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Radioactive IT Review: Need For Speed Undercover – When dodge-’ems take to the streets
Radioactive IT Review: Need For Speed Undercover – When dodge-’ems take to the streets | Review: Need For Speed Undercover – When dodge-’ems take to the streets |
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| by Mike Bantick | ||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 31 January 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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Much of the Need For Speed character remains in this iteration, but much of what makes a modern day game is not present. That is not to say that Undercover doesn’t include the fun factor however. The single player story mode is an old school The Fast and The Furious inspired series of FMV cut scenes featuring young things portraying over aggressively spoken males and gratuitously filmed females in a tale of an undercover law enforcement agent (you) trying to bust up a series of smugglers and illegal street racing gangs. Though, by the end of the story you must wonder if the undercover approach was worth the cost in property damage to society. So under this guise you must build reputation and cash amongst the street racing fraternity. This will ingratiate your way with the gangs, gaining trust to climb the ranks and take out the big-guys. NFSU deals out the action at a furious pace; there is no need for downtime in the game if you wish, with the next mission a mere button push away at the conclusion of an earlier one. Loading times are sufferable and the action is soon underway. Racing consists of group sprints, and circuits, checkpoint time trials, and one-on-one duals. Then there the special missions, more on those later. During sprints and circuits the streets become race tracks, with indestructible guide rails replacing once free intersections, thus ensuring the racers remain on course. This does result in a weird effect during these encounters: That being the phenomenon of civilian cars making unexpected (and obviously programmed) turns into and through these temporary, but indestructible barriers. This is somewhat surprising to a street racer about to pass the slow moving traffic, a car turning into a street that isn’t there. There are multiple paths through any single encounter, as well as a smattering of not-so-secret shortcuts through road works and the like. CONTINUED on PAGE 2 |
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