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Speed ProStreet! You can test your taste for speed in four different game modes (Drag Grip Speed challenge and Top Speed Run). Thanks to the Nintendo WiFi connection you can even challenge your friends around the world to a race and be on your way to becoming a world speed champion!
Need for Speed ProStreet boasts impeccable precision and impressively detailed ... more
photo-realistic graphics, effectively transporting you to the center of the action. It pushes the "Autosculpt" technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car's performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance. Need for Speed ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown.
Need for Speed Prostreet is the latest in a long line of Need For Speed videogames to ... more
grace our generation, spanning consoles such as Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Xbox and all the current generation-consoles. This iteration of the franchise will have you completing race days; with a variety of different race types, fantastic cars and many customisable features. Need for Speed Prostreet will satisfy your racing needs and no doubt have you hooked. The release date of Need for Speed Prostreet was November 23rd 2007.
Need For Speed: ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. ... more
Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need For Speed: ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown.
Advantages: Stunning Graphics, Super On-line Options, Great Soundtrack Disadvantages: No Police Chases, No Free Roam, Like Other Racing Games
The Need For Speed series of games is arguably the best collection of racing and driving games available on the market. The team behind them have introduced the idea of hot pursuits and evading the police being fun, racing at top speed through traffic in an urban environment, modifying your car both visually and with performance parts to help you wow the crowd and beat the competition and drifting around a track or even better down a mountain! So ... ...out.
The Need For Speed series was in my opinion great because it delivered something different to the other racing games around and was realistic enough to believe that races and stunts like those performed in the game could happen in real life. Imagine my disappointment then when after just going out and buying the game, not having read up about it, we find a game unlike all the others with (at the start anyway) nothing different. ... more
The Need For Speed series of games is arguably the best collection of racing and driving games available on the market. The team behind them have introduced the idea of hot pursuits and evading the police being fun, racing at top speed through traffic in an urban environment, modifying your car both visually and with performance parts to help you wow the crowd and beat the competition and drifting around a track or even better down a mountain! So what new delights have been cooked up behind the scenes for this new installment? Read on to find out.
The Need For Speed series was in my opinion great because it delivered something different to the other racing games around and was realistic enough to believe that races and stunts like those performed in the game could happen in real life. Imagine my disappointment then when after just going out and buying the game, not having read up about it, we find a game unlike all the others with (at the start anyway) nothing different. You guessed it I felt flat and totally let down. Add to this the fact that the controller config had all changed too, R2 and L2 were brake and accelerate and X handbrake, and there was no way of changing it I thought my experience of Pro Street was going to be very hairy indeed!
The story is very similar to the majority of Need For Speed games; however, the team element that featured in the Carbon game has been replaced with the player being an individual again. You play as Ryan Cooper who after racing hard on the streets has decided to move on to track racing and take on "The Showdown King" Ryo and his king buddies, one for each type of race you complete in. These being Grip, Drag, Drift and Speed. Before you can race these people though you have to complete a multitude of race days which consist of a combination of races, you must dominate these to work your way up towards Ryo. To race the kings of each element you must beat 10 track records on their specific event then three race days racing against the best racers in that discipline before the king will race you.
As you can see the format is very unique to this game and is a refreshing change from race after race. To dominate each race day you have to attain a certain number of points from all the races combined. You get points for a) the position you finish, b) having little or no damage to your car and c) beating the computer generated time it should take you to complete the event. You then add all totals up for each event giving you a point's grand total, if it is more than what is required you either win or dominate the event. This means you can be good at one discipline and poor at another but can still progress in the game. Each car in your garage is only able to participate in one event at a time so you must tune cars up to be good at a specific discipline.
Like in previous games all cars can be tuned up and modified externally to make them look and perform at their best. You are able to fiddle with gear ratios, suspension, nitro boosts and other little tweeks to try and get the most out of the car. I was not really sure what I was doing but for someone who knows this could be a nice little feature. The way the car can be changed physically was probably the best I have seen from a Need For Speed game. Add ons could be placed wherever to whatever size required, the graphics were neat and trendy and adequate for the job and the colours could again be changed to suit your car or paint style. Some parts that were available from before were lacking in Pro Street like under tray lights (neon's) but the sheer volume of layers that could be produced to create the ultimate looking car made up for that in my opinion.
