NFS Shift - released yesterday!

[[TEA]DarkMellie]

Woot, Australian retail got to match the American release date instead of the 24th.

And I have to say it's a fantastic game.. what impresses me most is that at great speed the road really starts to have an effect. In all these other sims I now play (rFactor, Live for Speed and arcade-sims like ToCa 3) you never really get the sense of having to fight anything but the car... but in Shift you can very well hit a part of the road wrong and end up in a fence.

While the blurring of the cockpit at speed is very unrealistic, I only noticed it a few races in, it's an incredibly natural effect that really adds to the sense of speed the game delivers.

Here's some of my more excited posts from other forums...

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First thing I gotta do is remove all the HUD ****.

Right, not very sim-like... far too much arseing around corners. But.... OH MY GOD THE SPEED.

The gamespot review is right, you get worried about how fast you're going.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1520-34-41-46.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1520-36-08-36.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1520-36-08-36.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1520-54-21-96.jpg


Shots without any HUD at all. Shame of it is, you can't see how fast you're going nor what revs you're on (although the sound effects do a great job of letting you know that last one).

Here's some high-speed Nordschleise action...

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1521-37-56-74.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1521-36-10-41.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1521-36-19-29.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1521-36-25-30.jpg

Spa.. what a wicked track...

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1521-50-46-07.jpg


BTW: GAME IS HARD. Hotdamn, with the racing line off, zero assists, AI on hard and full damage this is an absolute bastard of a game. Yay!

What an addictive game! I'm level 10 now and forcing myself to think about going to bed. You can earn career points by being a clean driver or by being an aggressive one. Use someone else's car as a brake on a corner, get some points... drive a clean line on a corner or overtake without touching, get some points... depending on which method you favour, you'll receive either hotlap challenges or last man standing challenges.

Just brilliant this game, love it.


Here's me finally winning Laguna Seca on tier 2 after getting smashed out of contention by the AI six goes in a row...

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1600-56-03-85.jpg

Photo Mode uploads directly to the NFS website... how ridiculous to give you this mode and then not allow you to pose your own for your own pleasure. Retards ahoy.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1602-33-48-35.jpg


And just a taste of the lovely menu screens...

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g215/XstrangerdangerX/shift2009-09-1602-42-43-48.jpg

[flattop]

Looking at the posting time you must be struggling getting up this morning!
Thanks for the run down mate.

[Bird]

yep, it seems a very well-done arcade racer.

On the "you don't fight the road" part; the reason might be that in rF and especially in LFS the road surface is flat like it was teflon coated.
Laser scanned tracks might give you a different result, there' s afew in rF, try them.. Altho I don't particularly like either of those sims tyre model too much now...LFS is getting re-modeled if the news are true.

[BJSRacer]

yer noticed it at EB ysterday when I went in to cancel my pre order, as I will/may buy this from CDWOW instead, $50 shipped instead of $99 here :)

as for LFS, never played it, never will...... I have to have RL content, otherwise meh

no point asking how it plays DM, cause u have an OP system :(




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