Simply the best racing game ever made!
First thing is that the graphics are simply amazing,almost as good as in Crysis,& much better than in all the other games.So good,colourful textures ,a great variety of environmental objects on the tracks & superb effect.The GS reviewer must be mad,because the game runs greatly on poorer computers.
The sound is very good indeed.The music ain't that bright (Avenged Sevenfold has the best track),but at least it's better than the horseshyte from Carbon,where everything was poor,except the oriental music in canyons.The announcers are kindda repetitive & will annoy you,but that's the games' biggest sin.
Well no racing on city streets anymore (thank God),no cops;it all gets legal.You race on special tracks,with public,girls,a lot of advertising.They're called racing days.You start with Battle Machine (focused on grip & drag races),only to go trough a lot more,including Rogue Speed (goths-my favorites),japanese tuners,germans,etc.Now,each race day contains races; winning them,or taking an other position (you don't need to be first in every race,as you needed in previous NFS arcade games)brings you points & money.With money you can buy new cars,tune your own & repair them when necessary.With points you can win the race day (& you can select a bonus marker,you know them from Most Wanted & Carbon),or get more & dominate the day,so you get another marker.Yes,you have very cool & realistic damage,you can total your car;you must repair it with money or with repair markers.There are grip races (circuit),drag,drift,time attack(time trial), sector shootout (speed checkpoints),wheelie challenge(a kind of drag where you have to raise your car on the backward wheels as much as you can).The drags are great,you have to heat your tires,launch & shift,& the drifts are finally greatly realised,much better than the bullshyte in Carbon, where you couldn't do anything good at drifts.& about tuning,it's much more complex,& Autosculp again.
What I don't like is how the two girls appear:not real,but virtual:they give starts,stay near the competitor's cars.Even though they are greatly drawn & realised,they're not real.
Even though many arcadists won't like the game,I do,I congratulate EA on a job well done,do something similar next year,& have this:Need for Speed ProStreet is the best racing game ever made!!!