Need for Speed : Undercover - Page 3

**DJM83** · 21-11-2008, 07:05 PM

Cant wait to buy this game

Daymoe · 21-11-2008, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by 51RTE

Cant wait to buy this game

Believe me, yes you can. $80 can be spent on something else.

Ralliart · 22-11-2008, 08:35 PM

just played it what a pathetic game, the handling is crap, it doesn't have the turning directions like other nfs which sux instead it just hits your car, got off one my mates, i'll delete for sure.

Daymoe · 22-11-2008, 10:13 PM

Heh, another quality EA Games release....

I laughed hard when they said that they cancelled "Tiberium" because it didn't meet EA Games "strict quality standards"... Geez, that game must have been pretty damn crappy than, BIG RIGS must have been better and that is saying something. Judging by NFS, since when ever has EA had "quality standards"?

**DJM83** · 23-11-2008, 04:32 PM

Hmmm maybe not then. Was always a fan of gthe NFS series but guess i wont bother.

LOWBA6 · 23-11-2008, 05:39 PM

I dont plan to spend money on this :P but i might just download it so i can honestly have an opinion of it. :P

Ralliart · 23-11-2008, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by fairmont599

I dont plan to spend money on this :P but i might just download it so i can honestly have an opinion of it. :P

i got off a mate of mine for free least i didn't have to dl it

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Mental · 24-11-2008, 08:59 AM

NFS:Undercover has hit the 50/50 mark with me. It is full of thrills and spills and could have been so, so much more if only for the one colossal deal breaker so ingeniously left sitting on the interchange bench.

As a veteran of the Gaming world, the recipe for making a successful game is ironically both very simple, and very complex. First up you create a tool that people can use, then you place a goal and let'em at it.. Everything that happens along the way is incidental ... and co-incidentally ... is where the FUN is made. Sounds simple doesn't it. I mean, it's not the GOAL in itself that is fun, but the journey to it. After all, if the goal was the point of it all, a game would start at the final crescendo and then in an explosion of fireworks THE END would appear and we would all go home happy. No, it's the middle that brings the fruit, and this is where game developers of late have come unstuck.

As it turns out, the two most anticipated features of Undercover - Police Chases & Open world driving - have been left hanging to dry on what I see as the most monumental F*-up dragged kicking and screaming from one very simple oversight. Fun is drawn from the Incidental Happenings inside a game on the way towards a goal.

So ... They create a fantastic world full of bling and eye candy for you to peruse, stick police in and say "Ok then, have at it!" ... ... Without ever giving it a point.

You see, they didn't put a SINGLE solitary thing to do in the open world of Tri-City. Not one. Unlike NFS:Underground2 where you drove around looking for races to enter, all events in Undercover are accessed from your "GPS". And if your too lazy for that, D-Pad Down will enter you in the "nearest" event. There are no Markers in the world to indicate if your near an event, theres no shops to go find, nothing at all! The world is left completely pointless, save for the cop chases.

And herein lies the F*up, cop chases were incidental! they were never a point unto themselves! They were what happened as you chose to tear around the world looking for things to do. And with the world now so obliviously pointless, so to is ANYTHING you place in it. The whole game can be completed by simply pressing D-Pad Down any time an event is over and returns you to the -world- now hopelessly left to become a pretty moving background for wherever the game happens to dump you after slaughtering your rivals.

Any game that has become a cult hit, has been one with unintended Incidental gameplay value, most people unconsciously call it Replay Value. It is the unpredictability of a world where surprising and unintended consequences occur as a natural by-product of just playing the game. Just as being chased by the cops is an unintended by-product of flying at breakneck speeds to your next race, escaping the cops after landing on an overpass after getting airborn and hitting the windscreen of a police SUV at 300km/h is a byproduct police chases.

So overall, cop chases are left out to dry as an event you can select from your GPS, which funnily enough doesn't have an option to set a destination for you to navigate to ... because there's no need ... and the whole game becomes ProStreet with cops and a pointless world.

That being said, you can have some fun with this game .. unfortunately for me it was only when I got the Bugatti Veyron at the end game.

