

The video scenes suggest that all the action takes place in a single night, which makes the weather slightly more believable, but not the time spent, since the missions would take you far more than a single stint in the dark. than in the real thing, apparently, because the streets are always wet. It also rains a lot more in this fictionalized L.A. It feels like an odd choice at first, but I have to admit blazing down the I-5 highway at 200 mph wouldn’t be tremendously realistic during daylight hours. Hopefully you enjoy seeing it in the dark, because this game takes place between dusk and dawn. The marginally fictionalized “Ventura Bay” area of Los Angeles serves as home for Need for Speed, and its layout feels surprisingly real. The damage itself looks semi-realistic: steel crumples like steel, carbon fiber crumples … like steel.

You can fix it up at any time by visiting the garage, which is a menu button away.

Your car’s damage models in real time, adding to the appearance but not affecting much in terms of its handling or speed. I found myself peering at the screen at first, trying to determine whether the video was in fact computer-generated, because of the natural presence of my personalized ride.

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The storyline video is full motion, campy but well-performed by actors with a self-aware smirk, and it integrates graphics (notably, your car) with those videos in an absolutely seamless way. Sometimes it happened when players joined the game sometimes it seemed triggered by nothing at all. Sometimes many cars were with me on the road sometimes I was alone. I did note some framerate stutter at high speeds, but was unable to reliably predict when it might happen. I spent a lot of time at the start just taking screenshots of cool vistas. But they definitely make up one of the most enticing features of this game. You get no cockpit view in this Need for Speed, and it’s always nighttime (more on that in a second), so after a while, the graphics won’t enthrall you as much. In motion, things start to break down, and with all the water and splash effects and windshield damage and whatnot, some parts of the background begin to look blurry. The trees themselves didn’t look too impressive, but their reflections dazzled. In a number of scenes, I stopped to watch the reflection of trees moving in water. While this game doesn’t devote the lavish, overwhelmingly loving attention to car models that Forza does, the combination of car and background frequently stuns - or at least pieces of it do. This means that I have to drop significantly from the evaluation when comparing.Image Credit: Heather Newman What you’ll likeĪll those screenshots and video you’ve seen of Need for Speed so far? They’re real. However, I played this NFS for the first time these days and after the complete completion of newer titles such as Payback and Heat.
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This episode of Need for Speed is just another in a series that you play and forget about.įortunately, the offer of competitions, tracks and rolling stock is very solid. Extremely unsympathetic actors are trying to be something that was supposed to be a story of motoring passion on the edge of the law, but it all turned into a silly advertisement for an energy drink, wrapped in teenage suits and embarrassment. In the film's cutscenes, get ready to face a herd of "friculins" with monkey gestures and convulsive expression. In connection with the young road pirates, I would like to warn you against the peculiar, adolescent, atmosphere that permeates the whole game. It is more like a ghost town, because its inhabitants are only police officers and young road pirates, who supply you with tasks and rewards for their successful performance. It's a pity that under the cover of night racing, the Ghost Games have failed to turn the virtual city of Ventura Bay into a truly vibrant metropolis. When racing under the cover of darkness, a carefree arcade and a love of tuning in the realm of dense guys appear. Atmosphere and style of play, referring to the once successful pair of NFS Underground titles.
