Metareview -- Need For Speed: Undercover (Multi)

The NFS franchise can't seem to catch a break. And that's partly the devs fault of course.

I really want to play a NFS game but the reviews for this game and the last one prevented me from spending my money. Not when there are such big games in the works that are guaranteed to be fun.

Need for Speed, I'm demoting you to "Need for NO speed". You will hang up your cars and take a bicycle from the cabnet, DISMISSED!

"There's no getting around the fact, however, that Undercover is basically Most Wanted with a new lick of paint."

Might still have promise for me as a bargain bin game then, but looks like it's a pass in general. :(

It will be many years before Need for Speed trumps last years Burnout Paradise.

It coulda been top *IF* EA used Criterion's Burnout engine, that way, we could all been evading the coppers in all sorts of vehicles'n bikes! Oh well, let's hope they do justice to the remake of Road Rash then... (wishful thinking!) :)

Might help if the focused on Next-Gen consoles instead of releasing it for every console ever made. It worked for Dead Space.

what sucks is that EA has 2 need for speeds in the works at any given time. so the next one will probably suck just as bad and hopefully the one after that EA will actually learn from.

They need to have 2 Need for Speeds (like Fifa and Fifa Street) One should be a driving sim and the other a fast and furious wannabe.

I really wanted this game to turn the franchise around too... oh well, guess I'll have to wait for the next game.

On a side note, I think this is one of those rare cases lately where a somewhat high profile game has gotten a meta and nega review in the same article (oooh, burn!).

WTF, why do they insist on "driving" this series into the ground? Most Wanted was fun as hell and then they went the ricer route with Carbon so I passed that one up. And the concept for Undercover sounds cool but it seems they managed to F it up.

This piled on top of the letdown Burnout: Paradise was (to me anyway) leaves me with no arcady racers! What gives?

I absolutely agree we need a next-gen follow-up to the Hot Pursuit series. NFS: Most Wanted was an ok game, but there weren't enough great police pursuit elements to the title to really make it rise above NFS: Hot Pursuit 2.

I'm looking forward to the upcoming Wheelman game, but I can't help thinking it'll probably be a disappointment after a few hours.

In the meanwhile, GTA4 has it's problems in the opposite extreme... it's almost too realistic, not allowing for over-the-top getaaways.

I guess what I'm looking for is a mix of Driver, Burnout and movies like "The Chase", "The Blues Brothers", "Bullitt", "Gone in 60 seconds (modern version), "The Italian Job" (Micheal Caine version) and "The French Connection", devoted almost entirely to pursuits across a massive map, complete with hundreds of potential high-speed choke points you can use to eliminate your pursuers one by one.

This series has blown chunks for years. Don't even bother revamping the brand, just leave well enough alone and discard it entirely in favor of something new and genuinely entertaining.

No surprises here.

The last good Need for Speed was Need for Speed Underground. And I mean just the first one. That game was amazing. The second one just sucked, though.

God damnit, this makes me want to reinstall NFS II...what a game, what a game.

Long live the classic NFS series! (Hot Pursuit 2 and before)

Honestly, the more people say, the more interested I am. I love the police chases and getting to events isn't something I want to spend my time doing. The concept of open world for me only applies when there is something worth doing in an open world... like running from the cops post-race. The lack of difficulty kinda worries me though.

when i heard christina milan was going to be in the game that sounded an alarm....
bad game needs hollywood hottie to sell copies.

I have it for 360. I played it for about 5 minutes after putting it in my disk drive....it froze. I restarted my 360 thinking it was that. It wasn't. It froze again for the 2nd time. and 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. All my other games run fine on my 360. So I contacted EA customer support. lol After being put on hold for 30 minutes they told me to delete any old NFS game data that I might have had on there before. So I did. Did it work? NO! Guess alot of people are having this problem on PC too. Seems to me like EA was too lazy to work out some last minute glitches. I refuse to buy any more EA games. Mirror's Edge sucks as well =)

It coulda been top *IF* EA used Criterion's Burnout engine, that way, we could all been evading the coppers in all sorts of vehicles'n bikes! Oh well, let's hope they do justice to the remake of Road Rash then... (wishful thinking!) :)

Is this actually going ahead? I quite enjoyed Jailbreak, but the original on LIVE Arcade with HD graphics would appease me, to be honest. I miss Road Rah more than any other franchise.

I don't mind if the game is more of the same as long as it isn't ProStreet.

EA are a company that seem to take one step forward and two steps back. They release some adventurous new IP's like Deadspace and Mirrors Edge (even if it is abit of a gimmick) but are still content to flog the proverbial dead horse for a brand thats dead in the water. More Deadspaces, less crap please EA.

I picked up my preorder because I was excited, but after trying a rental, I decided to take it back and get GoW2.

IGN gave the PS3 version a 4/10. Though i don't think they mention it being particularly worse...
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/931/931109p1.html

NFS just lost it after underground one. Well HP2 was the last of the need for speed series for me. Undergrounds huge success and was something fresh. However EA ruined it by completely milking the underground franchinse.