Good Visuals, Nice effects and sound, as far as driving simulation-not even close!!!

User Rating: 3 | Need for Speed: Shift PC
By Pecone_Penev | Review Date:
The game starts off promising. You see the good graphics and effects,the nice cars and you think-wow they really did a good job. Until, you play it. The game first is not even close to reality-even though they claim it is. The car will swing and slip and you won't be able to put it on the track almost never.
The real challenge begins when you get to the Drift portion. The very first drift with Nissan 370Z is a total disaster. You will never be able to get it to run on the track-this is ridiculous. No car will ever handle like this, especially a sport vehicle.
Then wait until you get to some of what they call invitational events. They are extremely hard due to the fact that the opponents have the ability to fly by you on corners even though the speed is crazy high and you will spin out no matter what.
The other part of the game that really blows is performance. No matter what machine you have you will see significant drop in fps on corners and almost during the whole time on certain tracks. This is unacceptable considering the minimal system requirements. The game has good graphics but come on, I am running Crysis on gamer settings and it runs much better than this.
The main reason I am giving this game score so low is the total letdown on the simulation portion. The game will be extremely frustration due to the fact that you will have to try one track and vehicle 100 times until you get satisfactory results(which is ok if the vehicles actually handled they they are suppose to).
I did play Colin Mcrae Dirt and Grid I have to say they are simulators-this just blows.

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