While gamers may be quick to dismiss Nitro as a shallow racer aimed at casual gamers, it's actually fairly difficult, and gamers looking to totally complete the game will have a decent challenge facing them. Unfortunately, the "shallow" moniker does apply in some respects, as the single-player Career mode is quite brief and represents the bulk of the game; plus, the absence of online play does nothing to help this.
Given the slim pickings for racing fans on the Wii, though, it's easy to recommend NFS: Nitro, as it brings a solid (if however spartan) arcade racing experience to a system that clearly should have had one a long time ago.
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.
Hmm, well 1up have generally been quite reliable with their Wii and DS reviews, from what I've read of their reviews anyway, so this says good things, I'll have to see about picking this up.
Also good job for the folks at EA Montreal, for a lot of the staff it was their first game so they''ve done a good job and I hope they come out with some great things in the future.