EA's long-running Need for Speed racing series has a new strategy with its upcoming Nitro -- focus on making games tailored to each platform's hardware and audience rather than forcing one mulitplatform game on everything. For Nitro on the Wii, its a design built around arcade-style racing, a visual style that compliments the hardware's capabilities, and controls that are simple enough to allow anyone to play.
SPC writes, "Sunday is this week's kickoff of SuperPhillip Central content, and with it we see a retro review. The announcement of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch saw the site developing a vested interest in arcade racing games. Last week, we took a look at Pac-Man World Rally, a kart racer. Now, we look at a different kind of racer with this retro review of the Wii version of Need for Speed: Nitro."
Is Need For Speed: NItro-X as good as the Wii version of the game? Not quite, but it's still cheap racing fun.
Had Nitro been given online capabilities the score would have been higher just on merit. But the lack of it, coupled with the "meh" presentation and production values makes this Need for Speed a hot rod with nothing impressive under the hood.
