Need for Speed: Shift Comments by Robert Purchese

err.. looks nice?

Let it DIE!

FFS

NO NEED FOR SPEED

@andromeda haha!

And @EA why the renders? This is no ingame footage.

What makes you think this is rendered?

blatantly rendered...

It looks like Project Gotham 4 LOL. But if it's good i'll buy it. Nice to see they finally put in a cockpit view.

Should this say 'First Need for Speed: Shift shot' given that there's only one, and it might well not even be in-game?!

Wow - the PSP really can do some cool visuals!

blatantly rendered...


Er? High resolution and AA, yes, but it's not really looking better than GRID or the other NfS games.

Still the cars look like decorated by teenagers.

Slighty Mad Studios (who are developing this) were Blimey!, who in turn were the original Simbin team that created GTL and GTR2...so this actually sounds quite promising, that or EA are about to ruin the best driving sim creators in the business.

Bet you the PSP version will eventually be dropped.

Thats the Wii version?? or no Wii??

I'm interested..

Hey guys. EA just rang up to defend their Shift screenshot! "That is an untouched screenshot captured from gameplay footage," is what we've been told.

Why does this car's interior look like a handbag?

Why does this car's interior look like a handbag?

Pagani Zonda F...wouldn't say no to one personally!

That first screenie is a nice shot, the Vettes look great.

But I hope EA is smart enough to allow us to turn OFF that obnoxious speed Blur effect (and turn OFF the orangish 'high dynamic range' (HDR) effect) that they built into NFS:MW, NFS:PS, and NFS:UnderCover. CodeMaster's great game GRID had them too, but fortunately players figured out & posted how to modify some xml configuration files to kill blur and restore natural color depth, which makes GRID look even more awesome.

Hopefully the ex-SimBin developers will infuse Shift with the more realistic physics that set GTR2 apart from the arcadish NFS handling. I am finally hopeful a really good simulation will emerge in NFS:Shift.



Edit: Whoa! EA Need for Speed: Shift (& those 2 other 2009 NFS games) are OFFICIALLY announced here today!

It is a render but then everyone does it, it's just a little more obvious with this one.