is a pretty ambitious racing game. Instead of your basic lap racing with unbelievably fast cars, this game takes on a more serious aspect with real-life driving physics, road handling and believable speeds in a grand attempt to immerse the player into a simulated driving world. And the developers were highly successful in doing so.
First you need to choose a car. The developers put a pretty impressive line-up of cars into the game ranging from the Porsche 911 to a Lamborghini Diablo. There are eight cars in all and each one handles differently, simulating their real life physics. After you choose your car, you're ready to race. Unlike most games, you can really only race against your arch-rival or do time trials. Along with your rival, you'll also have to watch out for motorists cruising along the various highways and scenic routes you drive through. For the most part, AI motorists abide by the speed laws and it is up to you to watch out for them while driving along, racing your rival. And because you're racing on realistically modeled roads, there are patrol cars out to give you a ticket. Fortunately, your car is equipped with a radar that alerts you when a police car is near by, so it's up to you to slow down and avoid getting ticketed. If the cops pull you over, you'll get a ticket and after a few, you'll be disqualified from the race.
As mentioned earlier, this is not your typical racing game. In The Need For Speed, you'll have to race on one of three different tracks, each realistically designed. There's the city course in which you cruise down a highway and up through the city; the alpine course which has you going through snowy and mountainous conditions and the coastal course on which you drive by oceanic scenery. While having only three different courses to race on sounds limiting, it's not. Each course is broken up into three different sections, or waypoints. Also, the courses themselves are all fairly long with an average length of 12 real miles. That is pretty impressive, as are the course designs. They're extremely realistic looking and are beautifully detailed with hills, scenic landscapes, speed limit and other road signs, etc. When you're in the first person, in-the-car view (there's two other external views you can choose), you feel like you're really driving.
While they're extremely fun to instigate, the only thing that isn't too realistic are the crashes. When you hit cars dead on, you flip high into the air instead of really crashing. Your car does not receive damage and neither do other cars. Sure, you can flip them on their sides and push them around, but it's not very realistic.
Still, The Need For Speed is a superb simulation/racing game that any fan of the genre should now be without. Everything from the outstanding controls and realistic physics to beautifully modeled courses screams excellence.
Graphics
Everything looks realistic in the visuals department. The courses are littered with life like scenery, beautiful texturing and landscapes, road signs and deer standing by the road. The driving engine is also very smooth and the framerate is decent.
Sound
All the cars have realistic sounding motor hums and tire squeals. Other than that, there's not really much to talk about in this category other than a few rocking tunes that are pretty standard and unoriginal.
Enjoyment
The Need For Speed is just a blast to play because it actually simulates real driving. The courses are beautifully designed and are very challenging and you never really get bored of playing them. Also, causing accidents is a fun little thing to do as you can watch them in an instant replay. You also get to outrace cops who are out to pull you over and give you a ticket, which adds to the adrenaline factor. I didn't, on the other hand, find watching repetitive video clips of the rival either insulting you or congratulating you over and over again enjoyable. Fortunately, you can turn this feature off so that it doesn't bug you.
Replay Value
Like I said, the game never feels boring and the car selection is decent enough to have you coming back for a very long time.
Documentation
The manual covers all the things you need to know in order to play the game. By Sir imran khan
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