Velociraptor82 · 24-11-2008, 03:18 PM

Picked up on thursday morning before it was actually placed on the shelves and finished the single player mode last night so it is not terribly hard or long.

no new cars over prostreet (in fact i think there are less) but they seem to think a focus st and escort cosworth are american cars....wtf??

Anyway I thought it is pretty good. story is fairly loose but there doesn't appear to be much more for single player. all you can do is replay the races and missions and there are no alt goals but for the end of the story. haven't tried multiplayer yet.

Still using the prostreet graphic engine and physics so cars handle a little more realisticly than carbon but still fairly arcade-like.

Modding has been slowly decreasing since undergraound 2, now in undercover we can't even lower the car let alone install suicide doors and undercar neons. performance modding is no different to prev where as you just buy the "next level", nothing like street rod.

overall i like it but I've played better Need for speed's. I have still yet to play a game better than nfs1 where the cars each drove significanlty differnet to each other and as such actually felt like you were driving the car. This is the result of track testing the actual cars before creating the game by the Road & Track team. EA will never beat the original because of that.

castek · 28-11-2008, 09:02 AM

yeh i'm not a huge fan of it. i'm playing it with a g25 on the pc, and its pretty hopeless. no force feedback, just some random vibrating. game seems pointless, as said, just TAB and you are in the next race.

only playing it because i'm bored and have nothing better to do

**DJM83** · 28-11-2008, 10:03 AM

Off topic, what is Midnight Club LA like as im want to buy one of the other.

GS608 · 28-11-2008, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by 51RTE

Off topic, what is Midnight Club LA like as im want to buy one of the other.

Not very good, i hired this the other day only played it once for a couple of mins, then ended up taking it back. Game play is terrible, you take off in a bog stock 4cyl and it spins the wheels and makes lots of smoke..NFS Undercover would be better.

Daymoe · 28-11-2008, 10:57 AM

I think if you're after a good car game, Grand Turismo: Prologue on PS3 at the moment, which is a taster for GT5 which is way more serious and would be a car enthusiasts dream, or if you have an Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 2 would be the ideal games for you guys.

NFS:U Isn't even worth downloading.

GS608 · 28-11-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Daymoe

I think if you're after a good car game, Grand Turismo: Prologue on PS3 at the moment, which is a taster for GT5 which is way more serious and would be a car enthusiasts dream, or if you have an Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 2 would be the ideal games for you guys.

NFS:U Isn't even worth downloading.

Forza is crap lol

they really need to make Gran Turismo for 360

Daymoe · 28-11-2008, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by XR-CHIEF

Forza is crap lol

they really need to make Gran Turismo for 360

It probably won't happen, because Grand Turismo and Metal Gear Solid (for example) are trademarks on Sony consoles. It'd be like Halo coming to Playstation.

ORSM-XT · 28-11-2008, 12:19 PM

I went Christmas Shopping to get a game for my sister.

I came home with NFS Undercover for me instead! I'm pretty hapy with it though

Cheerz,

**DJM83** · 28-11-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by XR-CHIEF

Not very good, i hired this the other day only played it once for a couple of mins, then ended up taking it back. Game play is terrible, you take off in a bog stock 4cyl and it spins the wheels and makes lots of smoke..NFS Undercover would be better.

I might hire NFS:U and see how it plays before i hand over the money

Gambit · 28-11-2008, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Daymoe

It probably won't happen, because Grand Turismo and Metal Gear Solid (for example) are trademarks on Sony consoles. It'd be like Halo coming to Playstation.

Metal gear solid was on the original xbox. It's by konami, they just release it on who they want to.

Daymoe · 28-11-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Gambit

Metal gear solid was on the original xbox. It's by konami, they just release it on who they want to.

A release of MGS2: Substance, they didn't get Sons of Liberty that came out a little while earlier on PS2, they got Substance a little while later and its probably the worst xbox port in history, doesn't look any better, framerate issues and the controls are really crappy.

Its known as one of Playstation's games though, if they were interested in porting to other consoles, MGS3 would have been ported to PC and Xbox as well, MGS4 would be impossible to get it to Xbox 360 due to its size and the amount of porting that would be required.