Earlier this year, a rumor was floating around that the Need For Speed franchise may be abandoned by Electronic Arts. It turned out that the rumor was wildly off base, as a full quartet of titles were announced for the franchise a few weeks later. This fall, the Wii will be getting special treatment courtesy of EA Montreal's Nintendo-exclusive Need For Speed: Nitro.
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.
I prefer the crazy off-the-wall Need for Speed titles to the serious ones, but this one looks a bit too simplified. Not sure if I wanted another RUSH