bit-tech News: Need for Speed Undercover - 11/26/08 12:14 PM
Hi all,
We have just published a review of *Need for Speed Undercover* - if you
could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/11/26/need-for-speed-undercover/1
*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/11/need-for-speed-undercover/fp_img.jpg
*Quote:
*/The sprints, highway battles, races and escapes are all fine -- it's
the largely dull and unimpressive environment they are all set in that
quickly gets old. The 'golden hour' lighting effect which dusts the
landscape of the game does a good job of making it look pretty, but you
still eventually get the feeling that you've raced the same street over
and over.
The Tri-City area is, in other words, remarkably devoid of landmarks as
well as pedestrians and the fact that there are often good ten-minute
stretches without any traffic to dodge through doesn't help.
At the start of the review we said that the two important keywords for
the / /Need for Speed series are style and brevity. You could argue that
'speed' should belong there too, but it kind of goes without saying. The
issue with //Undercover though is that it's started to show us just how
shallow those things can be.
It quickly becomes obvious that when you finally do get under the covers
with / /Need for Speed then it's all sack and no substance. That's not
enough to impress my girlfriend and it's not enough to impress me either.
/*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net
We have just published a review of *Need for Speed Undercover* - if you
could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/11/26/need-for-speed-undercover/1
*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/11/need-for-speed-undercover/fp_img.jpg
*Quote:
*/The sprints, highway battles, races and escapes are all fine -- it's
the largely dull and unimpressive environment they are all set in that
quickly gets old. The 'golden hour' lighting effect which dusts the
landscape of the game does a good job of making it look pretty, but you
still eventually get the feeling that you've raced the same street over
and over.
The Tri-City area is, in other words, remarkably devoid of landmarks as
well as pedestrians and the fact that there are often good ten-minute
stretches without any traffic to dodge through doesn't help.
At the start of the review we said that the two important keywords for
the / /Need for Speed series are style and brevity. You could argue that
'speed' should belong there too, but it kind of goes without saying. The
issue with //Undercover though is that it's started to show us just how
shallow those things can be.
It quickly becomes obvious that when you finally do get under the covers
with / /Need for Speed then it's all sack and no substance. That's not
enough to impress my girlfriend and it's not enough to impress me either.
/*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net