As the game is releasing in just a few short days, EA is hoping to make Need for Speed Nitro Wii's own version of Burnout. Set in an ultra arcade-inspired world where rivals don lavishly decked out racers, cops drive blazing fast supercharged Hummer H2's, and where peeling down the streets of Dubai at 170 miles per hour on a double-boost speed high is commonplace, Nitro is looking to uncover new ground on Wii while still appealing to all the casual players out there too.
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.
