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IGN: Need for Speed Undercover Review

Need for Speed Undercover is a poor game with a ton of problems, both technically and in terms of design. The open world design is completely lost as you can't actually drive to any event, many races are closed off which means no cross traffic, and it's incredibly easy. The presentation could have been good but winds up feeling totally contrived and confusing at times. The game could, and should, have been leaps and bounds better than it is. As it stands, though, there's absolutely no reason to pick this up over the likes of Burnout Paradise or Midnight Club: Los Angeles, both of which demolish it in every way possible.

Presentation - 6.0
Graphics - 5.0
Sound - 8.0
Gameplay - 5.0
Lasting Appeal - 6.0
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5 / 10

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Published: 414 days 4 hours ago | Review | Xbox 360 | PC

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Steven Colbert - 414 days 4 hours ago

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Looks like this series is officially taking a nosedive

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SonyOwnsNextYear - 414 days 2 hours ago

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and to think, i actually thought EA actually was trying after dead space

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Sarcasm - 414 days 1 hour ago

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Actually it took a fat nose dive with Pro street.

One of my worst game buying mistakes.

Looks like the series is officially STAYING under.

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Alvadr - 414 days ago

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Yep, I can remember the original NFS games, every one was a classic. Now they are just dragging the franchise through the mud thinking that anything that says Need for speed on will sell.

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mercyless9 - 413 days 23 hours ago

1.4 - IMO...

Criterion Games should develope the next NFS game as they do a great job and their games are not ported. I love NFS and i cant see it go down like this.

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cRaZyLeGs 93 - 413 days 17 hours ago

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Midnight club FTW!

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BattleAxe - 413 days 11 hours ago

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@ 1.4

Actually, the PS3 was the lead platform for Burnout Paradise(Criterion) and it was ported to the 360.

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Jamegohanssj5 - 414 days 3 hours ago

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ROFLMAO! I knew it!

TGSI

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J@D - 413 days 19 hours ago

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How doesn't know it ^^

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hotrider12 - 414 days 3 hours ago

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now, this is the 3rd review I read and all I read is poor scores and bad reviews. IGN GIVE IT A 5/10 GAMEPRO GIVE IT 2.5/10 GAMEPLAY GIVE IT 6.5/10 ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE NFS IS HOPEFULLY IN 2009 EA WILL MAKE HOTPURSUIT 3 OR HIGH STAKES 2 ENOUGH OF OPEN WORLD CRAP. EA should really take it back to it's rooots

I'LL SKIP THIS LIKE I DID PROSTREETS

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hay - 414 days 2 hours ago

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Gamepro gave it 2.5/5 actually.

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St0 - 414 days ago

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Agreed 500% hotrider12, openworld sucks for NFS games. GTA's the only game that suits openworld imo

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Foxgod - 414 days 3 hours ago

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Need for speed is getting better every year.

Hot persuit on the PSX used to be one of my favorite racers, how can they screw up so badly.

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VMAN_01 - 414 days 3 hours ago

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Fucc me Underground NFS completely ruined the series.

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LastDance - 414 days ago

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No...no...the series was ruined long before this game.

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Final_Rpg - 414 days 2 hours ago

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Definitely picking this one up after that stellar review.

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Jenzo - 414 days 2 hours ago

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EA should hire some talent from the now defunct Sega Racing studio.

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SolidLiquidSnake - 414 days 2 hours ago

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That is really a bad score for a NFS game! What happened? I used to love NFS games and now, since Most Wanted, no one really gave me that joy I had whith the older ones!

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KnaveX - 414 days 2 hours ago

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wait how did graphics get a 5?

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CoVsTa - 413 days 21 hours ago

9.1 - yeah u know!

graphics are immense, they jus takin the piss cuz its ea, i bet this game will kick ass really, most wanted was the king, bring tht sort of thing back and the franchise is the nuts again.

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KidMakeshift - 414 days 2 hours ago

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Need For Speed hasn't been good since Hot Pursuit 2 for the PS2

The Fast And The Furious completely destroyed this franchise

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LastDance - 414 days ago

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swear to god, i made the exact same comment the last time NFS had a new release.

after hot pursuit 2, it went all asian and well..lets just say they deserve the scores they are getting.

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kopicha - 414 days 1 hour ago

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still like the old NFS classic series over the newer ones. they seems to lose track on how NFS series are meant to be. i was about to get this one as i see they they seems to bring back the root of NFS games but i have always hesitate about it. but i should thank god now i didnt pick up my copy. guess its a pass for me again for this NFS

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MaximusPrime - 414 days 1 hour ago

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phew im glad i didnt preorder this game. I went for Midnight Club LA.

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thehitman - 414 days 1 hour ago

13 - Man.....

I been longing for a good racing game and none has risen.. NFS use to be my favorite racing game from back when I use to play it on PC to the last good 1 they made underground 2. I havent played this 1 but by the looks of it its not worth playing ... Cmon EA hire some better talent on NFS or fire the ppl who obviously are not thinking right.

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Strife Lives - 414 days 1 hour ago

14 - EA said theres 3 NFS dev teams

Each team has a certain time to put out a game. This startd 3 years ago.Pro street took 1 year to make.Undercover startd late last year or early this year.And next years game was made with a combination of all 3 dev teams ,team 1 from the start and team 2 and team 3 after pro street and undercover respectivly after their game was done with.With that said,next years NFS will probably rock.this half ass attempt sucked,as did pro street.Just get back to Most Wanted everybody.

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Squatter Nut Bosh - 413 days 23 hours ago

15 - EA published Burnout Paradise too didn't they?

