NFS Shift £7.50 on D2D....still worth picking up?

Burnout Paradise is a brilliant pick up and play arcade game. Race07 is an excellent sim. Shift is neither.

I hope that explains my point a bit better for you.
 
alexhull24 said:
Burnout Paradise is a brilliant pick up and play arcade game. Race07 is an excellent sim. Shift is neither.

I hope that explains my point a bit better for you.
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I'm a casual racing gamer. i don't play games for long stretches, and I like games which I can just pick and play for a bit then set aside for a while. Shift works very well for me.

I liked Dirt 2, Grid, and Toca 3 the same way.

I haven't managed to get into Burnout Paradise, as I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I think I need to explore the map a bit to find my feet, which means it's NOT a good pick up and play game, until you have played it for a bit (or other games like it, which I haven't).
 
alexhull24 said:
I'm closer to agreeing with you than anyone else in this thread. I really don't like the ridiculous handling this game has. With a 360 pad or wheel it's just totally unrealistic and in no way fun. In my opinion it fails massively at being a sim, but at the same time also fails horribly at being a fun pick up and play arcade game. It sits in a uninteresting and frustrating middle ground, coupled with the stupid handling and irritating bulk (videos, points/stars etc) there's nowhere near enough to keep me interested for more than a couple of plays.

Now with mods, it may improve, but it's too far off to ever be a good game. I'd keep your £7.50 and spend it on any number of better titles. You can pick up Race07 for that sort of money I would have thought, or Burnout Paradise. Both do what they're supposed to brilliantly.
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But what does Race 07 offer? No single player content at all really. Just one off races against the AI. No rumble support for pads, awfully drab graphics (even with the ENB mod)?

There is too much going on around the tracks I'll admit but most of that can be removed fairly easily with mods, try the no bling mod ?

I play on a pad and used to fair quite well in the time trial championship that were run on here.

Not trying to convince you or anything as you've clearly made your mind up but I think that with mods, the game can be almost anything you want it to be from an arcade racer to a fairly hardcore sim.
 
I am still suffering from major issues with the steering. Basically with a pad or keyboard, at any speed the car jerks and understeers round the corner. I tested it out doing 5-10mph and it understeered the same as if I was doing 100mph. It actually made the game unplayable. I tried to setup the game better, looking around the net and so forth for settings and it seems that with a racing wheel its fine, but anything other it just fails. I think I will stick with Forza3 on my 360. (I cant believe I am choosing a console over a PC game...lol).
 
GTR evo has a lot of fun championships that you can set up. For 3 years and running now I have played evo pretty much non stop.

Shift is a fun racer to play and it really is the best looking racing game I have seen. I'm not a fan of the career mode though. But for £7 thats a no brainer :)
 
Those who are whinging that Shift isn't a realistic sim, go and race on a real track. To the OP, by all means pick this game up. It is well worth it. It is awesome. Good fun, even better with a Logitech G25 wheel. When I play it, I don't act like I'm being serious with it, I just enjoy it as much as possible. Physics and all that don't bother me.
 
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