Tech-Gaming writes: "As Excitetruck and Mario Kart Wii have shown, Nintendo's console can deliver an extremely proficient racing game. However, trouble often ensues when third-party developers try to port their graphically-rich titles onto the Wii platform. The three previous attempts to bring the Need for Speed series (Carbon, Pro Street, and Undercover) onto the system have consistently produced middling results. Prudently, Electronic Arts has chosen not to shoehorn its sim-heavy Need for Speed: Shift onto a Wii disk. Most likely, the title's reliance of a processor-intensive physics modeling would have translated awkwardly onto the console. Instead, the recently released Need for Speed: Nitro takes a radically different approach to racing. By keeping things blindingly fast and intuitively simple, the developers have constructed a game that skillfully plays to the console's strengths."
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.
