Need For Speed Nitro (Wii)

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Genre	Driving Racing
Platform	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	05/11/2009
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Need For Speed Nitro (Wii) Product Information

The fun and exhilaration of high-speed racing!
Need for Speed NITRO delivers the fun and exhilaration of high-speed racing, combining the franchise’s trademark attitude and car culture with deep and thrilling game-play. Gamers must battle through the mayhem of relentless cops, master the art of drifting to gain boost at 150 mph, and prove themselves across five mega cities at a gripping 60 frames per second.

Starting in Rio, Brazil, gamers will move their way up the ranks to dominate every race from street to street, city to city. Players will be battling it out until the finish line as they prove their racing skills across the world. During the heat of competition, they must master techniques such as drafting off rivals to gain speed and drifting sharp corners to gain nitro boost. Players will also have to manage their heat level as cops add to the mayhem on the road with their increased intensity and aggression.

Whether it’s with the Wii Remote, Nunchuk, Wii Wheel, the Classic Controller or the GameCube controller, Need for Speed NITRO lets gamers race it their way. Players can decide exactly how they want to dominate the competition. And for the ultimate bragging rights, players can’t just win the race, they must own it. With a nearly limitless visual customization system, gamers can design a unique art style to attach to their ride. As they edge out competitors in driving finesse, their art will overtake the world, vibrantly painting the story of racing supremacy. All this combined with fresh modes, tracks and exotic real world locations make Need for Speed NITRO one of the most exciting, heart-pounding arcade racers for Wii.

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Need For Speed Nitro (Wii) Review

Need for Speed Nitro is the well overdue NFS Wii exclusive. As opposed to other iterations on the console that were merely ports of other console versions, Nitro is tailored specifically for the Wii, a trait that ultimately helps distance itself from other titles in the franchise. While its focus is undoubtedly that of an arcade racer, a fact that will inevitably have it compared to the likes of Mart Kart Wii, Nitro is a great first-round effort for the franchise, a game that is good enough to make us forget completely about the series’ other appearances on the Wii.

EA’s focus with Nitro was to make an accessible and fun arcade racer, one that didn’t aim for realism, but instead wanted to provide gamers with a quick racing game experience coupled with the typical NFS customization options that have the made the franchise so popular. Nitro offers several great control schemes (across all four of the Wii-compatible controllers, including the Gamecube controller), all of which work very well and have no major nuisances or issues. Which one you use is going to depend on whatever one suits you best, and you can easily change the scheme your using without much hassle. As this is an arcade racer, cars don’t control as accurately within their weight as they would in a racing sim like NFS Shift, but that shouldn’t deter you, as all of the cars you’ll drive have their own strengths and weaknesses, depending on their style and how you’re actually driving them. A muscle car for example isn’t going to be as quick off the mark as a Lamborghini, although it might handle drifting a bit better.

You can race your cars in several different racing modes, including the typical Drift and Circuit races that are accustomed to NFS titles. While not all of the modes are that challenging or enjoyable (Time Attack comes to mind), everything you’d want from a racing title is there. Nitro is best experienced when you’re going up against other racers, as the speed factor is definitely one of the game’s biggest selling points. Nitro is clearly heavily influenced by the Burnout series, as your Nitro boost is increased with every crash you cause during a race. Things can get incredibly fast once you hit the boost and thankfully the controlling doesn’t lose any of its accessibility once the speed cranks up a bit.

Need for Speed Nitro isn’t perfect by any means, but as an arcade racer and the first NFS title built specifically for the Wii, it’s a fantastic effort. It can actually be a lot of fun and while the police AI can ruin some of the races and the lack of performance customization hurts the gameplay a little bit, there’s enough accessibility and depth here to please casual gamers, arcade racing fans and fans of EA’s Burnout series.

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