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Need for Speed: Shift Free Download Unfitgirl EA’s Need for Speed franchise has had its up and downs. Unfortunately, the past few years has been one of those “down” bits, with the last couple games doing nothing to advance the series in any way that you would call good. So, something had to be done, and EA decided to hand off the reins to Slightly Mad Studios, the folks behind the PC racing series GTR, to create Need for Speed Shift. So did the changing of the guard pay off? Oh, yes it did, and in a huge way. There are so many things done right in terms of design that this feels like the freshest take on the “simulation” racing genre in many, many years. I put the word “simulation” in quotes because while Need for Speed Shift is undoubtedly closer to that end of the racing spectrum than, say, Burnout, Slightly Mad made some very smart choices in deciding what would be realistic and what wouldn’t. The result is that the team is essentially giving you a racing experience that is extremely close to the real thing in terms of presentation, while keeping the controls just arcadey enough to allow relative newcomers a much easier entryway into the game than the likes of Gran Turismo. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Let me step back a little bit before delving into the racing experience. NFS Shift returns to the track-based racing of old (and ProStreet) rather than the open-world stuff seen in most of the modern titles. You’ll find mainstays like Laguna Seca, Willow Springs and Nurbergring as the backdrops to your tire burning, and each of these are brought to life excellently. They’re not 100% accurate compared to their real-world counterparts however as Slightly Mad has tweaked the scenery to provide more compelling views in spots that were a little drab, but the course layouts are indeed intact, which is what’s important. Given the course selection in the game (totalling somewhere around the 20 track mark), it’s of little surprise that practically every meter of road in the game is fun to drive. Unlike pretty much every modern day Need for Speed title, there’s zero story involved, and I’m very happy about that. The closest thing you’re going to get to some sort of tale is the voiceover that you’ll hear at the start of the game, telling you that you’ve been given a chance to prove yourself in a BMW M3 around Brands Hatch before winning some cash and choosing your own ride. After that, the voice only returns to explain new events and the like, but never to tell you that the cops are on your tail or that your love interest can introduce you to some jackass in a garage. Nope, this pretty much as pure of a racing game as you can find, and I for one am very thankful for that.

True Driver’s Experience

That’s not to say that the experience is drab. On the contrary, there’s fantastic and somewhat atmospheric music in the menus, a generally slick interface all around and some stylistically edited videos to introduce new events. It’s the sort of stuff that will keep your blood pumping between events without getting in the way. All of that is great, but pales in comparison to what happens when you get behind the wheel of a car. And let me just say that you should get behind the wheel and not race from a third-person camera because the cockpit view is what makes NFS Shift stand out from the extremely competitive racing genre and come into its own. Slightly Mad has created an extraordinarily good cockpit view for the game, one that makes you feel like you’re actually in the seat of a horsepower-bleeding supercar. Rather than remaining static, the view shifts and undulates slightly when the gas or brakes are applied. Sitting at the starting line and revving the engine can rock the vehicle back and forth, and slamming on the brakes to take a tight corner will throw your view forward towards the dashboard. It’s a dynamic camera that moves to impart the inertia and g-forces that you’d feel while racing. Fortunately, it’s not overdone to the point where it’ll make you sick; it’s subtle enough that you know that it’s happening, but may forget about it after a while. But, go into the same view in most any other racer and you’ll realize what you’re missing. Need For Speed 2 Shift Unleashed

Perhaps the coolest bits come when you crash as your view is tossed around, the colors fade out (and then back in as you recover) and your vision blurs. Again, it’s not done to the point that it’ll make you vomit all over your controller, but it does a very good job to let you know that you’ve just totaled a $200,000 automobile. This exceptional cockpit view extends to the game’s sense of speed. When you’re doing 150mph, you know it. When you’re doing 200+mph, you’ll get scared. More than pretty much any other racing game I’ve ever played (and I’ve played a lot), NFS Shift makes you respect speed. When you get into the later races in the game and get behind the wheel of a Zonda R, Bugatti Veyron or CCX, you will actually consider taking your foot (or finger) off the gas in a slight bend because you can feel the car start to get loose. Slight undulations in the road that were previously unfelt will cause your car to lose traction for a split-second, which is enough to send it into the wall. It’s a startling feeling, one that’s rare in racing games and one of the biggest elements that separates real driving from its virtual counterpart. You still don’t get the feeling of fearing for your life, but I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing.

