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The career events are also based on vehicle tier, so you can only race in tier 3 events if you have unlocked and purchased a tier 3 car. Unfortunately, there is no menu to compare the detailed properties of two vehicles, other than memorizing their overall values. Each car has an overall numerical rating, as well as detailed properties sliders. There are 4 car tiers in the game, each with a sizable collection of vehicles to choose from. Once the pack forms into the “3-gap-the rest” formation, the top 3 never made a mistake in the 50+ group races I’ve played through.
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Sure, as the game advertises, the AI drivers make mistakes and allow the rest to pass them, however I’ve only had this happen early in the race when there were no clear winners yet. But if you let them slip past, you have no chance of catching them again (Even on easiest difficulty). The one on one races provide similar frustrations, as you will easily win the race if you can keep your opponent from overtaking you. On the other hand, if you are able to make it to first, you can pretty much keep the rest of the drivers behind you the whole time – but if someone passes you, they are suddenly granted some kind of super boost and speed away in a much less upgraded car. So if you are unlucky enough to be 4th, you can forget about catching a podium place if you are more than a second behind.
Shift also suffers from robotic, rubber band AI – during group races, a huge gap always forms between the top 3 cars and the rest of the pack. Sim fans will find that the engine overcompensates in driving mechanics such as sensitivity in order to be a more difficult, rather than being realistic, simulator. Arcade fans will find the game too challenging, and a lack of a story will provide little motivation to keep going. You see, the issue with NFS Shift is that it tries a little too hard to appeal to both camps – and ends up not being very good for either. In the other camp we have the Sim driving fans, who will appreciate the driving mechanics, but at the same time find glaring inconsistencies and overcompensation in components such as turning, accelerating and drifting. Due to this, I wouldn’t be surprised if most fans of NFS will set the sliders to “Easy” so they can actually enjoy Shift’s driving model. You must use the break a lot, turns must be precise and smooth, because sharp turns of the wheel will send you sliding out of control at higher speeds.
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Things start off with a practice lap, where fans of NFS will get their first taste of the brutal difficulty of the game (compared to the series usual arcade). However, if you were a NFS fan during the 90’s when the game also lacked any kind of story or personalities, you’ll be alright. So right off the bat, this may cause some fans of the latest NFS series games to struggle being interested in career mode. There are no characters or personalities, other drivers are nothing more than names on the scoreboard.
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In fact, you are a nameless driver who starts out low and wishes to make his way to the top with Shift World Series competition. The first thing you will notice when you start on your career is that there isn’t much of a story. Fans of racing sims may dismiss the game outright because Need for Speed was never known for being anything other than arcade, whereas fans of the series will find themselves struggling through the career mode due to Shift’s much increased difficulty. While this doesn’t mean that the game is anywhere below average, it just seems like a mismatch of title and content. I feel that Shift is simply taking a modified GTR2, simplifying the controls and physics to a more arcade driving style, and slapping the Need for Speed logo on the cover. In all honesty, Shift comes across as yet another game from the sim based lineup of GTR2 and Race07, and there are many similarities to those games. It abandons the street racing formula of previous games and focuses on simulating the "true" driver experience, in the process risking the loss of it’s dedicated fan base. In the new franchising model for the series adopted by EA, Shift takes its place focusing on simulation racing and realistic drifting rather than the arcade racing of previous titles in the series. Shift was developed by Slightly Mad Studios - who previously helped develop much more simulation-based titles such as GT Legends and GTR 2 together with SimBin Studios. Need for Speed Shift is the latest instalment of the long-running racing video game franchise.
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