The open world setting is also ignored in many of the game's events. Unless just feel like testing out your ride or just feel like exploring, there's no reason to drive around on your own. You can't come across any hidden events, new racers or anything of this sort. All of this means that unless you're running from the cops, there's absolutely no reason to drive around the city when not in an event. This will load up whatever your nearest event is, or in some cases, the next major event you're supposed to take part in. To begin an event, you can either head to the overhead map, which requires a couple of seconds of loading despite its utter simplicity, or simply press down on the D-Pad. You cannot even drive to an event to start it or enter your garage.

That doesn't happen one bit in Undercover.

The major reason for having an open world is to allow gamers to explore their environment, find new challenges, perhaps some hidden locations and generally hunt down people to race. Part of the reason for this is the game's complete and utter misuse of its open world setting. It fails on almost every front and is a major step backwards not only for the franchise, but racing games in general. The end result, however, is a game that has practically zero redeeming qualities. Undercover also seems to be directed right at the casual market, both in terms of presentation and its extremely relaxed learning curve.Ĭlick here to watch the video review. ProStreet didn't turn out too well, so Black Box went back to the drawing board and returned to an open world setting with this year's Need for Speed Undercover, but that wasn't the only design change.

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