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Need for Speed Shift preview and screens
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Wax Free Vanilla
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I thought EA picked up their Ferrari game?
Ferrari Racing Legends coming next year. PS3, PC and Xbox 360
Ferrari Racing Legends coming next year. PS3, PC and Xbox 360
Spider_Jerusalem
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Insane Metal
Gold Member
Can't wait to play this. Looks pretty good and it's not "tuning street racing" bullshit. That's a big step in the right direction.
Wax Free Vanilla
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Spider_Jerusalem said:
EA BS.
You can see where they've forgot to blur the wheels in some of shots and through the car windows in others.
They're ingame screens with blur badly applied in photoshop.
I agree GTR et al are a different beast entirley from Grid. What I meant was that when Grid first appeared, the line from a lot of people, myself included, was not to worry, Codemasters are great at pseudo sims.Ranger X said:
So I don't think it will be as bad as Grid, but I can understand some people's concerns, regardless of the dev's pedigree. Sometimes when major publishers are looking for sales, bad things happen, even to good devs.
Diablohead
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I'm just glad they are going back to what seems to be proper racing then open street or chav riced up car racing, even if the game ends up like Dirt I will be glad on the direction they chose.
Not to be defensive or anything but in one of the pgr games blue never worked through glass or transparent materials due to how their filter worked. I just remember the blur not working when in on external camera and being able to see through two sheets of the car windows in one go.Wax Free Vanilla said:
Unregistered007
Banned
I still think that from all the previous Need for Speed games after Most Wanted... the letter f is totally unnecessary in the Title Need for Speed: Shift
Diablohead
Member
Yeah you are right, underground has clouded my mind.idahoblue said:
idahoblue said:
I think it's a valid concern. I also think it's the first NFS since AGES where we have true reasons to be excited. Let's be positive.
Also, Codemasters showed signs of "becoming crappy" when people from their racing team did quit + there was DIRT before GRID that was also a turd of a game.
So far, Blimey is spotless. I guess it's possible they end up like Simbin with RacePro, a good but unpolished game. EA gives me confidence here though, I mean, if they need money they supposed to be able to have it, unlike Simbin with Atari...
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Wax Free Vanilla
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Diablohead said:
yeah, but in the 5th shot in the first post one part of the mesh fence is blurred and the other part isnt.
ea bs.
Mohonky
Member
Just watched an interview for this on Gametrailers, I think it sounds rather interesting.
I like the idea of how your reactive the camera is to the drivers head during racing, with changes under conditions like heavy braking. Or that the dials in the cars all work.
The screens are brilliant, if it even remotely looks like that that would be a pretty big feat. I'm hoping this one really turns out.
I like the idea of how your reactive the camera is to the drivers head during racing, with changes under conditions like heavy braking. Or that the dials in the cars all work.
The screens are brilliant, if it even remotely looks like that that would be a pretty big feat. I'm hoping this one really turns out.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Hopefully 2010...-viper- said:
Jackson said:
IGN - ignition. Stadard switch in racing cars that starts the engine, because there is no ignition key. Have to be activated in conjuction with the clutch respectfully, but clutch is used only during actual 1st gear start, while actual shifting during the race is done by sequential shifter that does not require usage of the clutch.
Jackson said:
Ignition?
Anyway, I can remember back in the day when the original Need For Speed... actually it was called "Road & Track presents: The Need For Speed" was the best thing since driving a real car. It had a little bit of everything. The most realistic car game back in the day, cops, cockpit view (I have to say I prefer bumper cam over cockpit view any day) , kick ass graphics, awesome videos of cars and the rivalry between Lamborghini and Ferrari. Good times.
Then three arcade games were release, but they were all good fun, an online game that wasn't successful, then a really good sim; Porche Unleashed. Then two arcades that were good, then one bad, then good, then bad again, then a bad wanna be sim, then the most horrible thing since... I donno ... and now a sim, a arcade and a online game. Cant wait!
