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Car and track listing announced for Need for Speed: Shift

 
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For the driving simulator fan, the Need for Speed series holds a certain nostalgia as one of the first really fun and engaging car games. For the past 15 years the franchise has expanded on that theme, evolving to a level of realistic graphics and fun-focused gameplay that everyone can get on board with. The latest chapter in the series, Need for Speed: Shift, promises to deliver on the fun while upping the reality factor.

Now with the release of the latest instalment in the series, 'Need for Speed: SHIFT', the franchise is set to become more driver focused, in the same vein as Forza and the GT series. If that wasn't enough to get you excited, then the contents of a full track and car list for the game has been revealed with some cars and tracks that we are definitely looking forward to testing out.

This includes favored testing track, the Nordschleife Nurburgring as well as other race tracks such as Laguna Seca, Road America, Silverstone, and Brands Hatch. Drivers can also race in London and Tokyo, as well as other cities.

Developed in conjunction with Slightly Mad Studios, which also worked on the GT Legends and the insanely hardcore GTR2 simulators, the Electronic Arts game will focus on real on-track racing rather than street racing or tuner mods like some previous NFS titles.

To help immerse the driver in the game, fully modeled interiors and highly detailed exteriors give a sense of actually being in the car and wheel-to-wheel with the competition. As these screenshots show, the motion blur and lighting are also top-notch.

EA has previously announced that the game will be released for sale in the U.S. on September 22, while European fans will be able to buy it five days earlier. Until it hits store shelves, however, we'll have to get by on these still screen shots.

Track List
Autopolis International Racing Course
Ambush Canyon
Brands Hatch
Dakota
Ebisu Circuit
Glendale
Hazyview
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
London
Miytomi
Nordschleife
Road America
Rustle Creek
Silverstone
Circuit de Spa Francorchamps
Tokyo
Willow Springs

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2009 Audi R8 LMS
2008 Audi R8
2008 Audi RS 4
2007 Audi S3
2007 Audi TT 3.2 quattro
2006 Audi S4
BMW M3 E36
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BMW M3 E92
2008 BMW 135i Coupé
2009 BMW M3 GT2
2007 BMW Z4 M Coupé
2008 Bugatti Veyron 16.4
2006 Dodge Challenger Concept
2008 Dodge Viper SRT10
Vaughn Gittin Jr's 2010 Falken Tire Ford Mustang GT
2010 Ford Shelby GT500
2007 Ford Focus ST
2006 Ford GT
2006 Need For Speed Shelby Terlingua
1996 Ford Escort RS Cosworth
2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS
2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS
2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
2006 Honda Civic Si
2000 Honda S2000
2006 Koenigsegg CCX
2008 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4
2007 Lamborghini Murciélago LP640
2007 Lamborghini Reventón
2006 Lotus Elise 111R
2007 Lotus Exige S
2005 Maserati MC12 GT1
2008 Mazda MX-5
2006 Mazda RX-8
1995 Mazda RX-7
1994 McLaren F1
2007 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition
2007 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EVOLUTION
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer EVOLUTION IX MR-edition
2003 Infiniti G35 (V35)
1997 Nissan 200SX (S14)
2009 Nissan 370Z (Z34)
2006 Nissan 350Z (Z33)
2009 Nissan GT-R SpecV (R35)
2008 Nissan GT-R (R35)
2000 Nissan Silvia (S15) spec.R AERO
1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34)
1972 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R
1992 Nissan 240SX (S13)
2006 Pagani Zonda F
2010 Pagani Zonda R
2008 Porsche 911 GT2
2009 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
2006 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
2004 Porsche Carrera GT
2007 Porsche Cayman S
2008 Renault Mégane RS
2007 SEAT Leon CUPRA
2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2007 Lexus LF-A Concept
2008 SCION tC
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2008 Volkswagen Scirocco
2006 Volkswagen Golf GTI
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  1. ma_SuperSkyline89 avatar SuperSkyline89 Posted: 3/5/2009 9:05am PST

    Need for Speed has never been a simulator. They tried with Pro Street but it was half assed because they tried to make it part simulator and part arcade, Forza Motorsport is a true racing simulator. I'd consider buying this one if it's a real simulator like Forza is, otherwise I'm done with Need for Speed, they've let me down with their last few games.
     
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  2. ma_samuelesm avatar samuelesm Posted: 3/5/2009 9:15am PST

    I don't count NFS and Forza as a similator. PGR and Gran Turismo are probably the best. Yet I think Gran Turismo is the best. The prologue came out last year,l and the graphics, physics, driving physics and the tracks are the best I've seen. Some people say it's not realistic because it has no dammage but that doesn't matter. Tanner Foust uses it so that says something.
     
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  3. ma_Ivan avatar Ivan Posted: 3/5/2009 9:32am PST

    Forza II is by far superior to GT series. Only people who never tried it say that GT is better.

    As far as NFS, it looks to me like they are trying to boost GTR franchise sales by slapping NSF tag on it. Look at screen shots. . . it's plain GTR.

    NSF is nothing more than trademark these days, one year it's street racing, other it's cops game next year its simulation.

