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Need for Speed Shift – New BMW M3 Preview Video

Posted on August 9th, 2009 in Console, Need for Speed Shift – 13 Comments

EA has released a new HD preview video of Need for Speed Shift, once again showing the BMW M3 E92 GT2 race car in action.

The car will be part of a special promotion at Gamestop as their pre-order customers will be receiving a code, allowing them to unlock BMW’s newest race car right away.

Developed by Slightly Mad Studios (former Blimey! Games) and distributed by EA, Need for Speed Shift is expected to be released in September 2009 for the PC and all major consoles. A demo of Shift has been announced to be available this summer.


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  • phil23

    I’ve pre-ordered at Gamestation as they are doing the same unlock code for the M3GTR :happy: .

    I think Game are doing it also.

  • Chrisuu01

    Im not pre-ordering if i dont get a demo first and if the demo is good then il order

  • Raikku

    I don’t think that we see demo at all.

  • Sensekhmet

    Chrisuu01:
    Im not pre-ordering if i dont get a demo first and if the demo is good then il order

    Same.

  • phil23

    Pre-ordering at a gamestation store doesn’t involve parting with cash and you don’t have to even buy it from them. They just reserve a copy at the shop.

    EA tend to release demo’s shortly b4 release. I wont expect it until a week b4.

  • Johnny Dangerously

    Y’know, my expectations of this game have lowered with each and every video that has come out. It seems all the videos concentrate on showing GT cars powersliding, drifting, slamming into opponents, hopping curbs, overshooting corners, etc. I assume this is because it takes “action” to sell a racing game to casual players. But this is taking it to a new level, akin to Madden NFL videos showing players fly through the air during tackles. If this is going to be the Madden of racing games, count me out.

    I’m no Gran Turismo fanboy, but you never saw them pulling this crap in any of their preview videos….

  • Disposable_Hero

    “…allowing them to unlock BMW’s newest race car right away.”

    Do i understand that correct? They claim making a racing simulation and us, the buyers, are not allowed to hit practice and take out any car we like for a spin right away? That’s bullshit!

  • ivotedforkodos

    phil23:
    I’ve pre-ordered at Gamestation as they are doing the same unlock code for the M3GTR .
    I think Game are doing it also.

    Heh, I used to work as a graphic designer for Gamestation, and I got to design the livery for the BMW touring car that they gave away to customers who pre-ordered GRID. I was even one of the AI drivers when you raced against it. I thought GRID looked amazing then, but Shift looks easily more impressive. I reckon this should be pretty good fun, seems like it might be a return to the balance arcade/sim that was Toca Race Driver 3

    T

  • f0xx

    Lol chillax disposable_hero :)

    Be patient and wait for the demo instead of being skeptical without even knowing its true potentialities.

  • Uff

    Disposable_Hero:
    Do i understand that correct? They claim making a racing simulation and us, the buyers, are not allowed to hit practice and take out any car we like for a spin right away? That’s bullshit!

    Just like it happens in GT Legends or in rFactor, if you buy it and don’t use the ISI_BABYFACTORY cheat. Does this make these games bullshit too? :wink:

  • DW

    Uff:
    Just like it happens in GT Legends or in rFactor, if you buy it and don’t use the ISI_BABYFACTORY cheat. Does this make these games bullshit too?

    You can add Richard Burns Rally, Rally Trophy and iRacing to the list of sims where you can’t just race any car on any track. In real life you can’t just race any car on any track. Having a “career mode” is nothing to do with whether a game is a sim or not. If the physics are good and the cars and tracks accurately modelled then its a sim in my book.

  • Disposable_Hero

    Uff:

    Just like it happens in GT Legends or in rFactor, if you buy it and don’t use the ISI_BABYFACTORY cheat. Does this make these games bullshit too?

    What i had in mind when i first wrote that comment was an unlocking system like in Gran Turismo 4, where you virtually can play for years and still don’t have all the cars to your avail. Hope, that NFS isn’t the same way!

  • captain_underpants

    “It seems all the videos concentrate on showing GT cars powersliding, drifting, slamming into opponents, hopping curbs, overshooting corners, etc. I assume this is because it takes “action” to sell a racing game to casual players”

    Well, some people only watch the races to see the crashes. Watch a promo for any IRL racing series, you’ll see a lot of crashing too. I’m sure there’ll be the option to drive clean.

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