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Stay away of this game - way too hard

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 24
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game... until the designers threw a 10 foot thick brick wall in my way around 2/3rd the way through the game. When you get to trying to work your way to challenge the 5th person on the Blacklist, you will be forced to have to either avoid 6 spike strips, tag 22 police cars, or make it through 10 roadblocks. By the time you get even halfway through meeting one of these milestone, you will be at Police Level 4. You will not ever be able to escape from the police at this level unless you get completely lucky (I have tried 14 times now over the last 3 hours.... yeah, that is real fun guys, and since I play games to have fun, and not get completely pissed off, this game is going on ebay. There is of course no difficulty level selection that you can choose from - so forget about any hope of completing the game.

Unless you are a masochistic sadist twitch freak that has no issue with taking massive doses of stimulants before playing a game to meet this games difficulty level, stay away.

A game is a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: December 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I read some of the other revieuws and people complain about how unrealistic it is, wel it is a game after all it is not a race simulator.
And it is a great game well worth the money.

DID COPS DESIGN THIS GAME?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Aside from the annoying reminder to wear your seatbelt,there are countless occasions where you are slammed into the wall by 15 or more armored vehicles for a simple speeding infraction. The single police units can push your car, even with brakes applied, for miles all while your car stops dead like a stone in the process of pushing back. I am not aware of any cop car beating a GALLARDO with pro racing equipment. By using my rearview mirrow, I witness many magical pop-up cops that spawn out of nowhere, and road blocks that adjust to any suprise turn you make. Not to mention it takes between 2 and 3 minutes to "evade" police and then additional time to "cool down", where as if you stop for even a second, the cops catch you and "BUSTED" scrolls across the screen. It seems extremely unbalanced. Finally, after you are "BUSTED", you are forced to enjoy a lovely cinematic sequence of unecessary police brutality that conveniently seems to have a "YOU RACE, YOU LOSE" theme.
This game is outrageously stupid, corny, and pro law enforcement. A year spent on graphics, a day spent on theme. If you want to be cheated, buy this game. EA games can *#$% themselves.

Waste Of Time To Play After Blacklist #4

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a waste of time to play after you get to blacklist member #5 JV. In the milestone section where you have to hit 28 cop cars and then evade them you can't cause they either run you into walls, have too many cops on you or spiked roadblocks you don't know about until is too late. According to my husband you have to play this game for more than 500 hours a day.

TRASH

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the best and worst racing game I have ever played in my life. However, as the game progresses the tasks become so RIDICULOUS and tedious. For example, they make you drive around and cause destruction and make the city pay for all the damages you do. I would have been fine with this, but once you get to the higher levels on the blacklist, the cops become more and more unrealistic. I have a Lambourghini Gallardo that I won by beating another racer in a Porsche Caymen. So I'm driving the Gallardo on the freeway and its fast enough to outrun the lesser cops easily, so easily that its an effort to keep them on me so that I can complete the tasks. As it gets into the higher levels of pursuit, GTO police and undercover GTO police come out along with helicopters. This is fine also, but then the heavy SUV police cars come out. They drive recklessly and try to hit you in a head on collision. I can also dodge them fairly easily. Any combination of these cars may form a road block at any time. Sometimes they materialize right in front of your eyes. This is not a problem either until they start laying out spike strips, because most of the time you can just drive straight through the road block. The spike strips completely immobilize your car and cause you to get arrested and lose all of the destruction that you caused, which is completely ridiculous. Just because you got arrested everything you tore apart should not magically fix itself. ON TOP OF THAT, the most IRRITATING part of the game is when they set up a road block that has spike strips UNDER the cars that form the block. Not only are they hard to see, but it gives you no chance of running through the road block or avoiding it unless there is another route that you can take, which doesn't always happen. And much of the time they materialize around corners without you having any way of knowing that theyre there. This game sucks.

A good (if formulaic) premise hampered by unbalanced gameplay and torturously cheap police AI...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good graphics, slick presentation and good integration of past "Need For Speed" concepts is hampered by an incredibly frustrating, imbalanced police AI that (unfortunately) you must face off over and over again in the single player mode. The "Milestone" modes will have you pulling your hair out of your head, for different reasons throughout the game. Sometimes, you will find it a struggle to keep the police chase going when you need it, having to slow down over and over, so they can either find you or keep up; other times, they will relentlessly pursue you to no end, becoming cheaper and cheaper in the process. All in all, a real test of one's patience (especially the final chase, where (at the dreaded "Wanted Level 6", you must keep driving for an eternity, while the game piles endless super-strong, super-fast cop cars, SUV's and countless blockades; there is no reprieve, no "hiding out", you must keep driving until (finally) a signal pops up on the map that indicates you must get to that point, ASAP). Tedious music that you'll quickly tire from. It does look pretty (on the Xbox 360 in Hi-Def, anyways). Controls are ok, but no great shakes. My verdict? Get Burnout Revenge, instead.

Need For Speed: Most Unattractive :l

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i was HEAVILY uninspired to play through this game because of how UGLY the city was. i mean where did they model this city after?? SASKATCHUAN, NEW MEXICO? its terrible. in the first two undergrounds, the city was kool...in Carbon (which i absolutely LOVE)...the city resembles a less-flashy Las Vegas and makes for an awesome racing experience...but this city is just....Not Attractive...and its just not Fun to drive around the city at all...its just Dull and Boring. maybe because its always day time? its not even that...the city is just Uninspiring for a racing game. and WHAT IS UP WITH THE GRAPHICS FOR THE ORIGINAL XBOX?? those are THEEE WORSTTT GRAPHICSSSS I HAVE EVER SEEEN IN MY LIFEEEE. it looks like a NINTENDO 64 game :l not to mention the Driving is just not the SAME as the other games in the series...and the races are just not as Fun. not to mention the Clipping and Freezing like some other people have stated. i say stay farr away from this one...it just didnt do it for me...not when i can play Carbon and be alot more satisfied with that racing experience...or even the Original NFS:UG which is 10 times better than this, even tho you cant freeroam the city.

i have Yet to actually play NFS:UG2 which i ordered off ebay so i should get it soon...but im willing to bet its going to LOOK and PLAY 10 times better than this. they should have just Skipped over THIS completely and did Carbon.

Most Unattractive Game In The Series..

iLL .

good graphics, and that is about it ..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are good. Qucik races are fun. However, as a couple of previous reviewers mentioned, it gets to be difficult to play as the system (in various ways) is stacked against you. The settings (easy hard) etc do not matter much. Cars do not handle like they bare supposed to. Designed by someone who does not drive, plus (s(he had a parent in the background that expoused ideas like wear seatbelts etc. Average at best.

fun racing game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i would give this 5 stars , but its choppy for some reason i have this game on my CPU and it's just fine. overall its the same game but on the 360 the game is not smooth its
slow and choppy which can be very aggravating when you are trying to make a turn going 160mph

Not as good as people say

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is alright I guess. I have to say though, I've played every racing game out to date on the x-box 360, and nothing beats Full Auto.

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