Weak NFS titles with good approaches

I was initially impressed by the trailer for the game and as a fan of racing games and a fan of the Need for Speed ​​series since 1995. I saw the release of the newest part of last year against curious. The title Undergound, Underground 2 and Most Wanted I devoured in nightlong gamers sessions, while I was rather disappointed with the last part of "Carbon". Is given to Most Wanted as an absolute benchmark for NFS games.

So now Pro Street? To release the title had me uro 70 is just too much money for a game that was more panned than praised in the trade press. Thus, the euphoria faded quickly. Now there for some time Platinum games for PS3. Supposedly only top sellers are indeed included in the Platinum series ... well, let's leave so stand. In a spontaneous purchase reaction then I slammed.

First of all: The Platinums not differ as with PS1 and PS2 of the "Original Play". The first time you insert the game, this updated to version 1.30.

- Action -
In NFS Underground and Undergound 2 dealt with street racing underground in the middle of the illegality. Normal cars could be beefed up in the style of the scene and the scene was a city at night, could be moved to the predetermined routes. The game celebrated Huge success because the optical pimp the cars, the soundtrack and the high-speed graphics with a bit of gasoline pulled every young adults in the blood under his spell. In Underground 2, the city was to enable vehicles and the range of tuning objects violently!
In Most Wanted, the action moved to light. The pimp the cars has been restricted, the action took ran focus illegality. The criminal of the players went, the better. In my opinion, the strongest part of NFS.

Carbon tried to build on the success of Underground, by playing again at night. There were introduced contents of teamplay and autosculpt. With autosculpt can manually deform individual body parts in fixed frame and thus make specially. Unfortunately, tied the game no longer so great as its predecessor.

In Pro Street we leave the public roads and driving on closed roads as part of events on race tracks and airfields. There will be race days to complete and the player must be a reputation with sponsors learn - how could it be otherwise - to challenge a aroganten master of his craft, who does not trust the least the players at the end and hopefully be beaten.

- Gameplay -
The story starts as it were flying with a vorgetunten car at a racing event. You buy cars at auto dealers, they are the stronger, will be released during the course of play. There are over 50 cars such as Golf IV GTI, R32, BMW Z4 Coupe, M3 E46 and E93, Porsche Cayman, 911, muscle cars, etc ... When you purchase a car does one determine whether the car a drag-racing car , a high-speed race car or a car for normal race. The selection can not be changed and influenced the modification possibilities of the car. For a racing event one takes for each race category a car zusätlich to a replacement car with. By racing success earns you money on new content free and opens up the way for new races - so as NFS usual. But the biggest news is the damage model. Damaged Cars affect on driving behavior and must be repaired with money or repair coupons. So as with the one or other NFS Underground parts before. A total loss still attracts far-reaching consequences.
Cars are tunebar as one already knows from its predecessors. However, the developers were trying to specialize more on this imperfect casual look, graffiti style, camoflage, here n Farbklecks because you an airbrush ... the screenshots tell everything

- Conclusion -
I paid for the game kanpp 30. I am not sure whether it was worth. In any case, I would have regretted it if I had paid at the time more than 60 for the 1st edition.
Graphically I find that even the game GTA IV better car graphics and driving scenes riff, although it is not a racing game. The game goes verlorren quickly because just nothing exciting happens. I also find it rather boring to drive around with a pimped Honda Civic on a closed track. There are titles such as Gran Turismo, the inszinieren "real racing" with flying colors, the full 5 stars deserved.

I am sure that this game is collecting dust in 3-4 weeks on the shelf, as already NFS Carbon. The game gives the impression as if it were enforced for the PS3 has been developed - the main thing is you have just one a title on the market, which was already developed for the next-gen consoles (for info: NFS Carbon is also available for the PS3 but these are more of a PS3 adaptation of a PS2 game, so no noticeable generational leap).

Apparently EA has however recognized the signs and offers NFS Undercover soon a title that once again strongly reminiscent of NFS Most Wanted. Are we excited .... :-)