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Game Review: Need For Speed Shift

    Recently I was lurking around the app store and caught EA Games putting a lot of their games on sale. I snatched up a racing game for 99 cents. It's called Need For Speed Shift and it's awesome. Call it five stars out of five, four stars out of four; whatever you want. Just don't call it an opportunity missed to get a great game. In a time when the word bargain is overused and almost non-existent in reality, this is a bargain.
    Here's the recipe. The graphics are wonderful and the gameplay and controls are awesome. I'm very grateful for the excellent tutorial with this game. I'm a little slow on the uptake these days. This game teaches us how to play their game and how to race!
    About six months ago I bought Real Racing for I-Pad. It's a great game but I had a hard time getting started with it. I was inexperienced with modern games and I didn't know about starting a career. As a result, I merely played Quick Race which caused me to miss a lot of fun. After playing Need For Speed Shift I went back and played my old game and got a lot more out of it. When I went on the circuit I saw how dirty those drivers could be!
    Anyway, Need For Speed Shift has a great tutorial. You start learning to choose a good 'line'. (line of travel) You learn how to chop off the corners and most fun of all, they taught me how to drift. What you do is tap the break when you hit the sharp curves. At the same time, cut the wheel sharp. This causes you to slide through the curve and straighten out like the Fast and Furious movies.
I've never played an X-Box 360 but the I-Pad has the gyroscope deal going on and you tilt and turn the 'padster' like a steering wheel. I think this feature alone has to make the I-Pad king of the racing games. Not to mention 99 cent games with wonderful graphics.
    Hey, when I was blasting through Chicago in this game I thought I could hear the elevated trains overhead. That is cool but actually, I was hearing the slipstream from the car ahead of me. In Nascar parlance, this is called 'drafting'. This is when you follow the same line as the car ahead of you and allow it to punch a hole in the air for you. It will give you a burst of speed.
 You can actually see the air currents swirling around your car when you get it right; in this game I mean, not in real life.
    I won some prize money and tricked out my Mazda RX-8 with nitrous oxide, a body kit and better tires and wheels. I sprung for a paint job also, so if you are in Chicago and see a gold and white Mazda burning up the road, you'll know it's me.
    My advice is, speed to your app store and buy this game.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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