Review: Need For Speed Undercover - When dodge-'ems take to the streets

Mike Bantick
Saturday, 31 January 2009 08:10

Entertainment

There are also bad-guy take outs and super car heists to deal with throughout the game.  Sometimes these missions are easy and over almost too quickly, sometimes they are diabolically difficult and end in a dodgem-car style police arrest.  Time to hit reload and try again.

NFSU pushes a lot of positive buttons, it is a no-brainer easy to play game that provides fun and fast frolics with speed fantasy.  Graphically NFSU again takes a cue from Midnight Club: Los Angeles in presenting a predominately brown world punctuated with the audacious player car designs.

Sound quality is ok, though the soundtrack is inconsistent, alternating blaring with background.

The final thing to mention with NFSU is the game’s biggest problem, that of frame rate.  And it doesn’t seem to be related –as these things most often are – to simply too much happening on screen.  There can be ten police cars cramming your view without any slow-down issues.

But hitting top speed zooming through the cityscape can result in jumpy vision at the worst of times.  It is not a show-stopper, but it is certainly noticeable.

NFSU continues the tradition of accessible, naughty driving fun.  It is certainly easier than other similar games, meaning that there won’t be too much frustration had along the way. 

6.5  in game billboards out of 10