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At first this is hugely disorienting, the car feels like its drifting when in reality it's just your vantage point that's gone all askew. It takes the shaky, bobble-head view from the original game and turns it up a bit, now actively turning the perspective toward the apex of a turn. That means you can, if you like, force everyone to use the improved helmet-cam, which purports to be the most realistic view in all of racing gamedom. However, rest assured that the standard racing events will be there, with the ability to configure what cars will be allowed on what tracks, even filtering what views are allowed by competitors. Unfortunately, we weren't able to sample the game's proper, competitive multiplayer action, which still isn't live as of this writing. Autolog essentially adds some social networking into the mix, letting you send challenges to friends or recommend tracks and events Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and is just one letter short of either a fantastic brand tie-in opportunity or a lawsuit, depending on how you look at it. Wholly new this year is the Autolog functionality, which originated in The digital opponents don't necessarily race realistically and have a tendency to make the same little bobbles in the same places at every lap, but they will still keep you mighty honest, not needing much of an excuse to stick their nose inside in the Gran Turismo technique of bouncing off opponents in the corners to stay on track just won't work here.ĭriver AI is reasonably good, too. Do this and there's a good chance one or the other of you is going to spin. It's incredibly easy to get it wrong and nudge an opponent or, perhaps more commonly, to get nudged by an opponent. When was the last time you drove a race sim that would have your car do a barrel roll and then fly into a million pieces for merely sliding through the gravel sideways?Ĭrash physics are top-notch. Still, there are plenty of ways to get it wrong – to get it GTR, as some of the sharper edges have been filed down a bit for safety's sake.

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That's not to say that this one hasn't been detuned slightly from its days of sending newbies into the wall on the PC in Gran Turismos, genuinely delivering the dynamic sensation that comes from a game with a proper, fully-speced physics engine under the hood. Flip them all off and you have what can only be described as a very realistic feel.

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There is definitely some punishing realism here if you want it, and it's no further away than the toggle switches on all the driver aids. Thankfully, the gameplay feel never will. Based on our experience, they'll lose whatever charm they held long before you're out of the rookie leagues. In fact, he's never far away, giving you some spoken encouragement before every event or laying written words of wisdom across every loading screen.

Your guide through this section, and through much of the game, is Still, not everyone will enjoy the punishment this game can offer, so read on to see whether this is oneĬontinue reading Review: Shift 2 Unleashed.Īs you're working your way through the circuit classes, you'll also get to try your hand at drifting, which is either a rush or a distraction depending on your proclivity for vehicular ballet. Need for Speed game yet, which is perhaps why it's officially shedding that prefix and just billing itself as Ian Bell, sim-racing guru and co-founder of Slightly Mad, said that this game has the 'most advanced physics system ever released.' We're not sure we'd go quite that far, but in testing this one we're quite confident in saying that this is certainly the most realistic Need for Speed: Shift – truly a fresh title and, more importantly, a truly great racer, managing to straddle the console racing and simulation genres and do both admirably well. That developer is Slightly Mad Studios, which has roots to the SimBin team that created the groundbreaking Need for Speed and placing it into the cold,Ĭalculating hands of a simulation developer.

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It was a risky proposition: taking a series as fabled for its antics as Shift 2 Unleashed Review – Click above for high-res image gallery

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