Need for Speed: Shift (2009)
Genres:Simulator, Racing
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Need for Speed SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars.
Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver’s perspective through the combination of perception based G-forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the brutal experience of a first person crash dynamic. Need for Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every impact, every change of track surface and every last bit of grip as you push yourself to the edge.Show more
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GOG needs to get all the dropped Need for Speed titles. The only place to buy them now is privately for used disks. To say nothing that GOG could use as many racing games as it can get. The current catalog is a joke.
I have many fond memories of playing Need for Speed: Shift on the PS3 with a Thrustmaster Ferrari racing wheel. I loved playing a custom race on the smallest track, with the maximum drivers, a ridiculous number of laps, and crash into everybody to rack up aggression points. Ah, good times. Sadly, my PS3 is dead, so I can't play my copy of this game. The instant this classic gets on GOG I will buy it. Please make this happen!
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Burnout 2: Point of ImpactBurnout is a street racing game focused around speed and crashing. Unlike many games which focus on closed course driving, you get to drive through cities with real traffic and city infrastructure. Designers have built an entire city and surrounding areas, and implement the race courses throughput the countie's streets. As a result, many times certain parts of race-courses interlace with other parts of other races. As well, instead of encouraging strategic driving and safe driving, Burnout strongly encourages offensive driving. Driving on the wrong side of the road, barely missing passing traffic, drifting, and jumps all add to your boost "burnout" meter. Speed boosts and jumps aid your attempt to dive past buses, trucks and anything else that gets in the way. The more offensive and dangerous your driving is, the more boost you get!Action
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