In addition to the excitement of highway battles will, obviously, be the return of cops, as the game’s name indicates. And these highways are home to the game’s highway battles, a tribute to racing games such as Tokyo Xtreme Racer, and many others. The world is enormous and very well done, boasting 80 miles worth of road, on top of having individual cities separated by highways.

No more is the setting limited to just a nocturnal atmosphere, as Undercover takes place during the daytime, but this time in a city that’s reminiscent of Burnout. This takes away the headache of searching around the city just to find a race, allowing for a more streamlined experience. Choosing a race is as simple as pressing down on the D-pad or manually selecting the event you want to participate in by opening the game’s map. It may not sound important to you, but to me it’s always been the little things in the franchise for the past six years that have kept me coming back to it.įor Undercover, gone is the ProStreet gameplay that pitted cars against each other on closed courses and back comes the open-ended world, albeit with some very user friendly features. So where does NFS come in? Well, I’ll fire up an NFS game and start slapping on a whole bunch of rims to my in-game car, just to get an idea of how the wheels will look like on my actual car. I personally use NFS games as a shopping tool for when I’m looking to make a new wheels purchase. It’s always fun to have so many options to tailor your car specifically to your needs. Take for example the aftermarket component of the series for the past couple of years. The other reason I look forward to NFS games every year is also because they tend to have a pretty wide scope and generally feel epic in certain cases. And now, it’s time for me to tell you about the 12th entry… I’ve owned every single iteration thereafter, and enjoyed almost all of them. Moreover, the very first game I installed for my brand new, top of the line, 155MHZ PC back in 1996. Need for Speed games hold a special place in my heart, you see Need for Speed: SE was the very first racing game, that wasn’t F-Zero or Mario Kart, that I ever got my hands on. Yes, that’s six consecutive years that an NFS game has not failed to launch just around this very time.

Every year for the past six years, the fall lineup of games has graced me with a new Need for Speed title.

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