Need for Speed: Shift

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5.9

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  1. ChrisC
    Sep 29, 2009
    7
    First of all, to all these tools saying about how bad the handling is, it is because you have it on easy, and your playing with a keyboard. Before even thinking of commenting on how a racing game handles play it on a Logitech G25 and on the Simulation settings. I laugh at these idiots complaining how bad the physics and handling is when they are playing it with WASD or arrows. Second of First of all, to all these tools saying about how bad the handling is, it is because you have it on easy, and your playing with a keyboard. Before even thinking of commenting on how a racing game handles play it on a Logitech G25 and on the Simulation settings. I laugh at these idiots complaining how bad the physics and handling is when they are playing it with WASD or arrows. Second of all, this game is only 1 in 3 NFS games coming out for real systems. The other 2 is a free run game set in Carbon and Most Wanted and is only online where you have a sandbox mode and play with people around the world. The other game is a tuner game made by Criteron. So obviously this game is made to please the semi-arcade gamers. IMO, this game is very enjoyable when played wiht a simulation spec wheel and there is nothing better than going round the 'Ring in a Zonda R, as this game does perfectly. Please wait until the other NFS come before complaining that its not like MW or Underground.… Expand
  2. StefL
    Oct 9, 2009
    5
    I'm getting old... While during the time of NFS the first and NFS SE my TT rankings were on a hair length from the world record without having to dedicate one bedroom for a formula 1 cockpit Fair play, playability (Sidewinder 3d pro) and days of training motivated by an unrivaled sense of immersion of open road driving supercar feeling NFS Shift lets down quickly. Driving skills need I'm getting old... While during the time of NFS the first and NFS SE my TT rankings were on a hair length from the world record without having to dedicate one bedroom for a formula 1 cockpit Fair play, playability (Sidewinder 3d pro) and days of training motivated by an unrivaled sense of immersion of open road driving supercar feeling NFS Shift lets down quickly. Driving skills need to be maintained. You really thinks that after 15 years you can still handle a super car? + Graphics they are very ok especially in motion + Sounds of engines: lovely + Sense of speed + We can buy some upgrades -Drifting occurs at slow speeds on roads that are wide as a highway (I hereby thank 89 Audi 80 Turbodiesel with Econo 175 width tires for saving my life many times at high speed 90km / hr corners) -Learning curve by fake realism -Tuning controls can be a pain (unlike Grid, you have to quit your race to fine tune sensitivity, dead point etc,... Crazy) -No damage model, no punishment, no total loss. (apart from the hood obstructing your view) -because of no damage model you can skillfully use other cars as means of braking -because lacking damage model results in lack of tension and educational value like in Toca 3 (cars are supposed to be higly vulnarable to impact / abuse just like the humans they contain) Despite the renewed realism touch, NFS Shift's damage model is so bad it compares to playing a FPS in god mode. I can reassure those of you preferring the god mode racing that the all times standard view where you "control" the care by floating in the air 10m behind your car is still available (tradition dating from the times that rendering a cockpit was technically impossible.) Missed chance. I see no evolution here so I can only conclude this game is aimed at the next army of teenagers that plays their first likewise racer.… Expand
  3. Marick
    Oct 7, 2014
    6
    I Need For Speed ​​Series goes to another level. He enters the world of simulators and makes very good appearance. Physics are very real, honestly, I really like. And yes .. I think that is one of the longest game in the series.
  4. shaun37
    Oct 26, 2011
    6
    This game is a terrible excuse for a simulator, it cannot even touch the awesomeness that is Grid and Gran Turismo. The cars do not handle as they do in real life, the multiplayer is engulfed in a mostly horric community and the UI system is the most unnecessarily complicated and confusing that I have ever come across in a PC game, ruining the customization of vehicles etc..
  5. Vic
    Dec 9, 2011
    6
    I just don't understand these critics who gave this game 9 or 10. Have they even tried to play this game, cause it's almost impossible to drive straight in this game, the cars just slide all the time like cows on ice skating rink!
  6. ZsomborB
    Sep 22, 2009
    6
    Without playing the game, I can tell that something suspicious is going on here. While metascore holds a score of 86 and the users claim it's only worth a 5.0, something is definitely odd here. I heard horrific stories about the bad optimization of the game, and I have a hunch that EA is yet again tries to pull some tricks here to get high reviews from official sources, or just no Without playing the game, I can tell that something suspicious is going on here. While metascore holds a score of 86 and the users claim it's only worth a 5.0, something is definitely odd here. I heard horrific stories about the bad optimization of the game, and I have a hunch that EA is yet again tries to pull some tricks here to get high reviews from official sources, or just no one dares to offend them because of their full wallets and influence on the industry.… Expand