    Original NFS started out as simulation racing game, PCs weren't as advanced as they are these days, but NFS was marketed as simulation, not acrade style racer.


    Starting with NSF II though, franchise shifted toward arcade racing and never looked back, until now.
     
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  4. ma_twinturboz avatar twinturboz Posted: 3/5/2009 9:36am PST

    Forza II is by far superior to GT series. Only people who never tried it say that GT is better.

    As far as NFS, it looks to me like they are trying to boost GTR franchise sales by slapping NSF tag on it. Look at screen shots. . . it's plain GTR.

    NSF is nothing more than trademark these days, one year it's street racing, other it's cops game next year its simulation.

    Original NFS started out as simulation racing game, PCs weren't as advanced as they are these days, but NFS was marketed as simulation, not acrade style racer.


    Starting with NSF II though, franchise shifted toward arcade racing and never looked back, until now.

    lol Ivan, get a little carried away?

    And you guys are all wrong...iRacing or LFS are real simiulators, these console games are just that...games
     
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  5. ma_InkMaster avatar InkMaster Posted: 3/5/2009 9:38am PST

    If anyone cares, there's a video interviewing some guy who worked on the game...

    http://www.gametrailers.com/player/46175.html
     
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  6. ma_twinturboz avatar twinturboz Posted: 3/5/2009 10:10am PST

    If anyone cares, there's a video interviewing some guy who worked on the game...

    http://www.gametrailers.com/player/46175.html

    nice vid
     
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  7. ma_Mike avatar Mike Posted: 3/5/2009 2:10pm PST

    Having owned and played both the last two GT games(A-spec and 4) as well as Forza 2, I can say that Forza 2 is really no better than GT4. The graphics and gameplay are almost a complete ripoff of GT4. However I would say the customization is superior in Forza 2 than GT4. I still like both though, so don't get me wrong. This, to me, looks very similar to GRID. Still, if the real graphics are as good as the screenshots, I'll have to check it out. Great shadow effects and interiors!
     
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  8. ma_SuperSkyline89 avatar SuperSkyline89 Posted: 3/5/2009 3:17pm PST

    Forza and Gran Turismo will always have cult following and neither side is going to admit the other is as good as their favourite. The only real deciding factor between the two games is which console you own. XBOX owners will always play Forza, and Playstation owners will always play Gran Turismo.
     
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  9. ma_phil12321 avatar phil12321 Posted: 3/5/2009 5:07pm PST

    The only thing that Forza has over GT are the tuning options for every vehicle...I think that is awsome and if GT did the same it would by far be more superior than Forza. And dont forget that GT prologue is not GT5 so theres much to anticipate when it comes out. forza can only build upon the World that GT created!
     
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  10. ma_elclair avatar elclair Posted: 3/5/2009 10:02pm PST

    Simulation?....Rfactor...., nothing else comes close. This DOES look a little like GRID. If it is, then it'll be a good thing. the tuner genre is getting old and boring.
     
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  11. sidraja avatar Siddarth Raja Posted: 3/6/2009 8:43am PST

    I personally really enjoy car games that aren't realistic. Sometimes you just want to get into it, play for an hour and really enjoy yourself. I don't have enough time to play a real sim and learn the ins and outs of the game. My favorite in the past has been the NFS Hot Pursuit games. They were a lot of fun and easy to get into.
     
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  12. ma_InkMaster avatar InkMaster Posted: 3/6/2009 11:25am PST

    I personally really enjoy car games that aren't realistic. Sometimes you just want to get into it, play for an hour and really enjoy yourself. I don't have enough time to play a real sim and learn the ins and outs of the game. My favorite in the past has been the NFS Hot Pursuit games. They were a lot of fun and easy to get into.

    I agree. I used to love the original Need for Speed games... The Need for Speed from 95, then NFS2 from 97 or so... then the first Hot Pursuit one... Even the Porsche NFS was quite fun.

    Then it all just kinda went down hill from there. The graphics these days are amazing, but somehow the games just lost what made them fun in the first place... Being able to just jump in and play around with any car you wanted at any time.

    Few month back when I tried NFS Pro Street I was horribly horribly disappointed. Its a good game, but before you can actually have some (kinda) fun, you need to spend a hundred hours playing it by which time I just said screw it and stopped playing it completely.

    In alot of ways its just like the First Person Shooter games these days; as amazing and realistic as they all are, in terms of fun they're not even in the same league as, say, good ol' Quake 3.
     
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  13. ma_Ivan avatar Ivan Posted: 3/24/2009 5:35am PDT

    I think the best mix of realistic yet fun game is Gotham Racing. There were among the first to include NurburgRing (Gotham Racing 2). It's very fun to play and to get into, yet if you want, it can be advanced as well. It also offered wide selection of very different cars (from SUVs to Radical SR8), which had very different handling.

    With that said, if new NFS game is anything like Gotham Racing, it will be fun.
     
