But we won’t get it, not for a long time. So… pfff. Screw EA and their empty promises.

And they can shove their motion blur up their …. !

The one thing i hope they work on is the frame rates, i heard they were all over the place on NFS undercover.

Please name me one EA console game that has been a sim. Thank you.

Now you understand the sim community’s cynicism toward the breathless PR proclaiming that Shift will be a sim.

Plus, has anyone determined how many people from Blimey remained after the company was bought? Either way, there’s no question Slightly Mad will succumb to the pressure applied by EA to ensure Shift is a commercial hit. The only way you can do that with a console racer is to make it arcade, or relaxed sim at most.

Nothing in that article is stuff I haven’t heard before by the more ‘game inspired’ (i refuse to say arcade, that’s the original Test drive) driving games.

The most demoralizing issue is that this will keep Slightly mad tied up with this crap year to year and unable to make anything of substance.

The whole *crossover* sim is bogus, people who want more simply use this thing called Google and quickly find offerings like iRacing or even simbin, ISI, and LFS..the rest are quite content with Need for Speed, Forza, etc…

I hate it when Arcade titles try to be Simulations. Because its then when they fail to deliver both. They aren’t arcade, and they aren’t simulation, they’re a weird mix in between. GRID is the perfect example of such a miserable failure. It sucks to play as an arcade title because the cars drive weird, and it sucks to play as a realistic title because the cars drive weird ;) A NFS title like Most Wanted was huge fun to play, because it was a little bit like the old NFS’es. Yes, it had tuner cars in it, but hey, the market demanded that. Besides that though it was about racing exclusive cars and evading the police, just like in the first couple of titles, without having to worry about the handling as it was a nice arcade way of driving. Job well done, hugely entertaining arcade-racer. Same goes for most of the common current simulations, like GTR Evo, Netkar, LFS, rFactor, iRacing, whatever rocks your socks. They do what they do well, they’re simulations and know where their focus is.

So here’s my cry out loud to the guys at SMM: guys, find the right balance, please look at GRID to see how it shouldn’t be done and get it right. Please restore my faith in the NFS series ;)

I don’t see how this makes much of a difference though, a few tracks more or less won’t be the key to make this appealing to sim racers.

And about putting my opinion aside: I don’t have much of an opinion yet, given the few information available. But, I have real doubts if EA is really willing to make this a simulation.

Given the last NfS games and the Race Driver GRID fiasco, you can’t blame sim racers for being sceptical when it comes to this. I don’t think anybody expects a new GPL, something along the lines of Gran Turismo would be well welcomed by most people I guess.

But I don’t see that happening just yet…..

‘…we have over 15 immersive real-world locations including a London street course and the world-famous Brands Hatch circuit.’

The author of this article should really put his own opinion aside when writing on a news website like this. Every game deserves a chance, even a game which is made by EA.

Weird that so many people allready have an opinion on this game. Previous Need For Speed games were made by different people, so it’s just plain stupid to judge this game which is just announced a few days ago.

So I think nobody should expect NFS to be a real simulator because they wouldn’t be able to sell enough to make the company happy. Its like the case when an artistic movie would have much less viewers than a Hollywood superproduction.

As far as I know the only ‘real’ simulator that was high on the toplists was the NR2003, EA weren’t successful with the F1 and the NASCAR either, so I don’t believe that they are really thinking about a simulator(-ish) game.