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Before the presentations on Need for Speed Undercover could start, Producer John Doyle of EA Black Box introduced the most recent project to us: Since this year the developers from Vancouver run the website Speedhunters.com, which gives an overview of the motor sports happenings around the world, with focus on Need for Speed-like events. Amongst car spotlights and blogs written by some well-known drivers coming from the drift scene you also can find stuff like galleries, videos and coverages on particular events and even more. They set high value on not going too much into detail and talking about things like the right final drive ratio or tire pressure, but rather the site's audience should be ordinary people and a overview of the scene should be given. So everyone looking for some impressions for ingame tuning or pictures and videos full of action might want to chance a quick look.
Most Wanted 2
When the attendees got their first look on scenes from the game, the impressions were unanimous: There is Most Wanted 2. The positioning of camera, the integration of the car into the environment and the driving experience brought back some well-known memories immediately. Pro Street's simulation-like feeling is nearly gone. With the HUD, it was almost in the same manner: Bounty meter, (extended) delicts like Cost to state or Reckless Driving, pursuit breaker on the minimap – everything is back again.
In the past game you were looking for new competitions on the streets of the NFS world. Instead of the races you will find your missions there now. For the most part, introductions to these will be ingame graphics. For example, one job is to steal a Porsche out of a car dealership. Just after start you are watching the scenery from third person perspective, when you see the car crashing through the dealer's showcase. After that, the camera moves smoothly right behind your car and the getaway begins. Of course an alarm was raised and inevitably you run into the police. So let's activate the speedbreaker (only shots now and no recharging due to balancing issues) and dodge around the oncoming patrol cars. After a short pursuit using pursuit breakers like collapsing bridge segments or scaffolds to decimate the state's car pool, you reach your target and can flee into a garage. But I haven't seen any donut shop from Most Wanted along the way 
In the course of the pursuit your car obviously couldn't remain without any scratches and was deformed according to Pro Street's well-known damage model. However, in Undercover your car will only receive visual damage. So if someone is moving closer to a pillar he won't recognize his vehicle anymore, but apart from that, he may drive away without any consequences.
One major thing that I've noticed is the improved cop and traffic AI. The traffic is trying to move with appropriate speed — “trying” means they also can't completely avoid getting involved into an accident among each other, but this might also be related to the very early game version I was playing. Pursuits will be more realistic as well. To specify a bad example: The final mission from Most Wanted where you had to survive for 20 minutes with an armada of corvettes in tow, which were partially doing over 120 mph backwards. Such things are ruled out in Undercover. Pursuits won't last longer than 6 minutes (as long as you don't want to) and with it, the number and behavior of cop cars is adapted, too. I also haven't seen any car spinning in the air meters high as a result of an impact. So the “interaction” with non-player-vehicles feels more realistic, but more striking as well, especially due to damage model and camera design improvements.Highway Battle & other innovations:
Highway Battle is the new game mode in Undercover. Basically, this is a mixture of the outrun mode of Underground 2 and the drag modes with traffic of past NFS games. The purpose of Highway Battle is quite similar to the canyon races of Carbon, so it looks like you will mainly battle with some kind of “bosses” for the victory on the highway. At first, the start is side-by-side or consecutive, and the one who can extend his lead to a certain distance or is in front after a given time period, will be the winner. In this case the traffic might turn the balance, because on the one hand it has to be dodged around, one the other hand the one driving ahead could use it to block the other one's road. At this, the traffic flow is completely random, unlike the drag modes of the Underground era. This means the race progress is consistently different. So it might be the case that on the first attempt your rival rushes away without any chance to get him, because he simply finds the best route through traffic. Next time he'd probably crash into the first truck to appear. Your opponents' ways aren't fixed as well and will be adapted during race. So imagine bumping continuously into his car, just prepare for his answer.
The nonexistent rear view mirror, which doesn't appear in any game type, makes this type of race particularly interesting. So the question is: “Can I run the risk of looking back once more? Can I dodge the traffic then just in time?” For Highway Battle, this is certainly a concept taking away an advantage from the one driving ahead. I personally perceived this bar in the top as annoying in most cases, but I am really curious to see which kind of reactions the developers will receive from the community.
So with Highway Battle there will be another type of race in the game – two others will be gone instead, drag and drift, to be precise. Similar to Most Wanted, both of these modes obviously don't fit into the concept of Undercover. No surprises regarding the replay feature: It is missing since the beginning of the Underground series and it will be missing once again. Because of the open world with thereby theoretically infinite pursuits, and the resource hogging physics engine, it is impossible to the developers to integrate such feature for every platform.
I can't tell you much about tuning since I couldn't take a look at this part of the game. Number of bodykits and aftermarket parts as well as possibilities of autosculpt should be equal to Pro Street, little enhancements aren't out of question though. Moreover, the developers set value on purging menus and increasing usability. That's why pause menus will be more clearly arranged and due to transparency you still can see the race events. In addition, you will be able to tune your car directly in these menus and apply the changes without moving back the game's main menu.
At the time of my visit plannings on online gameplay just have started, so no one was able or allowed to tell anything. Therefore it's still cloudy how substantial the multiplayer part will be in the final game, especially considering the apparent singleplayer focus due to the immense expenditures on story and shooting.
C.S.I. Miami:
The world of Undercover takes place at the US gulf coast and can be split into four major regions. Whereas Pro Street's race tracks are based on real layouts, the landscape of Tri-City is completely fictitious. The game build I was playing only contained Sunset Hills, a wavy district with many winding roads and lots of gravel paths, and to some extent the island Palm Harbor, in the manner of Miami downtown or something. The two remaining are Port Crescent (industry?) and Gold Coast Mountains, where some nice canyons will be waiting for us. So all in all it seems like a mixture of the quarters of Underground, Most Wanted and Carbon. By the way, one lap over the highway surrounding the world will take you at least eight minutes.
