Need For Speed Undercover Comments by Kristan Reed

As expected i guess.

but Undercover is designed for stupid or intolerant people who must win every time.

This is me, in a nutshell.

Although not the stupid part.

edit: Also Undercover is eventually a reasonably decent game, could be worth a look-see...

No surprise here. Since the original Underground this series has only ever been turdtastic.

Nice one EA. Yet another shitty Need for Speed game....

After Edge's 3/10 review, I wasn't expecting EG to warmly recommend it and, sure enough, they haven't.

However, they make it sound like it's mindnumbingly dull for the first ten hours but then becomes almost good after that. The framerate sounds like a killer though, Edge also mentioned that, but then the previous NFS games this generation and even last never had amazing framerates.

One thing I don't like about the game from the videos is how utterly empty and dead the city looks but then I've been playing Midnight Club: L.A. to death and no other racing game has managed to achieve the real world feel that game has, not even Burnout Paradise.

I made the mistake of buying ProStreet on the cheap earlier on this year and while that game wasn't awful, it was the most boring racing game I'd played in years so I'm not even considering buying this game. I'll try the demo though if there is one.

It'll still be xmas number one... just like Mr Blobby.

It's a shame - Most Wanted police chases were incredible and a highlight of the early 360 titles.

NFSLOL

Yes this game is bad, very bad.

First of all PC users got inferior version, even in 1920x1200 it looks worse than Most Wanted, its a joke! how can they charge ppl for a crap like that is beyond me, also lol at all the DLC for PS3 and X360 that cost around the game price wtf

There is no music in free roaming, more free roam is really FREE, there is no traffic at all, its not even funny, and try to play it with your keybord; you can't, why? coz you can't even turn the damn car, at least you can with x360 controller.

Soo if you liked any other NFS game, specially Most Wanted, stay away from this crap, trust me....its not worth its price :) thank god I have a friend who works in a game store....and I can test games, this one failed!

Shame. Looks nice!

Not much of a review , has it got a bad framerate or not . or was the first paragraph just kidding ?? .

Oh and my rig can run Crysis, and I had frame drops with NFS :)

The frame rate is often appalling. Slide show territory at times.

@saku_luk:

We don't want to hear about your piracy. Please go somewhere else, like gamefaqs.

@seasidebaz

Borrowing games from a store is not piracy. In that case all people that work in a store that sell games are pirates.

@muscleblade:

I'm aware of that, but "borrowing" a PC version that requires activation and, as it's EA, probably contains SecuROM, as well as having a DVD-key, means it's more than likely a case of yaharr...

5? that sounds quite harsh given that the tone of the review is generally positive. Knocking it down to 5 for framerate issues and too easy gameplay seems rather extreme o.O

Still, I had high hopes for this returning to Most Wanted form... guess it doesn't. Pity.

Why? 5 is average.

you'd be able to guess this game is shite just by watching the shiter than shite ad on telly...

And all the NFS fans who cried out for the police chases to come back last year, as if that was the game's only problem, are they happy now?

And the moral of the tale is: buy Midnight Club: L.A. instead of NFS: Undercover... if you haven't already. ;)

Remake Hot Pursuit 2 then put the NFS series to rest.

@ Feanor - yeah it is, but the review doesnt really list anything specific being wrong- just the difficulty and framerate problems- and then praises the game for being fun. I dunno, the review text just didnt give me the impression that the game was just average; it sounded a little better than that.

Not that it matters, though.

Pity, I was kind of hoping this would be decent, as after shunning the Need for Speed series after the excellent Porsche Unleashed, I picked up Most Wanted and found that I really enjoyed it. So much so that I bought Carbon, which I thought was a bit of a step backward, and I had learned my lesson by the time Pro Street came out.

Christmas No. 1!!!!!111oneone

"We don't want to hear about your piracy. Please go somewhere else, like gamefaqs."

This is one of the reasons why I prefer to hang arround with UK community rather than PT one. At PT sites (yes, even EG.pt), piracy is tolerated, and to some extents even promoted, in foruns. I hate that crowd. With passion.
You seem to have evolved, generaly.

I wish this had been beter, i rented Midnight Club: L.A. last week and thought it was very good allthough a bit on the hard side. Poor show, i loved most wanted!!!

