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Need for Speed | HD8bit Review

Matt @ HD8bit writes: "Street lights become a blur, your motor hums over sirens from impending police cruisers that grow louder behind you. The turbo spools, and with a quick grab of the e-brake smoke bellows from the tires and you are bouncing on the limiter entering a two lane side street. As you correct the drift, you find yourself inches away from oncoming traffic, but as you pass the final checkpoint and clutch victory, you realize that Need for Speed has a lot of potential... however falls just short of reaching the gear it’s capable of getting to."

Retroman3800d ago (Edited 3800d ago )

NFS is a sham now day's from it's glory day's .
I don't think Andrew Wilson care neither Marcus Nilsson of Ghost games studio . one is the puppet producing a product satisfying the other while one pleasing EA investors .
therefore we die-hard nfs fans SUFFER from half-ass burnout for speed combination /wtf it is for speed syndrome .

thank you Andrew Wilson and Marcus Nilsson for blending and combining Highstakes,Mostwanted,Hotpursu it 2, Underground 2 all in one game . with unwanted alldrive,autolog . with latest garbage "always online" feature to play the game , without being online you can't play the DAMN game .

EA investors you did a excellent job discouraging your main ol skool fan base that support this franchise . hope EA investors lost million for this crapfest reboot .

HD8bit3799d ago

I concur the last several entries (since pro-street IMO), have been on the downslope.

This entry is the best in a decade, in my honest opinion.

If you have yet to play it, I would urge you to try.

It isn't back to its roots, but this is the first entry in a long while that I feel made an upturn back to the right direction.

-Matt@HD8bit

Retroman3799d ago (Edited 3799d ago )

" If you have yet to play it, i would urge you to try.

MattHD8bit

i'll tell you why i have yet to try the reboot yet .
The first 8 NFS (including 3DO version was awesome. 7 nfs on ps1 every title was fun. now ps2 title's rolls around what we get?? HOTPURSUIT 2 of all nfs this title owns ALL rest nfs title's to this date. then came Underground that was fast and furious style racing , i believe all it needed was instant re-play and cops. then came Underground 2 imo it was ok never finished it. then came Carbon some parts was crazy cool but racing down a mountain and drifting same time turned me off from Carbon. then came Pro-sucking streets that alone tell you how bad it was . Mostwanted (Blackbox studio) version was great NFS and Shift 1/2 those were the last NFS i tolerated , now here comes Undercover,The Run, nfs tool kit taken from Blackbox studio offered to crapfest Criterion games what did they do?? in 3 games they destroy nfs image with burnout version of HOTPURSUIT and Mostwanted, Rival . they change the soul or formula of NFS into Burnout for speed. if that was'nt bad enough here comes monster Rival pieces of highstakes,hotpursuit, porsche unleash another all in one game in Rival you and a online buddy suppose to be able to connect and race right??? true if you able to find your friend . then come (Ghost game studio) with the GREATEST lie of them all
nfs will go back to it's "ROOTS" as in old skool style EA Canada / Blackbox studio style racing . instead we get rebooted burnout for speed with "must always be online to start the game" including alldrive,autolog .... for those reasons hd8bit
i did not fall for lie (HYPE) as i did believing Rival was the rebirth of NFS this LAME ass reboot proved my point still (Craptastic)

patsrule3163800d ago

I can't believe they gave it a 3.38. I think it was a 3.37 all the way. I can't figure out what they were thinking!

HD8bit3800d ago

Haha, it was totally a 3.38, 3.37 would have been an undercut!

;)

For what it's worth, our review score is the mathematical equivalent of our 4 review categories - which is why you will see more decimal answers than most sites.

Thanks for making me laugh!

- Matt@HD8bit

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Concern with the Need For Speed saga, EA may have shelved upcoming developments

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GAMERJET328d ago

Fans: Need for Speed Underground 1 + 2 Remake
EA: Why no one buy our live service games???

RaidenBlack328d ago

Bought Codemasters .... absolutely mismanaging them the traditional EA way ...

Red3f1ned327d ago

Oh ea... Your ability to destroy everything you touch will never cease to amaze me. I guess Madden is still going but only because the people that play it are not very intelligent. That, or they're masochists that love getting screwed.

Retroman326d ago

What Ea need to do remake PS1 Highstakes or PS2 Hotpursuit 2 or Underground 1 with Cop's

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Retroman433d ago (Edited 433d ago )

Only game I've seen remotely come CLOSE to NFS Underground is JUICE 2 Hot Import Nights PS3
Customization upgrades.

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How Need for Speed has reinvented itself for 30 years

"Need for Speed has always been too ahead of its time." An in-depth development team interview, covering 30 years of NfS.

gold_drake530d ago

underground 1 and 2 are still the best ones.

isarai528d ago

And they're spent every game after that trying to chase that high and never meeting it

Ninver528d ago

Makes you think if gamers are looking to relive nostalgia or each dev that has attempted to mimic the glory days are just incompetent?

DarXyde528d ago

Truth. Loved Midnight Club.

I wouldn't be mad at another proper Underground or Most Wanted (PS2/X360) entry though.

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Retroman511d ago

Out of 30 years Ea Canada made all PS1 versions they were New and Exciting then Blackbox Studio took over all were Fantastic.
Criterion Games took over Every last title is and was Junk including Unbound.