App Review: Need For Speed:Underground

Written on 8:45 PM by irockish

This app review is on the New Game by Electronic Arts, Called Need For Speed. If your a video game player, you've heard of it. It's only like one of the greatest car games ever. Well now its available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Its $9.99 in the App Store. So let’s get on with it.

Graphics

Graphics in this game are the highest I think is available for the iPhone OS. They’re really clear and great. It’s almost up there with the PSP, can’t compare with DS as I’ve never owned one or really messed with one but I’m sure it’s there too :). All the cars look pretty crisp, and so do all 3 locations in the game (LOL) I’m sure your like 3 locations?!

Layout

When you begin the game you get to choose the car you want and then you get on with starting your career and it’s a Tri-City area. That’s why I had said 3 locations before. There’s 3 locations but there all tweaked a little bit for every different event and stuff. The icons got me a little confused at first in the menu because I wasn’t to sure on what each one stood for (look at the screen shots) I think that was my only complaint.

Any Lag with Game?

There’s no waiting time for this game really it runs really fast. Take about maybe a minute total just to start up and have you racing! I was surprised cause normally big games like this take a while to start up, for example “Hero of Sparta” that app took some time. In races it responds really well with the accelerometer its really just on track with it (no pun intended). Especially once you get a hang of it, you’ll be drifting, nudging cars, and swerving on the roads through cars!

Modes

There’s 8 total high-impact racing modes such as highway battle, sprint, and my favorite Cop Takeout (evil laugh...jk). They all seem easy but just as any game as you progress they get much harder. I think on my final “takeout” it took about 15 times to retry and Jesus did I scream when I finally beat it! Haha. There all really fun, and like I said the swerving to get rid of the cops, or the hitting the other cars to take em’ off the road is really fun. The iPhone becomes your safe steering wheel so to speak.

Cars

The cars start off from simple cars you see everyday like Nissans, mustangs, then as you get more money and style points you get to have the option to purchase the more luxurious cars, such as the Lamborghini, or the Mercedes Benz, or the Chrysler 300c. Such beautiful cars LOL. My Final one that I purchased is in the Screenshot(s) below, it’s so fast, it got up to about 230 MPH and totally kicked everyone’s a** in the races, I was like a lap ahead it was awesome.

Also as you buy cars you get to upgrade them, Performance-wise and Looks, Performance involving top speed, accelerating, nitro, and handling. They all start off at about $2,000 and double each time I believe, the most I paid was about $26,000.

Conclusion

So in conclusion Need for Speed is a really awesome game. I’ve been anticipating it for a while; it was introduced a while back. I think the wait was worth it, the graphics, no lag, everything is perfect. Even the Story/Career Mode of it is really entertaining. They have one hot Asian chick and Christina Milian in it, need I say more?! I wish the game was like 6 or 7 bucks though because I kind of beat the game pretty quick, but it was a lot of stages there was probably like 30 more or less. But I think its worth, if you got 10 bucks lying around and need a new game to play, invest in it LOL.