"Say, where do all Need for Speed?» - That's the normal reaction of anyone who sees the Nitro for the first time. Provided that he is familiar with at least a few games series.
Disproportionate cars with huge wheels that appear on the giant skyscrapers Graffiti prohibitive rate and totally unrealistic physics - it Nitro. Why Need for Speed does not become a sudden now it is? Since its debut in 1994, "Need for Speed" took such a bizarre and more unusual shapes, that is simply nothing to be surprised. Simulations were excellent, were gaudy ring races have been street racing competition, were simply gray and "optional" game. But deliberately frivolous and thus truly colorful yet was not.
There is another important point. As a rule, all these years at Electronic Arts did not even thought about making exclusive releases for some individual platforms. Must take into account their specific features! It is not so much about the power (in this regard have been attempts, but it's just a question of the third), but about the target audience. Q: Do Wii owners another gloomy vellum with PS2? Or "serious" version with an eye on the Xbox 360 and PS3, only worse and less? Rather, much like the target audience would be a fundamentally different design, but always with their strengths, ideas and discoveries. Need for Speed: Nitro has become just that.  | |  | In total, only about three dozen cars, but Nitro - just a rare case when the number of irrelevant | | The very trail and roadside landscapes "broadcast" corporate graffiti leading player. Seemingly small thing, but what brilliant! Immediately draws attention |
It provides all the entertainment in the latest fashion: standard pie contests and competitions on time dragreysing, Race Shootout, Drift and races in order to achieve better results in speed. However, everything that happens deliberately unserious: controlled drifts obtained under the completely implausible angles, damage does not affect the management and repair of the car is done by matching bonus with the image of a wrench right on the highway. Opponents are behaving like children - are trying to push off the track, or send a tenacious paws police. And it's not irritating - here is in order. It is a pity that the good-natured and silly faces opponents can be seen only in short video introduction yes during the boot: the story is missing, there is only a series of consecutive events.
Be that as it may, within three seconds after the start of a player does not notice what is happening outside the TV screen, and another seven of his eyes begin to feverishly to shine.So colorful and fast Need for Speed has never been! In this case, no track, no car and no menu does not appear tasteless - the colors and design elements are chosen very carefully. And more often than not one race is simply no time to get bored, as lasts two to three minutes - less than one song from the soundtrack.  | |  | Cars not only resemble real prototypes - in the game represented the existing licensed (as strange as it in this case may sound) model | | In the garage you can not just paint your vehicle in the desired color and slightly tweak the appearance, but also to choose an individual graffiti |
And the songs here almost three decades. And it's one of those few cases where in Need for Speed is really relevant and electronic music and hip-hop. Of course, a selection of extremely aggressive: Evil 9, Alex Metric, Hollywood Holt, Danko Jones, Dizzee Rascal, Drumagick. But there was a place and the guitar riffs: Taking Back Sunday, Rise Against, Placebo, as well as the Street Sweeper Social Club. The latest information from the participants of Rage Against the Machine and The Coup sounds the most convincing - track Fight! Smash! Win! sets the right rhythm.
Under this kind of music and fun to overtake opponents, that's just the management of combat is not easy. On the one hand, it is here for everyone: You can use the Classic or GameCube controller, nunchuk remote control in a pair or only one console that can hold both horizontally and vertically - in both cases the controller will respond to movement in space, but in the second can generally keep the Wii-Mote just one hand. Why this need? Second hand pick up a glass with a drink - as advised developers. However, to attain this skill, we hasten to add, we have to zoom in Nitro than a dozen miles.  | |  | The police even behave aggressively, but do not spread out on the road spikes and causes no helicopters | | Corners of the world who will visit: Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Singapore, Madrid. This choice is no clear division into the city and the country seems quite appropriate in a bright and cheerful game |
And here, perhaps, lies one of the few unpleasant moments - get used to running with Wii-Mote and nunchuk (or simply using the Wii-Mote) very, very difficult. Keep in mind, the launch of Nitro in the first got the party, without prior training of participants is likely to fail. But the main thing - to start. Because Nitro fully reveals itself precisely in multiplayer mode. It contains not only all the above entertainment, but a few extra. And for those who are not eager to conquer a neighbor, the developers have prepared another very very unexpected surprise - the opportunity to play together.
Although not so important if you play in splendid isolation or in a noisy group of friends - the game may well be a kind of affection (especially if you do not overplay). After turning off the console you want to return to the Nitro again and compete at high speed with the living, or at least with computer opponents. Perhaps this can be described simply - thirst. Thirst for speed. It turns out that the question "What does this all Need for Speed?» Was dropped by itself.
 | Need for Speed: Nitro for Nintendo DS |
You have to compare: in the shadow of an older version of Nitro for Nintendo DS looks pale. Riot of colors is not observed, there is no graffiti, perseverance and ingenuity rivals, too, there is no traffic in sight, and the route of the same type. Soundtrack also lost the lion's share of tracks, but at least Crystal Method, Roots Manuva and Taking Back Sunday were - not the best choice, but not the worst. However, the most significant difference - the lack of an active police force. Custody order is at best a road block and do not move from their seats, even if the crash into them at full speed. Despite all this, to compare to, of course, no version for the Wii and Nintendo DS. Worth watching solely on other races for the two screen system. And then Need for Speed: Nitro, it turns out, is also ready to become one of the best games of the genre - Race Driver: Create & Race, GRID and Trackmania DS. One could say something in the spirit of "Why not - and Nitro, and all of these games did Firebrand Games, so there was no worry about anything." Nothing like this - happens in the studio and gross mistakes, so that another small victory to watch twice as nice. A small victory is awarded to score 7 points exactly.
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