Well - if you belong to the target group

Shift 2 polarized - I bought it cheap, I for Race Driver in an action: finally back wanted a racing game Grid (first part). I hesitated a long time, because after the reviews "not for beginners".

After 30 hours of play, I can now say: Not for people who want to just drive.

I describe here just once as NFS Shift 2 and I have made friends:
The first two races determine first the difficulty level and then you get money for a racing game seems rather simple car purchase and to contest the first race. This entry-level car drives safely but (with XBox Controller) rather spongy, so my fancy rather goes by ...
So I look on the Internet, what you can do and learn first that the default settings for the controller sensitivity crap and start to play around with it a bit. This process takes some patience, since this is not possible during a race, but only from the main menu. In addition, the parameters are explained not really make sense. Well ...
After some fumbling, it is better (well is different), I win the first race and can afford tuning parts.
If you invest the money first into the handling of the car, it moves slowly acceptable. Extremely accurate, it does not work but somehow, but it starts to be really fun if you really good times takes a curve or improve one's own best time by a few tenths.

The frustration comes then soon with the faster cars, I'm so frustrated felt tens race that I want to put the game aside. Despite all the driving aids I hang permanently in the crash barriers, in the gravel or turn myself after minimal contact with the enemy ...
Fortunately, I decide the next day, but to try it again and slowly I end not on position 5, but on the 2! Hard fought victory taste even sweeter ...
When I realize that you in tuning mode can test drive all the tracks (that says a nobody in the game ...) and that the setting of tire pressure, etc. really brings a lot, I win and sometimes the money arrived for the first fancy cars, which in turn are more difficult to drive.

I am now at 30 hours of play and certainly no gifted racing players - but Shift 2 makes a lot of fun, just because it is sometimes as little indulgent and forgiving: The setup of the car has to be right, the car must match the track and you have the route well know - otherwise it will be difficult to win. Driving too aggressively is also not a good idea - the wiser here (mostly) after.

Unfortunately, it is so, that some races with some cars are almost ridiculously easy (Tip for frustrated: all-wheel drive !!!), are almost impossible to obtain with other contrast. Also, the Drift mode is pretty beginners Unfriendly, not least because the appropriate tutorial is not just well done. In addition, the game crashes but from quite frequently.

Why do I like the game (yet)?
- The presentation is very nice (of sound and graphics about the possible decoration of the cars to the tracks)
- If you win a hard race, it's twice as nice

but the best part:

- The cars are in NFS2 Monster! The fastest carts are real divas: empfindlichst respond to steering movements and are ready to get out of control even at the slightest provocation. It takes patient tuning to reflect on a track and it takes very good route knowledge so as not to miss the permanent braking points.
It feels good to have really mastered the car, not just a fancy go-kart around the corners to throw as many other games ...

Know to drive on the left lane 2m a construction site the uncomfortable feeling on the highway? NFS: Shift 2 is permanently so - only 250 instead of 80th