Need for Speed SHIFT reviews

Nobody can deny that in recent years, we have seen the fall of Need For Speed Games. From Carbon, Prostreet to the dreadful Undercover everyone expected this to fail too.

Well, with a new developer, Slightly Mad Studios-who, under their former name Blimey! Games helped develop GT Legends and GTR 2 together with SimBin Studios, they have managed to get the series back to its roots and give us a more simulation of an experience – with some arcade feel to make an absolutely perfect balance.

Just look at the reviews, IGN gives it 9.0 and said “Possibly the best NFS game we have ever had” and praised almost every aspect – from graphics to outstanding gameplay.

Now, along with Dirt 2, I have another awesome driving game to add to my collection. This is a must buy for any racing fan!

This is a great game. I have just gotten it and i have already clocked up 9 hours playing it. It can really burn up the hours. Driving can be a bit of a challenge as the car are a little twitchy. But as long as you catch them you can really get going. Its awesome to be able to crash into everying or drive nice and get points for both. This is a great game.

I have to say this game is very cool. The sense of speed is amazing, particularly when using the top tier cars on tracks like the Nurburgring. You really get a feeling that the faster you go, the less control you have over the car.

There is a good range of cars to choose from and some in particular can be upgraded further than others.

I think the career mode may be a bit too short though, but that doesn't detract one bit from what is a fantastic game which has brought NFS back from the low depths they suffered with Undercover.

If you're looking for something that's a mix of Arcade and Simulation racing, try this game. You should enjoy it. I do.

This is a great game and I am happy that I got it. It is another realistic game that I would recommend

Need For Speed Shift is the first game i've played that has a real feel to it. Turning corners decreases speed,gravel affects the control of your car and once your car reaches top speeds the enviroment blur's to create a realistic view of the instense speed. A great range of old and new cars to customise and squeeze all the stock out and replace it with a fully loaded performance car.

This blew me away, apart from being able to play it in full HD thanx to a new Tv, of all of them it just finally seems to be a really great game without a hole heap of flaws. The ability to customaise the level of dificulty, handicap and assiadance is awesome to, not seen anything like it in any racing gam thus far. It's almost to like theve taken the best of gran truismo and other car games as weel as the previous N4S games and just made a truly awesome game. Playing online is pretty awesome to.

In short, if you liked any of N4S games or any other racing game for that matter, you'd be nuts not to get this one!!

Wow! I brought this game on day 1 and what a surprise it was!!! When I pre-ordered it is was an impulse decision after reading the reviews it got. This is a surpurb return to what racing games should be: Simulation!!! I played the game through over the weekend and last night finished the carrear mode. The game gets an instant 9/10 for me because of the gameplay, the driving physics, the attention to detial and so on. Must Buy if you own a PS3!!!

NFS Shift is the first game in a new experiment from EA to give a NFS game to different developers. Luckily for EA it has proven straight away to pay off and maybe be a turning point for the series.

After the last 3 to 5 NFS games many will be put off by the NFS name but this is not your usual NFS. Shift is developed by Slightly Mad Studioes who have great racing game experience and they have delivered with this.

The best part of this game is without doubt the camera view which is in the drivers seat. The camera is great as it shows drivers changing gears, It also gives you a feel for the speed at which you are travelling – when you go fast your vision gets slightly blurred, when you brake the car shakes around a bit and when you get hit or hit a wall you have a bit of a black out where the screen goes black and white with blurry views as well. It really makes for a great experience.

The driving itself it simple and arcade like would be the best way to describe it – while it doesnt exactly reflect what it would feel like to steer each car it is good enough and doesnt detract from the game as a whole. The tracks are great and are generally either tracks like Brands Hatch, Laguna Seca or Street type circuits that go around London and Tokyo.

The career mode takes you through a series of races on a tier as you try to beat that tier and rise to the next while competing in invitational events and race tournaments as well. As this happens your driver level will increase which happens thorugh nearly everyhing you do in the race. There are agression and precision points and anything you do, for example if you hit a car, will add to your points total. Once you progress through a level you gain unlockables, invitational events and sponsorship money for upgrades and new cars.

Overall this seems like a huge improvemnt on the feril Undercover and could prove to be the start of a turning point in the NFS Series – we hope anyway

Need for Speed Shift is by far the best game in the series, would recomend it to all.

Unless you have 30 years racing experiance and some sort of Logitech steering wheel, Id steer clear of this game (excuss the pun). I found that the controller configuration is fine, if your hands are on backwards, and that getting your car to stay on the track is more difficult than flapping your arms to fly to the moon. Need for Speed?? More like Need for Aspirin.

Do yourself a favour and just wait for gt5, The graphics are shotty and the game play is sluggish and boring. I think this is proberly the worst nfs title ever.

The trailers made this game look fantastic but i was was wrong..........rent before you buy.

gt prologe knocks this into the weeds and that game came out nearly 2 years ago!!!!

What a fantastic time Need For speed has had. It's gone from boring racing, to upgradable racing, to an almost open world environment… and then back to racing, yet again. <Pro-Street>. While all of these were technically good games, the rather sad truth is that the offering before Shift was possibly the worst full price game I've ever had the misfortune of paying a hundred dollars for. Undercover handled like an arcade game – It was Ridge Racer all over again. They tried, and failed to recapture the brilliance of Carbon, Undercover and Most Wanted.

Shift is a return to the Pro-Street style of Need For Speed. Choose your car, upgrade it, and dive into a race track. No open world, no police, no terribly bad physics, timing or police AI to worry about. The engine which so terribly ruined Undercover has been tossed, and it seems to be a case of Pro-Street 2 as opposed to it's own Need For Speed Game.

Considering how little time this game has spent in development, I don't really expect it to blow any minds. Pro-Street is much cheaper, and it's actually a pretty decent game – And even if Shift is all it's promised to be, it would probably only have a graphical difference over it. If I were to play this game, it would be because I waited until it was a weekly, and hired it from my local video shack. Or until everyone who wants it just because it's the new NFS have made it platinum.

This looks amazing for a nfs game! i have played most of them in the past ( up to pro street........big let down ).

It`ll be interesting to see what the demo is like and see if it will keep me entertained long enough.

I might have to dust off my logitec wheel for this one i think.