Need for Speed SHIFT (PS3)
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Get ready to Shift your game into high gear! Designed to deliver a true driver's experience that reflects contemporary motorsports, Need for Speed: Shift is built by racers for racers. Need for Speed: Shift delivers an authentic and immersive driving experience, replicating the true feeling of racing high-end performance cars like never before. Players are thrust into the heart of the action with immersive and exciting features including a stunningly realistic first-person cockpit view camera and an all-new crash mechanic, providing an unrivaled sensation of the speed and feeling of racing a car on the extreme edge of control.
Imagine the experience of being a race driver. The adrenaline rush of driving at breakneck speeds, the pressure of fierce competition, the fear of losing control, the intense concentration and athleticism needed to harness the power of speeding chrome and steel. This is the true driver’s experience of Need for Speed: Shift.
Through the combination of perception-based G-forces, an ultra-realistic first-person cockpit view, an accurate, accessible physics-based model and the all-new, brutally disorienting crash dynamic, you'll be thrust into the driver’s seat amid the chaotic noise, intensity, and physical and emotional demands of the race. Imagine the emotions race drivers go through. The thrill of driving incredibly fast, the pressure of the competition, the fear of losing control, the intense concentration and effort needed to harness the power of a racing car.
The all-new driver profile is the ultimate extension of the true driver’s experience. This system gives each player a unique persona based on a player’s driving skill and style - aggressive or precise. Driver profile impacts how a player unlocks cars, overall career progression and online matchmaking. In Need for Speed: Shift, how you drive is who you are behind the wheel.
In Need for Speed: Shift, EA has brought together some of the world's best racing game talent and real race drivers. Developed in a unique collaboration between Slightly Mad Studios--developers and designers of the critically acclaimed GT Legends and GTR2 games--Michael Mann (executive producer at Black Box) and Patrick Soderlund, senior Vice President of EA Games and part of a racing team that recently competed in the fourth edition of the TOYO Tires 24H Dubai 2009, the result is an authentic driving experience unmatched on any game system.
Features:
- A combination player tier and achievements system that ensures that drivers are matched against those of similar experience on the track and that rewards for victories match the win.
- All-new 'Need for Speed' release that combines the true driver's experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic racetracks.
- Developed by the world's best racing game talent and real race drivers, including: the team behind critically acclaimed 'GT Legends' and 'GTR2' games and VP of EA Games and race car driver Patrick Soderlund.
- A wealth of highly tunable cars available in an equally diverse range of events including: quick race, standard races, manufacturer races, time trial, online options and more.
- The all-new driver profile system that assigns a unique persona based on a player¿s driving skill and style: aggressive or precise. This system also affects career progression, unlockables and online matchmaking.
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Good, fun and great driving game
Reviewed by Craig on December 29th, 2009
This is a great game. I have just gotten it and i have already clocked up 9 hours playing it. It can really burn up the hours. Driving can be a bit of a challenge as the car are a little twitchy. But as long as you catch them you can really get going. Its awesome to be able to crash into everying or drive nice and get points for both. This is a great game.
Fantastic Game, brings NFS out of the doldrums.
 Reviewed by Noel on December 17th, 2009
I have to say this game is very cool. The sense of speed is amazing, particularly when using the top tier cars on tracks like the Nurburgring. You really get a feeling that the faster you go, the less control you have over the car.
There is a good range of cars to choose from and some in particular can be upgraded further than others.
I think the career mode may be a bit too short though, but that doesn't detract one bit from what is a fantastic game which has brought NFS back from the low depths they suffered with Undercover.
If you're looking for something that's a mix of Arcade and Simulation racing, try this game. You should enjoy it. I do.
Need For Speed??
 Reviewed by Layton on September 29th, 2009
Unless you have 30 years racing experiance and some sort of Logitech steering wheel, Id steer clear of this game (excuss the pun). I found that the controller configuration is fine, if your hands are on backwards, and that getting your car to stay on the track is more difficult than flapping your arms to fly to the moon. Need for Speed?? More like Need for Aspirin.
A massive step up!
Reviewed by Jonathan on September 26th, 2009
This blew me away, apart from being able to play it in full HD thanx to a new Tv, of all of them it just finally seems to be a really great game without a hole heap of flaws. The ability to customaise the level of dificulty, handicap and assiadance is awesome to, not seen anything like it in any racing gam thus far. It's almost to like theve taken the best of gran truismo and other car games as weel as the previous N4S games and just made a truly awesome game. Playing online is pretty awesome to.
In short, if you liked any of N4S games or any other racing game for that matter, you'd be nuts not to get this one!!
Amazing!!!