So now onto the game itself and I must start with the graphics. This was only the second PS3 game I had played so, even now, I am unaware of the power of the machine as yet. That being said you would not be surprised to learn that I thought the graphics were great. The best bit about them was attention to detail. The cars looked very sharp, refined and just what they would be like on the track. The reflections from the sun, the shine from polish was all there to be seen along with your own additions made the experience great. The tracks were not too shabby either, the car handled correctly to dips and obstacles when travelled across and the posters and spectators all looked lifelike at the side of the race track. Another massive hit for me was the introduction of damage which was also tastefully displayed. Dents, scrapes, bashes and smashes all looked real as you were able to dismantle your pride and joy during each race then repair it perfectly again. Performance was supposed to suffer the more damage was sustained but I don't think this went as well as planned because you could still roar past opponents in a car that looked about to give up at any minute. You could also total your car by toppling it which was a nice little addition that was added to by super detailed graphics.
After the disappointment of Need For Speed Carbons soundtrack I was delighted with the effort put into this one. Again you get the great sounds from up and coming names, with a few known artists in the mix. There was perhaps not enough hip hop tunes for my liking in comparison to Need For Speed Underground 1 or 2 but the mix of Metal and Dance, of funky and stylish got a thumbs up from me. You will be bouncing along all the way through the game with enough variety and tunes not to be sick of any until you complete the game. Another nice little success.
I do not yet have my PS3 on-line yet so I can't comment on the on-line options but all I can say is that they looked vast, compare times with others, race in race days you have compiled against others. The list could go on, unfortunately though I can't say how the set up performs, but it does look good!
Now on to the bits I did not like. Not surprisingly this all revolves around the move from the streets to the track. I would like to know the real reason for this change. Was it forced from above because of the amount of street racing that happens nowadays? Or did EA decide itself to break up a winning formula? Well whatever the reason, gone is the free roam mode that allowed you to race other drivers, learn the streets where you would be racing, find some shortcuts and just generally have fun. The other thing with free roam that is not included in Pro Street is that police chases are gone. My favourite game from the need For Speed series is definitely Most Wanted because the police chases were the main thrust of the game. The excitement levels created and trying to beat challenges set was what made the game and the thrill given when you got rid of the police who had been chasing you for twenty minutes was second to none. I was devastated when I discovered there would be no chases and that was the biggest disappointment from this game.
The other annoying thing was that to reach the kings of each event you had to drive to the best of your ability, to dominate the race days before he would show up. After that I really expected a challenge to win overall. On a couple of occasions (sprint and drift especially) this did not happen. The sprint was the best example where actually getting to face the king had taken a good couple of hours of learning every inch of the track raced along with a little luck of not to crash thrown in to finally get enough points to dominate the event and face the king. When the king races happened, however, the hardest part was keeping your car on the track, as long as you did this winning was a certainty as I won by over a minute on one occasion and in another he totaled his car!
Overall then Need For Speed Pro Street is certainly worth a look. I gave it 4 out of 5, this is because no free roam or police chases knocks off a star already but with great graphics, attention to detail, learning curve and custimisation options this deserves a place in any racing fans collection.
Price new is now around £25-30 on most websites, nearer £30-40 on the high street. I did see it for £13 new in Game over the holidays but this offer will probably have stopped now. Second hand Ebay is the best place and you will be paying around £10-13 which is certainly worth it.
Advantages: Brilliantly realistic, many cars, superb graphics Disadvantages: No map, slight let down in modding
Need for Speed: ProStreet
So here it is, finally, the long awaited Next Gen Need for Speed, (We'll ignore Need for Speed: Carbon because it was rubbish) and I must say...they've done it again. Its another brilliant installment from the Need for Speed team!! Lets run through in more detail, shall we?
==Graphics==
Right then, graphics! As you can imagine, being a next gen game the graphics are simply brilliant, especially when viewed in full HD! ... ...to give you that proper Need for Speed taste. I'll tell you more about the upgrades in a bit...I like to leave a bit of mystery!
