Sports Games

If you have the latest meetings in Cologne and Paris, we were pleasantly reassured, the test conducted in London, in the context of recent events and Showcase, there has definitely convinced that Need for Speed: The Run has the credentials to be a arcade driving game fun, compelling and altogether quite strong and particular identity apart from the competition (even inside the same mark Need for Speed).

The default is now known, also because it is the one who initially did turn up their noses to many: The Run is not just a "simple" driving game, but also wants to bring an exciting and compelling journey through the most action famous in the United States. The protagonist has a large debt with bad people and to try to get out of trouble, he decides to tackle a huge race on four wheels that will take him from San Francisco to New York. For more action sequences that are born, complete with a Quick Time Event, which we felt at the time of E3 2011, but since then there have been no submitted. In subsequent meetings, as well as in the latter, we are dedicated to driving alone, discovering other highlights of the game.

The plant is blatantly arcade and provides the second strand Burnout, a driving model very simple and straightforward, focusing on recklessness aimed accumulation of nitro, but not without rewards. The machine is controlled with pleasure, hurtling between the spectacular scenery (especially if you rely on the asphalt pasted into the scene) and gives good emotions. Sure, you can turn up their noses to the graphics engine anchored to 30 frames per second (on PCs), but the word "anchored" at least, gives him a smile, especially considering the breadth and strength and scenarios in which there is a dart: slowdowns do not even see the shadow.

A strong characteristic of the environments of Need for Speed: The Run is given by the sense of scale and hyper-realism that can guarantee. In London we traveled four sections of the long journey of Jack Bourke, darting through the streets of San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, South Dakota and Chicago. The writer, for sheer coincidence, has returned from a trip to your car along the west coast of the United States and found himself able to compare impressions still fresh in the memory of places visited by just playing the first two tracks in question. And the feeling was really good: both San Francisco and the Yosemite Valley are reproduced environments with great attention to the sensations, the feeling that these landscapes are very special to offer. There is not a perfect reproduction of the topography or roads, but a reinterpretation of high octane rate, which captures the characteristic features and individual elements easily recognizable. We find ourselves therefore to take a hypothetical and spectacular taste of Yosemite Valley, to take at full speed invaded by Bay Bridge traffic or speeding toward a fearless Transamerica Pyramid, which is titanic, huge, high, far more than the real one. In short, an excellent job on the environment, who may have relative importance for those who never knew them personally, but can give a bonus for those who know what they're talking about.