Need for Speed: Nitro

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Own the World?When you?re in first place, the walls of the city become covered with your graphic style. Now everyone knows that you?re the one leading the pack.
• Pick Your Ride?The style and spirit of the game are rooted in car culture, with 30 classic and modern licensed cars including muscles, exotics, tuners, and more. Plus, race on 15 tracks featuring traffic, jumps, canyons, and events.
• Battle to the Finish Line?Increase other racers? heat levels to sick the cops on them, manage car damage to maintain maximum speed, and build up nitro with skilled driving to take the lead. The race is never over until you cross the finish line!
• Extreme Customization?Trick out your car?s appearance using an incredibly deep yet intuitive customization system unlike anything seen on the Wii. Never before in a Need for Speed game have you had this much control over the look of your ride.
• Coop World Tour Campaign?Take part in illegal street races across five cities to unlock new cars, parts, tracks, and challenges. Up to three players can also join you to play cooperatively.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0029TKMR6
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 2, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,994 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Racing

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo DS

Amazon.com Product Description

Customize your car, take corners at 200 mph, and own your opponents. Need for Speed Nitro delivers the fun and exhilaration of high-speed racing with deep and challenging gameplay, where racing skills are not the only way to victory.

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Synopsis Master advanced techniques such as building up boost by taking risks on the road, then use it at the right moment to take the lead. But don't forget about the cops, who will do everything they can to disrupt the race. However you choose to race, never count on victory until you've crossed the finish line. Key Game Features: Own the World—When you're in first place, the walls of the city become covered with your graphic style. Now everyone knows that you're the one leading the pack. Pick Your Ride—The style and spirit of the game are rooted in car culture, with 30 classic and modern licensed cars including muscles, exotics, tuners, and more. Plus, race on 15 tracks featuring traffic, jumps, canyons, and events. Battle to the Finish Line—Increase other racers'; heat levels to sick the cops on them, manage car damage to maintain maximum speed, and build up nitro with skilled driving to take the lead. The race is never over until you cross the finish line! Extreme Customization—Trick out your car's appearance using an incredibly deep yet intuitive customization system unlike anything seen on the Wii. Never before in a Need for Speed game have you had this much control over the look of your ride. Coop World Tour Campaign—Take part in illegal street races across five cities to unlock new cars, parts, tracks, and challenges. Up to three players can also join you to play cooperatively. Nitro-Charged Multiplayer—Up to four players can take part in intense races across nine race modes: Race, Team Race, Own It!, Eliminator, Traffic Run, Drag Race, Speed Cameras Challenge, Drift Challenge, and Time Attack Challenge.

Product Description

Features include:

•Own the World?When you?re in first place, the walls of the city become covered with your graphic style. Now everyone knows that you?re the one leading the pack.
•Pick Your Ride?The style and spirit of the game are rooted in car culture, with 30 classic and modern licensed cars including muscles, exotics, tuners, and more. Plus, race on 15 tracks featuring traffic, jumps, canyons, and events.
•Battle to the Finish Line?Increase other racers? heat levels to sick the cops on them, manage car damage to maintain maximum speed, and build up nitro with skilled driving to take the lead. The race is never over until you cross the finish line!
•Extreme Customization?Trick out your car?s appearance using an incredibly deep yet intuitive customization system unlike anything seen on the Wii. Never before in a Need for Speed game have you had this much control over the look of your ride.
•Coop World Tour Campaign?Take part in illegal street races across five cities to unlock new cars, parts, tracks, and challenges. Up to three players can also join you to play cooperatively.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING FUN for little money!, May 11, 2010

By 

Jurai Blaze (US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Need for Speed: Nitro (Video Game)

First off I have completed 100% of both the NDS and Wii versions of this game. I still play them a lot, and I want more! Need for Speed Nitro has got to be the freshest, most original car racing game I've ever played on the Nintendo DS. GET THIS GAME AND GET IT NEW! Here is why:

GRAPHICS & PRESENTATION
The menus and screens are finely designed and easy to navigate the music can be changed while going through it all which makes things a bit more pleasant. There are 30 cars, fortunately they're all pretty awesome. Plenty different missions, all fun, good times there. The style of the cars and the graphics they're rendered in are nothing short of spectacular! The design of the cars is a very attractive, fresh and original one that goes perfectly with the fun world you'll race in. The levels are designed well, and while racing everything just looks amazing, especially for a NDS game! Car customization is okay but nothing special, good thing the cars already look awesome!! Also the screen shots for the NDS version of this game do no justice, it looks WAY better playing it first hand.

SOUND
The music tracks in the game are played with great quality! Some songs aren't too hot while others are pretty cool the tracks can also be changed while racing and having that option great. Racing and engine sounds are nice, even more so when using the nitro. Like many other elements the sounds also work great with everything else.(I sometimes turned the music off, played by the PC and blasted my own tunes which I thought was a neat idea, but the music here is still good!)

GAMEPLAY
For racing this really makes or breaks the game, fortunately it REALLY MAKES it! The controls and gameplay are very smooth, easy to pick up and very natural! Racing like a pro is accessible, in a good way and winning the harder races will require a good amount of logic and focus, and while some races might be easy the gameplay really keeps the fun alive! EA has done well tweaking the overall gameplay to perfection and I enjoyed the NFS Nitro games more than any other Need For Speed game.

CONCLUSION
For the price, wow, yes, get it! I got it new to support this awesomeness but that's just me. I am quite anxious for a sequel, it will rock. Now if you're looking for a Gran Turismo experience then.. no, but if you want a really cool, unique fresh take on racing what are you waiting for? DO IT!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, December 2, 2011

By 

Phyrman9 (South Jordan, Utah, United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Need for Speed: Nitro (Video Game)

With the release of the new Nintendo 3DS and the fact that the newer 3DS games are not backwards compatible good games for the older Nintendo products can be hard to find. This however, is a great game for the older systems. Our 8 year old throughly enjoys the game, though is a absolute freak about cars. It was easy for him to start playing the game and has gotten progressively tougher as he masters the various levels and turns off some of the "helps" or increases the difficulty. definitely not as educational as some games but entertaining none the less and that is the purpose here so mission accomplished!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some things are better then previous NFS's, yet some things are not., February 9, 2010

By 

Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Need for Speed: Nitro (Video Game)

I'm kind of up and down about how much to rate this game. On one hand the controls and speed seem to be much better then the previous NFS games on DS. They seem to have finally gotten it right this time... however, the look of the cars and graphics seem to have taken a down step from the somewhat realistic approach, to loony tune looking cars with cutesy style big wheels on them. This is not what you expect out of a NFS game. It looks like to improve there DS games, the people who bring you NFS took some ideas from Mario Kart and made these kid style cars with special maneuvers to overtake or jump cars in front of you.

It's not what I expected from a NFS game, this one seems to be aimed at kids more then the teen or adult demographic. It's made my desicion of how to rate it a little disorientating as I want to say it would probably be much better if the graphics where more like previous NFS games on DS, but then again, I never really did enjoy of the previous games anyway, and so far this has been the best one I have played so far. It just seemed a little weird you press a certain button at a certain point to go magically flying/flipping through the air to get in front of the car you are tailgating.

So i guess my conclusion comes down to, it's ok, but not the best racing game out there for the NDS. I personally think it is better then all other NFS games the DS has to offer so far, but I would still say the best racing game on DS is Sideswiped/Crash Kings. Check that game out for sure, but as for NFS, I wouldn't pay a lot for it, wait for it become cheaper or second hand... or COUGHDOWNLOADSCOUGH

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