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Review of Need For Speed Undercover For iPhone
Review of Need For Speed Undercover For iPhone It’s not about the decals or neon lighting or the long legs and miniskirt sitting on the passenger seat. Any serious racer knows it’s what’s under your hood that counts. You can wet your lips at the flashy graphics and enjoy the fine-tuned ride, though Need for Speed: Undercover needs a lube job in order for the action to really get going. Half-weight hottie Maggie Q guides you through the street racing underworld with the hope of cracking a smuggling operation. As an undercover agent behind the wheel, you tackle racing events across the Tri-City Bay Area gaining favour among the three syndicates in each district. Like any racer, the chatter and live-action videos are just filler between sessions burning rubber. No multiplayer here – it’s all about cracking down on crime in the single player story. Events include various street races, head-to-head sprints, take-downs, and escape runs that task you with minimising damage to your car as you speed to the finish line. There are some lame sequences, such as earning street cred by driving through crates and cones, but most of the activities shift into a higher gear. It’s the escapes that pose the biggest challenge, police aggressively swiping your car as you struggle to hold out to the end of the event. The concept itself is pretty cool, but cop cars have entirely too much horsepower. They’re always right on your tail, even after crashing into another car. Intended as a way of …
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