Need for Speed: ProStreet for Wii Reviews by Gamers

As I strode over to my mailbox, I was greeted by Gamefly with NFS Prostreet for the Wii.
Glee!
I was always a NFS fan, playing almost every new one since porche unleashed on up to hot pursuit, underground 1 & 2, most wanted, and carbon. Now, the first thing one notices about Prostreet is that for the first time 4 generations of NFS, it isn't illegal street racing. I guess how you take it here is how much you liked the old stuff. Although it's great they are finally getting out of the city and the same look shown over and over, but once you play a few tracks, you'll miss the views. The setting takes place on some race tracks out in a desert somewhere. No buildings or other fancy things, just desert, a few gas stations, and some nifty sun effects. But, this can go either way. You can be glad/mad they stopped the inner city racing and mad/glad with the more legal desert road racing.

Customization is back again and allows for simple upgrades to full blown customization in almost every aspect. Nothing big here, most of the same from the last couple NFS.

Now, obviously, the big thing with Wii is the controls. Sadly, they just don't seem to work well. They give you three main options for control assists, where the computer will help a bit on turns and braking. It's nice, but, it still just doesn't seem responsive no matter which way you go. I felt that there was a limit to how far I could turn with the wii mote when I knew i should have been able to turn a bit more like in the previous games. The 'casual' setting, the one that gives the most help, makes the game a lot more playable, but makes one feel like their cheating, and 'king' the 'full experience' feels broken.

There is a 2 player mode that works well, which is expected, but beyond some quick races with friends and the single player race campaign, that's it.

No online.

This is what finally killed the game for me. Playing by myself is nice, but what good is it if I can't show off my awesome ride to the world

If you like racing simple tracks with super cool cars that damaged realistically with nice graphics, then this is your game.

Pro :
- very nice design
- there are cheat codes
- nice cars
- nice customization
- drifting is more fun

Cons :
- Named ProStreet when you only race on TRACKS not REAL STREETS
- boring and/or tiresome minigames
- track design is very limited & its practically useless using many supercars when you accel to its max speed once or twice
- odd controls
- confusing interface (full of graphics and ads)
- Lots of ads in the game, especially during race
- bad & weak (if any) story
- no cops