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Need for Speed: Undercover
The Need for Speed series got another dose of Hollywood magic with the release of Undercover. Take on jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an international crime syndicate. As you win each race, you’ll go deeper into the underworld web that rules Tri-City… and then tear it apart right under their noses. You m...
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- Released
- November 17, 2008
- Developer
- EA Black Box
- Genres
- Action · Racing · Arcade · Open world
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
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EA Black Box's Need for Speed Undercover is an intense action racing title taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles.
Need For Speed Undercover is a difficult game to completely write off – for the most part, at least on 360, it plays fine. The cities are bland and generally uninteresting, but the cars look good and they handle well. That's normally half the battle. If you haven't played a NFS title in the past four years or so, Undercover might be a good place to get back on board. We can't really accuse it of not at least trying to resurrect the concepts that made NFS of yesteryear a firm fan favourite – fast cars, tenacious cops, open road. Unfortunately it did it all this by completely copying Most Wanted...