So now it's there, the "new" Need for Speed. First of all, the presentation is as one would expect from EA almost perfectly. Toller and polyphonic sound, which can ensure primarily on high-quality sound card with the appropriate boxes for the occasional conflict with neighbors. Great graphics, the pleasantly fast and smooth even on CPU performance of 1.5 GHz and Geforce 4 TI or Radeon 9500 runs on high resolutions. The game modes in detail, I would like not to express, which has already done enough, short: You are good and consistent and suitable for the ambience. Well, so what is lacking for 5 star and outstanding game? 1. For linear gameplay, no freedom to make my "career". One drives from his 111 races and that's it. 2. No saving motivation, I can always do everything at once, as it becomes available. 3. tuning options too predefined, that unfortunately individual fine adjustments are not possible. In addition, neither the kit a power level from each other (only nominally) differ. 4. The cars are going all almost identical. Many other games clearly show the difference between front / rear wheel drive cars, all-terrain vehicles, etc. (here's interesting the drift behavior of the front-wheel drive, the extreme oversteer in drift mode makes playing a lot of sense, but has to do with reality little). 5. As nice as the car tuned and looks, I lack the opportunity him freely rotating / swiveling and zoomable observed. One way to look at the interior or open even the hood would be very nice. 6. Failure to provide Cruise mode. Tests on predefined round courses are all well and good, but the way Unfortunately, free to explore "in peace" with his car, the city is missing. Well this is because of the graphics, of course difficult to implement, but because it would have so times and get ideas for Mafia. 7. Quite seriously proposes the messed multiplayer portion of the vote. No LAN support. A race against friends is only possible via the Internet and EA's servers. 8. Another shortcoming is the two-way traffic. This system works in conjunction with the "Aufholfunktion" (laid back it is much faster) for a lot of frustration. The driving skill is all too often at the end of secondary importance for the race result (okay, okay, if you can not drive is always last). It is very often confronted shortly before the finish with situations not schaffbar are at my discretion (eg traffic from a side street, or two-way traffic on a hill). So it is partly forced a race to repeat over and over again until stop times no other vehicle appears so that you need a response time of under 0.5 seconds. 9. NO REPLAY FEATURE! Since EA has omitted a feature that is otherwise available in any good racing game. Why are my great race, jumps, dodging or Abdrängmanöver not enjoy in peace after a trip and save it (apart from the fact, thus being able to give their friends ...). 10. No way einzupflegen own music pieces. We hear relatively quickly tired of the music, because the selection of pieces is quite limited. In addition, the music is certainly not everyone's taste, although they admittedly, very good fit to the ambience (see above). After all the criticism, the reader will ask now why the game because then still gets 4 stars. Because it simply still fun and I can not deny that just the motivation even just the next part unlock very, very large. For tuning fans and racing game fans, those Fast and the Furious like after all a must buy. So I have to go now, I will just have a win this race! ;-)
