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Need For Speed: The Run
There has now been three Need For Speed games that have hit the shelves in the past twelve months, and there are rarely moments in Need For Speed: The Run, the latest of them, that massively impress. The new game is arcade-focussed, thus a follow-on, of sorts, to the Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit version,…
Driver: San Francisco by Ubisoft
Missing, presumed dead. That’s a fair summation of where the Driver franchise found itself. Having once been one of the biggest series in videogames, a very poor sequel – Driver 3 – drove the franchise into a ditch from which it’s since barely recovered from. But with Driver: San Francisco, there’s a sense that it…
Shift 2 Unleashed by EA
Need For Speed’s latest instalment, Shift 2 Unleashed, set the tone with its opening title sequence – fast action, uncompromising competition and bone-jarring pile-ups. All racing games constitute some form of compromise between pure arcade racing (where the emphasis is all about speed and outwitting the opposition) and true simulation (where you approach as close…