Need
for Speed Undercover returns to its roots with hokey cut scenes, wild cop
chases, and solid racing action.
The Need for Speed series
got another dose of Hollywood magic with the release of Undercover. Take on
jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an
international crime syndicate this game upload by thejinnni..blogspot.
As you win each race,
you’ll go deeper into the underworld web that rules Tri-City and then tear it
apart right under their noses. You make the calls, but don’t break your cover:
inside the car or out of it, one mistake here could be your last.
For the most part, the
reaction to the last few Need for Speed games was the same: "Why aren't
they more like Need for Speed Most Wanted?" "Where are the cheesy
cutscenes and the over the top cop chases?" It seems as if EA heard those
cries, because for better or for worse, Need for Speed Undercover feels like
Most Wanted.
In Undercover you play the
role of wait for it an undercover officer. Along with agent Chase Linh, played
by the attractive Maggie Q, your job is to take down a group of street racers
that have somehow become involved in an international smuggling ring. The story
is told via campy cutscenes that fail to capture the charm of Most Wanted
thanks to uninteresting characters and a predictable plot. Having a story
provides incentive to make it through race after race, but the whole "this
is cheesy so it's cool" thing feels kind of forced this time around.
It won't be easy we'll have
to use our powers of acting to take down the street racers.
Like many other Need for
Speed games, all of your racing will take place on the streets of a fictitious
open world city here it's the Tri City Bay area. You'll start with a lousy
vehicle, but it won't be long before you're able to snag a pink slip to a nicer
ride. As you progress you'll earn cash, which can be used to unlock (50+) new
vehicles from manufacturers such as Nissan, Dodge, Cadillac, Ford, Porsche,
Lamborghini, BMW, Aston Martin, Mitsubishi, and more. If you're into tuning
individual aspects of your ride or purchasing individual parts you can do that,
but if you're not into tinkering you can purchase an upgrade package and be on
your way.
Not only will you earn
money for winning an event, you'll earn driving points for dominating it
basically beating it really, really bad. You can power up a number of your
driving attributes, but they don't have a noticeable effect on how your car
handles. As long as you drive fast you'll probably dominate, but there are
occasional races where you'll totally obliterate the time needed to dominate an
event, but you'll still lose to the CPU. The game also encourages you to drive
with style and drift, draft, and drive really close to other cars, but other
than increasing your nitrous there's little to gain from doing so. That said,
the new J-Turn mechanic, which lets you bust quick 180s, is invaluable when
chasing down rivals or evading the cops. You'll use it because it's useful,
though, not because it gets you heroic driving points.
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The cops are back in full effect in Undercover, and for the most part, their
return is welcome. The challenges in which you must ram and take out a certain
number of police cars are great fun, as are the challenges where you must cause
a certain monetary sum of damage. Of course, you don't always have to ram cars
to take them down; you can also run into log trucks, electrical towers,
billboards, and more to leave a little surprise for your pursuers. It's too bad
that some odd quirks hamper the cop chases. The environmental hazards that you
can unleash certainly look cool and are effective, but quite often you won't
see any police cars get hit by the objects, yet when the cutscene ends the cars
are trashed. Sometimes you won't have to do anything at all to evade police the
game says "go" and you stay still and nobody finds you. Cops are
capable of laying down spikes, but you can go the entire game without them ever
doing so. The biggest problem, however, is that the cops don't do much other
than bang on the side of your car and yell at you, so if you last long enough
they sort of fade away on their own. This makes the chases less challenging
than they could have been and also makes them feel artificial, like you're just
fulfilling some sort of time requirement until the game decides you've done
well enough to escape.
Need for Speed Undercover
isn't just about messing with the Man. There are events where you need to
maintain a lead for a specific amount of time or get a certain distance ahead
of your opponent. Sometimes you'll have to shake the cops while trying to keep
a stolen ride in pristine condition, and there are checkpoint races and circuit
races as well. There's not a whole lot that's original here and the races are
generally extremely easy you might not see another car for an entire race once
you've cleared the starting line. They're difficult on occasion, but this is
usually because of the choppy frame rate, which is often dreadful on the
PlayStation 3. It's not as if Xbox 360 owners are getting a smooth, fast frame
rate, but it's significantly better than the PS3's slide show, which is often
so bad that it makes the otherwise great handling vehicles a chore to drive.
What's odd is that there's really no obvious reason for the game's poor frame
rate; the city doesn't look much different than those in Need for Speed Carbon
and Need for Speed Most Wanted, and the car models have aliasing issues.
You might not want to crash
into a cop car in real life, but here, it's all good.
That said, the game does do
a few things very well. The online cops and robbers mode, where the robber
tries to pick up money and take it to a drop off point while another person
plays the cop and tries to ram them, is quite a bit of fun. But mostly what the
game gets right is its pacing. The races are short sometimes as short as 20
seconds, and almost never longer than five minutes. Another cool thing the game
does is it lets you instantly jump to the closest race by pressing down on the
D pad. If you want to find a specific event you can press up and you're taken
to a GPS map, where you can instantly go to the race of your choice. It'll save
you a lot of needless backtracking, and combined with the short races, makes
sure that Undercover never gets boring.
If you're one of the many
people who loved Need for Speed Most Wanted, flaws and all, you'll find a lot
to like in Undercover. It's not very original and the slow frame rate is a
downer, but there's no denying that it's just good fun to run from the cops and
wreak havoc on a city in the process.
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