Need for Speed Nitro – First Look

At EA3, the E3 preview event, I spent some time playing Need for Speed Nitro on the Wii. Some of you may know, but I am pretty bad at racing games. My favorite racing game is the older Burnout titles because it was good to crash into things. Something I do very well. I warned the guy at the Need for Speed Nitro demo that about my lack of skill with racing games and went for it. The first thing you will notice is that Need for Speed Nitro is really about speed. The team wanted to make sure it felt “fast” and they accomplished that. The nitrous gives you a burst of speed for racing through the streets. For those that do crash, the car will show various levels of damage. Glass will break, or steam will start coming out of the car. Pick up wrenches along the way

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Need For Speed: Pro Street Review

Platform: Xbox 360 ERSB: E +10 Genre: Racing Number of Players: Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: November 14th, 2007 Official Website Writer: Cherith Rating: 7.0 Rent I have to be honest. I’m not a big fan of racing games; the only games I like that are similar are the SSX line of snowboarding games. I wasn’t always this way, back in the day, I was a huge fan of the Road Rash series by EA. But through the years, I just haven’t been a big fan of racing games, although occasionally I see the appeal. I did my best going into NFS: PS to be objective to the genre as a whole, and I think it paid off. Graphics: Beautiful. Seriously, this game has graphics that I would expect from cut scenes in an RPG. It’s not like this throughout all the different parts of the game; I’d say the

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