Flip them all off and you have what can only be described as a very realistic feel. There is definitely some punishing realism here if you want it, and it's no further away than the toggle switches on all the driver aids. Thankfully, the gameplay feel never will.

Based on our experience, they'll lose whatever charm they held long before you're out of the rookie leagues. In fact, he's never far away, giving you some spoken encouragement before every event or laying written words of wisdom across every loading screen. Your guide through this section, and through much of the game, is Still, not everyone will enjoy the punishment this game can offer, so read on to see whether this is oneĬontinue reading Review: Shift 2 Unleashed.Īs you're working your way through the circuit classes, you'll also get to try your hand at drifting, which is either a rush or a distraction depending on your proclivity for vehicular ballet. Need for Speed game yet, which is perhaps why it's officially shedding that prefix and just billing itself as Ian Bell, sim-racing guru and co-founder of Slightly Mad, said that this game has the 'most advanced physics system ever released.' We're not sure we'd go quite that far, but in testing this one we're quite confident in saying that this is certainly the most realistic Need for Speed: Shift – truly a fresh title and, more importantly, a truly great racer, managing to straddle the console racing and simulation genres and do both admirably well. That developer is Slightly Mad Studios, which has roots to the SimBin team that created the groundbreaking Need for Speed and placing it into the cold,Ĭalculating hands of a simulation developer.

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