

It takes both concentration and skill to complete and is a quite different experience to most of the other races in the game. Racing a super-charged Porsche around a city centre while being chased by cop cars, and only having a limited amount of damage before failing the event is a real thrill.

Most of the race types are exciting, with police chases and crime jobs being particularly adrenaline charged affairs. As your cash begins to pile up, you'll have the option of buying newer, better cars. At the beginning of your career you'll have a small number of older model cars to choose from, but money earned from race events lets you buy upgrades for your car like tyres, brakes, and nitro boosters, all of which improve your car's performance and help you win races. There are a large number of different race events, including point-to-point sprints, race circuits, outruns, police chases, and crime jobs. Winning race events or achieving race objectives opens up new events for you to race in. The World Map shows all of the currently available race events, which you can jump straight into by clicking on your chosen event.

The game takes place in an open world environment in which you can drive around exploring, looking for race events or taking part in ad-hoc police chases, with the aim of destroying as many police and other cars as possible.įor more goal-oriented gamers, the World Map, as opposed to the open world, is where you'll go after each race. With every race event you win, and every multi car pile-up you cause, you'll come closer to getting noticed until you're finally given a crime job to do. You're supposedly an undercover cop sent on a mission to infiltrate a criminal gang of street racers, but the only way to do this is to earn your very own bad-boy reputation out on the streets. The story is pretty thin, with short cut-scenes that fill in a little more of the story every time you win a race event.

With loads of powered up street and high performance cars, a menu of different race events, and an arcade racing style that doesn't get caught up in the niceties of driving, NFS Undercover will satisfy any racing fan.įrom the game's opening scene, where you're running from the cops in a high powered Lamborghini, NFS Undercover is all about action-packed racing. Need for Speed Undercover takes you into the world of illegal street racing as a police officer going undercover to infiltrate a criminal gang. What does this Nintendo Wii reviews score mean? ( opens in a new window) Teenagers, Adults, Racing Fans, Car Enthusiasts With a large selection of customisable cars, street race events to suit everyone's racing style, and an open world to explore, NFS Undercover is a fun action racer for any car racing video game enthusiast.
