Summary: I am personally not a Need for Speed fan, but i purchased the game because of the availability of the cars i coincidenatally wanted in one package: The new Nissan GTR, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X, the Audi R8, the Lamborghini Gallardo, the Dodge Viper, the Corvette C6, the Porsche 911 GT2, and the Porsche Carrera GT,. There are other cars in the game's list, but i'm not really sure if you'll be interested.
On the game's "feel"; the car rockets hard and is very easy to control. Hit the brakes hard and the car will still turn as if it were on rails. If you panic brake to make a turn, it will turn and brake "excellently" for you. If you do "need for speed", hit the nitrous for a very long time and the screen blurrs just as it would in the movies, but you will notice that you really aren't moving fast. It just "looks" fast with all the motion blurr and camera shake, as well as the very responsive controls.
What's silly is the AI. The AI cars are too stiff to bump off track, BUT they can when they bump you. The cops will just pop up when the game wants to - i had one game when i was running fast then this cop-car simply popped in front off me, with the car cop being literally dropped from the sky. Whoa! By the way, handling is too biased over the AI's (which i assume would be the only "challenge" you will meet), specially cop cars; they can pull 180's without making hand brake turns, just by seeing their front wheels go left or right and watch the whole car follow a U-line even at speeds up to 300 km/h.
The game will move from level-to-level with drama cuts composed of real live humans (goodbye to the CG rendered actors), they are good looking low profile peeps but the drama per level is quite short. Unlike the old drama cuts, you still get to watch some car action between levels so it keeps the pace of the racing game on. But on NFS undercover, all you see are people talking. You barely even see real cars on the plot, just on the game.
You might think you're working "hard" on the game play, and you would look forward to a dramatic finish, but OH NO! its just a little less than a 3-minute video clip and not even a closing song and credit's screen scrolling on the screen.
Music is quite nice, and now you can also play your own MP3's on the EA TRAX player. - but darn, you can't use this own MP3 of yours for gameplay BGM. What's the point, just play your own MP3 on the PSP's audio player and leave EA trax alone. Geez!
Overall, if your just plain car nut, and is not concerned about the game play, and you want to see the new sports/super cars around, this maybe a choice - but at $39.00 you might think twice and look for another. But I don't know, and so far, I, personally, have not yet found any new racing game that uses the nice cars on their list, except at least for PSP. It would be nice if this game would drop at $19.90 price tag, but not because its a greatest hit, but just because i think it's a simple game and it would be reasonable.
i finished this game in just 24 hours - its just accumulated time, not totally a one-seating-finish-the-game record, but based on the NFS career page.
i just love the cars that they have and how it can be modified (something NFS offers), specially my favorite, the Nissan GTR, and most of all, because the game is available for my PSP.
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