I've got confidence in these guys, I'm glad they are changing the scenery.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
EDIT - Amazing game /\, had soooo much fun with that, I would gave anything to play that again in next gen GFX's.
Totally agree with this.
GitarooMan said:
Totally agree with this.
VVV Mars VG
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Obviously these look like bullshots at the moment but with experienced developers this is looking like the best NFS game I've seen in years. NFS was all about real handling, getting that driving experience you couldn't afford of dream of in real life. The underground/illegal/fast'n furious has been done to death.
Need for Speed as it was is dead, long live Need for Speed! Lets see if this really lives up to the promise, I certainly hope so.
Need for Speed as it was is dead, long live Need for Speed! Lets see if this really lives up to the promise, I certainly hope so.
mikekennyb
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lowrider007 said:
YES YES YES!!! What you said. NFS Hot Pursuit 2 is my favorite game for PS2.
Insane Metal
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already quoted for the answer but anyway... this looks as good as GT5P!Jackson said:
Is... Is there an IGN Button under the Water Switch next to the driver's right hand? :lol :lol
What... What does it do?!
Hope it really looks like that!
eso76
Member
yeah, need for speed should go back to its roots.
NFS 1 is still one of my favourite racers ever: point to point races on regular streets and highways that felt authentic and lasted 10 + minutes.
There was a unique feeling of 'cruising' and really driving to get somewhere, not just racing. Many racers now feature traffic and even point to point races, but the feeling in NFS was entirely different, and i really hope we get something like that this gen.
Edit: some of those screens have clearly been aa'ed to death (unless they're from the pc version) but other than that i believe they could very well be pretty accurate. Some of those screen are less AA'ed than others and show some aliasing, motion blur is definately what you can expect from realtime graphics (not the accurately rendered motion blur from pgr4 photo mode, for example) and the game looks more or less on par with GRID, from a technical l too.
DOF not showing through car windows might or might not mean it's just PP. Might be a rendering bug or something, i remember the same going on in nba 2k7 pics and people using that as proof DOF was faked in PP; turned out it was a minor rendering bug, also present in the final game.
NFS 1 is still one of my favourite racers ever: point to point races on regular streets and highways that felt authentic and lasted 10 + minutes.
There was a unique feeling of 'cruising' and really driving to get somewhere, not just racing. Many racers now feature traffic and even point to point races, but the feeling in NFS was entirely different, and i really hope we get something like that this gen.
Edit: some of those screens have clearly been aa'ed to death (unless they're from the pc version) but other than that i believe they could very well be pretty accurate. Some of those screen are less AA'ed than others and show some aliasing, motion blur is definately what you can expect from realtime graphics (not the accurately rendered motion blur from pgr4 photo mode, for example) and the game looks more or less on par with GRID, from a technical l too.
DOF not showing through car windows might or might not mean it's just PP. Might be a rendering bug or something, i remember the same going on in nba 2k7 pics and people using that as proof DOF was faked in PP; turned out it was a minor rendering bug, also present in the final game.
Spider_Jerusalem
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Trailer up on Marketplace: http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/offers/0bbf0001-0000-4000-8000-0000454108b4
Anyone think this game looks more like your traditional racing game (i.e. normal tracks)? One thing I always liked about the Need for Speed games was that you could racing in "normal" places such as rural areas, cities, mountains, etc. No idea why they can't just make a Need for Speed like Hot Pursuit 2. That game was awesome.
Spider_Jerusalem
Member
I like what I see. Surely it looks more like PGR4 than a classic NFS game, but I'm not complaining And I like the shaky internal cam and the crash scenes... looks good!
And I like the shaky internal cam and the crash scenes... looks good!
Goldrusher
Member
Pretty much everyone here.EDarkness said:
But most of us also know Race Driver GRID was horrible, while the original Race Driver was pretty damn awesome. So if it takes Blimey and the NFS name to bring us another decent Race Driver, so be it. But this sure ain't Need For Speed.