Dynamic Crash Effect

The brilliant part here, and this goes back to what I had mentioned about Slightly Mad doing a fantastic job of deciding which elements of the game to make more realistic vs. arcadey, is that while you’ll feel like you’re out of control, you actually have a lot of control over your car at all times. The game’s driving mechanics are at the same time very forgiving while also rewarding to those who respect speed and each car’s limits. The line between being in or out of control is way closer to your car’s limits than it would be in a more hardcore simulation racer, which allows you to push your rides further than you would otherwise be able to do without needing an excessive amount of skill. But, to get those last few horses to work for you, you’ll still need to really dial in your abilities. So the end result is that it’s easier for newcomers to be able to push their vehicles, but there’s still that element of needing to practice and hone your skills to be very good. Fantastic stuff in this department, to be sure.So the driving mechanics and sense of speed are fantastic, but let me now get into the sound because it is awesome. A lot of other racers have great engine samples, nice crashing effects and so forth, but very, very few actually get the mix of all of this correct. If you’re driving around town in your day-to-day car and brake a little late into a turn or push your tachometer a little high before disengaging the clutch then you might get some nice tire squeals. Those squeals, however, are nothing like what you hear at a track, especially when you’re inside of a supercar. Those squeals sound like the rubber is alive and being torn from the axel while also being burning alive. It’s a raw sound that is not unlike what war in Hell would sound like were it taking place underneath your car, and pretty much no racing game on the market conveys this correctly. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Switch NSP

Need for Speed Shift actually does, and it’s music to the ears. Or, actually it’s extremely grating, but that’s the point. If you have your volume up to the appropriate level (past where the physical dial tries to you let you turn it) then you will get a deafening introduction to what these engines sound like when there are only inches of steel, cloth and/or leather between you and 600+ horsepower in the back seat. I’m sure there will be some people out there who buy this game and think that the sound isn’t as good as their grandmother’s racer, but they’re dead wrong. This is how it should be done. Oh, and as a nice “we want you to hear the cars” nod, the music is turned off by default in races. Thank you.Now, as I previously mentioned, Need for Speed Shift isn’t the most accurate racer around. I have driven a few of the cars in the game and the handling, feeling of weight and all that just isn’t as accurate as what you’ll find in the likes of Forza or Gran Turismo. It’s not bad by any stretch of the meaning, but it isn’t accurate. However, in this case, I don’t care nearly as much as I would in other simulation-slanted racers. The driving experience is so close to the real thing that I can’t bring myself to nit-picking over the finer details of how the Civic Si in the game does not feel like the same car I drive to work every day. The feeling of weight might be off, but if I were to take it up to 150mph at Laguna Seca, I’m pretty damn sure this is exactly what it would look and sound like, which is exactly what Slightly Mad was going after.

Photo-Realistic Cars and Tracks

One area that I didn’t like in terms of the driving mechanics, however, is with the drift events. Here, the physics simulation feels completely different, and punching the gas will cause your car to spin out even at the starting line. Vehicles are set up to be extremely slippery and it’s your job to be careful and caress them through the corners. I found it to be extremely difficult to keep my car in check, often oversteering way, way too much even though I barely had my finger on the gas. I would have greatly preferred to have tackled this the other way around, where you need to work to get your car into a spin and over-rev in order to keep the tail out rather than having the game try to make you spin out and have you fight to keep the car in check. Fortunately, the career mode is set up in such a way that you can skip these without much of an issue. Depending on what kind of racing game you usually play, being thrust into the driver’s seat for a flying lap at the start of Shift’s Career mode might go well, or very badly. Your performance on this lap determines your default difficulty level and handling model, and it’s appropriately named the “Trial of Fire.” There are no opponents to worry about, but getting a handle on Shift’s controls can be a challenge on their own. Like a simulation game, Shift encourages you to brake early for corners, punishes you for straying too far from the racing line, and, at least by default, presents you with a steering setup that’s extremely sensitive. But, like an arcade racer, Shift rewards you for sliding around corners, for “trading paint” with opponents, and even for forcing those same opponents into a spin or off the track. It’s an awkward middle ground that you might never feel comfortable with.

When playing solo, your only options are Quick Race and Career mode. Quick Race lets you set up races, time attack contests, and drifting events on any of 36 different courses with variables that include car class restrictions, the number of opponents and laps, and the time of day. The Career mode amounts to little more than 150-plus of these events, set up as themed competitions between cars of certain classes or from certain countries and then arranged into a tier system that matches the one used for cars. You start out as a tier 1 driver with a tier 1 car, and as you progress you move into tiers 2 through 4 before unlocking the anticlimactic 10-race World Tour, which marks the pinnacle of your career. Oddly, you need to complete only a fraction of the events available to you in order to unlock the World Tour. In fact, if you’re winning races and completing bonus objectives along the way, you can unlock both tier 4 and the World Tour before you’ve even finished everything in tier 2. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

That’s because you progress through Career mode by earning stars, and because the number of stars you’re awarded at the end of each race isn’t just based on where you finish. You earn one to three stars for a finish on the podium, and typically there are two extra stars available for reaching experience point milestones (earned through acts of “precision” or “aggression”), plus one for completing a bonus objective. The bonus objectives are varied and include stuff like mastering every corner, performing a clean lap, reaching a certain speed, or spinning out a number of opponents. These objectives are a neat feature because they encourage you to focus on different aspects of your race craft, and it’s great that you can return to events to try for any stars that you missed.

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