

Need for Speed SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars. Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver’s perspective through the combination of perception based G-forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the brutal experience of a first person crash dynamic. Need for Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every impact, every change of track surface and every last bit of grip as you push yourself to the edge.
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Character
Earnest, grave, plot-driven and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- Slightly Mad Studios
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- September 15, 2009
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- MADNESS Engine
- Time to beat
- 13 h rushed · 17 h main story · 31 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.6/10 from 230 ratings.
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