Start/Select: Nintendo Dsi/Need for Speed Shift

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  • Posted Mar 6, 2009

This week in Start/Select we get behind the wheel in Need for Speed Shift, go hands-on with the new DSi, and show you how you can hide an Xbox in the office.

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37 Comments

  • Gnesh500

    Posted Apr 27, 2009 12:52 pm GMT

    *sigh* well, shift sounds cool.......but we'll see how it turns out

  • ElevenX

    Posted Apr 25, 2009 10:21 pm GMT

    I just hope these are not the ppl who made NFS Undercover & Prostreet.
    Upgrades and modifications? I don't wanna be reminded of the Micro Mini spoilers/ GT Wings on the Undercover cars, which clearly shows how much the team knows about cars. And the cash u earned in the 10hr gameplay is hardly enough to buy another ride, thank god there's freeroam where u can play 20-30hrs to buy a new ride+mods. wow! great way to extend the gameplay.

    I hope there won't be any cheesy Pit crew animations to remind us of the cops in UC.

    One more game similar to Undercover and we can all kiss bye bye to the franchise.

  • Nry1986

    Posted Apr 21, 2009 2:32 pm GMT

    I will reserve judgement on this one I think! The fact that they show, what I can only assume are supposed to be exhaust flames, coming from the diffuser on the yellow Porsche just makes me have some doubts...

  • nish2280

    Posted Apr 18, 2009 5:26 am GMT

    I hope you can make upgrades to your car and actually feel them making a difference.

  • mac-hine

    Posted Apr 17, 2009 11:57 am GMT

    that would be awesome

  • mac-hine

    Posted Apr 17, 2009 11:56 am GMT

    when u crash i hope the driver will yell all sorts of bad words like
    *CRASH* AWW WHAT THE FUK FU*CKING D*CK HEAD AA S*IT i CAN'T FEEL MY F*CKING TOES AAOW!!!!! ... where am i anyways?

  • codename-60091

    Posted Apr 12, 2009 10:12 am GMT

    is the first female produce that stammer in an interview. fantastic. a female producer....really need to get a life.

  • codename-60091

    Posted Apr 12, 2009 10:07 am GMT

    it will be worst than Grid thats for sure. get dirt 2, releasing this year too!!

  • 13ozzy

    Posted Apr 3, 2009 12:26 pm GMT

    I dont get it, how can people say that the new NFS is nowhere close to Forza and Gran Turismo, and its gonna fail. How can you judge a game that you haven't played, and that hasn't even been build yet.

  • 13ozzy

    Posted Apr 3, 2009 12:16 pm GMT

    Accessible without, dumbing down!. That's perfect.

  • alglach

    Posted Mar 24, 2009 2:16 am GMT

    EA better take it up a level with this NFS as these games have all been average for some time now

  • Anayalator408

    Posted Mar 21, 2009 4:08 pm GMT

    p.s. in case u din't kno, they are making 2 other nfs games that R arcade style, Nitro and World Online, look em up

  • Anayalator408

    Posted Mar 21, 2009 4:05 pm GMT

    NFS Shift is gonna be sick!!! don't care wat the rest of u nfs haters think!!!

  • gudni

    Posted Mar 16, 2009 11:06 pm GMT

    Cute girl(surprised). Anyway i will be trying all three Need for Speed games announced for this year. Probably buying Shift for my PSP and i cant wait to hear about Nitro(news please!) because me and my son have played the last 3 NFS games together on the Wii and i would hate it if they screw up our new tradition with a game that does not feel like NFS at all.

  • Jason_da_psycho

    Posted Mar 14, 2009 4:47 am GMT

    NFS is heading towards the wrong direction (again)
    They're not good at making simulation-type games, plus we have GT and Forza for PS3 and XB360 respectively, which will own the NFSS
    Just stick to arcade, EA

  • phyrosan

    Posted Mar 14, 2009 1:24 am GMT

    Why can't they keep NFS like it was before. Just keep the good franchise not this wannabe Forza and GT. When Pro Street came I knew this would ruin the whole franchise and now they come with another wannabe Forza.

  • SweetMusic

    Posted Mar 12, 2009 11:17 am GMT

    NFS: Shift doesn't stand a chance against Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5.