  7. MugrosDNM
    Sep 18, 2009
    6
    With a Metascore of 85% and a user rating of 4.5 there has to be something fishy here. After the first races if have to say that i can't support the high Metascore. The games has some serious issues: - The AI Even after a very bad first race i was classified as Experienced, so i set it to Pro :) With the AI set to Medium i was easily seconds ahead. With the AI on Hard i was still With a Metascore of 85% and a user rating of 4.5 there has to be something fishy here. After the first races if have to say that i can't support the high Metascore. The games has some serious issues: - The AI Even after a very bad first race i was classified as Experienced, so i set it to Pro :) With the AI set to Medium i was easily seconds ahead. With the AI on Hard i was still doing good. Well, not all the time, read on. - The handling Well, on the first tracks i did good. On the last of the first 5 the car handled very different and i had almost no chance of winning. So i went back and set the driver level back to Experienced. Now it was just too easy to drive around. It is also a balance issue. If you set it to Experienced it is too easy. If you set it to Pro it is too hard. - more handling I know that early cars are not really good, but on the later tracks my RX8 felt really bad on Pro. No matter what i did it was spinning almost all the time. Little error here, spin, little error there, spin. In the winding and tight tracks it was useless. It felt like the game just wants to spin you and there is simply no chance of recovering. - even more handling i normally use the hood camera, but the game starts with the cockpit cam. What i immediately noticed was the sluggish response of the steering wheel. It responded like it was pulled by a rubber string. And this is exactly how the driving feels. This makes it even harder to try to catch the car's rear. And many times the car was just swinging from one side to the other like an old car. With full level 1 upgraded on a sports car this shouldn't happen. I have driven Colin McRae Dirt and GRID where the response is perfect. These are proper racing games. The car response is direct and you can immediately feel the reaction of the car to your action on the controls. Then you can struggle with the track, you improve yourself, you race the opponents. In NFSS you struggle with the handling mostly. I don't feel like i am racing, more like a test driver in a bad car. I can't concentrate on the race because the car feels so bad. But a big disappointment is the way NFS is going. I played all PC NFS titles and it was a great series. But it was going downhill. In the beginning NFS was about racing on public roads with sport/supercars, also against the police. Now it is closed circuit racing, which is rather boring. I can't understand how editors can say that it catches the spirit of NFS. It doesn't.… Expand
  8. Tom
    Sep 25, 2009
    5
    I couldn't give the PC version more than a five just on principle alone do not let the high metascore sway you. Bad optimization, I have a medium-high end computer and this game runs awful. Serious control issues, you literally skid around the entire map as the tires consisted of melted butter. Lack of customization, I could go on and on and on but it's easier to say this game I couldn't give the PC version more than a five just on principle alone do not let the high metascore sway you. Bad optimization, I have a medium-high end computer and this game runs awful. Serious control issues, you literally skid around the entire map as the tires consisted of melted butter. Lack of customization, I could go on and on and on but it's easier to say this game isn't worth entire ones time.… Expand
  9. zimaf
    Sep 27, 2009
    5
    Wow. 85 average according to critics and only 5 out of 10 according to users? this shows that either critics are all sucking up to companies and thus should not be trusted... or are completely out of touch with the gamers and thus... should not be trusted. what a paradox! but seriously. giving this fish 85? that's hypocrisy. GRID or GTR are not dead yet to warrant the urge of gamers Wow. 85 average according to critics and only 5 out of 10 according to users? this shows that either critics are all sucking up to companies and thus should not be trusted... or are completely out of touch with the gamers and thus... should not be trusted. what a paradox! but seriously. giving this fish 85? that's hypocrisy. GRID or GTR are not dead yet to warrant the urge of gamers to buy anything with a word 'racing' in the description. hence, if you have any of the mentioned games, you already own a game more advanced, better looking and handling than SHIFT.… Expand
  10. Fresh3gg
    Feb 11, 2014
    5
    Arrow up key: accelerate _ Left Arrow key: turn left _ right arrow key: turn right _ V: brake _ C: handbrake _ X: Nitro _ Z: look back _ Spacebar: change race view. God! those game makers needs to be told what the default mapping keys should be like! WASD?!