Shame.

I was hoping it would essentially be Most Wanted 2, in which case I'd have bought it immediately.

"Remake Hot Pursuit 2 then put the NFS series to rest."

Hot Pursuit is a Need for Speed game.

@ UncleLou

I know. It is regarded by many to be the best in the entire NFS series, it's definitely the one I have had the most fun playing. EA should remake it for the PS3/360 giving it some decent high resolution visuals (like RR7), then not make any more NFS games. Ever.

What's with all these racing games being shovelled into an openworld scenario? It worked in Burnout because you were never far from an event and it was always interesting anyway. Besides, you could always Showtime if you get bored.

I've been playing LA Remix on the PSP and it's just tedious having to drive halfway across the map to reach the next event. It's especially crap on a PSP as by the time I've raced to the start of the race, it's time to get off the bus. It sounds like this is the same deal.

It's exactly like having an old fashioned menu from which to pick your next event, only it takes 5 minutes to move between each menu item.

UK Christmas No.1

@ Chufty:

Only it isn't, you just press Down on the d-pad to quick jump to the nearest event, or press Up to enter the GPS and enter any open event from there.

Most painless, no free roaming required!

Agreed that the second half of the review sounded more positive, making the 5/10 score seem overly harsh.

But then what do I know, I'm having too much fun playing the game to care!

don't get the score.
reading the review makes it sound ok, then a 5?

it's like all the review sites are going 'hated carbon, hated prostreet and they sold, if we pan this it might sell a few less'
Had every NFS game since 1 (on the PSone)...this is the first i'm iffy about. might have to rent first 8(

Had every NFS game since 1 (on the PSone)

The first one came out on the 3DO.......

I think the point to stress is that enduring ten hours of unrelenting tedium for the game to get good is simply unacceptable. If you've got the patience and resolve to bother to do that, mentally add one or two marks to the score.

Even then, the dreadful frame rate and stupid handling drag it down.

At worst it's a 3, at a very generous best a 7. 5 is the kind of the fairest mark in the context of all that's good and bad about it.

What? NFS in distinctly underwhelming game? Probably better to get PGR/GT/Burnout/Pure etc? Who'da thought!

@seasidebaz

The 3DO version was superb.

Racing the Diablo driver and the FMV clips when you won or lost, it absolutely pissed on the PS1 version. The cops pulling you over after the third time cocking shotguns as the screen goes black.

I wasted many hours playing this.

I know it came out on 3DO first. i was saying i played it on the PS1. and NFS (original) did appear on PS1
Of ocurse it was better on 3DO, but there were only a hadnful of games on the 3DO, so why bring it up?

Way to go to ruin a game I was going to get

http://reclaimyourgame.com/index.php?opt...

man I hate Sony DADC for developing that ''malware/rootkit/virus'' whatever you want to call it (SecuRom, with Activation limits and other limits just check out this very good website, home= http://reclaimyourgame.com )

Thanks for posting that website link twice; I missed it the first time.

JonJJon I think the link you posted raises a more concerning question than just securom affected games. Why hasnt Eurogamer reviewed World Of Subways: Volume 1 - New York Underground?

Surely in these days of the Wii and endless shallow party games requiring no skill what so ever the Need For Speed series is now almost pretty hardcore.

@MrChallacombe:

It came out 2 years later on the PSX, and therefore I do not class it as "number 1".

Plus, the 3DO version wees all over the PSX version.

The 3DO version was the original and best because it stuck to the basic premise and did it well. You. Fast Car. Cops. Long, long open road with traffic. My brother and I had a 3DO for a few years and all we played was NFS and Fifa. Cost me my A-level grades!

Need for Speed: When Cops Go Deep

Need for Speed has gone to shit. Sad thing is, people seem to buy it anyway so EA will keep throwing sequels at us forever...

at least midnight club is good

Undercover doesn't look too shabby in the GameSpot review but then neither did ProStreet and I know full well how that dreary game turned out. How stupid is it to have an open world game where you don't actually get to drive around? I suppose this was done to disguise how empty and lifeless the game really is... or it is just that Midnight Club: L.A. has spoilt me?

Noooo :(.

Most Wanted was a great, great game. It doesn't get the credit it deserves. Was hoping this would be a return to form.