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    Need for Speed: Shift

    Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Sep 15, 2009

    The first Need for Speed game developed by Slightly Mad Studios. "Shift" is an attempt at the simulation sub-genre of racing games, promising a sense of speed with new realistic effects and a new crash mechanic.

    rallyf1's Need for Speed: SHIFT (Xbox 360) review

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    Thank God i did not buy this crap.......

    the reason i started playing video games is because of the racing genre. i had my hands on brilliant and not so brilliant racing games. i have played racing games ranging from 1982 Pole Position, to top gear on the NES and  drift out, to more simulator oriented games such as rFactor and live for speed. 
    And i have to say with out any shadow of a doubt that this game is not one of the good ones. i kept on telling myself that the game will get better as i progress, but it never did. i wanted this game to be a good one, i wanted need for speed to come back to it's former glory, i wanted to believe that EA has finally done something right. but guess what, they never did when the started to become a money hording publisher and they will never will. (making bad games WILL catch up to them eventually) 
    this game does not know what it wants to be, is it a sim an arcade or maybe even an advertising billboard, or maybe a combination of all together. if you don't  drive the way the game tells you to you will be in world of pain. you either drive the line and brake and accelerate when it tells you to, or you will witness mind boggling handling that will make wish you never played that game. i have never experienced an under steer while going into  over steer ending with something that i would like to call, and believe me such a thing does not exist but this game came up with it, it is called to the best of my knowledge INNER STEER. instead of the nose of the car pulling outwards like in an under steer it pulls inwards. now you might say that this is an over steer. well over steer will have the back end slide or at least the tires spinning, but not with this one. it's a doozy . such a game should be have  a warning label: HANDLE WITH CARE, HEALTH HAZARD. 

    Other reviews for Need for Speed: SHIFT (Xbox 360)

      Good luck, have fun, race for the podium. 0

      I want to start this off by saying I'm no gear head. I don't go around looking at cars, asking about gearing ratios or turbos, "what kind of shoes does your car have on" or even "what kind of engine you got in there?" Instead, I enjoy racing games because the let me pretend to drive cars I would never get a chance to own, really fast and occasionally say "vroom vroom" to myself. So, going into Need for Speed: SHIFT, I knew I was going to generally be out of my element. The most fun I've had with...

      6 out of 6 found this review helpful.

      Shaft your opposition 0

        I halfway feel bad for underground illegal street racers, for their culture has stagnated in the eyes of the world. After a couple dozen Fast and Furious movies, a couple dozen more bad spinoffs (who remembers “Torque”?) and far too many wave-riding video games with matching trip-hop soundtracks and badly-voiced characters whom wouldn’t know machismo if it bit them in the nuts, (and Nick Hogan’s little jaunt) people are bored with street racing culture. All that money racers spent on chrome-pl...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

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