Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | 09:01 GMT
Shift 2: Unleashed previews start popping up
You’ll probably want this.
Both GameSpot and Joysitq have gone live with what’s probably the first two previews in the world of Shift 2: Unleashed.
The Slighty Mad sim was announced two weeks ago on the week of Hot Pursuit’s release with a debut trailer and screens, but no write-ups until now, though.
Here’s a snip from GameSpot’s piece:
“The highlight of our preview was getting to sit down in a force feedback D-Box gaming chair, which was rigged up to a high-end PC running a preview build of the game. Our demo offered us a range of tracks in locations such as Shanghai, Australia’s Bathurst track at dusk, and the daunting prospect of Belgium’s Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps at night. It was a challenge to race around the latter in a chair programmed to make you feel every bump and corner, especially because the number of driving aids was limited.”
And Joystiq’s:
“Shift 2 is still months away from its planned release next spring, but the standout addition, a new “helmet cam” view, was fully functional — and something I think racing fans will be wowed by — in the preview build. Evolving from the driver’s eye camera system in the first Shift, the new camera view not only realistically recreates the effects of g-forces, bumps, crashes, acceleration and braking from an in-car perspective, but now integrates the portions of the helmet that you’d see (if you were a real, careful race car driver) and, most importantly, the camera now looks into turns, just as drivers do in real life.”
Keep an eye on this. Shift 2′s dropped the Need for Speed monkier it had last time out, and is going at it alone as its own series against the likes of Gran Turismo and Forza.
Shift 2: Unleashed, which will provide an innovative helmet camera view and an updated version of Autolog that was introduced in NFS: Hot Pursuit, will release in spring 2011 for PS3, 360 and PC.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Racing, Xbox 360
Tags: Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed, Shift 2: Unleashed, Slightly Mad Studios
8 comments
#1
Old MacDonald
30/11/10, 9:43 am
I want this.
#2
The_Deleted
30/11/10, 10:07 am
Agreed. Shift is a fantastic racing game. The sound is very impressive and the driving is sublime.
#3
Keivz
30/11/10, 10:16 am
Sounds like a fairly advanced build. Having said that, I’m ok with a delay if it means adding an extra coat of polish & a better presentation (menus, etc) which the first admittingly lacked. I still loved it though.
#4
Blerk
30/11/10, 10:33 am
I don’t want this. Sorry.
#5
Michael O’Connor
30/11/10, 10:53 am
Shift suffered from what I like to call Assasin’s Creed Syndrome.
It had a greate idea, great execution, with really high production values to boot. But it stretched it’s basic ideas way too thin, and there was absolutely nothing in between to break up the monotony. It became monotonous almost as soon as it began.
Assassin’s Creed figured out how to solve this problem in the second game. I hope E.A. can do the same with Shift.
#6
Tallon 4
30/11/10, 6:03 pm
Loved the first, will adore the second.
Bring it!
#7
datamonkey
30/11/10, 6:33 pm
How does this series compare to say… PGR?
#8
Isaaclarke37
30/11/10, 10:22 pm
I didn’t like the first one, will be giving this one a chance.