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Need for Speed: Undercover
Studio : Electronic Arts
by Electronic Arts
Brand : Electronic Arts
Model : 014633153767
Platform : Windows Vista, Windows XP
Release Date : 2008-11-17
Publisher : Electronic Arts
Minimum Age : 12.0 Years
Maximum Age : 20.0 Years
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0014633153767
UPC : 014633153767
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 6 reviews)
List Price : $39.99
Our Price : $29.99
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Go Deep Undercover - Race into an action-packed story of pursuit and betrayal. Take on jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an international crime syndicate
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Highway Battle - Fight off the cops and others as you take down your prey in high-speed, high stake multi-car chases. New and vastly improved AI mechanics mean more aggressive and intelligent cops focused on taking you out fast and by any means necessary
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Own the Open World - Tear across the massive highway system and discover the open world of the Gulf Coast Tri-Cities area, with 3 unique cities connected by an extensive highway system
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Heroic Driving Engine - lets you pull off amazing moves for the ultimate driving edge
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Product Description |
You never thought it would turn out like this - an all-out chase where you're both the hunted and the hunter. Now you must get behind the wheel and risk everything to infiltrate a ruthless international crime syndicate and take them down. The man you're after is a maniac behind the wheel, and he's driving like his life depends on escape, which maybe it does. He's the one with all the answers you need, so track him down. That fleet of police cruisers in your rearview mirror won't make things any easier. It will take all of your experience?and every ounce of skill?to outrun the law, take down the enemy, and unlock the truth that puts an end to this chase once and for all.
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cheap ripoff of most wanted |
EA games has again taken NFS to a new low.this game is a cheesy ripoff
of NFS most wanted right down to the dialog between the dispatcher and the cops.
The much cheaper pursuit breakers.EA games knew what they were doing by
not putting out a demo of this game.If you are a NFS fan like I am you will
be disappointed. |
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WHAT IS REALLY AT WORK UNDER THE COVER |
Yet another EA release which, gameplay and graphics problems aside, suffers from the bundled DRM scheme: SecuROM with Limited Installations.
This is a well known scheme based on a custom-made augmented version of SecuROM 7+, used for over a year now (from BioShock to Mass Effect, Dead Space and Red Alert 3) and it has been proven to offer overall...zero protection from piracy. But, of course, fighting piracy was never amongst its aims.
SecuROM is NOT a Digital Rights Management system but rather a spyware subroutine that unavoidably comes bundled with most major game releases. It borrows into the Root of our systems, masking itself from the System Manager and refuses to be removed - even after one completely uninstalls the game it came with. SecuROM is indeed used as a cloaked dataminer, gathering information on the system and its user's activities and sending them to its mothership. It is the method the industry's behemoths chose to pave the way for their coveted Pay-per-Play future.
Turning our own PCs into their...insatiable coiners is what the gaming executives are having wet dreams about. Games that we will have to keep paying for again and again.
And that is where the idea of Limited Activations comes ins: not only it nullifies the value of a game once bought, killing the second-hand market overnight, but it also familiarizes gamers to the idea of having to buy the same game over and over in order to keep playing it.
NEED FOR SPEED was a series I loved in the past and would love to keep playing in the future once the DRM idiocies get resolved. But not at this price.
Some people are indifferent to these issues - and I respect that. In a free market voting with one's wallet is the most effective expression of opinion - and everyone is free to cast his vote in whichever direction he seems fit. My experience though taught me that most gamers would like, at least, to make well informed decisions.
And who would not want its customers well informed? |
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Graphics are Superb and Maggie Q what can I say? |
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My rig can play up to 2500 x 1600 and everything turned up 6xAA/aniso. Cars have even better detail than Prostreet. Maggie Q alone sells this title. Upgrades are quick and moving from event to event is seamless. My only complaint is the warm tone of the video. |
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Fun, decent graphics, too easy so far |
I think this game has gotten the short end of the stick in the reviews, if you want a street racing game that's fun then get this, if you are looking for something else move on. The action is pretty fun with the standard methods to convey speed such as blur, camera pullback and sounds, it's been a while since I've played an NFS, like PS2 days years ago but this seems a good addition to the series. I'd say out of 10 it's a 7.5.
I get the sense that if you have a recent NFS game then this will just be an incremental change and not worth it, kinda like if you have FIFA 08 you wouldn't think 09 was too different, perhaps a let down even. If you enjoyed recent games like GRID or racing games in general you'll like this, but like most games though it's not a full retail price buy. In my opinion this series has never been as entertaining or as graphically amazing as the Burnout series.
The story is pretty standard but what do you want, it's about the gameplay and it works for the most part. The car graphics are great, understandably the environmental graphics are not top notch but it's not really necessary when you spend most of your time going fast anyways. The cutscenes are cheesy but there are pretty nice people to look at if you get what I mean, they are not too long or drawn out either.
I use a logitech rumblepad and had no problem using it, I just reassigned the keys and that was it, I do get vibration feedback as well.
One thing I wish there was more of was jumps, they are few and far between so far. Another thing they could have done is include more neighborhood and tricky street layouts, it seems you are always on some perfect for racing freeway and that makes it really way too easy to both get away and win the races. Surface streets are rarely in good shape or fine tuned for high speeds and that would make it more interesting and challenging. Another thing is the sparse traffic, in such a metro area you would have the occasional traffic jam to go around and many more street lights with lots of traffic, I don't see much of that here.
The police are really weak here as well, I have had no trouble hitting them and then outrunning 2 or more of them. They don't seem very persistent and I have not seen any police birds either so far which is pretty normal and should be included. Where are the roadblocks or strips? While you are driving you can hear the police radio and it sounds pretty natural and real adding to the experience. There seems to be not enough destructible things in this game and I didn't really think the damage modeling was anything special. I want to see my car get hammered with things flying off and smoke and whatnot as well as the other cars but that is pretty limited here.
There is a good variety of available cars that look very much like the real world ones, I'm not too far into the game but hopefully there will be options you can add like paint jobs, rims and so on. Another not so good thing is that you are constantly having an available race "tab" button on screen, if I want to do the race I'll let you know but it is in your face at all times until you finally just do the race, so much for exploration for it's own sake. They could have put it in a smaller icon on the side of the screen somewhere where it doesn't get in the way. I have not seen any weather effects yet, so far all sunny and perfect and hopefully we will get rain/wind or night racing.
The sound is average, with the typical "racing music" as default and it all does a pretty good job of making you feel like you are out of control, sometimes it makes me a bit too amped so I turn the music off or down.
Again it's recommended if you want a police/street racer and don't have too high expectations, it's a pretty standard entry with no huge advances but no hugh flaws either. I wouldn't recommend buying it at full price though, wait till it comes down, somewhere in the thirties or less. |
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What a letdown! |
I was all excited that finally EA would return to the glory days of Most Wanted: police chases, open world driving, huge map, awesome graphics, great soundtrack...etc. NOT!
There is a reason this game is only [...] brand new (PC). It is a rip-off. This game is basically taking the Pro-Street driving engine, which stunk, and trying to merge it with a storyline similar to Most Wanted. In the end you get: lame, boring police chases, terrible-blurry-nausea-inducing graphics, extremely sensitive and unrealistic driving mechanics, a sound track that you disable within 5 minutes and another [...] bucks tossed into the dustbin.
Thanks for nothing, EA! I don't know who is making your product/marketing/producing decisions but they should be looking for a job after this 5 year demise of a great franchise. Only EA can thoroughly ruin something so fun and entertaining.
Sigh... I guess I'll have to play through Most Wanted for the umpteenth time. |
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