Good for a couple hours
posted by TimeRacer (YATESVILLE, GA) Dec 29, 2012
Member since Dec 2012
For context, I am primarily a racing game player and have played just about ever racing game available. Including ones previously made by the developer Slightly Mad Studios.
Physics - Not bad. Feel like straight port of the physics from their previous NFS Shift releases. They're not on the level of some of the better racing sims out there, but not awful either.
Graphics - Again, not bad, but not great either. It runs at 30 fps, so it's never going to look as good as Forza or GT5. That being said, it looks better than many other 30fps competitors on the market now.
Gameplay - This is where this title goes from a 7.5 to a 3. As others have said, the career is at times impossibly tough, even for a very experienced online racer such as myself even with the settings on easy. Other times (mainly in the beginning) the AI is so slow and bad it makes the game incredibly easy even on the hardest setting. The game also forces you to go through these events in a pretty linear fashion to unlock tracks and cars for use in other modes. Which will make it all but impossible for most people to ever fully unlock all the content.
Overall - The game is close to being very good, but unfortunately the negatives so far outweigh the positives that it makes the game almost pointless. I really liked the game for the first couple hours, then the career got in the way.
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