While the sense of speed is still there, and the addition of night races and the helmet-cam are both welcome and well realized additions.
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed succeeds in being quite tame compared to its predecessor and the two other big racing sims in the genre, Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3. Microsoft's Xbox 360 Wheel behaves like a gamepad with Shift 2 (works perfectly with F1 2010, GRID and the first Shift). Need For Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed Review. Much swearing later, I hocked it and used some extra cash to pick up a four-wheel drive Impreza, adding a few technical-sounding tweaks from the garage along the way. NFS Shift 2's wheel support is worse than Shift's. I was having problems finishing on the podium in one of the game's early C-class races, using a cheapo front-wheel drive Nissan. Features Players 1 Online MP 2-12 HD 720p-1080p 5. There's an array of fiddly details for car geeks to. Car type and quality make a huge difference, necessitating some minor grinding. NFS Shift 2 comes as a massive disappointment after Nfs shift 1. Shift 2's sheer weight of stuff from mud-ring circuits in a VW Golf to Bugatti duels at the Nurburgring gives it a deep bag of appeal.
Mastering a race from further out, Shift 2's all-or-nothing handling can be studied, judged, and reasoned with. But to win races, I had to switch to the behind-the-car camera, or suffer as my guesses about the way my car was facing were proved wrong. As an experience, the helmet cam is breathtaking – being close to the tarmac with the noise and speed feels properly dangerous. On a Xbox 360 pad (and for the love of new magic sky god, do not attempt to play with a keyboard - controller or wheel only), pushing the stick slowly to the left has one of two outcomes: a yank on the wheel that realigns your car at least ten degrees, or nothing at all.