NFS Shift 2 Unleashed - Details

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Crooooooow
Didn't Hot Pursuit 3 release 4 months ago? Too soon for the next NFS release.
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Best comment Ive seen today... yeap your right they should wait at least 6 years before releasing anything (and release it unfinished so that they can patch it to please the costumers needs)

PS: Damn Mr pasta beat me to it
 
Usually a new NFS game is released after a one year gap. From graphics and physics as good from Hot Pursuit 3, it makes you think "Did they really have enough time to make the game into a blockbuster?" It's like the rushed process of the first Xbox 360s. They rushed through the process, and people bought the 360 on its release date and the systems were like a bomb with an unknown detonation. (Check back on the history and user reviews from 2005 in Japan, America, and Canada).
 
What is it you're not getting that these games are different & not made by the same people? Or the fact that they were both in development at the same time by each group, so neither was actually rushed....
 
McLaren
What is it you're not getting that these games are different & not made by the same people? Or the fact that they were both in development at the same time by each group, so neither was actually rushed....
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But they are both a Need For Speed title. It wouldn't be a good idea to release multiple NFS titles within a short segment of time. It's like, "Hey I just got the game. I haven't had enough time to complete it, and the next title's out already?!"
 
Crooooooow
But they are both a Need For Speed title. It wouldn't be a good idea to release multiple NFS titles within a short segment of time. It's like, "Hey I just got the game. I haven't had enough time to complete it, and the next title's out already?!"
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Right. Unless they were both totally different styles of games that appealed to totally different markets.

Hot Pursuit is the epitome of arcade style racing games. Shift 2 is aimed at a simulation market (I'm not going to go into whether it succeeds or not, but that's it's stated aim). You think they stagger Wipeout and Gran Turismo releases because they're worried that one might cross over with the other?

Stop getting hung up on the NFS label.
 
Crooooooow
But they are both a Need For Speed title. It wouldn't be a good idea to release multiple NFS titles within a short segment of time. It's like, "Hey I just got the game. I haven't had enough time to complete it, and the next title's out already?!"
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They're different games. Besides that, it's been close to 5 months since Hot Pursuit came out, long enough that 3-4 DLC packs of content of come out for it & more on the way.

It's easily beatable within' a 3-4 days honestly if you don't plow through it like I did.
 
Crooooooow
Usually a new NFS game is released after a one year gap. From graphics and physics as good from Hot Pursuit 3, it makes you think "Did they really have enough time to make the game into a blockbuster?" It's like the rushed process of the first Xbox 360s. They rushed through the process, and people bought the 360 on its release date and the systems were like a bomb with an unknown detonation. (Check back on the history and user reviews from 2005 in Japan, America, and Canada).
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They have two completly different teams working on the game it wasnt rushed stop your wining its childish play the game or go find another one
 
boomee
They have two completely different teams working on the game it wasn't rushed stop your wining its childish play the game or go find another one.
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I wasn't complaining. I was just expressing my opinion on the early release.
 
Player7996
I haven't seen the Mclaren MP4 and was wondering is it in the game or one of the hidden cars that you can win.
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You win it by doing the B Invitational. A one lap race around the Nordschleife.
 
boomee
Has anyone driven the shelby gt500 how dose it handle and how does it sound ?
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Rather good! The mustangs are the few cars that have the proper balance right out of the box, power oversteer is there as well. As for the sound I have no complaint, however I have never seen or heard one in real life.
 
@ GTPlanet mods, what about TAG icons for all threads related to a specific platform? Something like this: X360, PS3, PC

S2U seems to have different characteristics depending on the version you are using: different wheel support, different graphics..
 
Spent a couple of hours with it on PS3 Slim today, physics seem better than NFS S1, but its still not a "sim" by any shot, I don't care how they spin their marketing.

Graphics on PS3 Slim seem to be better than they were on NFS S1, knock on wood I did not experience any of the freezes that other PS3 owners have been reporting on forums.

Fanatec Carrera wheel and pedals worked fine with no probs, FF seems better than NFS S1, tweaked the wheel settings Shaun Cole from ISR provided in his video a little for my personal tastes.

Did a few quick races to check out the tracks after the initial two qualifying events;

Nordschleife was a disappointment, seems much easier and smoothed out in comparison to NFS S1 version, Karussel banking is way easier to stay on and seems wider now and not as steep, the full course is not available that combines north loop and south loop used for real-life endurance events (like it is in GT5).

Also seems as if someone went ballistic with the digital chain saw, lot less trees populate the sides of the course than NFS S1 version, maybe this was done to accommodate night racing, if not, then its further dumbing down that was not necessary.

Riviera Monte Grande's S-turn around the Casino fountain (follows real-life Monaco traffic pattern, not the route used for F1 race as it did in NFS S1) seems to have been widened and smoothed out, still no "Piscine" area harbor side so the track still blends fiction with the F1 course.

Tokyo tracks still have the detail oversight I noticed in NFS S1, the Kanji (Chinese characters also used by the Japanese) painted on the streets surface for caution/through traffic in Japanese are reversed or upside down as if you are driving the wrong way although the overhead freeway signs indicate that you are traveling in the right direction. (I lived and DROVE in Tokyo for a number of years).

New menu navigation seems a bit cumbersome in some places, like choosing tracks in quick events, not as streamlined as it was in NFS S1.

Thats about as far as I got tonight.
 
tyl0r_r
I got the limited edition because it was sitting on the shelf at Blockbuster, I didn't pre order. My code worked fine and I got the cars, and they're nifty indeed. So, anyone who had problems getting your code in should try again.
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Same here.. I used the code, it said it worked and it showed all the cars I got, but I never saw the cars in my garage WTF. My Youtube clips uploaded, but never saw them in my Youtube account WTF.
 
BWX
Same here.. I used the code, it said it worked and it showed all the cars I got, but I never saw the cars in my garage WTF. My Youtube clips uploaded, but never saw them in my Youtube account WTF.
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Someone said you had to go buy them, but that they were zero credits to purchase? I haven't tried my code yet, so I dunno.
 
Did anyone else get an odd licence plate type thing in a padded box with theirs? I was very surprised to see it in the package with my LE today. It's kind of cool I suppose, it's just odd that I haven't heard anyone else mention it.
 

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