If you guys bought Dead Space there's a couple demos for Burnout and Battlefield something.

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theEnemy - 413 days 23 hours ago

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Guys, let's not support this game.

Look at the PSN Store, there's too many NFS:U Paid DLCs that should have been IN-GAME for FREE!.

If we buy or support this game, I wont be surprised if future games will also do that sh1t.

And yeah, 5/10 from IGN is the first step.

Thanks IGN!

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fan_of_gaming - 413 days 23 hours ago

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all the DLC content that is on the PS store can be unlocked for free in the game by progressing through career mode except one (the Collector's Edition upgrade).

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lmao247 - 413 days 22 hours ago

17 - omg I CANT BELIEVE

GAMMMME OF THE YEAR!!!!! HANDS DOWN...

Oh wait, wrong comment board.

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lelik - 413 days 22 hours ago

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i was kinda hoping it would be good....

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bumsick - 413 days 22 hours ago

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another epic fail from the nfs franchise does anyone remember nfs road challenge on the ps1? was quite rare (at least in the uk) best of the bunch in my oppinion awesome police chases, car modification (but not f&f crap) and some cool cheats like an in car view :) my personal fave thoought it deserved a mention. i agree its deffinately time ea went back to basics with the series.

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CoVsTa - 413 days 21 hours ago

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i think NFS is the king, and this 1 actully looks good and the gameplay ive watched looks great, so im gna see what my mates think of it first to see if i buy it or not, cuz it doesnt look bad, graphics and car customization is wicked, theyre making it into a film, so surely it cant be that bad, theyre jus slating it as they always do to every game. Its as if theres no perfect game, even cod5 was crap.

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I_am_rushin - 413 days 20 hours ago

21 - Cool 5/10 "Meh"

Seeing the word was just recently added into the dictionary, people are already using it officially.

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LarVanian - 413 days 20 hours ago

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Burnout seems to improve upon every new release.
Need for Speed seems to be going in the opposite direction sadly.

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Rythrine - 413 days 19 hours ago

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Midnight Club: LA it is then.

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likedamaster - 413 days 12 hours ago

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Dang it! I was really looking forward to this title. I thought they were really taking it back to the good old Most Wanted/Carbon days. Didn't get prostreet... I recommend Carbon, it did what Most Wanted did and much more. I might rent it now, or go back to Carbon (people surprisingly still play it).

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silverchode - 413 days 11 hours ago

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dam i was looking foward to this game.

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firebat - 413 days 10 hours ago

26 - sad

right after underground 2 the franchise went down the toliet

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Strife Lives - 413 days 10 hours ago

27 - Need for speed Hot Pursuit and NFS road challenge/High Stakes

Were the pinnacle of the series.I really did like NFS underground,but It sucked that cars like the ferraris and porshes were thrown out.but. . .the series took a dip with NFS Underground 2 with its open world layout.Most Wanted was k but. . .both Most Wanted and Carbon look like xbox 1 games (Im talking about the 360 ver) .Its like they made it for xbox1 and ported it to the 360.wtf? They did the same with The Godfather game.Then they gave us track racing again with NFS pro street,I came inches to buying it,then saw reviews and man. .was did that game look boring. .and I rented it,it sucked. And now this.EA I was starting to expect more from you.After Dead Space,I wouldve thought you would have learned its gameplay over graphics.

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lelik - 413 days 9 hours ago

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how would deadspace teach EA about gameplay over graphics? it has amazing graphics and gameplay.

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Nike - 413 days 7 hours ago

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I managed to play this game about a month before they were to officially launch it (around the same time Dead Space was being released). Yes, it was very easy - the cops could NEVER catch me no matter how badly i screwed up. I had no knowledge of the controls when first starting out but I still passed the initial race. There's a slow-mo button which is also incredibly useless...it literally does nothing to help you.

The funny thing was that I was told I could either drive to races or select them off a map. After selecting a few off the map, I tried the driving part. The races never appeared! On top of that, this was only one month to go before release and they still hadn't fixed the pop-up problems!

I agree that Dead Space signalled a new direction for EA but as far as NFS is concerned, they can pack cow organs in a box and it'll still sell - so long as it bears the NFS name.

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micro_invader - 413 days 6 hours ago

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Why are they even trying? This series died for me long time ago.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 413 days 5 hours ago

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RIIIIIIIIIDGE RACEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!

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media73 - 413 days 5 hours ago

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Actually the 3do, yes you kids wont remember the panasonic 3do was the best version, i remember seeing at game on a big screen and there must of been 50 people watching it and all wanting to buy a machine, arr the 3do awesome.

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Magic_The_Celt - 414 days 2 hours ago

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Lemme guess, best played on the 360

or do you bots only flounce that crap when the game scores well

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ottoenie - 413 days 23 hours ago

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to be honest with you, ea has chosen the ps3 as lead platform, and not the 360 from previous games, and reviews are often made with the game played on the 360, i am not saying that the ps3 version is alot better, but i think that there will be a bit of difference.
and if you guys don't believe me about ps3 lead platform, it was confirmed in a video interview.

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hotrider12 - 414 days 3 hours ago

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A BETTER RACER WOULD BE GRID not this crap

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BLUR111 - 414 days 1 hour ago

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wow the sound was the only thing higher than a 6.0

LOL what a joke EA is

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CoVsTa - 413 days 21 hours ago

5 - I PUT UP A TENNER

that this game will rape the crap out of charts on the PS3, ea + 360 doesnt work, which is why u have to pay to make a league on 360 online fifa09 LMFAO!, this game will kick ass and make a come back from dodgy pro street, watch.

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