Need for Speed Shift 2

Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed 2011 PC Game

Simulation, immersion, high-powered competition. The seductive beast EA motor.

With stentorian declarations by Electronic Arts almost every other day also, the pressure begins to be huge shift. The promise of a detailed simulation and realistic than Gran Turismo and is “the game more realistic speed of history” is on the table.

Only a few months ago for the first time tasted Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed , the new video game which Slightly Mad Studios is facing the difficult challenge of matching the quality of the great Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit , but this time from a more realistic. Today we come back to the title, and to back the statements of its leaders continued to criticize the competence of the video game controller.

However, is there reason to believe that this unleashed to compete with Gran Turismo 5 or Forza Motorsport 3 as claimed by its creators? From the moment our reviews will keep for analysis, but for now the trials with the title should be positive and optimistic about offering an alternative in the simulation genre giants from Polyphony Digital and Turn 10.

Hands on the Wheel
The early stages of the launch of Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed have been marked almost since its announcement by the constant statements of its leaders. From the comment that this will “speed the game more realistic view of history”, to the harsh criticism leveled against Forza or Gran Turismo: “We will not add thousands of cars irrelevant. These games to me are almost as encyclopedias. You thousand cars, a thousand tracks, whatever, and basically the game is to earn money to get a car, and keep winning to buy another. It’s like a routine, it’s like collecting stamps. That is not where the fun ” .

However, the Electronic Arts video game also revolves around the experience as these, although from a totally different point of view: More specifically the experience points , an incentive which will have almost constantly receiving this bonus for each share virtually that took place. In this sense, the game seems to follow a line of rewards very clear, as is typical of the kind of unlockables that Hot Pursuit truffle experience.

How to spend these points? Mainly in the acquisition and improvement of different vehicles that are our garage. In this sense, the game will go much deeper than its predecessor, allowing not only have more complex parts and components to customize our racers, but also keep our own alternative configurations of vehicles based on groups of tune, and test and refine their performance by testing on the track.

And the truth is that Need for Speed Shift and was once a great game, though its leaders intended to go further with this release looking for a more authentic simulation. So much so, your confidence, that this idea has been the constant comparisons with the great franchises of the competition.

With the aim of bringing greater realism and packaging to the experience, Unleashed will feature stars of driving real figures that act by way of our heads in the game. Vaughn Gittin Briton is one of the main confirmed, although there will be people’s own Electronic Arts present as Patrick Soderlund, precisely one of the executives of the company that insisted on the superiority of Shift 2 on Gran Turismo 5: “Les undoubtedly win, I’m sure, “he said makes few dates.

With such measures as to include actual figures in the game is to stimulate the competitive zeal of the player. These characters present themselves in videos, we will have your skills and strengths at the wheel and compete against us, with the extra incentive that if they beat in the race we will take your vehicle that will automatically join our garage.

The camera in first person is, an aesthetic, one of the great innovations of the program within the playable side. This element already described in detail in our First Contact is a powerful way to visualize the races, since the prospect of the town literally. It is a formidable addition to the set of immersion offered by this Unleashed, not only for being full of great details like the realistic movements of the head of our driver to reach the corners, for example, but also for the victory level depth in conducting this display brings so subjective.

Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed will be released on March 24 this year on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Then will check if all the promises of Electronic Arts and Slightly Mad Studios were justified.