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Kimano's Need For Speed: Shift (360)
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| [October 20, 2009 03:55:56 AM]
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(10/19/09)
Entry #2:
GAMEPLAY
Once I got into the special events the game got a lot harder. The basic gist of the story is you're some super driver, and you get ferried all over the world to compete with the best drivers from all these different nations. You have to have a different car for each area, since the rules are all different. This is nice because it forces you to spend your money efficiently, rather than blowing it all on one car. It also gives you a variety of cars to play round with, and I found some that I fell in love with that I would have never tried otherwise (Zonda R).
The Variety of modes in the Special Events is also a lot more interesting. There are races that pit certain rival cars against one another. Like the age old Evo 10 vs Evo 9 debate. These are really fun because you get a prebuilt car and you get to take a side in the argument between the car fans, so it's fun when you win. You don't really prove anything but it's entertaining to yell, “YEAH I TOLD YOU SO” at the TV screen.
DESIGN
The game is obviously aimed at people who are already fans of car games, most usually men. The game features several races started by women in skimpy bikinis waving a flag around. The screens in the game also have loads of technical information, that would be lost on me without my roommate translating. On the upshot, I learned what wheel camber is! These both combine to make a game that's fun, but only if you're in the target audience. Women and guys who aren't big into cars can be turned off by the huge amount of information and choice, and women won't particularly enjoy the gaudy, flashy cars with women draped all over them.
The game's levels and design were mostly well thought out, apart from a few notable exceptions, (Looking at you Hamburg Racetrack, miles upon miles of sharp banking curves with ZERO straightaways). The game modes were varied enough to keep you entertained, but still stayed withing the reason limits of a professional race circuit.
It was a driving game and I did enjoy playing it. I'm not sure I'd be ready to plunk 60 bucks down for a glorified simulator, but I wouldn't mind picking it up from a friend and blowing a few hours racing Zondas against Hondas.
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| [October 20, 2009 03:55:39 AM]
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So, after losing my flash drive, I can post this all super late:
(10/18/09)
Entry #1:
SUMMARY -
I'm not much of one for Racing Games usually, but I had watched my roommate play this game a bunch and decided to pick it up and try it out. My first impression was that this game was very obsessive with it's graphics. The menu and load screens were very long, and you can tell it spends a long time loading models when you switch cars in the garage. Over all though, the game is very pretty and it makes the driving feel much more realistic, which is part of the intent of the game.
GAMEPLAY -
Well, I got to play on my roommates save game, so i got to hop right in and use the Tier 4 Supercars. This game ranks all the cars in the game on a rank from 1 to 4. The tier 1 cars are the normal, street cars souped up, all the way up to million dollar supercars like the Bugatti Veyron and Zonda R at Tier 4.
My first thought when I got into the Veyron was just "Holy *** this is fast". On of the upsides to the long load screens and high graphics is that when you're playing, it seems super real and it's pretty thrilling. The screen blurs, the wheels squeak, the engine roars. It doesn't hurt the experience that I'm paying this on a 50 inch plasma with 7.1 surround sound.
There isn't much of a story line to speak of, just a series of races with varied events. There are some that are really fun to do (Like the Elimination laps, where you race and each lap the last person is eliminated) to the quite unfun (Drift competitions). The drifting in this game is something that particularly irked me. It's clunky and unintuitive, and the game just doesn't like letting you finesse the car because it's incredibly unforgiving. Lose traction at any point, and you car will spin out, costing you precious points and basically forcing you to start all over.
Overall though, the game is quite fun. Now on to the Special events!
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Kimano's Need For Speed: Shift (360)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Monday 19 October, 2009
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