Need for Speed Undercover
Game Description
Need for Speed: Undercover is like a "greatest hits" bundle of ideas and concepts that we've seen the franchise fiddle around with since Need for Speed: Underground turned the series on its head five years ago. Undercover revels in street culture, much like both of the Underground games, while placing a greater emphasis on cops and car chases like Need for Speed: Most Wanted. And like Need for Speed: Carbon, it relies massively on a story that's plays out in periodic cut-scenes while constructing on some of the impressive graphics and driving-physics technology built for Need for Speed: ProStreet. On paper it seems like a slam-dunk, but it unhappily falls just a weensy flat in practice.
The vehicle list is impressive, boasting a great menu of 55 cars that includes a large number of relatively achievable desirables like the Audi TT or Mitsubishi Evo X as well as exotics like the Audi R8 and the Bugatti Veyron. The general feel and handling is precisely what we've come to expect from Need for Speed over the last few years; while based on lifelike principles that allow the cars to lean and grip like the real thing, the game's tuned for gameplay rather than realism. If you're familiar with the franchise, you'll be pleased to learn that its "point and squirt" approach is fully intact. Place the car where you want it to go and squeeze the throttle, and all you really need to do to make course adjustments is ease off the throttle briefly. When you get the feel for it, you'll hardly ever do anything more than feather the brakes to get around particularly competitive bends.
As a mashup of Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Undercover is ultimately reasonably successful. For many, though, in a post-Burnout: Paradise world, the question has to be raised: "What does this give me that Paradise doesn't?" The answer to that is "cops and robbers," a mechanic that has worked best in single-player since the days of Hot Pursuit, and works even greater online when played in squads of 4-on-4 in Undercover.
Need for Speed Undercover Multiplayer Information
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Xbox Live
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8 Players
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