    Came 1st place: mode: RACE _ Laps: 8 _ car class: same class _ opponents: 6 _ Time: midday _ track: Alplental Race car to drive:    Arrow up key: accelerate _ Left Arrow key: turn left _ right arrow key: turn right _ V: brake _ C: handbrake _ X: Nitro _ Z: look back _ Spacebar: change race view. God! those game makers needs to be told what the default mapping keys should be like! WASD?!

    Came 1st place: mode: RACE _ Laps: 8 _ car class: same class _ opponents: 6 _ Time: midday _ track: Alplental

    Race car to drive: Porsche Carrera GT

    ((Gameplay, ADJUST CONTROL)):
    SDZ:0 _ ADZ:5 _ BDZ:0 _ CDZ:5 _ SS:95 _AS:75 _ BS:90 _ CS:30 _ SSS:2 _ IS:off _ CYA:Normal

    ((Gameplay, DRIVING)):
    AI Difficulty: HARD _ HM: Normal _ SA: low _ BA: off _ AB:on _ TC: high _ SC:on _ DE: visual only _ AC:on _ G:automatic

    ((Garage, Car tunning)):
    Downforce: 55 _ Gearing: 30 _ Steering Lock: 70 _ Balance: 40

    Now go and test play this game, and see who's the real idiots! Never seen AI drivers so crazy! If to play by AI Difficulty: MEDIUM, it would turned out to be like the movie DAYS OF THUNDER with a lot of cars went sideway on the track, or driving back into the track without giving way to you high speed travelling car, and with bot-cars spinning out of control ALL BY ITSELF like it's beating it's own meat, or suddenly handbraking right in front of you without any reason (same with AI Difficulty: hard), and dead slow speed at bends. The AI is a good laugh, as 1 or 2 of them are aimed to slow you down so other cars can sped way ahead!

    Playing by AI Difficulty HARD isn't so bad, but still there a few good laughs!

    Too bad it has no GRID AND ARCADE mode that allows more acade like gaming, fine tune all the cars so they're suitable to play keyboard like the other game GRID.