Reviewed by Michael on September 21st, 2009
Wow! I brought this game on day 1 and what a surprise it was!!! When I pre-ordered it is was an impulse decision after reading the reviews it got. This is a surpurb return to what racing games should be: Simulation!!! I played the game through over the weekend and last night finished the carrear mode. The game gets an instant 9/10 for me because of the gameplay, the driving physics, the attention to detial and so on. Must Buy if you own a PS3!!!
Rubbish
 Reviewed by Craig on September 19th, 2009
Do yourself a favour and just wait for gt5, The graphics are shotty and the game play is sluggish and boring. I think this is proberly the worst nfs title ever.
The trailers made this game look fantastic but i was was wrong..........rent before you buy.
gt prologe knocks this into the weeds and that game came out nearly 2 years ago!!!!
Thank God - EA got something right
Reviewed by Shaun on September 18th, 2009
NFS Shift is the first game in a new experiment from EA to give a NFS game to different developers. Luckily for EA it has proven straight away to pay off and maybe be a turning point for the series.
After the last 3 to 5 NFS games many will be put off by the NFS name but this is not your usual NFS. Shift is developed by Slightly Mad Studioes who have great racing game experience and they have delivered with this.
The best part of this game is without doubt the camera view which is in the drivers seat. The camera is great as it shows drivers changing gears, It also gives you a feel for the speed at which you are travelling - when you go fast your vision gets slightly blurred, when you brake the car shakes around a bit and when you get hit or hit a wall you have a bit of a black out where the screen goes black and white with blurry views as well. It really makes for a great experience.
The driving itself it simple and arcade like would be the best way to describe it - while it doesnt exactly reflect what it would feel like to steer each car it is good enough and doesnt detract from the game as a whole. The tracks are great and are generally either tracks like Brands Hatch, Laguna Seca or Street type circuits that go around London and Tokyo.
The career mode takes you through a series of races on a tier as you try to beat that tier and rise to the next while competing in invitational events and race tournaments as well. As this happens your driver level will increase which happens thorugh nearly everyhing you do in the race. There are agression and precision points and anything you do, for example if you hit a car, will add to your points total. Once you progress through a level you gain unlockables, invitational events and sponsorship money for upgrades and new cars.
Overall this seems like a huge improvemnt on the feril Undercover and could prove to be the start of a turning point in the NFS Series - we hope anyway
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Saviour of the Series
Reviewed by Ross on September 11th, 2009
Nobody can deny that in recent years, we have seen the fall of Need For Speed Games. From Carbon, Prostreet to the dreadful Undercover everyone expected this to fail too.
Well, with a new developer, Slightly Mad Studios-who, under their former name Blimey! Games helped develop GT Legends and GTR 2 together with SimBin Studios, they have managed to get the series back to its roots and give us a more simulation of an experience - with some arcade feel to make an absolutely perfect balance.
Just look at the reviews, IGN gives it 9.0 and said "Possibly the best NFS game we have ever had" and praised almost every aspect - from graphics to outstanding gameplay.
Now, along with Dirt 2, I have another awesome driving game to add to my collection. This is a must buy for any racing fan!
Need For Speed S****
Reviewed by Sam on August 14th, 2009
What a fantastic time Need For speed has had. It's gone from boring racing, to upgradable racing, to an almost open world environment... and then back to racing, yet again. . While all of these were technically good games, the rather sad truth is that the offering before Shift was possibly the worst full price game I've ever had the misfortune of paying a hundred dollars for. Undercover handled like an arcade game -- It was Ridge Racer all over again. They tried, and failed to recapture the brilliance of Carbon, Undercover and Most Wanted.
Shift is a return to the Pro-Street style of Need For Speed. Choose your car, upgrade it, and dive into a race track. No open world, no police, no terribly bad physics, timing or police AI to worry about. The engine which so terribly ruined Undercover has been tossed, and it seems to be a case of Pro-Street 2 as opposed to it's own Need For Speed Game.
Considering how little time this game has spent in development, I don't really expect it to blow any minds. Pro-Street is much cheaper, and it's actually a pretty decent game - And even if Shift is all it's promised to be, it would probably only have a graphical difference over it. If I were to play this game, it would be because I waited until it was a weekly, and hired it from my local video shack. Or until everyone who wants it just because it's the new NFS have made it platinum. |
Wow
Reviewed by Craig on June 14th, 2009
This looks amazing for a nfs game! i have played most of them in the past ( up to pro street........big let down ).
It`ll be interesting to see what the demo is like and see if it will keep me entertained long enough.
I might have to dust off my logitec wheel for this one i think.
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Release date: 17th September, 2009.
List price: AU$109.95.
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