Need for Speed: Undercover

The latest installment in the “Need for Speed” (NFS) series was released on the 20th. Titled “Need for Speed: Undercover,” the player takes the role as an undercover officer in the underground steet racing syndicate. (Available on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Wii, Microsoft Windows, PSP, and more)

Although the player takes the role as a “cop” (going as far as having cop cars obtainable) the series has not lost it’s street racing appeal. It has similar gameplay, but with ramped up graphics and customizations. The police are much tougher, and with better AI (or so they said).

Despite all this, critics gave the game a bad score. The game is reported to have many (unnamed) problems. The few named ones include: being extremely easy, poor AI, and generally nothing that could separate it from other games. In fact, they took out some of the material that made all the other games enjoyable!

However, A few critics gave it good scores for reasons such as its frame rate; but other then that, this game could be classified as a “failure”. To those planning to buy it, don’t. At most rent it, as you will most likely beat it and get bored with it in a day.