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Need for Speed: Undercover Now Available in App Store ($9.99)
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I disagree. Nintendo DS is clearly a better product because it allows for several different inputs, including the most important ones to gaming - buttons.
Tilt controls or touch screen steering just don't cut it for a racing game where you actually want to be engrossed instead of thinking about what angle you're holding your phone at all the time.
Also, I've noticed on many occasions that the controls for iPhone games, whether touch or tilt can actually interfere with the experience, such as blocking the speaker with your hand or placing your finger over on screen action you really need to be able to see.
Thank you. I have spent over 50 dollars on games for the iPod touch. I am an avid gamer and games that are suitable for the touch interface are casual and tower defense games in my honest opinion. NfS:U is a good game, but it really is held back due to limited input (i.e lack of physical buttons). I am not going to gripe about the "on rails gameplay." I can understand why EA went that route - simply to lessen the frustration of the user. Tilt and touch isn't entirely accurate to begin with - and with an arcade fast paced racer such as the NfS brand it would have been a complete disaster.
I am not knocking the iPod touch or iPhone for its gaming capabilities entirely. I enjoy it - obviously if I spent over 50 dollars on gaming apps alone. However, not every genre works without a hitch and some do - but, the "magic" is missing from them due to cutting corners and trying to make it work without physical buttons.
I believe this will be fixed with 3.0. I guarantee there will be a controller like add-on that goes around the iPhone through the dock connector.
I've got a bit of a problem here, my entire game is in Japanese (no English option like EA had for SimCity). I don't mind not understanding the story so long as I can play the game.
Pretty much all I understand now is flicking up speeds up the car, flicking down applies the brakes, and tilting steers. I know there are other controls (something to do with the pinch gesture), and I'd be grateful if someone could post the other controls.
Pretty much all I understand now is flicking up speeds up the car, flicking down applies the brakes, and tilting steers. I know there are other controls (something to do with the pinch gesture), and I'd be grateful if someone could post the other controls.
I played a jailbroken version on my buddies 1st gen touch, and was quite impressed. I'm still living in Germany, and don't feel like buying a German game (not making that mistake again *sigh* Tetris
). I guess I'll wait until I move back to Canada this summer.Anyway, while I was playing, I thought it was touch the screen to brake, and flick down to do the whole "slow motion" thing.
I bought it yesterday and am quite impressed actually! Well worth $9.99, some unimportant lags that will probably get fixed with an update. The controls are pretty cool and the graphics are awesome! I'll be surprised if they grant everyones wish in an update by adding free roam.
Buy it, you won't regret it!
Ams.
Buy it, you won't regret it!
Ams.
It is much better than I had anticipated, but not the perfect racer type game yet. I think that Need for speed should release a more roots racing game. This one while good is just a bit too much of a port.
anyway, our review.
anyway, our review.
The Zonda is faster and handles a lot better as well. I have unlocked everything and completed drift mode as well. The best way I did it was to go back to the first race and do constant drifts throughout the race since I had a Viper I wasn't worried about winning - considering it was the first race in the game the cars are slow.
EA needs to produce an update...because the game is just sitting there now...nothing to do.