In the first game scenes we saw a Porsche driving along an interstate highway across the sea, while the first palm alleys and the skyline of a metropolis were popping up at the horizon. This part of the world certainly shelters a lot of atmosphere and reminded me of C.S.I. Miami – only Horatio Caine handling with his sunglasses was missing. The landscape is put in the right setting with a shiny orange coloring using post processing, contrary to the Underground episodes having some kind of a blue touch. The sun does one last thing to accomplish the atmosphere. The scenery is arranged during the dawn hours in the morning, by what the cars are spectacular illuminated through the incidence of light. Blending and lens flare effects are striking as well – the developers call this combination “magic hour”, which is also used by the film industry.
So there won't be any daylight change again, but this was drafted up from the beginning on. But if anyone supposed to see a wet roadbed on the highway in the first trailer, isn't wrong with that. If and how weather effects will occur in the game was also something I couldn't take a look at. Altogether, you will recognize the graphical improvements at first sight, Undercover simply has so much more eyecatchers than the comparatively realistic and neutral Pro Street.
Musik & Sound
I personally think it's quite understandable why Need for Speed won many AIAS awards for outstanding sound design in the past. However, EA Black Box don't rest on their laurels, but rather increased efforts for the sound production of the game. Not only the shootings for Undercover were executed with help from Hollywood, but also the musical coulisse was set up consulting Paul Haslinger, composer for movies like Underworld and Minority Report or the TV series Sleeper Cell.
Like in Most Wanted, the background music is arranged depending on the situation. To allow a greater distinguish between the individual race types , you will only be listening to a certain choice of music in every mode — Highway Battle, for instance, contains several intense and propulsive composed percussion rhythms. As usual, there will be a bunch of licensed music from different artists, too, but it might be the case that only some extracts of them will be used to support certain ingame situations. For example, in an arrest sequence after a failed getaway try the Nine Inch Nails were carried curtly. So it was great importance attached on the player not getting his brain blasted away, but on solely supporting certain events during race and achieving a perfect balance between engine sound and music. That's why there won't be a option to import your own music files into the game, it is simply too difficult to integrate such files into this system in the right way.
Police radio traffic is also renewed. It will be possible to notice a real progress in cop talk during a pursuit as well as differences between common cops and more experienced guys like FBI agents.
The audio recordings for Undercover took five weeks spent in sound studios and on closed off roads. The conventional method to realize different rpms or even different cars just by meddling with a synthesizer like being used in Test Drive Unlimited is not utilized by Black Box. Instead this different approach is themed «audio follows physics» and will stand by the car physics very close to realistic without the need to fake anything, as the developers said.
Overall, I'm really impressed by the quality of sound the game delivers. Especially the differences between half and full throttle (more upcoming) are audible through the engines' reactions indeed. I am only afraid that most gamers, notably those using a PC, won't be able to enjoy these sound effects since it is obvious that adequate hardware is required.
Heroic Driving
The new driving physics is in my opinion the most striking aspect in Undercover. The goal was to create an «Action Driving» game, whose gameplay experience was somewhere between Arcade an Simulation. Basically I would see the gameplay as a return of the predecessors Most Wanted and Carbon, with a bit more simulation from ProStreet. Nevertheless the driving physics have been re-created from the scratch and the developers call it the «Heroic Driving Engine». This includes the unbelievable control over the car and the direct reaction on steering commands. We took again a Porsche for a test drive and everyone was enthused. You always had the feeling to have the full control over the car and the feedback of the vehicle worked wonderful. Every bump, every steering command and every twitch with the gas pedal is visible on the display and the Porsche reacts according to the intensity of the throttle and steering with an analog gamepad very differentiated.
Although it is possible to accelerate the car softly without smouldering tires, the feedback of the engine is much more intense when you push the trigger to the limit. The engine howls, the body leans backwards, the car shakes and the new adjusted camera also moves slightly down, without appearing unrealistic or exaggerated in any kind. It's possible to use brakes and steering as well with such a precision. This enables you to make more difficult maneuvers, like U-turns, 360s or a slalom through the traffic on the highway. It seems as if the car knows before the player what's his intention. I didn't have this experience with the Need for Speed series yet — compared to Undercover the driving experience of the predecessors seems more sluggish.
It's not easy to force the Porsche to drift at the beginning, because unlike in Carbon the car doesn't steer against itself and feels quite petulant and averse. But with some practise and the right vehicle (unfortunately we couldn't test a muscle car) this shouldn't be a problem.
As already mentioned, the camera did change too. Whatever driving maneuver you want to do, the camera always highlights the car, true to the motto «the car is the star». In this context, the camera moves smoothly and naturally and I didn't have to bear any exaggerated effects like the zooming-out when using nitro.
The combination of new driving physics, camera and improved engine sounds seems all of a piece, with a (to me) yet unkown realism and naturalness. You will need some time to get used to the new steering, but once you adapted it, you won't want to miss it.
Conclusion
«Back to the roots», some guys said. The «root» is obviously quite short and has the name Most Wanted! If we will ever see a Need for Speed in the style of the pre-Underground-era is still written in the stars. But that doesn't matter, I pass the time with Undercover. EA Black Box always manages to implement enough improvements in a Need for Speed game, to fully justify the purchase of the game. So in the case of Undercover. The only things I'm a bit concerned of is the quality of the multiplayer-part and the misty motivation to complete the career more often. |
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