  • felipenet7

    Posted Mar 11, 2009 12:12 pm GMT

    they should decide simulation or arcade anything in between in fail badly!!! hope it's a sim but the more I hear about this game the more I realize it's for main stream!

  • chickenshafter

    Posted Mar 11, 2009 8:32 am GMT

    the woman is on crack. how can she even compare the new need for speed with driving simulaters like forza and gt4? The game will fail and rightly so...

  • lemonr

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 4:46 pm GMT

    Great show as always.

    Nintendo have made a poor decision choosing aac format music files, a main reason why i won't be tempted to spend my cash.

  • M4ki

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 12:03 pm GMT

    Again NFS trying to compete with Forza and GT, and again, it will fail. Enough said.

  • ace-of-spades93

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 11:21 am GMT

    why would he need to sneek a 360 into work??
    he works at GAMEspot lol

  • DM2438

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 8:36 am GMT

    What's funny to me is all games try to be like other games, except an elite bunch that stand out. Change is good, but imitation is just uncalled for, thus this game is not in the elite nor is the franchise anymore. Too tell you the truth Need for Speed died along time ago and please let Grid be Grid, don't imitate. But at least they are going away from street racing which they began to fail at either between Undergroud 2 or Most Wanted.

  • jedikevin2

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 7:07 am GMT

    Hmm. Need for speed looking more like Grid. Thin line between simulation and arcade has already been done. They just need to but the need to put the need for speed franchise in hiatus for a couple years

  • itchyflop

    Posted Mar 9, 2009 3:03 am GMT

    good show guys!!

  • Jonny-Two-Delta

    Posted Mar 8, 2009 4:09 pm GMT

    EA Black Box should just role over and die. They've utterly stuffed up the NFS franchise, which I thought was great in the capable hands of EA Canada. Awful PR, as already mentioned. Shame it dominated so much of the show. Could have tantalized us with some Sims3 instead!

  • anik786

    Posted Mar 8, 2009 7:40 am GMT

    Who the hell is gonna pay £80 just for a cover for the xbox 360???

  • fps_d0minat0r

    Posted Mar 8, 2009 3:56 am GMT

    i hate it when companies treat their first customers like rubbish.

    the loyal people to nintendo bought the DS.....then for the ppl who waited, they relased the sleek version......now for the ppl that still dont have it, their offering a camera.

    ppl that bought it first must feel like s**t

    i got PSP and i dont really mind that the newer versions are slimmer and lighter.....i just hope the new psp doesnt have dual analogue sticks otherwise its unfair.

    hopefully shift wont suck like undercover did.

  • Dan_Nicholson

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 3:07 pm GMT

    well errrr.... she errrr.... was errrr.... well errrr... kind of errrr... USELESS!!! I would tho!

  • bilo007

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 10:52 am GMT

    She didnt sell the new NFS game very well at all.
    "er...car model...er....crashing...er car model...er...accessible...er"

  • Diablo_66

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 9:38 am GMT

    poor girl is probably nervous about the interview, this was a well funny show, just the bit when guy goes "oh hey, check this out!" lol actor or what.

  • AndyTSJ

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 8:52 am GMT

    Seriously, the previous games she referred to when talking about NFS didn't sound like NFS at all. Driving simulation ? Hardcore ?

  • SuperMooseman

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 8:51 am GMT

    The first half of the show is SO funny. Especially the first bit where Guy turns round to the camera and then just moves under the desk. Also, I wonder if the new NFS is accessible?

  • Gezquester

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 8:04 am GMT

    She said accessible like 100 times!

  • i--Ki1l--U

    Posted Mar 7, 2009 2:01 am GMT

    NFS is already accessible to everyone!

  • dragonfist101

    Posted Mar 6, 2009 11:35 am GMT

    hhhmmmhhhhhhmmmm

  • hamza_jedi

    Posted Mar 6, 2009 10:37 am GMT

    BTW Guy Cocker Lian Li is actually pronounced lee-an-lee. Just thought you might want to know.

    I wonder what she meant in the NFS interview where she says previous games were not accessible to all? I have a feeling she was talking about GTR not NFS (considering the GTR team is working on this game).

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