There are some issues when it comes to the city-based races, mainly because some of the stars involved a slow corner after a long straight and this can lead to multi car pileups that ruin the rest of the race. The Artificial Intelligence in Shift 2 Unleashed is pretty capable, able to keep the line as long as the road is clear but also capable of fighting with the player for the best line and taking him out on gravel or on grass in order to slow him down. Going with the flow and learning to only get the minimum result for progression is a must for anyone who plans to spend a lot of time with the new Need for Speed.
After doing quite badly a couple of times, I just let go of trying to win and just got through the race to get to the career progression. Then Shift 2 Unleashed throws the player in one of the most powerful and hard-to-guide cars in the game, on a pretty tough course, again testing the player on his skills while offering an attractive incentive for the future in the form of money to buy the first car in the proper game.ĭespite being at the very beginning of the game, it's one of the toughest races of the whole Need for Speed and can be really frustrating for newcomers, especially if one is trying to win it outright. One of the best things that happens in the game is the first pre-race drive around, which allows the game to test the performance of the player, starting with whatever settings he wants, in order to then propose a better selection of options, better suited to the skills one has. The experience in Shift 2 Unleashed is similar to other games in the simulation genre, but there are quite a few differences that stand out: the level of detail included in the simulation, the tough opponent Artificial Intelligence, the amount of tweaks that can be made to a car and the way each track is broken down into sections that can be mastered independently.
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The big issue that the new Need for Speed has is that it's difficult right from the start and that it might discourage more casual virtual drivers from spending too much time earning levels and discovering new events.įor anyone that knows the series, even if only by name, the concept behind Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is pretty straightforward: player creates account, engages in racing, picks favorite car, tweaks performance, beats opponents, crashes hard, watches replay, gets creamed by superior opponents, learns new tricks, beats all computer opponents, shifts difficulty up.
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Shift 2 Unleashed is well put together, with a nice catalog of cars on offer, some very well built tracks, good intelligence for the other drivers, full implementation of the Autolog feature that debuted in the rebooted Hot Pursuit, a lot of options when it comes to modding cars and tweaking settings and enough events to keep a gamer occupied for more than one month as long as daily racing time is at about 2 hours.
It does not take more than 2 or 3 races, all of them probably accompanied by quite a few restarts, to see that Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is a serious racing sum, the kind of game that can lead to controllers being thrown in frustration and to loud curse words being uttered in the general direction of the other racers. Its absence makes me feel lost in an ocean of driving possibilities out of which I am only extracted by the sickening sound of crumpling against another concrete barrier. For me having it around means that I have a reliable way of judging my own driving decisions. Oh, what a difference the racing line makes.
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