The Need For Speed series has come in for a fair bit of flak from gamers and critics alike in the last few years. It's the law of diminishing returns: The more EA churns out a yearly update of its famous arcade racer, the more the quality dips, the public lose interest and critics get sick of playing the same damn thing again and again.
So you might be excused for thinking the same about Nitro. But the team at EA Montreal are determined to prove this theory wrong with a complete re-boot of the series.
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.
