Good and for the racing lovers!

User Rating: 7 | Need for Speed Undercover X360
By HarrisDo | Review Date:
The 12th game in the Need for Speed series is unfortunately not as good as the others. It seems big but it keeps a bad secret. Behind the huge map including 3 states, the encounter with the police cars, and the car's horsepower which is bigger than one hundred stables, it is desparatingly trying to gain your love. It is continously offering you gifts."Take some points"
"Try those new tunning packs", "Why don't you take this car". All would be OK if they had been offered after the introduction.

At first this approach functions well. You think that it is all right if you lose the first 20 races. When every success offers you so much you start thinking like this and you can't find anything bad in the game.But as you go on you see that the free roam map is in relity limited and not a little! And the biggest problem in undercover is that with all the stuff you "gain" the success loses its value. And in a while more problems appear.

The funny thing is that despite the generousity of the game, the new Heroic Driving Engine of Need for Speed is completely the opposite, especially with the framerates. If you speed up a lot the visuals get so bad that you may not be able to see the road in front of you.And it's a pity because the game is good designed.

Then we have the Undercover's bad approach in the player's freedom.The map of the 3 states is huge and amazing. If you complete all the missions you will be able to explore every place. But in comparison with other games(burnout , midnight club) it is much more limited. And this happens because you can't drive free in a race. Undercover limits you to the places that it consider suitable to play and complete the mission.

Fortunately in the getaway missions with the police you are completely free. Nevertheless these events are sometimes limited by stone blocks, etc.

But Undercover is not a WEAK game.There has been a big improvement from the last game(Prostreet). It comes back to the troubles with the "cops" and it is an original NFS game. The game offers a very good experience especially for those who love chalenges.The variety of the cars is vast. It includes "simple" cars like lotus elise to exotic and anbelievable cars like the forbiden Buggati Veyron. The events are revolutionary and sometimes have a combination of objectives. So you don't easily get bored.

As for the multiplayer mode it includes a big variety of events. You can play getaway missions except from single races.There is really a lot of fun!

Now if the game is capable for your game list; the decision is yours!

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    Boring as hell.

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