Most of the players’ reactions to the last games of the series “Need for Speed” were like: “Why is not more like NFS Most Wanted?” or “Why are so many boring movies and excessive police chases?”. It seems that people from EA have listened to these views, because, for better or worse, “NFS Undercover” is more like the “Most Wanted”. In “Undercover” you will play the role of an undercover cop. Along with agent Chase Linh, played by Maggie Q, your mission is to seize a group of speeders who race through the city streets and who managed to get involved in an international trafficking network. This story will stimulate you to win race after race, waiting for the incendiary end.
As in many other games of the series “Need For Speed“, the most races you will attend will take place in an open urban area called Tri-City Bay. You’ll start with a pathetic car, but will not be long until you’ll be able to get a real vehicle, built especially for speed racing. As you progress, you earn money that you can use to access the over 50 new cars, belonging to manufacturers like Nissan, Cadillac, Ford, Porsche, Lamborghini, BMW, Aston Martin, Mitsubishi and others. If you’re good and you like to play with your car’s performance, you can personally take care of each individual part, but if you do not want this issue in detail, you can purchase an upgrade package of the car and start without problems.
In addition, not only you’ll earn money for won races, but also you win points for their dominance, ie for a detached victory. These can be used to improve your driving skills in some attributes, but, in principle, speed brings you victories. The game encourages you to drive in style, with slippages, evolve very close to other competitors but, besides the fact that the boost level grows with Nitro Boost, is hardly a reason to do it. A new element is the appearance of J-shaped bend, which lets you perform a quick return of 180 degrees, helping you get the tight curves and get rid of police crews that want to stop and to arrest you.
If we were talking about cops, they are back in force in “Undercover”, and, mostly, are welcome. You will need to pass the challenges such as injury or complete destruction of a number of police teams, but also other challenges such as damaging to a certain amount of money the public domain, police vehicles also entering into account, and these tests will prove very satisfactory because it will give you the chance to take revenge on all moments when the boys in blue have messed up your way. Certainly, you do not have to slam all the cars just to destroy them … you can make a surprise hitting cars loaded with logs, electricity poles, billboards, etc.. These dangers will be quite effective for the desired result and, moreover, looks great. When seeing them stretching spines along the road … then the joy finishes, less if you can avoid the trap.
However, “Undercover” is not a game of confrontations with authorities. In this game you have to participate in races in which to keep the No. 1 ranking for a certain period or win a certain distance from your opponent. Sometimes you have to get rid of pursuers trying not to scratch a stolen car. Of course, not missing any races with checkpoints and pre-racing circuit. Some of them you will seem quite heavy, because you will not be the only driver in the game who knows its driving skills. There are chapters on the “Need for Speed: Undercover” that really excels, such as multi-player online mode “Cops and Robbers” in which thieves try to collect some money, and those who play the police must prevent them.
Because you can “teleport” directly to the nearest race or using the GPS at any race you want, without having to bother to get there, this version of “NSF” will not ever get to be boring, and the driver can navigate smoothly from race to race. So if you’re one of the hardcore fans of the series “Need For Speed”, you’ll find many great elements on your like in “Undercover”. Even if it doesn’t have many new elements, we cannot deny the quality of play and the fun obtained from driving through the city and trying to escape the police and destroying the public property.
To fully enjoy this game, your system must meet the following technical requirements: Windows XP (SP2) / Vista, PC with processor of 3.0 GHz / 3.2 GHz for Vista, 512 MB RAM / 1 GB for Vista, 6.3 GB of free hard disk space, video card with 128 MB of its own memory, DirecX 9.0c and compatible components and Internet connection for online multi-player.







