As for your own personal level, you'll earn driver points for winning races and performing stunts like drifts or near misses and so forth.
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Why would I ever upgrade the lesser cars at that point? Why wasn't I first allowed to fully upgrade them before earning the right to buy better cars? The whole order of things is very screwy. I've had low tier cars in my garage that I've only been able to purchase the first of three upgrade packages for, while I've also been able to buy significantly faster vehicles. The car upgrades work the same way however, and things are not unlocked in an order that makes sense. I'm not a fan of the system, but that's fine.
Most of the cars are locked until you get to certain driver levels (which I'll come back to in a second), so you have to wait for them to become purchasable even if you have the cash. The game's upgrade and general car acquirement system also has its problems. If your car's ratings are half of what your competition has, you can probably win with ease. In fact, I've been able to smoke a lineup of Lamborghinis and Corvettes with an Audi TT, and that should never happen. It was fairly often that I'd win events by a good 20 seconds or so, and I'd have the worst car in the pack. This brings me to my next issue - the game is incredibly easy. Once you're able to get ahead, it's an absolute piece of cake to dominate them, especially if you head to the highway since they'll likely crash into someone and leave you with such a gigantic lead that you can come to a complete stop, start again and still have plenty of breathing room. One event type challenges you to get out in front of your competition and then stay ahead for a minute or so (or just pull away entirely). Not all events are like this, but they don't get much better. How can you have an open world game and not have any cross traffic to contend with in races?Ĭlick on the image to watch this video. In other words, there's no cross traffic to deal with. While transparent arrow walls would have been fine, this restricts not only you and your competition, but the traffic to the set race course as well. It's the game's way of putting you in a pre-defined track and not letting you veer from the beaten path. When you take part in any standard race, the game closes off the streets so that you can only drive on the correct route. The open world setting is also ignored in many of the game's events. Unless just feel like testing out your ride or just feel like exploring, there's no reason to drive around on your own. You can't come across any hidden events, new racers or anything of this sort. All of this means that unless you're running from the cops, there's absolutely no reason to drive around the city when not in an event. This will load up whatever your nearest event is, or in some cases, the next major event you're supposed to take part in. To begin an event, you can either head to the overhead map, which requires a couple of seconds of loading despite its utter simplicity, or simply press down on the D-Pad. You cannot even drive to an event to start it or enter your garage. That doesn't happen one bit in Undercover. The major reason for having an open world is to allow gamers to explore their environment, find new challenges, perhaps some hidden locations and generally hunt down people to race. Part of the reason for this is the game's complete and utter misuse of its open world setting. It fails on almost every front and is a major step backwards not only for the franchise, but racing games in general. The end result, however, is a game that has practically zero redeeming qualities. Undercover also seems to be directed right at the casual market, both in terms of presentation and its extremely relaxed learning curve.Ĭlick here to watch the video review. ProStreet didn't turn out too well, so Black Box went back to the drawing board and returned to an open world setting with this year's Need for Speed Undercover, but that wasn't the only design change.
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Last year's Need for Speed ProStreet was a diversion for the series from recent years, going to track-based racing, plenty of tuning options and focusing entirely on the events than exploring the city or running from the cops. With Burnout switching to an open world setting, it meant that it competed directly with Need for Speed in that space. While the franchise often worked to mix up the formula from year to year a decent bit, the release of EA's own Burnout Paradise posed a bit of a conundrum for the publisher. EA's Need for Speed franchise has been in an odd position the last couple years.
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