Super racing game with great quirks

The vehicles:
Once again offers Need for Speed ​​a gigantic fleet of all dream car offering (apart from Ferrari) have the rank and name. From "small" muscle cars like the Chevrolet Camaro SS to the new Koenigsegg Agera. So if only a little is on cars is drooling sit here in front of the monitor. But there is also a problem: will the car "only" unlocked and thus there is no binding as in the previous parts, apart that some events vehicles are prescribed. Also the tuning is ... well, not yet. You can change the colors and it was very bad!

The race modes:
I go here explicitly to the singleplayer one because I do not have XBox Live to play online. But let's get started: there is the usual normal race from point A to point B and not Rundkurste what I find personally super. Then exisitert same modes but with the difference that a police tracked. After that, however, is not much more other than time trial (the part over bock are difficult), duels and a kind of time trial with police in the back ...
On side of the cops there are also time trial but Rempler be very punished, what is incomprehensible and unfair one. Because often you can not dodge the traffic and when doing this so touched to a plank and gets a loss of time, more on that in terms of driveability. After Interceptors follow where you follow a single vehicle and Hot Pursuits where you have to stop several vehicles: a lot of fun and the best in the game in my opinion.

AI:
Opponents are in this game, both a chess site and partly ingenious. Like mine? On the one hand, the boys are beautiful aggressive and not stupid by far, so the races are always exciting. But the opponents are scripted, means you can easily catch up (even after crashes, which is very fair), but they are difficult to overtake and never depend. In itself, this is very exciting and also very often, so the adrenaline is pumping to the finish. But there is also frustration potential, because you can drive perfectly and then still lose, simply because the AI ​​is cheating ... not nice. And this is seldom justified logically, so can be in a race always in front a small Porsche ever, where he happened to much less error makes than the rest, although the performance of the own vehicle are far above his own.

The Weapons:
If you play the racer so you can improve your luck in the Hot Pursuit events somewhat by inserting spike strips, EMP, Turbo and jammers. The former are self-describing, second option you have to aim and can thus damage the opponents easily and slow (with luck). Jammers are good if a cop just directed those EMP on one, it also exposes all units of the police, the map! The Turbo, however, is nothing more than a set Patched nitro; yet practical.
The cops have the same weapons except the jammer and the Turbo, instead comes a Heli of spike strips and roadblocks throws into play.

The ride:
First of all: it makes you feel good, especially as it is ingenious, the drifting was built ... super! But more than a lot of potential was presented by the spongy control. Until the car, the steering movements takes may take up to one second (!). Sounds by itself is not bad, but thanks to the oncoming traffic is a best time for pure gambling. If you want to escape, you end up on a plank. Coincidentally 2 cars on the private and 2 on the opposite lane? Lost, for precise navigation is only possible when you see the cars long before. If you come from a curve: Tough luck. Is it uphill and it follows a crest: Tough luck. This makes a lot of races to pure gambling what the otherwise high degree of difficulty again extremely high driving does not have to be. Assuming then especially on the Cop-time race in which one may touch a car and no curbs one, so one can imagine: soaked one car out, you end up on the plank, and vice versa (although it must be said in fairness, the times are a little humane than the racers). All in all, it's still fun, but the luck factor is often just annoying when you lose close to the finish by an unfair position the car.

The Career:
Here one finds unfortunately only standards because more work through the race there is not. Okay you on stage free and new cars, but it was unfortunately already. On the plus side the diversified large game world offers many scenarios.

Sound / look:
The graphics are great and you can not complain really. The cars are amazing and then the sound it ... a treat for the ears. The only drawback with the console versions: the low resolution which it partly even harder making vehicles in the distance to spot.

Pro Contra:
+ Pure adrenaline
+ Many exotic vehicles: dream for car lovers
+ Fun game play
+ Super Cop race
+ Brilliant drift behavior
+ Level up
+ Large, varied game world
+ Sound
+ Optics
+ Demanding

-but also frustrating
CI cheating
-schwammige control
-Zufallsfaktor
-no Tuning
-Career

Conclusion:
Super Arcade Racer for advanced (beginners: Stay away!) With certain Frustrestistenz who do not need tuning and feel behind luxury cars with the big pepper adrenaline well.
4/5 stars but the fun outweighs!