Power Glove Love

Need for Speed, ugh.  I don’t know what happened to Need for Speed: Pro Street, but the demo was garbage.  I’ve always been a bit of a fanboy, defending myself when all the haters would bash the series.  But EA has crushed my love of the series.  I cried myself to sleep the night I first played the demo.

            Need for Speed was always a fun arcade racer, but for whatever reason they have made it halfheartedly into a sim.  I’m okay with playing a sim racer, but in Pro Street it’s like they didn’t know whether to make it an arcade or a sim racer.  For example, it has three difficulty settings.  On the easiest, the game essentially plays itself.  All you have to do is mash on the accelerator and the game helps you turn and even slows you down when heading into a corner.  Kick it up to the highest difficulty and the game actually gets easier, but is still frustrating.  At times your car handles like an arcade racer, but as soon as you tap the brakes or edge off the pavement, your car goes careening out of control, and you wreck and die. 

            Not being able to finish a race after many tries makes me angry.  Especially when not finishing is because of ridiculous handling and irritating game play mechanics.  Owning several NFS games and growing up with the series, I’m not even going to pick up this game.  I guess I’ll have to resort to playing the Burnout…I disappoint myself sometimes.