Need for Speed: Undercover | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 359
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 0 x 0.6
MPN: 15591
Model: 15591
UPC: 014633358711
EAN: 0014633358711
ASIN: B001AZFSG0
Release Date: November 17, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Go Deep Undercover - Race into an action-packed story of pursuit and betrayal. Take on jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an international crime syndicate | | • | Highway Battle - Fight off the cops and others as you take down your prey in high-speed, high stake multi-car chases. New and vastly improved AI mechanics mean more aggressive and intelligent cops focused on taking you out fast and by any means necessary | | • | Criminal Scramble - Be a cop and chase down criminals in the Criminal Scramble Mode | | • | Heroic Driving Engine - lets you pull off amazing moves for the ultimate driving edge |
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Product Description
You never thought it would turn out like this?an all-out chase where you're both the hunted and the hunter. Now you must get behind the wheel and risk everything to infiltrate a ruthless international crime syndicate and take them down. The man you're after is a maniac behind the wheel, and he's driving like his life depends on escape, which maybe it does. He's the one with all the answers you need, so track him down. That fleet of police cruisers in your rearview mirror won't make things any easier. It will take all of your experience?and every ounce of skill?to outrun the law, take down the enemy, and unlock the truth that puts an end to this chase once and for all.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Could Use a Tune- Up... December 31, 2008
Joseph Sayre (Chemung NY)
I play racing titles, its what i do, and believe me, there is a special place in my heart for the arcade racers. If you like the feeling of speed, and challenging opponents (cops or otherwise), and a good reason to play (immersive story or awesome unlocks) Look Past this title.
First off, the graphics are miserably bad, pro street looked better and to tell the honest truth, so did carbon and most wanted. Everything is grainy and jaggedy in HD, but is actually a bit better on a SDTV. On top of that the bloom lighting tends to make those problems worse. To make things even worse, the game has serious framerate and pop-up problems. The frame-rate slows to a crawl after using your speedbreaker (X) or (square) and when going through dust, smoke, dirt, a wreck, or lots of traffic. AKA 50% of the time. Its horrible.
The soundtrack is a joke, and i promptly disabled it. But the motors, and tires and the ambient sounds are wonderful. I love the whoosh sounds you hear weaving in and out of traffic.
Gameplay is more or less unchanged, nitrous returns to its controllable state (non burst nitrous) but the game falls victim to de-ja-vu, its feels like need for speed, but the formula is still the same word for word as before. The gameplay has several flaws in racing, and when not.
Racing first:
Cars more or less handle the same, meaning that none of them seems to be different than another other than the outer shell, its makes the game easy to pick up but kind of defeats the point of more than one car. The Slowdown can mess you up really bad, since reaction times matter so much in racing, being off by a little can mean the difference between winning and losing. Finally, in tight races when its hundredths of a second between a win and a loss (the master races) you often will be spun out by the AI who A: never really screws up in normal races and B: follows thier line no matter what which means they'll nail you in the rear and spin you out getting into a corner. It makes races frustrating losing like that.
Freeroaming is now what i'll cover.
There is no garage/safehouse, just the pause menu. uh.. i guess my cars are stored in my pocket?everything is done trough the pause menu, purchase of cars, tuning, changing cars, whatever you need. it screms why. Why go through all the effort of making a big world and then put no reason to explore it? This is further compounded by the lack of discoverables (that's right you can drive by a shop 300 times but it won't be accessible until you boss tells you where it is, and even then it doesn't matter where it is because all of the parts are right there in your pause menu.) The free roam is pointless, there are no events listed at were the races are actually, but there is a gps event reminder at the bottom of your screen, by pressing down on the d-pad you are thrust into a event which is either the next part of the story, a shop reminder or a cop chase. The reminder is big, annoying, and is a shortcut to the gps shortcut race menu. There is absoluely no point to the open world at all, which makes the game just like prostreet essentally in race selection structure (pick a race, race it, pick next race.) its boring.
The story is played in over-acted snippets and is predicatable and is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
Undercover has what it takes to interest a younger child as a rental but its so ugly and unchallenging. The game will take sereral days to complete, i almost beat it in a day. not even 20 hours. It just doesn't have what midnight club los angeles does in terms of immersiveness and challenge. Its just a whole lotta average in a badly animated package. Y'know what though? it does have a lot of what Most wanted did and it feels a lot like that game did. thing is EA, if i wanted to play Most Wanted, I would. And if i didn't have it already i'd buy it for a quarter of what Undercover costs. Most Wanted was a great game, but that's no excuse to make it twice.
Dem need a 2 year break! December 24, 2008
Cheldoy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's like most wanted with an expansion pack....Jahkno!
All yuh need a break be more creative tek a rest and go back to the drawing board if this crap did nuh ave online play I would ah dump it inna di trash it LAME! Graphics pon an average depend on the tv, game play irie just the concept that SUCKS!
Cool Racing Game December 20, 2008
Amazon Reviewer29
This game is a pretty cool racing game. Ive owned and played need for speed most wanted and midnight club: los angeles. I ended up selling my copy of midnight club:los angeles. I just liked this game much better I guess because Im used to the whole need for speed franchise. I also like EA games in general. I know there not as good as before but I still think they make pretty decent games. I found midnight club: los angeles to be nice but just didnt seem like what i was looking for. It seemed just like smaller version of gta IV. Without the character getting out of the car and taking place in la instead of ny. I enjoy the police chases much more in this game then midnight club. I also found the sound to get annoying in midnight club. Graphics wise I would their both good in their own ways. Both look really great on a hdtv. Game play I would say need for speed undercover is better with the videos in between explaining the story and whats going on. Need for speed undercover is very similiar to need for speed most wanted if you like that one which I did. EA still makes some great games.
Hitting the wall December 13, 2008
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
Another year, another Need for Speed game; we all know the drill. Instead of basically putting a little new polish on an old title, Need for Speed: Undercover instead finds EA's long running street racing series reverting back to the days when the franchise was churning out tired and boring installments. Undercover follows the same formula we've pretty much seen with Need for Speed: Most Wanted onward, only Undercover hardly has any of the charm, or fun factor, of that game, Carbon, or Prostreet. The open world setup of the game just comes off as being a pointless feature considering there isn't too much that you can actually do in it. Add to the fact that the city itself just bland, lifeless, and dull. The racing itself isn't too bad though, although it won't take long to get repetitive and just come off as what you've played before in countless other Need for Speed games, albeit done much better and more exciting. The game's soundtrack is decent and the cars look pretty alright as well, but in the end, the game is a sadly boring breeze. All in all, Need for Speed: Undercover doesn't offer anything you haven't played before, and sadly, anything you've played better either.
 Brilliant. December 10, 2008
Andrew
I don't know why others are having freezing problems. maybe get a new xbox. I've never had problems. This game is brilliant the only problem is they could of added more vehicles. I play this game everyday. stop the bad reviews its alot better then pro street. lets get back to need for speed underground 2. Best ever. on the road to it. good job.
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