Quick Look: Need for Speed: SHIFT

Poor Ryan, all those hard words. ;_;
 
I'm mildly interested after this quick look to be honest, which is more than I was before. Never really been a racing kind of guy.

I'll stick with GRID I think.

Drew should have played this in the cockpit view...
 
Also I wanted to see a car get completely smashed... :P

I typically don't get very far in racing games but this looks like something I want to try. I probably won't pay full price for it though.

This looks pretty cool but I'm only getting one racing game this year...Forza 3!!!

Drew should have been driving and the load times are horrific.

This looks good but the FPS stutter is distracting.

Why the fuck have they made this. Need for Speed has survived all these years by staying arcadey for the most part. Why make a more average mix of Grid and Forza? 
 
This doesnt apeal to me at all.

Thought about that floppy disk save icon-thing for a long time. It started when my sister asked what the icon in Photoshop meant :P 

eh i dont blame Ryan i dont drive in cockpit either lol...but yeah ill prolly play it safe and gamefly this

Ryan, please hand the controller to someone who can drive and shoot the video again.
Thanks.
 
Drew, can you manage a brake button as well as steering and mashing the accelerate button? Great, you'll do :)

Steering assist? 
 
Sheesh...

Looks okay, I took a gamble and got Dirt2 and I have to say probably the best racing game I've played, but I don't play many, I played burnout, and I want a more serious one, but I think I'll wait to how Forza turns out, no doubt it'll be cool though.

" @Tikicobra: If you check and see who has first post and have been keeping count, then it's probably you who has no life. "

Ryan's got the exact same approach to racing games as me. So it's pretty clear, this ain't my type of racer.

Shift plays like Shit sorry ea maybe next time =[

I dont see why you'd pick this game over forza 3. Ryan even mentioned Forza's locked in 60FPS compared to Shift's less stable FPS

Not a bad looking game.

looks alright.

This actually looks like a nice balance between the old Need for Speed arcade style, and the simulators that those racing nuts love ;) In terms of graphics, it looks so much better than any of the other racers.  If you really want 60FPS, buy this on the PC and get yourself a good computer.
 
On that note, I think I may look into picking this up. Good quick look =)

I like how the game looks, but there really are better races out there. I also hate the menus, very poor imo.

needed more cockpit view in this quick look since they keep hyping that feature.

A comment on the video: Even though I know this is supposed to be a "Quick Look", I think the person who is playing the game should have a good knowledge of the game prior to producing the video. This is not the case for all of these quick looks but in this video Ryan didn't seem to know some of the facts that I think he should know. Obviously if giantbomb wants these videos to just be a look at some gameplay then they are spot on. I would prefer that it was more of a preview style video.

Looks nice.

I REALLY like this game. While not as good as Forza 3, it's still freakin awesome ;)

Criterion bringing the heat in 2010

Forza 1 introduced the dynamic racing line....

I just registered to say these guys aren't  playing from the cockpit view.  How are you people in the gaming industry and dont know thats the way to play this game??  They are doing this game a dis justice.  The game has already gotten 90% from its first two reviews.  Listenup podcast today stated the game is amazing on all fronts Graphics, Gameplay and sound.   Do not make clueless comments like its another PGR game.  Its not ive played it and it blew away forza 3 at PAX.  IMHO