Monday, February 14, 2011

Preview: Racing game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360: Need for Speed - Shift 2 Unleashed: test drive at night

Dull roar like impatient predators approaching cars in the heavy pace of the start line. Seconds later, a sea of cars going to a metallic shriek. The race-inspired test editor at Electronic Arts in Munich, a first round of "Shift 2 Unleashed" - and believe his eyes. For he sees almost nothing. The famous race course, "Road America is shrouded in deep black, hardly a corner entry can be seen in time.


"Point the night race and the new helmet camera primarily to the professionals," the developer says, grinning - and provides visibility to helmet on perspective. If you brake hard now before a curve, the centrifugal forces push the driver's head forward. In the curves make it difficult for him to keep the route in mind.

The player feels the movements almost as if one's head the longitudinal and lateral accelerations. Right and left slide, Ferrari and Corvette past you - squealing with metal contact and curdling. A few corners later, but the two probably exaggerated: In the pale light of your headlights you will see only two smoking wrecks on the course.

Shift 2 Unleashed "hides its simulation character is not: Turn off all driving aids and the ideal line of expandable, come from the first second of these steps at the helm of a genuine hp monster. This can also be "not much better. The appearance does not make much progress, it worked in the short check of the early version a bit rough, since "GT" way ahead.

But right from the start to hit the world marks at the start: Porsche, Maserati, Lamborghini - eliminates the hassle-free games. Beautiful: the time trial against friends is a highly exciting affair. The "Auto-Log" system, from "Hot Pursuit" is known, appears to demand at any one time, who is holding on your friends list, just the best.

A good incentive to take a route back into attack. Shift 2 Unleashed "is already good and will probably be good. The helmet cam is indeed realistic, disturbing, but in practice. However, only the final test clears, if you get used to it after a long season. That the graphics were to stagnate and night races are almost outrageously difficult to spoil the love at first sight.

The exhaust note, meanwhile, provides for super-race atmosphere. File the developer nor the appearance, the game is a winner.

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