    Steering lock? I tried to Google it but seem to came up with nothing much. If steering lock is set too high and along with low GEARING (higher acceration), the steering of the car may go dead (locked) when going around a bend. Get a wheel for real? Or rather play GRID? Get GRID first, then don't forget this GOOD LAUGH game that suddenly handbrakes right in front of you like it has seen a ghost of a steering wheel!    … Expand
  11. Khildram
    Nov 13, 2011
    6
    This one is good, expecially with a wheel controler. It's looking nice although Shift 2 Unleashed is now nicer. But it behaves better than S2U and also is less ressources-greedy. A good experience and a good intro for simracing games like GTR², RACE07, or iRacing.
    This gives you a taste of it without beeing too difficult.
  12. RuneS
    Jan 25, 2010
    6
    Awesome graphics but thats about it. Driving the cars is like driving a car on scalectrix track.You get no input through the wheel.
  13. MichaelK
    Oct 12, 2009
    6
    Although I usually purchase for the PC, this time I just wanted to try out this game on my PS3. Although the game is visually and aurally magnificent, once you're past the first few tiers and get into the higher level cars, the game just falls apart. As previously mentioned here, the bugs simply prevent this game from getting any higher of a score. It took me forever to beat the Although I usually purchase for the PC, this time I just wanted to try out this game on my PS3. Although the game is visually and aurally magnificent, once you're past the first few tiers and get into the higher level cars, the game just falls apart. As previously mentioned here, the bugs simply prevent this game from getting any higher of a score. It took me forever to beat the Bugatti Veyron Invitational thanks to the bouncing physics problem, and then when I did, the game caused my PS3 to reset to the XMB! That's happened over 4 times since I started playing on Friday. That's simply ridiculous! It blows my mind the review that have been given by the above websites. Did they play it any farther than Tier 2? Just a horrible, horrible job...where was the QA on this game? EA still hasn't learned that the developers need time to get things right. I expect more from a Console game. I expect it to be near bug-free and to just work. Now, console games are apparently no different than what has become of PC gaming. Release then Patch. EA has reall screwed the pooch on this one. I'm returning it on Monday and picking up GRID or Dirt 2 instead. Shame on the professional reviewers, too! You guys have lost alot of respect from me on this one!… Expand
  14. SandyG
    Sep 30, 2009
    6
    For all those that expected it to be street racing, its not. Thats why everyone is giving it bad reviews. i have played the game a lot. got used to it and turns out its not bad at all. Car selection is amazing, just cant see it beating forza motorsport 3. Personally i was expecting street racing but its not. theres no other leading games designers doing street racing games i wonder why.
  15. pipelinecache
    Oct 17, 2009
    5
    I really tried liking the game. At first glance it looks and feels like a decent race simulator but once you dive deeper it starts to fall apart. I'm quite a racing fan and have played tons of racing games, both semi arcade and simulation, but I can't recall having so much frustration with one of them like I did with NFS Shift. There is so much wrong with this game. The controls I really tried liking the game. At first glance it looks and feels like a decent race simulator but once you dive deeper it starts to fall apart. I'm quite a racing fan and have played tons of racing games, both semi arcade and simulation, but I can't recall having so much frustration with one of them like I did with NFS Shift. There is so much wrong with this game. The controls being the main issue. I tried playing it with my xbox360 gamepad but it's just way too sensitive. Steering (which is pretty useful while driving) is so hard because your driver is turning the wheel left and right at the speed of light. There's no linear delay. Add the factor of some realistic friction and even your Fiat Panda will go ice skating after each corner. This actually concerns the main skill you'll need for the game: DO NOT SPIN OUT. In general all the opponents are way slower but don't seem to suffer from faulty monkey steering wheels. You can however tweak the controls (did didn't really work for me) and maybe a future patch will solve this problem but till then I don't recommend this game to anyone without a steering wheel (and helmet). Don't even think you can play this game with only a keyboard. Another issue are the loading times. I've quite an high-end game machine but the loading times are way too long. Most of this time the hard disk isn't active so the game is probably precalculating, which could have been done in advance and saved on disk. Even when the next event contains the same drivers, the same track, the same everything: the loading screen appears (with some very exciting hints and tips). There's a mini map in the lower right corner, which shows the track you're racing. This is ofcourse quite handy if you don't know the track and it would be alot handier if it didn't have an alpha blending of 20%. It's way too transparent to be any helpful. What I do like however was the great cockpit view. I mostly race all games in from the cockpit view but this one is without doubt the best. The fov is just right and the blur effects are great. The graphics are good/okay. But nothing near breathtaking. I've played the game on a GTX285 and it runs fine (ofcourse), but since the lack of polish in all other areas it wouldn't surprise me that you actually need quite a decent card. Don't believe the skin deep reviews on the web. A user score of 45(!) against 85 should say enough.… Expand
  16. ZakJones!
    Oct 23, 2009
    6
    NFS:S, while far from the simulation game it looks to be, is easily worth a rental. My main complaints are the handling and physics. Never once in the game did I go around a corner without sliding the back end. The damage engine is worthless. It's possible to slide your Aston Martin into a wall at 80MPH and come away with nothing more than a slight pull to the left. The cockpit view, NFS:S, while far from the simulation game it looks to be, is easily worth a rental. My main complaints are the handling and physics. Never once in the game did I go around a corner without sliding the back end. The damage engine is worthless. It's possible to slide your Aston Martin into a wall at 80MPH and come away with nothing more than a slight pull to the left. The cockpit view, however, is pretty freaking sweet. I've never been able to drive from the cockpit view, even though I'd like to consider myself a simulation driver. They're too cramped, too wide, too narrow, too whatever, to drive from. In NFS:S, however, the cockpit view is spectacular! I absolutely loved it. The blurring at speed was a little over the top, but it's not TOO bad. Like I said, worth a rental, but not MSRP.… Expand