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  14. ma_SuperSkyline89 avatar SuperSkyline89 Posted: 3/24/2009 6:49am PDT

    I personally really enjoy car games that aren't realistic. Sometimes you just want to get into it, play for an hour and really enjoy yourself. I don't have enough time to play a real sim and learn the ins and outs of the game. My favorite in the past has been the NFS Hot Pursuit games. They were a lot of fun and easy to get into.

    I can agree with that to some point. The first racing game I ever played was the original Hot Pursuit (NFS III), I LOVED that game and played it for years. After that I bought Underground 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, and Pro Street. Carbon was the first game to let me down and Pro Street just made it worse. But none of them had the same sense of fun as NFS III: Hot Pursuit. I don't know what it was about that game but it was epic to me. Now I get bored with any arcade racing game to the point where I've decided to only buy the Forza franchise from now on. It's probably mostly because of my age, I was in elementary school when I played Hot Pursuit and was probably easily impressed, now I look at those games and I don't see anything special or innovative.
     
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  15. ma_samuelesm avatar samuelesm Posted: 3/24/2009 11:07am PDT

    If you say Foza is better than Gran Turismo youare retarded. Ivan probably didn't play Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo is known as the first game with realistic physics. Forza, Grid, and NFS are too cartoony and unrealistic to compare physics with PGR and GT. GT has the best driving physics, and graphics, and most other games make me feel dizy after playing them for 10 minutes because they feel druggy. GT feels very natural in all aspects.
     
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  16. ma_samuelesm avatar samuelesm Posted: 3/24/2009 11:09am PDT

    NFS's graphics are getting worse. Look at the proportions. The front half of the Corvette is too low and the back part is too high, and the tailights are too small, and the front is too wide. Just looking at the picture make me dizy already bacause the enviroment feels druggy.
     
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  17. ma_Ivan avatar Ivan Posted: 5/31/2009 10:08am PDT

    If you say Foza is better than Gran Turismo youare retarded. Ivan probably didn't play Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo is known as the first game with realistic physics. Forza, Grid, and NFS are too cartoony and unrealistic to compare physics with PGR and GT. GT has the best driving physics, and graphics, and most other games make me feel dizy after playing them for 10 minutes because they feel druggy. GT feels very natural in all aspects.

    If you say Foza is better than Gran Turismo youare retarded. Ivan probably didn't play Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo is known as the first game with realistic physics. Forza, Grid, and NFS are too cartoony and unrealistic to compare physics with PGR and GT. GT has the best driving physics, and graphics, and most other games make me feel dizy after playing them for 10 minutes because they feel druggy. GT feels very natural in all aspects.

    The only retard here is you for putting NFS in same sentence as Forza.

    I've been playing GT series since the original game came out back in '97. I got GT2 the day it came out and in a lot of ways it was improvement over the original.

    Starting with GT3 Sony really slowed their progress with GT series. Improving graphics alone does not warrant good game, and GT3 was a step back from GT2 with better graphics.

    So, Sony got lazy and MS outpaced them with Forza series. Forza 2 is much better and has much more fluent feel to it than GT4 (I played both on 360 and PS3). GT4 has same old crappy control to it, just like it was back in '97. I don't think Sony improved number of factors they take into account, same engine they used 12 years ago.

    So I was GT fan up to GT2, till Sony got lazy and slow.
     
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  18. ma_james avatar James Martinez Posted: 5/31/2009 3:24pm PDT

    GRID is the best racing game out there. it has set the bar for all others.
     
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  19. ma_Mike avatar Mike Posted: 6/1/2009 7:52am PDT

    Now I'm excited about this game. Finally, a Veyron in a game, as well as all the latest: Koeniggsegg, Zonda R, 722, etc. I like that they put some "budget" performance cars like the Cobalt SS and Focus ST, too. And the inclusion of Ebisu Circuit and Vaugn Gitten's 'Stang mean there will obviously be a drift mode as well. Still, my favorite NFS games were the old, terribly cheesy, arcade racers like NFS2, Hot Pursuit, and High Stakes. It was just fun to be able to jump in the super and concept cars of the day and blast down the open road. Once the 2nd gen consoles came out, it all went downhill. I had Hot Pusuit 2; it was nowhere near as good as the original, and starting with Underground, the franchise lost me. Here's to a comeback, maybe.
     
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  20. ma_mburleigh8 avatar mburleigh8 Posted: 6/3/2009 6:46pm PDT

    Looks good, i hope they make one for ps2.
     
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  21. By  r4 ds Posted: 8/21/2009 9:20am PDT

    Shift is good to play in PC and PS.
    I want to ask you than any version of shift is available for i-pod?
    I heard from my friends but not get yet.
     
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  22. By LR-MR-Cole1986 Posted: 9/26/2009 5:40pm PDT

    Im just gonna post the real facts for you. For one thing to the guy saying that forza 2 is better than Gran Turismo, put down the crack pipe. And they that bitch about no damage in GT if you werent i the wall all the time you dont worry. And NFS has always been a good racing game except for carbon and all those gay ass streeting racing game. They have really got a winner with Shift. Then when Gran Turismo 5 comes out you will never see another racing game cause it will be the only one needed.
     
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