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Need for Speed: Shift
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The first Need for Speed game developed by Slightly Mad Studios. "Shift" is an attempt at the simulation sub-genre of racing games, promising a sense of speed with new realistic effects and a new crash mechanic.
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"Need for Speed: Shift does a lot of the things you'd expect a sim-style racing game to do, but it does so in a passionless way that's really off-putting."
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EA Shifting the franchise to a whole new level!

Game play: To point off the amazing new additions of this game it has incredible solid driving mechanics. Need For Speed Shift isn't like any other simulation games, this game is easy to adapt to, the… Read more

The best Racing Game of this Generation

Introduction So I got Need For Speed: Shift as a Christmas gift this past holiday, and after getting hooked for a good week or so, I picked up Assassins Creed II and never went back until this past we… Read more

Need for Speed: Shift Review

Need for Speed: Shift is EA’s newest foray into racing. Long gone are the street races known to many NFS fans, now replaced by both real and fake circuit tracks. The game will start you off on a test… Read more

In a mediocre middle ground

I’d like to start off by saying that EA could not have picked a more appropriate name for their latest title in the long running Need For Speed series. Not only is the game about racing really fast in… Read more

Need for Speed: Shift - Facebook Status Update Review

"Need for Speed: Shift" (2009, Slightly Mad Studios) - Above-average visuals and presentation meet a wildly schizophrenic physics model that at times, borders on completely broken. A half-baked drift… Read more

Flawed but Close to Greatness

First of all, Shift seems really unpolished. I really think Shift is the latest victim of rushed releases as a result of a down turn in game sales. What's here is good and there are hints of a really… Read more

Thank God i did not buy this crap.......

the reason i started playing video games is because of the racing genre. i had my hands on brilliant and not so brilliant racing games. i have played racing games ranging from 1982 Pole Position, to t… Read more

The Best Racing Game I have played this Year So Far

There hasn't been a great need for speed game since Most Wanted, Carbon wasn't that great, prostreet was just lame and undercover was just most wanted except everything was worse and you needed sun gl… Read more

Shaft your opposition

I halfway feel bad for underground illegal street racers, for their culture has stagnated in the eyes of the world. After a couple dozen Fast and Furious movies, a couple dozen more bad spinoffs (who… Read more

Good luck, have fun, race for the podium.

I want to start this off by saying I'm no gear head. I don't go around looking at cars, asking about gearing ratios or turbos, "what kind of shoes does your car have on" or even "what kind of engine y… Read more

Traded it in 4 days after release!

I was really anticipating Shift, it looked amazing before the game came out so I pre-ordered it. They called me on release day and I went and picked up the game payed $65 for it, played it for a while… Read more

A great racing game in its own right...

My first review for this site so be nice. I write reviews to help my writing skills so don't take it so seriously. I have also played the 360 version a lot at my friend's but this review is based off… Read more

Competent, but seriously lacking in imagination.

Need For Speed: Shift marks the first game in EA’s Need For Speed series reboot, leaving behind the street racing titles that have been the mainstay of the series for the last five iterations. Shift s… Read more

ABSOLUTE CRAP

I Tried, I REALLY TIRED TO LIKE THIS GAME! But its just wrong, ALL WRONG! Lets start with the handling: it just feels wrong! it doesn't feel conventional AT ALL, and I've played a LOT of race car game… Read more

A flawed reboot

With sim race giants like Forza and Gran Turismo (maybe) on the horizon I couldn't figure out why NFS wanted to enter the market with those powerhouses pretty much owning both platforms. However I saw… Read more

Pretty good...pret-ty-pret-ty good

I’ve been playing NFS for over 10 years, and I think this is the best edition yet…the cockpit cam is great, and the physics are amazing. This is my first NFS on a next-gen system, and I’m blown away b… Read more

Wilde Ride - Not Gentle

Generally - I really like Need for Speed : Shift. Nothing in racing games was ever so exciting than 16x Bugatti Veyron 16.4 racing down the Nordschleife (Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Invitational). Quite frank… Read more

Not your fav racing sim

EA has released some of the worst driving games you'll ever play over the last few years. They didn't look good, handled badly, had poor AI etc. When they announced that they're going to release Shift… Read more

From the perspective of a sim-racing fan

I am quite a hardcore racing sim fan. I own a g25 steering wheel with a clutch and H-Pattern shifter, I’ve dropped literally hundreds of hours into GTR and rFactor and for me, playing games like GRID… Read more

Cockpit View FTW

I am really enjoying playing this game. The Cockpit view is absolutely fantastic. I also like the career mode, there is rarely a time when you do not have the right car to compete in an event, and the… Read more

A surpisingly well done NFS title.

Short, Sweet and…. unedited. First off this new NFS game isn’t the typical slam bam thank you mam, speed fest we’ve become accustom too. This game try’s to dip it’s feet into the sim racing field and… Read more

Quick Shifting

It's not the deepest racing sim on the market and it's not the "fast and furious" style game that the most recent dozen NFS games have been, but SHIFT happily straddles the line between the two withou… Read more

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