  17. IsaacM.
    Sep 28, 2009
    6
    I would have given it 9/10 if it could run on 4870 the way it run on GTS 250, but bugs are PC user`s way of life. Has terrible AI and super cars are not realistic, e.g Bugati beaten by a Zonda and muscle cars are undriveable. Compared to Grid, the game is big and has replayable value, but it looks to be a rushed job. To be honest, with all problems i enjoyed it and playing it on higher I would have given it 9/10 if it could run on 4870 the way it run on GTS 250, but bugs are PC user`s way of life. Has terrible AI and super cars are not realistic, e.g Bugati beaten by a Zonda and muscle cars are undriveable. Compared to Grid, the game is big and has replayable value, but it looks to be a rushed job. To be honest, with all problems i enjoyed it and playing it on higher difficulty second time around and am more experienced to deal with the AI and the racing line… Expand
  18. PeterTechGuy
    Dec 29, 2009
    7
    Need for Speed: Shift is like a gateway drug to the world of hardcore simulations. With all driver aids on - easy opponents, automatic braking, traction control, no damage, driving line - the game's circuits can be navigated with one hand on the controller. Turn them off and it's totally different. Your opponents aggressively attack you. Take a corner at speed and you'll Need for Speed: Shift is like a gateway drug to the world of hardcore simulations. With all driver aids on - easy opponents, automatic braking, traction control, no damage, driving line - the game's circuits can be navigated with one hand on the controller. Turn them off and it's totally different. Your opponents aggressively attack you. Take a corner at speed and you'll spin out. Crash at all and it's game over. Shift is the first racing game where I've wanted to drive using nothing but cockpit view. It's thrilling, peering over the steering wheel as the screen shakes slightly because of the speed, feeling like the car is just moments away from flight. It also seems authentic. Shift is an excellent balancing act between arcade racing and simulated driving, but there's danger when mixing styles that you end up satisfying neither group of fans. The hardcore get annoyed by all the whoosh-banging menus and lapses of detail. The common man gets intimidated by statistics and toe angles, that's why the user score is far lower than critic score. But Shift is the best attempt in a while at providing something that balances both, while providing a route for the unintiated into an imposing genre.… Expand
  19. DavidM
    Nov 11, 2009
    6
    Lot's has been said here already. If you like Arcade/semi-sim racers and you own a copy of GRID don't bother with this; you will be disappointed! GRID although older, is in the opinion of this veteran sim racing driver superior in every way! If you own neither of these "games" buy GRID used for the above reason and it will be a fraction of the price. If you think this is to Lot's has been said here already. If you like Arcade/semi-sim racers and you own a copy of GRID don't bother with this; you will be disappointed! GRID although older, is in the opinion of this veteran sim racing driver superior in every way! If you own neither of these "games" buy GRID used for the above reason and it will be a fraction of the price. If you think this is to difficult to drive don't bother with any of the simbim driving simulations, they make this look easy. IF you want real hardcore sim racing don't bother with Shift or Grid, buy GTR2 for next to nothing. This is the pinnacle of the genera and given the decline of the excellence of PC gaming and rise of console mediocrity it will likely never be surpassed! Codemaster is our only hope. BTY Who is paying the so called expert reviewers who gave this 8 and 9 out of 10? Kudos to "PC format" for having the guts to tell everyone the truth. I'll give this 6 out of 10. If I though it was the best they could do. I would have given them 7 out of 10 but I know that they could have done a lot better if they wanted to.… Expand
  20. dimike
    Jan 10, 2021
    7
    Graphics - great
    Handling - ok
    Music - ok
    gameplay - ok
    stability - normal
    7 GranTurismo's out of 10
  21. mitchm
    Sep 28, 2015
    6
    After finally had tried mods for the game I can re-review my '0' mark. Now I give the game 6 point out of 10. And that is why: if to add mods that let to get rid of collision stutter, hand-shaking and blur all over the screen on speed - the game is finally playable. Also, one moment - u also need a good enough racing wheel, forget about playing with gamepad - you'll get car slides. ButAfter finally had tried mods for the game I can re-review my '0' mark. Now I give the game 6 point out of 10. And that is why: if to add mods that let to get rid of collision stutter, hand-shaking and blur all over the screen on speed - the game is finally playable. Also, one moment - u also need a good enough racing wheel, forget about playing with gamepad - you'll get car slides. But with a wheel - no slides. So, to sum it up, if the game was what it is now, after all my work on searching and installing mods to correct game flaws - then I'd give it 8 jr maybe even 9 point out of 10. But as I wasted too much time to make the game function properly, and no patches from official developers have we seen in the past time - I put 6. Fair enough. Now is fair score from me. And yes, now I enjoy it, after tons of wasted time and efforts to make it proper with mods.… Expand
  22. Dco326
    Sep 20, 2021
    5
    Ma zajebi, u globalu aj okej je igrica ali ova novija kola sa tastaturom je ubistvo voziti, pretesko bukvalno, nije napravljena za tastaturu igrica
  23. Luka1998010
    Jul 10, 2018
    7
    Its a good game,but for a separate series,not Need for Speed.
    There are things missing like more visual customization and vinyl mirror option.
    Also the AI can be really frustrating at times.
  24. MaxmilianKohler
    Jun 23, 2020
    6
    I couldn't recommend this game for anything other than really casual, relaxing driving on easy.

