Posted by Alec Meer on August 18th, 2009.
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Walker lamented a couple of weeks ago that EA were mysteriously promoting Shift, their oh-so-knowingly-named reboot of the horribly tarnished Need For Speed series, by showing almost nothing of the game. In the wake of EA’s press conference at this year’s GamesCom, that’s changed. Now we get to see lots of pretend cars.
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Posted by Jim Rossignol on July 13th, 2009.
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It’s been interesting to watch EA’s ongoing approach with the Need For Speed series over the past few years, and it now seems to be getting rather more complex. The past couple of generations of the series (it’s up to around a dozen games now) had each game delivered with a new “angle”, beyond simply being the next generation in the franchise, with ideas such as career structures, silly plots, realistic damage modeling, or open-world play. The last NFS game I played, Need For Speed Undercover, didn’t really seem to deliver any of these notions convincingly, so it’ll be interesting to see if the two-pronged reboot of Need For Speed: Shift and free racing MMO, Need For Speed: World Online, create something worth paying attention to, and breath new fumes into the series. Continued below…
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Posted by Jim Rossignol on November 4th, 2007.
Share ·Hello you. The demo for the latest Need For Speed game (and I believe that makes it the thirteenth unique Need For Speed game?) is now available, at a data-weight of 795mb. Here it is doing it speedy, waxed-car, wheel-spinning stuff:
It was my intention to pen some demo impressions and discuss whether Need For Speed’s reinvention in the post-GT world has faltered, or continue at its previously commendable pace. Unfortunately, this demo seems to have taken exception to some nuance of my hardware configuration and decided to run at under 10fps, no matter how low I push the settings. So, racing readers – assuming the game works on your PC – is there still a Need For Speed?
