Need for Speed Undercover for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

What the heck happened here? NFS was once a reliable and exciting franchise full of fun races in creative environments with edge of your seat close calls. Sure its better than the last circuit based yawn festival NFS. But the frame rate is choppy, it stutters often with a full stop pause in mid game play. The races are easy and offer almost no challenge what so ever. Earning enough money to buy a decent collection of cars is paltry at best. By by the time I was able to unlock and buy a really cool car the game was almost over. Through out the whole game I was only able to purchase 2 cars and upgrade. Why? Why would the developers only allow enough race reward credits to barely keep up with one car at a time. At least you are gifted a few pink slips during the game, but you cannot sell those cars. Ever! STUPID!
It is nice that the cop chases have returned albeit a little dumber AI than what we're used to, still a nice return. But if you get 3 strikes from being caught (which fortunately is rare) you car is not just impounded, but GONE! Never to be seen again. THAT IS LAME TIMES 10.
Graphics are barely passable and hardly what should be expected with the current gen capabilities. Tuning is OK. There are some RPG elements where your driving attributes are arbitrarily rewarded. But there is no effect at all on how your cars perform at all, so why bother with this non-feature.
NFS undercover was a really good idea to return to what made the series great (Most Wanted) but fails to execute what made that greatness such a joy. Its a decent rental for a weekend at best, but ultimately a waste of time and leaves you feeling like you've been robbed.