NEED FOR SPEED: SHIFT -An absolutely gorgeous looking game with the worst handling cars I've seen on next gen consoles.
This game is beautiful...and I love beautiful games. But I could only enjoy customizing my car because once I hit the race track, I could do nothing but vomit at how disgustingly poor these cars handled.
I know what I'm doing...I've played all the race games, bad and good. I have accepted most all of them for what they were and played them while trying to admire their strong points and ignore their weak points.
I tweaked the car handling and tuning characteristics on the NFS SHIFT cars in every way imaginable. They suck no matter what.
I know video game racing fans in America are aching for the Need for Speed franchise to come through for the gaming population. I think most of the game reviews for SHIFT.....while good....are actually scored high because the reviewers got tired of writing crap about the beloved NFS franchise.
Has anyone played "GRID" ??? Now those are cars that handle the way they are supposed to. That game scored an 8 and was still WAAAAY underated.
Sorry folks...this NFS game is two things: GORGEOUS and UNPLAYABLE.