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Need For Speed Shift

So I looked on the futureshop website today and found that they have the pc version listed at $69.99 which is the same as ps3/xbox but for the 22nd which is next week.

Im hoping ebgames has it here for tomorrow and at 49.99 or 59.99. $70s quite a bit to pay for pc. i blame activision for this and their mw2 price.

If it aint there ill prob just get it on ps3.
 
Is this the Need For Speed that will bring the series back on track or will it bring it to a new track that doesn't suck?
 
A Cheese Danish said:
That is just plain ridiculous! I didn't even pay anywhere near that for Crysis Special Edition...:shadedshu
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Thats $59.99 in US. Canada always gets $10 more. meanwhile in exchange its probably $4 at most.
 
Full price is £30 in the UK, not bad at all. Pre-order price is £25
 
If it will be good i will probably buy it.But firstly i need to finish GRID
 
Two questions:

1. Does it get back to the roots, or at least is it at Most Wanted level
2. Can you drive a Subaru Impreza :P
 
MRCL said:
Two questions:

1. Does it get back to the roots, or at least is it at Most Wanted level
2. Can you drive a Subaru Impreza :P
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There is a car list out. http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=9872

It is in there.

I didnt play the originals way back so not sure what those were. This is a racing sim with some arcade stuff in it. Real tracks this time around. It's been made by the gtr guys. IGN has a good video review on it.
 
Hybrid_theory said:
There is a car list out. http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=9872

It is in there.

I didnt play the originals way back so not sure what those were. This is a racing sim with some arcade stuff in it. Real tracks this time around. It's been made by the gtr guys. IGN has a good video review on it.
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Nice. Its always nice to drive a car you have irl in virtual reality lol.
With back to the roots I mean: Did they chose th path fun&driving > graphics, or did they made a damn good looking, but horrible to control game. Can't really check out reviews right now, because nearly all gaming sites are blocked by content filter:rolleyes:
 
MRCL said:
Nice. Its always nice to drive a car you have irl in virtual reality lol.
With back to the roots I mean: Did they chose th path fun&driving > graphics, or did they made a damn good looking, but horrible to control game. Can't really check out reviews right now, because nearly all gaming sites are blocked by content filter:rolleyes:
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It is very nice looking indeed. As said earlier in this thread. They said highest realism settings will require a wheel. IGN did say controls could be better but they still said it was nice.

BTW damn you for owning a nice car. wish i had a car lol
 
From everything I've read the driving is good, from gamepad to wheel for the hardest settings. The physics model is by the GTR guys and is supposed to be more accurate than GTR 2, but you can have driver aids such as traction control and ABS brakes to make it easier. The easier modes will have more grip too. It depends on whether you prefer GRID to GTR 2 I suppose.
 
Hybrid_theory said:
It is very nice looking indeed. As said earlier in this thread. They said highest realism settings will require a wheel. IGN did say controls could be better but they still said it was nice.

BTW damn you for owning a nice car. wish i had a car lol
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I have a wheel, wheels are fun! Well as long as they didn't fuck it up like Pro Street (I played half an hour, and I enjoyed NO second of it, and the moderator guy was annoying) I'll check it out.

Hey I have worked for that car:p

mikek75 said:
From everything I've read the driving is good, from gamepad to wheel for the hardest settings. The physics model is by the GTR guys and is supposed to be more accurate than GTR 2, but you can have driver aids such as traction control and ABS brakes to make it easier. The easier modes will have more grip too. It depends on whether you prefer GRID to GTR 2 I suppose.
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I prefer laying in easy or normal modes. I get frustrated rather easily with racing games...
 
MRCL said:
I have a wheel, wheels are fun! Well as long as they didn't fuck it up like Pro Street (I played half an hour, and I enjoyed NO second of it, and the moderator guy was annoying) I'll check it out.

Hey I have worked for that car:p
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I started playing pro street again like a month ago. just used my xbox controller and it was fine. I know my bro has used a wheel with that and most wanted and had a lot of trouble. so i dont bother.
 
Hybrid_theory said:
I started playing pro street again like a month ago. just used my xbox controller and it was fine. I know my bro has used a wheel with that and most wanted and had a lot of trouble. so i dont bother.
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I'll et it for PS3 anyway, and analog sticks are fine, too.
 
From a developer interview I read the physics modelling is closer to real life in that tyres grip/slip/grip rather than GTR 2 like feeling like your on ice. IF its like that then it should be good. I can't play GRID anymore since I got my wheel as it just feels so far removed from real driving. GTR2 on the other hand is bloody hard, but is really satisfying when you get it right. I'm hoping Shift gives more of that but with GRID style visuals.
 
Wheel support is meh for pc. the force feedback is really good. i set it all to 100% in my logitech profiler. But the steering needs improvement. I've set my degrees to 900 and 720 and it feels like you need to crank about 90 degrees to get the car to turn.

My brother's way of describing it when i said this to him was it doesnt scale well with the speed of the car.

I will email EA and see what they say. Maybe there's a way to improve this.
 
I can't wait to get my hands on Shift...been looking forward to a decent NFS title for a long time now.

Reg the wheel/controller setup, I played GriD for a while with my Logitech Momo FF wheel, and recently I started playing it with the Xbox controller for PC; I prefer the controller actually. The wheel is not smooth enough in the turns (it doesn't use cables but an internal gear/cog system I think) and definitely not as quick as the controller. Especially on the tighter tracks like San Francisco and Shibuya, the controller allows quick (and unrealistic :laugh: ) directional changes.
 
Did one lap before i had to leave for school on the xbox controller. its nice otherwise. need to get used to that as well.
 
MRCL said:
Two questions:

1. Does it get back to the roots, or at least is it at Most Wanted level
2. Can you drive a Subaru Impreza :P
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1. Well....its track racing again so its very different from Most Wanted...but trust me, its great ;)
2. Yesssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!
 
can you upgrade a RX-7 to a point where you can race cars in tier 4?? like the lambo reventons etc etc?? so basiclly..upgrade the Rx-7 which is a tier 2 to a tier 4 stats
 
One thing that is angering me right now.

After doing a race the menu calibration is retarded. it thinks im holding my joystick constantly up. and doesnt fix untill i restart the game. grrrr:banghead:

Edit: I fixed this. brother asked if my wheel was still plugged in. it caused the issue. weird only after a race.
 
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It's basically ProStreet without the anouncer. Frankly, I'm unimpressed. Casual mode was just plain stupid. Pro is barely playable without a manual transmission. Normal was just plain cheesy. I didn't try experienced. Still can't brake and steer without losing control. The two cars I drove (BMW M3 and Mazda RX-8) act like they burn out in third gear from a coast.

Need for Speed has always been about arcade. They make it a simulator and the "fun" vacuum takes hold. I think this one gets filed close to Carbon.
 
FordGT90Concept said:
It's basically ProStreet without the anouncer. Frankly, I'm unimpressed. Casual mode was just plain stupid. Pro is barely playable without a manual transmission. Normal was just plain cheesy. I didn't try experienced. Still can't brake and steer without losing control. The two cars I drove (BMW M3 and Mazda RX-8) act like they burn out in third gear from a coast.

Need for Speed has always been about arcade. They make it a simulator and the "fun" vacuum takes hold. I think this one gets filed close to Carbon.
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What are you using to play
 
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