==Controls==
As you might expect the controls are exactly the same as always...but you'd be wrong!! Need for Speed have moved their control layout to fit into the PS3 racing genre better. They have, of course, moved the accelerate button from X to R2, which I think is a good move. It allows for more play with the throttle. ...
tdholland 17.04.2008
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Advantages: New Drag Race feature Disadvantages: Nothing like previous NFS games
Need for speed games are usually the highlight of every gamers year, and when Prostreet came out everyone was expecting big things. Being a keen gamer myself i decided to buy the latest need for speed hoping it would be as good as its predecessors. I was quite excited when i got it home and turned it on for the first time and i was staggered by the graphics displayed on the playstation 3 and i was keen to get started. I started the career mode and ... ...track racing but from a need for speed game you expect street racing, if i wanted to buy a track day racing game then i would have bought something like Gran Turismo 5 or something which offers proper track racing. In Prostreet there is a vast selection of cars which are displayed brilliantly in the HD of the PS3. A new edition to Prostreet was the drag race which was quite exciting as on all of the other ones you were unable to drag race, but this ...
chriscowper 13.09.2008
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Advantages: Graphics,Sounds,cars Disadvantages: No Freedom to Roam
...was from previous versions of need for speed.On this version you are on a race track not on the streets,there is also no police chases onthis version which i think was one of the good things that they introduced into most wanted.
The graphics on this game are spectacular the background looks in fine detail aswell.EA have not rushed this game as you can see from the output of it.
So the story line on this game is that you are a new Racer from the ... ...you crash your car you need to pay to get it repaired so it helps if you dont crash.This is a very good feature and makes the game look awesome.
EA have put a lot of songs into this game and they have also got a commentator who talks between races.The Sound Quality is perfect on surround sound systems sounds so real and makes the game more enjoyable.
All in all i would say that Need For Speed Pro Street is Awesome but lacks the Freedom to rome ...
richooooo 05.03.2008
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Advantages: You can damage your car! New tuning system, length of the game, online capabilities. Disadvantages: No free roam, no neons, no police chases.
...The game is different to Need For Speed Underground 1+2 and even Carbon but is that a bad thing? It flaunts legal street racing on traditional style racing tracks
The game sees you playing as Ryan Cooper an ex bad boy street racer enter the professional racing strip, competing in race days which are comprised of different racing types. The main aim of the game is to beat the kings of each race type and then Ultimately the Show Down King, Ryo.
The ... ...to any driving game fan, Need For Speed Fans give it a chance too its bad ass to say the least. ....and for everyone who wants to know more detail!
*Grip Race*;
Standard Grip - is a standard race of 2-3 laps around a track consisting of eight racers.
Grip Class - 2-3 laps, This is a race against four cars of around your BHP (Brake Horse Power).
Time Attack - 3 laps, four racers on the track competing for the best lap time.
Sector Shoot Out - ...
ashleyboi 23.01.2008
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Advantages: Crash simulation, music, autosculpt Disadvantages: repetitive, no free roam
Need for Speed ProStreet is the current installment in the need for speed series. You start as a man who is no to godd to race in the underground scene and is now racing in legal races held in a number of countries. Your goal is to work you way up to be the best racer in 4 different race classes. You need at least 1 car for each event and you have to tune it to your specs.
Autosculpt returns from its first appearence in Carbon and has improved and ... ...ps3.
Unlike the previous need for speeds, ProStreet focuses on legal racing. This means police chases do not appear which is a shame as it added an extra dimension to the gameplay in Carbon and Most Wanted. Some of the races can seem repetitive as the objectives are very similar to eachother. Its a case of either get to the end without crashing or get the most points by drifting. I think EA have taken a step back in ProStreet. In previous installments ...
dan1991 03.02.2008
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Product details
Publisher
Electronic Arts (EA)
Developer
EA Black Box
Release Date
23rd November 2007
Age
3+
Genre
Racing/Driving
Sub Genre
Arcade Racing
Max Number of Players Offline
2 Player
Max Number of Players Online
8 Player
Format
Blu-Ray Disc
Platform
PS3
Aka
NFS: Pro Street
EAN
5030930059361
Manufacturer's product description
Need for Speed ProStreet boasts impeccable precision and impressively detailed photo-realistic graphics, effectively transporting you to the center of the action. It pushes the \"Autosculpt\" technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car\'s performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance. Need for Speed ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown.
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