

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That's what I really enjoyed about it, the modding was brilliant to it.

 

even into the details of sound systems, Neon lighting, body kits, roof scoops, bonnet vents.

 

I used to spend hours prettying the car up with Vinyl's and Pearlecent paints. Many good hours spent on them games.

Cookyman Newbie

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This arrived this morning. Played a couple of hours of it and it's stunning. Gorgeous graphics, lovely responsive contrrols and autolog is a stroke of genius.

 

Miles better than the demo - and I can see this getting ultra competitive by trying to beat peoples times on autolog.

 

It's a strong recommend from me! :bouncy:

 

Cookyman Newbie

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Well have given the online a go today and it's very impressive. The Cops and Racers games are cool and you can also just have a race. One thing I didn't enjoy in Burnout Paradise was the racing as you were constantly referring to the map. Need for Speed has has a more linear race with the odd shortcut thrown in. It's a very rewarding experience and there is nothing more satisfying than powersliding into a corner, skidding round it and boosting out of it.

 

I just think it's a shame that hardly anybody on here has bought it - (probably due to Gran Tursimo coming out on Wednesday) but if you are after an arcade racer then I can't recommend this enough - this game will make your eyes bleed!

 

Graphically this game continues to impress me and you can take screenshots at any time (thanks neogaf for some awesome in game snaps!)

 

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So how are ppl finding this then?

 

How does it compare to say Burnout Paradise?

 

It's surprisingly very different to Paradise. It's more like a sequel to Burnout 3.

 

I'm working through the single-player at the moment and it's quite varied. A different car selection, plenty of different event and how it gives you different amount of weapons is great - you can also choose between a cop event or racer event from the same screen.

 

The AI, while it has a few small niggles, is great (unlike Paradise, where it may as well not have been there) - the AI changes quite a lot based on events, for starters no AI was using shortcuts (like Burnout), then they suddenly started using them.

 

Some of the Interceptor events (you as one cop vs one racer) have unique AI - I've just played one where the racer had EMPs (which lock on to a target in front of you). I thought that it would be easy, just bash him from behind. We were on a straight, going at high speeds when the racer suddenly swerved to the left and put the breaks on, so I went flying past before I could stop and he hit me with an EMP.

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It's surprisingly very different to Paradise. It's more like a sequel to Burnout 3.

 

I'm working through the single-player at the moment and it's quite varied. A different car selection, plenty of different event and how it gives you different amount of weapons is great - you can also choose between a cop event or racer event from the same screen.

 

The AI, while it has a few small niggles, is great (unlike Paradise, where it may as well not have been there) - the AI changes quite a lot based on events, for starters no AI was using shortcuts (like Burnout), then they suddenly started using them.

 

Some of the Interceptor events (you as one cop vs one racer) have unique AI - I've just played one where the racer had EMPs (which lock on to a target in front of you). I thought that it would be easy, just bash him from behind. We were on a straight, going at high speeds when the racer suddenly swerved to the left and put the breaks on, so I went flying past before I could stop and he hit me with an EMP.

 

Confirmed: Buying this tomorrow.

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30 Seconds To Mars - Edge Of The Earth

The track that was playing during the first race. This game's awesome :D

 

Been playing two events and I have to say: the audio-visual presentation is incredible.

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So is this different enough from the old Need for Speed titles to make it a worthwhile punt? The Autolog feature is certainly something that has me very interested.

 

I played parts of the older NfS titles, like Underground/Carbon/etc., but never really liked the whole street racing aspect of those (or the cop chases there as they just felt flat to me) and if I'm honest, I didn't really care for the car customisation stuff either. I did, and still do, really enjoy the Burnout games as I see them as different enough to keep me entertained so that's why I'm asking.

 

It's only £4.99 at HMV if you trade in Black Ops, so I am considering it.

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So is this different enough from the old Need for Speed titles to make it a worthwhile punt?

 

I can't say how different it is to Need for Speed (the series has never, ever interested me before), but if you enjoy Burnout (especially Burnout 3) then you should enjoy this.

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Well hearing about all this social stuff has made me very interested because it reminded me of how well Burnout did such things. So much so I planted Burnout Paradise back in my PS3 and am working towards completing it for the second time to get the trophies (something I started but stopped along the way) so beaten that again up to is it Platinum license so still gotta do every event again to get that. Still think it is one of the best games this generation out of any genre. So perfect and so much to it. Got just 4 crash gates left to find, few bits in Big Surf Island and a couple of the bike races I love it.

 

Also decided to put some more time into Shift and think will try and complete this before I get Hot Pursuit which I'm hoping is like Burnout Paradise and has long legs.

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Just had a really epic crash:

 

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Edit: You know, this is probably the best-looking racing game there is.

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