EA’s Shift 2: Unleashed, the latest racer subtly still under the ‘Need for Speed’ branding but less so than usual, is out next week. To celebrate, they’ve released this brand new ‘launch’ trailer for the game, which features lots of cars, a few review scores and some lovely crashes.
Have to say, it looks fabulous.
We’ve just picked up our copy, so expect a full review as soon as we get off the tarmac.
Voganlight
Damn, I want this.
Sir_Jay
looks awesome!
Ryan1991
May have to get this simply because they have used Rise Against. Plus it doesn’t look bad.
cam the man
This was a day 1 for me but as I have just got Motorstorm I may wait a while.
Sympozium
Eh… offical magazines always seem to be fishy to to me, I`m not taking the risk though.. fed up with nfs
topgear
I’ll just reiterate what others have said:
NFS Shift 2= Racing Simulator
GT5= Driving Simulator :)
cc_star
Yeah, there’s a big difference.
Can’t wait for this – will be picking it up next week.
Firedshot
Looks good but then so did the last one and the last was terriable with bad game physics and a racing game where you get points for knocking people of the track? Come on thats just not right!
Sympozium
Yeah but that was like aggression or something kinda like bad & good other than that. Shift was ok but it got boring after a few races and I lost interest…. forever & ever.
Wonder if Shift 2 will abolish the 3-staged tuning system?…
Firedshot
It was good if you like arcade racing not racing sim. Couldn’t stand it myself i just hope they make this one better.
cc_star
Shift 2 is incomparable to the 1st one.
The devs had to make a load of compromises because it was the only NfS game out that year, the things you’ve mentioned and probably the other stuff you weren’t keen on was a result of them pandering to the NfS crowd
gideon1451
Looks like a grittier Gran Turismo 5.
Jambo
I like the fact they have the GT1 World Championship cars, will likely get this and give it a go, still don’t like the look of the handling, looks a tad pivotty (not a word I know) to me, just like the first one.
Grey_Ghost13
Allot will depend on the handling mechanics of the game. First shift wasn’t that good, still fun though. But I have always seen NFS games as arcade racers, don’t know if the can pull off the simness! (I know not a word too) :)