Need for Speed Undercover Review XBox 360

Need for Speed Undercover
EA
XBox 360
£39.99

IS NEED for Speed a franchise desperate for some kind of makeover?

It's certainly been going for some time now, with the same old high speed cop dodging and racing against rivals.

And there's a whole host of rival titles too including Project Gotham, Grid, Midnight Club and even the Grand Theft Auto series at a stretch.

The story, such as it is, and illustrated with some fairly poor cut scenes, is some nonsense about racing other drivers and avoiding police while going undercover to bring down some international crime syndicate.

Tri-City where the game is based, features 80-miles of roads, including a large motorway section.

The city is all very generic, albeit nicely realised, although it suffers from the unrealistic looking problem of skyscrapers popping into view from nowhere in the distance.

Undercover is an excellent racing game, make no mistake. It's fast, furious, competently put together, and has licensed a good many of the hottest cars around. It just doesn't get the excitement levels up as much as it should - possibly because it doesn't really do an awful lot that's new, in what is a crowded marketplace.

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