Need for Speed Undercover dated

Wii News | Slated for release this November.

Electronic Arts today revealed that the next title in the long-running Need for Speed franchise, Need for Speed Undercover will be heading to our shores in November.

According to EA, Undercover "takes the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces break-neck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles." The title will also feature "big-budget live-action sequences" that feature international actress Maggie Q (of Mission Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard fame) who will be playing Federal Agent Chase Linh in the game.

Need for Speed Undercover is expected to drop into our part of the world on November 21.

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9 Comments

Karai Pantsu

3 years ago

No! No, no, NO damnit!

No 'live action' scenes, no famous actors, none of this half-baked storyline ****. Take it back to it's actual roots, you hacks - just racing. Good racing with well designed tracks, interesting cars, and fun cop-chase gameplay. Hell, even before the 'hot pursuit' stuff was introduced in the third titles, the NFS games had fantastic arcadey driving gameplay - now they're a tremendous pile of 'meh' dressed up in 'next-gen' clothing.

shiraj

3 years ago

Actually most wanted was one of the better NFS games in the last few years - so this is a good sign .... hope they have day and night races in the same game unlike the last so many nfs outings which featured only day or night!!

rufati

3 years ago

As long as they don't do a repeat of ProStreet then it'll at least be a good game. Even better if the car handling goes back to the days of Most Wanted/Carbon.

Just not ProStreet. That was terrible.

Karai Pantsu

3 years ago

I enjoyed Most Wanted for a little while, but it grew pretty tiring after a while. It had some fun gameplay in it, zipping around the streets trying to shake the cops, but there was too much peripheral wank around it that just dulled my interest.

defstar

3 years ago

Can't agree more with both your posts Pantsu

inigel

3 years ago

They should turf the whole upgrade cars with turbos and bodykit thing. I am tired of the whole "boy racer" thing. Like what Karai Pantsu said; tale it back to its roots. Racing exotic cars that we can only dream of buying. Not bloody Honda Civics and Ford Focus' that we see a million of a day.

InvivnI

3 years ago

^My personal favourite NFS games were Most Wanted and High Stakes (which was basically Most Wanted with better graphics), so I largely agree with Pantsu that the "edgy" line they're trying to take (again) isn't really doing much for me. Though, on the flipside, to ditch the customisation would be a step backwards in my opinion. They should keep the customization, but make it entirely optional, like it was (largely) in NFS MW.

Also, with the recent success of the likes of Top Gear, Forza etc, surely it's time for EA to realise that exotic cars are back in, and tuner is now in the decline. By all means keep the Jap cars in for variety, but ditch the rubbish saloons that your dad might buy.

Deathfiend

3 years ago

I dont agree that Tuner cars are on the decline at all.

However in NFS games its getting stale. This might be another attempt to cash in on the up and coming F&F movie.

I'm tired of seeing my hobby done wrong also, they make drifting and touge so damn easy that there's no skill required to do it. If real life we're like these games I would have saved a lot of $$$ on upgrades for my car. But thats why I play Live For Speed haha. I can thrash a virtual car and leave mine in the garage until a track day approaches.

Skiller

3 years ago

Just give me NFS: Underground 3, most wanted wasn't too bad but underground 2 was alot better IMO. Hopefully they also go back to having a consistant driving model so you can drift in races and race in drifts rather than the completely crap carbon driving model where you are forced to do 1 or the other and made it very difficult to get used to a car.

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