    You have to quit the race in order to adjust the controls. With the G27 and/or keyboard the cut scenes throughout the game are unskippable. Including every time you restart a race. They only seem to be skippable with a PS4 controller with DS4 3rd party software installed. It starts you    I couldn't recommend this game for anything other than really casual, relaxing driving on easy.

    You have to quit the race in order to adjust the controls.

    With the G27 and/or keyboard the cut scenes throughout the game are unskippable. Including every time you restart a race. They only seem to be skippable with a PS4 controller with DS4 3rd party software installed.

    It starts you off with a 1 minute long unskippable cut scene. Then you're on a test track to "dial in your settings". Except you can't change any steering settings from the menu in here! You have to restart the whole game and rewatch the minute long cut scene just to be able to tweak the steering settings!

    When using a controller or wheel it still keeps the menu icons on the keyboard keys.

    Switching between a wheel, controller, or keyboard erases all your bindings every time, and there doesn't appear to be a file you can backup.

    Menu can be annoyingly unresponsive.

    HUD is terrible. No telling how far you are from the end or where the finish is. It also randomly turns off my rear view mirror.

    In some of the drift tracks it's difficult to tell where you're supposed to be going.

    There's not always a way to restart the race after you pass the finish line.

    Every time you restart a race it repeats the same dialogue, which can get really annoying. I can't believe this... it even continues repeating the same thing in the next races... This is crazy! I have to play without sound because of this! 3 races per set, 4 sets of races. Even if I did every race the first time without any restarts, why would I need the same exact thing repeated 12 times?!?!?

    The handling can seem really strange sometimes. I'm driving in a straight line, accelerating moderately from 2nd to 3rd on a drift track and my car (Nissan Silvia) just randomly starts spazzing out turning from side to side for no apparent reason. I've played many other racing games with this G27, including the Dirt and Grid series. It seems to happen on all drift tracks with all cars. I guess they do something to the track to make it more "drift worthy", but they should explain these things. I hate it when these car games expect/assume that every player is a car expert.

    There are some tips they give in the loading screens, but they're random. For example, they don't give the drift tips before drift races. They just show up randomly. Also, they disappear automatically so there's not always time to read them.

    I really hate the menu. For no good reason it doesn't show all of the menu options at the same time, but makes you scroll through differently sized texts.

    It screws up your vision (big time - both extreme blur and color) every time you go off the track a bit or make contact. And there doesn't seem to be a way to turn that off.

    Some of the races are really dumb. Just driving in a circle for 5 minutes.

