Need for Speed: Shift

OS: Windows XP / Vista
CPU: 1.6 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Graphics card: 256 MB
Memory requirements ( HDD): 6 GB

Need for Speed: Shift (short NFSS ) is the 13th part of the published by Electronic Arts Need for Speed series and was released on September 17, 2009 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, as well as for the Windows operating system. Later, it was also released for PSP, iPhone, iPod Touch, Samsung Wave and for normal phones.

Gameplay

Generally

The gameplay differs markedly from the direct predecessor Undercover and is more comparable to its predecessor ProStreet, so it has character simulation. Instead of illegal street racing exclusively organized races are on closed race tracks. Therefore, the vehicle selection focuses more on racing cars. The player also has the new ability to precisely coordinate as in motorsport components of the vehicle.

In the career mode, the goal of the NFS World Tour can be reached. To this end, the player has to work through four preliminary stages of increasing difficulty. However, it is possible the NFS World Tour unlock without being driven at all levels, if you have collected enough stars in the lower levels, which are awarded for the races. On top of this a warm-up lap is driven after the player a cessation of driving is offered, for example ABS. However, this is all free changeable in the options menu. First, you get a BMW on loan and must be first racing contest in order to earn money for the first own car.

Another new feature is the awarding of points for certain actions during the race. The actions will be divided into precise and aggressive actions. The precise actions include, for example, driving on the racing line and the clean overtaking. One of the aggressive actions, however, things are as dirty overtaking, ramming opponents and ride in the slipstream of an opponent. By collecting the points of the player from level 1 the driver level increases to a maximum of level 50 There are for each Level certain rewards, such as more parking spaces, money or cars. In addition, changes in many Level the driver icon, depending on whether one is mostly accurate or aggressive driving.

Race modes

The most common race mode is the round course race. In this case, up to 20 riders on a closed racing course against each other. The winner is the driver who reaches the goal after a certain number of rounds first. From this racing type exist special versions. For manufacturers race all drivers get asked the same, unmodified vehicle. Endurance races are round course races that are held on a very large distance. In Eliminator race differs in each round of the last placed rider. It wins the driver who is the last still in the race.

In the time trial riders compete in succession. Objective in this racing mode is to achieve the lowest possible lap time.

In duels two drivers compete against each other. Games will be played in three runs. The winner is the one who can decide two of the three runs for themselves.

Drift races are held on short, curvy sections. The goal in this race is to achieve through good drifts as high a score.

Stretch

The tracks in Need for Speed correspond on the whole real models. It contains the following sections:

Alpental ( fictitious)
Auto Polis
Ambush Canyon ( fictitious)
Brands Hatch
Dakota ( fictitious)
Ebisu
Glendale ( fictitious)
Hazyview ( fictitious)
Laguna Seca

London ( fictitious)
Miytomi ( fictitious)
Nordschleife
Road America
Rustle Creek ( fictitious)
Silverstone
Spa
Tokyo
Willow Springs

Rolling stock

Need for Speed: Shift includes 65 licensed cars from many manufacturers such as Audi, Aston Martin or Koenigsegg. The vehicles are like the racing events divided into four classes based on their performance. While in the first class predominantly solid models such as the Seat Leon and VW Golf are represented, powerful exotics like the Koenigsegg Agera or Pagani Zonda are represented in the highest class.

The vehicles can be modified in many ways. The performance tuning and fine tuning are significantly larger than the optical tuning, which is limited in this part largely on car paint, stickers, rims and spoiler and is no longer customizable as in previous parts. An innovation is the work of conversion, in which the car is converted into a race car.

The game contains the following cars.

Reception

The game was widely endorsed in the trade press. So it reaches on the side metacritic.com 83% of what the best-ever rating for a game of Need for Speed series is (Xbox 360: 84 %, PSP: 69%). Blessed is this realistic driving physics and the stable frame rate. Be criticized for being difficult control with drift racing and unspectacular lighting of the race, which let the game look a bit like a stripped-down Gran Turismo.

Shift 2 Unleashed

16 November 2010, Electronic Arts released a trailer for a successor to Need for Speed: Shift. The game is called Shift 2 Unleashed and appeared on March 31, 2011.

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