Level7: With autumn's more realistic proportion, Need for Speed Shift, the series took a big step back towards its former large format. Shift is a very successful attempt to broaden the range of more realistic racing, but the franchise's roots are originally from the more arcade-like racing. Need for Speed Nitro to the Wii is in every way a return to this style of play, but unfortunately not an entirely successful one.
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.
