How is it that such a massive gaming organization can take so many franchises and singlehandedly destroy them? I only really give a damn about racing games for the most part, but I cant imagine how many collective breaths of relief were taken when it was announced that EA wouldnt be taking over GTA to screw up yet another monster franchise. The NASCAR games are a prime example of why EA simply sucks balls. Every year the NASCAR series gets worse and worse, yet they keep trying to "innovate" instead of going back to the roots and sticking with the formula that worked. But what has really sparked this post is the newest Need for Speed game, Undercover. Wow! I cant believe how bad this game sucks! Take your least favorite racing game, **** on it, throw it down the street, and dont clean it before putting it back in your system. I guarantee the skipping, freezing, etc. still wont be nearly as annoying as the gameplay alone of NFS:UC.
So heres the storyline; youre a cop going undercover to try and take out a group of underground racers that may have been involved in stealing a bunch of cars (sound familiar?). You start the game out in the middle of a car chase in which it immediately become abundantly clear that there is not one racing game out there with worse handling cars! NOT ONE! After you finally get away from the cops, you basically drive your crappy car around a really crappy looking city trying to avoid cops and entering crappy races... Oh, and online mode sucks too.
The handling of these cars is simple atrocious! You can stop on a dime, and turn the same way, but if you hit the brakes your car takes so long to accelerate youve basically lost the race. So youre either forced to coast around turns or be full on the gas the whole way around and hope not to hit a wall or an oncoming car. Leave it to me, a guy that favors simulation racing, to actually brake when my race map shows a hairpin turn coming up, only to watch all the other cars fly by me without slowing in the slightest and never having the chance to catch back up.
The graphics are ****ing horrible. Regardless of my television settings on my 42" Plasma HD, I cannot read any of the type in subtitles or menus without some serious staring... just pisses me off. Ive adjusted every option in the game, in the PS3 and on my television and to no avail. The soundtrack blows, the story line is old, worn out, and just plain stupid... Basically, the game isnt worth the disk they put it on.
The fact of the matter is that this is whats been deterring me from purchasing these next gen games to begin with. However, at least with every one of the other games Ive purchased, theyve at least looked good. EA has failed with this game in ever aspect in which they could have. From utilizing the ability of the PS3, to innovating a new style of racing, to the game play overall, EA has failed miserably. The menu system is horrible, I have to hit X 3-4 times every time I want to select something, the game constantly freezes despite my new 320GB 7200rpm HDD, the career mode is about as in depth as the original Mario Kart, and the graphics would be rivaled by GT2. And while the screens posted in here look good, the in-game graphics are terrible.
Even if this game had nutritional value and I was starving to death I wouldnt eat it!
If they make a remake of this game with the same tracks and take some of the stuff from HP2 it would be the perfect NFS!
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I played for 2 1/2 hours and I'm already up to 32%. Handling wise it does definitely felt better than Pro Street, but now they made it terribly easy to turn. Most of the time I don't even need to brake, just lift of the gas and turn in and your car would slow down enough for that corner. But you still have to brake if your going about 200+KMH and try to turn a 90 degree corner. 
