Big download (1.3gig or thereabouts).
Starts - graphics meh what the f-, race starts meh wtf, take the first corner and I'm grinning like a loon
Finish race, so-so, go buy a car, then try out drift king
Fantastic fun - racing round the bottom of the Eiffel tower trying to hold & string drift combos together.
It's a strange one.
The front-end/mid-game presentation is very much how I'd imagine the last few NFS games have looked - ladies, drrrrrrrrum & bass and techno, annoying female voiceover, bits telling you about each racer blah blah blah.
The graphics are mediocre at best - the trackside buildings etc look terrible and blur is used heavily along with bonkers overload amounts of light reflection from the windscreen (I was using the default "helmet cam" view in the cockpit - on top of that the framerate was taking a hit on occasion.
Very arcadey and strange handling - the drifting round corners is great but trying to make minor adjustments whilst going in a straight line not so.....
Another one that'll probably sink without a trace like stuntman - Shame then that they appear to have shoehorned some cracking stuff in on the live side (full live career, pink slip racing, history papers for the cars) and there's some kind of DNA evolution thing that I get the impression might be akin to Forza1's DRIVATAR mode.
Worth a look I guess (the demo).
Starts - graphics meh what the f-, race starts meh wtf, take the first corner and I'm grinning like a loon
Finish race, so-so, go buy a car, then try out drift king
Fantastic fun - racing round the bottom of the Eiffel tower trying to hold & string drift combos together.
It's a strange one.
The front-end/mid-game presentation is very much how I'd imagine the last few NFS games have looked - ladies, drrrrrrrrum & bass and techno, annoying female voiceover, bits telling you about each racer blah blah blah.
The graphics are mediocre at best - the trackside buildings etc look terrible and blur is used heavily along with bonkers overload amounts of light reflection from the windscreen (I was using the default "helmet cam" view in the cockpit - on top of that the framerate was taking a hit on occasion.
Very arcadey and strange handling - the drifting round corners is great but trying to make minor adjustments whilst going in a straight line not so.....
Another one that'll probably sink without a trace like stuntman - Shame then that they appear to have shoehorned some cracking stuff in on the live side (full live career, pink slip racing, history papers for the cars) and there's some kind of DNA evolution thing that I get the impression might be akin to Forza1's DRIVATAR mode.
Worth a look I guess (the demo).
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