    The AI is unrealistic and imbalanced. Using the same difficulty some races are really easy and then others are way harder and the AI is seemingly not obeying the game's laws of physics (though the racing line/color isn't always accurate). If they touch you you fly off the road, but touching them does nothing most of the time, except rear ending them often makes their car roll over yours, as in you drive under them. If someone bumps you you have to restart the whole race.

    I played most of the previous NFS games with a keyboard (I've also played Dirt and Grid series with G27). But at default this seemed unplayable with a keyboard. Maybe I needed to turn on various assists or something. This is clearly different from other NFS games, and geared towards realistic sim racing. Much better with the G27 using default profile, vs using a PS4 controller. I improved the controller control significantly but still don't like it.

    The FFB seems to be messed up on 1 or 2 tracks.

    Didn't like the handling with G27 till I installed some mods from nfsplanet and changed the settings to:

    Logitech profiler:
    106
    100
    100
    Uncheck enable centering spring, strength 100
    Check use special steering wheel settings
    Don't report combined.
    404 Degrees, or 320 for drifting.
    Check use special game settings and check Allow game to adjust settings. Ingame FFB is at 10/10.

    Found on edracing. For G27: Dead Zones 0-5% Steering Sensitivity 50% Acceleration Sensitivity 50% Brake Sensitivity 50% Speed Steering Sensitivity 60% FFB 10 Turning lock 100%    … Expand
  25. PizzaSubCombo
    Aug 27, 2020
    7
    Shift is generally seen as the step-child of the NFS series for good reason - the hodgepodge of design elements are constantly at odds with one another. Ruthless physics and odd suspension behavior under load act in stark contrast to the game's brief races and Forza/GT-style campaign mode. That being said, when the game is firing on all cylinders and you finally dial in both yourShift is generally seen as the step-child of the NFS series for good reason - the hodgepodge of design elements are constantly at odds with one another. Ruthless physics and odd suspension behavior under load act in stark contrast to the game's brief races and Forza/GT-style campaign mode. That being said, when the game is firing on all cylinders and you finally dial in both your controller and car setup, Shift is pretty awesome and definitely worth playing for racing fans who like the idea of a racing simulator, but don't want to spend eons mastering the individual intricacies of each car.… Expand
  26. r03vg
    Apr 17, 2020
    7
    Физика действительно довольно продвинутая, сложная. Не получится просто разогнаться и всех победить, нужно долго привыкать.
  27. ChesterField
    May 7, 2020
    5
    I go to act as this need for speed never existed. This is not the direction to go with this franchise. Thats all i have to say. Of course, i do not recomend this one.
  28. bar0yka
    Dec 28, 2022
    7
    Ramazanda sahur günlerinde oynardım konsolla aşırı zevk alırdım ama çk da rage geçirirdim aq oyununda hele de o çöldeki muscle car düellosu beni yaşlandırdı aminakoyim bu arada mekanikler kötü sadece düz yarış kazan oyunu o yüzden beklentiniz yüksek olmasın
  29. johnny__a
    Nov 23, 2021
    6
    Solid racing game. Nice driving mechanics. But cannot reach the comprehensiveness of Forza or Gran Turismo.
  30. xcale
    Mar 6, 2023
    6
    Need For Speed franchise tried simulation like racing for the first time. They understood that they need to try again to fail better.

Awards & Rankings

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#21 Best PC Game of 2009
25
#25 Most Discussed PC Game of 2009
38
#38 Most Shared PC Game of 2009

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. IGN
    90
    A glorious return to greatness (and even excellence) for EA's seminal racing franchise. Slightly Mad Studios has delivered a driving experience that, while not completely accurate in terms of its simulation aspects, is practically dead-on in terms of what it's like to race around some of the world's best racing circuits.
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  2. Multiplayer.it
    90
    No longer a classic need for speed game, EA made a true shift, a u-turn, developing a great game, with stunning visuals, and a lot of cars and tracks. The nightly undercover challenges are gone, but the new mechanics, borrowed from games such Forza or GT work well in conveying a great driving feeling.
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  3. VideoGamer
    80
    Need For Speed: Shift is a brilliant new start for the franchise and has clearly been built by a team that loves racing.
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