GameSpot writes: "The game will feature 10 game modes and tracks that take some unexpected twists (in one case the road we were driving on turned into a twisting and rolling rollercoaster track). In addition to a standard circuit and point-to-point races, we had a chance to try out one of the minigames, which required us to drive around a baseball stadium and destroy a bunch of pinatas as quickly as possible. It didn't make much sense, but minigames rarely do, right?
Need for Speed: Nitro is coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS this fall. We'll have more on the game in the coming weeks".
SPC writes, "Sunday is this week's kickoff of SuperPhillip Central content, and with it we see a retro review. The announcement of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch saw the site developing a vested interest in arcade racing games. Last week, we took a look at Pac-Man World Rally, a kart racer. Now, we look at a different kind of racer with this retro review of the Wii version of Need for Speed: Nitro."
Is Need For Speed: NItro-X as good as the Wii version of the game? Not quite, but it's still cheap racing fun.
Had Nitro been given online capabilities the score would have been higher just on merit. But the lack of it, coupled with the "meh" presentation and production values makes this Need for Speed a hot rod with nothing impressive under the hood.
