Customer Reviews

Need for Speed: Undercover

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(16)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I was all excited that finally EA would return to the glory days of Most Wanted: police chases, open world driving, huge map, awesome graphics, great soundtrack...etc. NOT!

There is a reason this game is only [...] brand new (PC). It is a rip-off. This game is basically taking the Pro-Street driving engine, which stunk, and trying to merge it with a storyline similar to Most Wanted. In the end you get: lame, boring police chases, terrible-blurry-nausea-inducing graphics, extremely sensitive and unrealistic driving mechanics, a sound track that you disable within 5 minutes and another [...] bucks tossed into the dustbin.

Thanks for nothing, EA! I don't know who is making your product/marketing/producing decisions but they should be looking for a job after this 5 year demise of a great franchise. Only EA can thoroughly ruin something so fun and entertaining.

Sigh... I guess I'll have to play through Most Wanted for the umpteenth time.

The game was decent, definitely not my favorite in the NFS series, but it was entertaining at least. The vehicle graphics looked fantastic(although every road appeared to covered in Crisco). I gave it 4 stars because if you're looking for a deep storyline and revolutionary gameplay, you should probably look elsewhere.

There is a reason EA is not providing a demo of the game.

The game play is awful, not the same open world feel as in Most Wanted. The driving makes it seem like the player is driving a Zip Zap.

Story line is interesting.

EA Online Cops and Robbers is nothing like Midtown Madness 2's Cops and Robbers.

The game recognizes the Xbox 360 Controller but provides no force feedback.

Well, I loved the free-world feel of NFS Undercover as well as the amazing story line. But, the steering seems to always be lagging. They tried to account for body-roll and other common hindrances, but it was way over-done. It seemed like almost a quarter second between the time you hit over on the controller to the time the car actually responds which makes it extremely difficult to navigate traffic etc. at high speeds. I think the story-line could have used a tad more change throughout. It is annoying to me that they didn't use any sort of day-night real-time engine. It is kinda like underground 2 where it was always the same time of night. It is always daytime in this game.

I remember when this game first came out a few years ago. I wanted it for my PS3, but after the many many bad reviews I saw, I decided to wait until they patched the game. Around four years later, I decided to finally give it a go and paid $10 to download it from Steam.

I can't even begin to describe how happy I am I didn't blow $60 on this game, but I'm a little said I spent $10.

Need for Speed: Undercover is an arcade-style racing game that takes place in the fictious tri-city. Bascially, the entire map is of three different cities linked by a massive highway system. The story involves you, the driver, being undercover in order to dismantle an illegal crime syndicate. And that's where the fun ends. Yes, before it even starts.

For one, the game just looks awful. As I ran the game on high, the street constantly looks like it rained five minutes before the race even began. This, along with many many aspects of the game, gets old very quickly. Another thing I don't like is the glaring sun. The game looks as if it takes place at either an hour or so after sunrise, or sunset. Never midday, a time point where you don't have to worry about the sun making it almost impossible to not only see where you're going right in front of you, but to also see where you're going on the mini-map. Because of it's light-blue shade, anytime the sun in the game is anywhere near your screen, you're not going to be able to see it.

The acting is another abysmal part of the game. It's disappointing that the only thing I actually look forward to in cutscenes is to see how attractive Maggie Q looks, because I can always see that for free on the internet. Here you'll find your typical, "I'm trying to hard to be a cool bad guy, so I'm a colossal fail at it" type of characters. Your caucasian girl saying "Dog" because her boyfriend, who just so happens to be black (oh the irony) also thinks he's a tough guy by screaming into the phone about how he's going to get revenge for beating him last time. And, of course, you have your "Oh you think you're tough? Well I'm tougher. Just look at how my face gets twisted up!" characters. Seriously, EA? I could've done a better job.....FOR FREE!

But the main thing(s) that kill this game is.....well, the game itself. The controls have latency issues. It takes half a second for the car to respond to me turning left or right, but NoS and acceleration, along with breaking, are just fine? Along with bad controls, the AI is just plain braindead. And I don't mean braindead as in the game is too easy. I mean braindead as in they don't have any common sense....PERIOD! Cut in front of a driver and he'll t-bone you right into the wall. You don't even have to cut them off. You could be well ahead, and they'll catch you, spin you out, and another one will ram you even harder. Just happen to be a few inches away from another driver will cause them to ram you for no reason, no matter how wide the road actually is. I once started a race and the Porsche in front of me was going in REVERSE........I kid you not. The car was going in reverse. Traffic, for some reason, LOVES to turn in front of you, or spawn out of nowhere. If you're in one lane, traffic will sometimes try to cut you off, even though they're going 60mph and you're going 200mph. I've also seen traffic literally turn around, travel the wrong way, and hit you. And the cops? pfft, laughable. Doing the missons where you have to steal a car becomes so annoying 80% of the time. Cop cars will literally, and I mean LITERALLY, spawn right behind you, out of nowhere. You could be racing, the driver's 10 seconds behind you, your radar isn't going off, they haven't even mentioned the cops being alert to street-racing, and POOOF! there's a cop car behind you. I've seen cop cars spawn behind me when I've almost evaded them, and they have also spawned in front of me as well.

And one more gripe. The game becomes too difficult too quickly. One point, you're destroying everything in a 240sx, and the next, you're sitting in a Tier 3 car and Tier 1's (the highest tier) line up next to you. So someone, please tell me. How is a stock Skyline GT-R R34 supposed to beat a tuned Lamborghini Murcielago? I'll give you a hint: It can't. They're not even in the same class in real life. Why make me race cars two tiers ahead of mine?

Need for Speed: Undercover is the exact opposite of Most Wanted, which is based on a similar, epic street-racing, illicit acts, avoid the cops type of style. Most Wanted had characters that, granted had their cheesy moments, still were at the very least decent and fit the story line very well. The cops were smart and didn't say "uhm, they're driving a blue sports car....I think", they had more dialogue, more believable dialogue, more intellectual dialogue, and the game was a complete blast all around. It still is six years later. Undercover, however......honestly, let's not even talk about it anymore. Yup, it's that bad. It's not worth pirating because of how bad it is.

This game is not what i expected it to be. The trailers showed how fast and intriguing, and also cinematic the game was. But after i bought it,it was slow and not exciting at all

Highly disappointed. The game doesnt work properly. It freezes after a certain level and then doesnt move further. The most disappointing fact is no support available. Even they dont support on the ea website.

Got a little problem when getting the game to start after installing on a Win 7, but after that things are ok. It is a good game but still prefer underground more.

Best Need for speed game I played. I liked it more then old or new NFS games. Didn't have any bugs, cool cinematics, story,graphics. It's worth a try.

kind of old and no body plays it any more plus you really need an option file before you play