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Need For Speed: Undercover (PC DVD) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 397
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930067410
ASIN: B001FSJEJE
Release Date: November 21, 2008
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 Fun but flawed! January 6, 2009
An improvement on Need for Speed Most Wanted and better than Carbon & Prostreet. Graphics are good as is the sound. Don't know why everyone else is slating the game as it is quite fun and there are loads of varied missions this time. The game slows down occasionally for no reason - my PC and graphics card are quite high spec so there was no reason for this really. Apart from that which is no big deal - an enjoyable game.
Underachiever January 4, 2009
Another year, another NFS. Another middling grade for a mediocre game. From the car handling to the cut-scenes to the world design, everything about Undercover feels half-baked. It would make an OK gift - it's much more accessible than Race Driver Grid, and much less broken than GTA IV, but even the casual non-petrolhead's reaction is likely to be a shrug. There's very little in Undercover to show that the creators even cared much about their game. The cut-scenes have zero drama or wit. The game world is impressively large but lacking in detail or even a few distinctive landmarks. All the cars handle pretty much the same, and once you can buy the Bugatti Veyron the rest of the game is a breeze.
Occasionally the game delivers some exciting moments - the police chases, the highway duels (where you race another car on a crowded motorway), beating the clock on checkpoint races by seconds. The conventional races are still blighted by the AI matching their speed to yours- a seemingly mandatory feature of racing games that removes much of the point - why drive faster and cleaner when the AI will just keep up?
Next year there will probably be another NFS. Maybe EA can take some of their strengths - the excellent car models and sounds, the interface and presentation, close-ups of Christina Milian in a tube top- and add something to suggest they get what actually makes driving cars quickly exciting... 'NFS Busy German Autobahn by Veyron' perhaps?
ummm not sure December 27, 2008
i've never owned need for speed on pc before always went for ps2 but i don't own ps3 at the moment and can't be bothered to buy ps 2. anyway like how the game has gone away from pro street and a little bit more like most wanted. in the sense that it's street racing and free roam. also driving isn't as real but thats the point of a computer game otherwise i'd drive like that all the time. story a little slow but ashame they left out the GPS because u never get to know all the nooks and crannies of a city till u drive round it a few times!
 great game December 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
its a great game, but it runs very slow on my laptop.
i got 2ghz 1gb ram should be ok if i had 2gb ram and 3.4ghz hmmm.
enjoy the game ppl
 Much better as a frisbee. December 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recieved this an unwanted birthday present. Great. So much for boycotting EA due to their attempts to kill the secondhand market, install stuff I don't want on my PC while only telling me about it in the depths of the EULA and only letting em rent games. Thank you EA, may you go bankrupt in this credit crunch.
Anyway, having this game gave me an excuse to pirate it legally. EA have managed to make it so you get a better deal taking their games off the internet and just forgetting about the online aspect, and as emulation is perfectly legal in the UK, it's all good for me. Thank god we don't have the DMCA here.
Now, 3 paragraphs in, for the review.
The main part of the game, the driving, is like trying to steer warm cheese through sludge. The cars feel completely unresponsive, and when you are near or at your top speeds in game then hitting other cars head on is almost impossible to avoid. You tend to lose about 60mph here, and not fling your car into a gratifying physics-fest of twisted metal and explosions. Shame. The damage on the cars is superficial only, but they can still end up pretty crumpled.
The plot is akin to having your ears attacked by a madman with a cheesegrater, and Maggie Q (of Die Hard 4.0 fame) seems to really not care about the plot. This is perfectly acceptable for Red Alert 3, as Red Alert is just meant to be silly. Need for Speed is meant to be about racing, not plot!
There are, surprisingly, some decent aspects of the game. The selection of cars is really good, including the Mclaren F1, the Mercedes Mclaren SLR, the new Nissan GTR, Bugatti Veyron, Pagani Zonda etc. I was hoever dissapointed at the lack of the Aerial Atom. That would have been very fun.
Secondly, the graphics are fine. I'm running this game on an ATI 4870, AMD Athlon X2 6000+ and 6GB of RAM on Vista 64 bit. Absolutely no problems on maximum graphics.
Thirdly, it has a very good soundtrack. It has Pendulum in, enough said.
But these do not save it from being a surpirsingly poor game. The fact the driving is so bad, the main point of a driving game, mena that this is a completely unrecommendable game. Coupled with the SecuRom, this is a waste of 15. Go and buy Need for Speed Most Wanted, it's much better.
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