Awesome product! Great value for the money

the graphics are not like grid but the gameplay and fun are much higher!

Sit down and hang on, because Need for Speed SHIFT is in stores now and ready to take you for the most thrilling ride you can go on without leaving your living room.

Accolades are pouring in from the gaming press, with IGN.com giving SHIFT a 9.0/10 score and the Editors’ Choice Award, calling it “a glorious return to greatness,” and The Official Xbox Magazine giving the game a 9/10, saying SHIFT is “..Literally the first time a videogame has ever made me think ‘Holy crap.. maybe I should slow down.’”

Need for Speed SHIFT is first-person driving. Feel the power of a McLaren F1 from inside the cockpit with the new in-car perspective that IGN says makes the driving experience “so close to the real thing.”

Strap yourself in to feel the G-force and see the 3-D HUD of the True Drivers’ Experience and tailor the game to your driving style solo and online with the new Driver Profile, which evaluates your performance from race-to-race and impacts which cars you can unlock and how you evolve throughout your driving career.

Hit another car or a wall at high speeds and you’ll be knocked around and disoriented by the Dynamic Crash Effect system.

You may not be adventurous enough to install a high-flow exhaust or drop a turbo into your own Nissan 350Z, but with SHIFT’s total customization system, you can create the Fairlady Z from hell and race it against your friends at home or online.

SHIFT has 72 photo-real high-performance cars and 19 beautifully rendered tracks you can race more than 50 different ways, including Laguna Seca and Willow Springs.

If you’ve ever wanted to tear up some blacktop in a snarling supercar, SHIFT has you covered with the Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Gallardo and Pagani Zonda F just three of your options for motoring madness.

Need for Speed Shift

Need for Speed: Shift is the 13th installment of the long-running racing video game franchise Need for Speed; published by Electronic Arts. It was announced in December 2008 as part of a three-game announcement that includes Need for Speed: Nitro and Need for Speed: World.[5] Shift was developed by Slightly Mad Studios in conjunction with EA Black Box and published for Electronic Arts. In the new franchising model for the series adopted by EA, Shift takes its place focusing on simulation/arcade racing rather than the arcade racing of previous titles in the series. According to EA, the game has sold 4 million copies on all platforms combined. Shift was commercially successful, and a sequel, Shift 2: Unleashed, is set for a release in 2011.

Love the NFS franchise but going downhill

Lets start with the controls, I had hoped that they would be practical...
Being the die-hard racing sim fanatic that I am, I drive standard gearbox with assists off (Anti-lock Braking System, Traction Control, Stability Management System) in likeness to the cars I drive daily. But, the controls were SO bad! The game defaults the L+R bumpers as down-shift and up-shift - making it nearly impossible to decelerate or accelerate while or after shifting. Shifting while braking/accelerating CAN be accomplished only by using your middle fingers as brake/throttle control - it’s nearly impossible to make precise, minute, critical changes in speed! However, controls can be altered slightly in the options menu (but they still suck BAD). Another problem with the games manual tranny is when the car goes into neutral when SHIFTING GEARS!!! I suppose the NFS team figured that neutral was the closest thing to the simulation of a clutch... Too bad there isn’t a clutch in the game, so there’s NO POINT in trying to simulate something in a game that DOESNT EXIST in it! Technically, cars do go into neutral when shifting gears, but literally making the car go into neutral in a video game is ridiculous!!! Again, throttle control goes out the window...
Maneuvering the cars is horrid... Minute, minimal, alterations of pressure on the L-stick yields random, unpredictable results - sometimes the cars barely move with precise control stick movement, and other times the cars veer as hard as they can to a certain direction - precise movement isn’t possible - speed doesn’t seem to change the maneuverability of your car, sometimes when at a crawl, your car may barely turn. These problems could probably be fixed with tuning and adjusting controls, but it’s not even worth the trouble - unlike in forza, you can’t tune your cars/controls in real time during playtime. Tuning/control tweaking HAS to be done at the main menu - worst mistake in any racing game EVER. Realistic steering/handling is impossible in this game...

The graphics are ok, some of the visuals are nice - nothing special, nothing to get excited about, nothing we haven’t seen before. Bottom line is that the Screen-shots look prettier than the actual game play...

Audio is also ok, cars sound pretty generic though... But, as with almost all recent NFS games, you hear your cars performance upgrades in effect when racing - VERY COOL, VERY REALISTIC. Turbo BOV is nice (could use some work), exhaust/engine upgrades add a little more oomph to the audio.

Customization was very disappointing. NFS is well known for in-depth car customization (or at least they were 3+ years ago...), but this game practically ditched that idea and kept customization to a few wheels, 3-4 full body kits, and crappy vinyl editing... Honestly, if customization is going to suck that bad, don’t even put it in the game...

I found the interface annoying. I don’t even know what to say about it, menu navigation was unusual and unconventional - it looked good but wasn’t designed in a practical fashion.

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Need For Speed Shift

The Need for speed franchise is exceptional, they have had the most advanced car games and have always been the first to introduce improvement, but they excel in races in cities, this title is like the Pro-Street title, it is not a game that is played in non-professional environement; it is a good car race title but it is not an "in-city" live race or chase title, which they are known for, so this title and the pro-street one are kind of dull compared to the other need for speed games. But there are, as always, improvements. Amongst those, I especially appreciate the come-back of the dashboard and I like the damage options. I hopoe Time will tell but I will like it more than pro-street which was the first NFS title that put me off (almost made me throw up in view of my expectations of this franchise). Hence why I put average although I have always expected that I would always put an 'Excellent' on games from this very good franchise. But It could go up if I get to take a liking to the inovations.

Need for Speed Shift **A must buy**

Need for speed is the best racing game out there. Right from the title opening to gameplay you are immersed in its spectacular graphics. You are given different options for how much control you want to have over the car. This allows for to set a game play to suit your novice level. There is an online game play where you can compete against other actual people. The different camera views give a much better perspective for what is around you. The surround sound also helps you to be able to hear when you are about to be passed. All in all a great game. If you are looking for a racing game, stop looking. This is the one for you.