This game should serve as a monument to EA & co for their ability to ruin whatever good idea they come up with with hundrends of stupid bugs and nuisiances.
Why is loading taking so damn long? Why do I have to go though it whenever I restart race? Why does the game constantly want me to punch buttons to skip boatload of "Unlocked XXX" screens and then quickly skips over those I actually want to read? And to top it off... why can't I set accel/brake on up and down arrows? I've been controlling racing arcades like that since DSI's The Cycles for God's sake. (or am I the only one with this problem?)
Despite these annoyances I kinda like the game, in the beggining I almost had the feeling that it's just me and my M3 against 250 other guys and 3000 miles of road. I like how you can't crash-brake in every corner anymore, I enjoy that you can't fist your way though road blocks as if you were driving an Abrams tank. Cars are (finally) controllable again, the opponents challenging... so why the hell does the game have to piss me off every 3 minutes with XP counter, infinite loading and rather silly demolition derby cop chases?
Hence why Hot Pursuit will show up at my place today so I can roam around; roam games are the best. Underground 2 is probably my 2nd favorite NFS with Most Wanted being my first. I used to love Underground 2, the sounds were awesome, the city was awesome, it was great.
I don't dislike Carbon, but the whole nighttime thing is annoying. I have Undercover but the physics were weird in that game and didn't like it, but it's okay.
But yeah, Most Wanted shows up sometime next week for my Xbox too, loved it so much on my PS2.
Also, bought Hot Pursuit for under $20 from Amazon so yeah, it's worth it now.
I don't buy new games anymore, it's to expensive, especially when I don't glue myself to my xbox for months and have no life.
rofl epic fail game... the tests: the actuall play time is around 3 hours, the multiplayer eccept of the autolog system sucks (you can't choose what track and car to drive for example), not a lot of action, made no use of the frostbite engine, rubber band ai (dunno how to translate that) etc....
When I first heard black box is doing that, I already knew this can`t be good... (just look at the first page of the topic)
This doesn't even make me want to download it... i mean 3 hours that's shorter then the download and instalation time ^^
Yes, there are complaints. But since MW3 is more online based people care less. NFS on the other hand is almost entirely singleplayer based....
Also no one can say there is no action in MW3 (didn't play it but well since it's like the last 5 CODs...)
I actually really like he game. Not as much fun as Hot Pursuit, but more fun than almost all of the previous games that EA has made (Pro Street, Undercover, and about the same level of fun as the Shift games). Clearly, enjoy it like an arcade, not expecting it to be factually correct.
It's a very large game. I'm less than 1/3 of the way through and I've driven over 500 miles in the game.
Not sure, but this is done in quite a few other games as well. It is quite annoying though and I wish that it didn't have to.
This is quite nit picky. They're badges and honestly, it shows you the stuff which you want to read long enough. I haven't had a problem with it skipping stuff at all.
You can. Go into settings on the main screen, then gameplay, and then controls. You can change the acceleration and brake to whatever you want.
Got my DVDs today, but the installation screen disappears and nothing happens after the first few steps, so aborted it as of now, have fiddle with it tomorrow
this game reminds me of the 90's arcade driving games like RUSH or Cruisin' USA. No AI, no physics, just put the pedal down and steer (or don't, it doesn't really matter)
For those of you saying that Black Box should go bankrupt and that Underground was the best NFS; NFSU and NFSU2 were both made by black box. As was Carbon, Most Wanted, Undercover, ProStreet and NFS: World.
Of course, I thought all of them were crap (except World and Undercover, which I never played).