I am currently on the much traversed path of completing all the NFS series games, and am stuck with NFS Pro Street for about 3 weeks now, playing a couple of hours every weekend... Still have the NFS Shift, NFS Undercover and NFS Hot Pursuit (new one) to come in the next few months.
The craze about racing games started when my friend from school had got a sparkling new PC to his home. PCs in those days were a rarity in India... You had to be from a very affluent family to afford one.
Anyways, this PC had a 5.4 inch floppy drive, a 3.5 inch floppy drive, and guess what: a state-of-the-art 12x CD drive! Anyways, what I was personally interested was in this particular racing game called the "Need For Speed II SE". This game in itself was a revolution in 16-bit Graphics, with the cheat "FZR2000" which enabled the fastest car available in the game, with top speeds of over 400 kmph (I think...). Played the game a number of times over and topped all the tracks.
A couple of years (or was it months?) later, I was introduced to this browsing center near my house who offered "NFS 5 - Porsche Unleashed" and a Force Feedback enabled Steering Wheel to top it! I used to pay a lot of my pocket money for hours of this first effort of NFS series to make driving realistic.
Then I got my first PC shortly after, and there was a flurry of games I had always wanted to play... exchanging floppy disks and CDs with friends, having night-outs for completing some levels... Then, I started with the NFS series again. Got my hands on the original "Need for Speed", the first game in the series.. found it very blunt when compared to NFS 5, but went on for a while with it. Then the NFS 2 (still my sister's favourite), the NFS 3 Hot Pursuit (first in the Hot Pursuit series), NFS 4 High Stakes, and the NFS 5 which was the last of the game series I could play on my PC with only an on-board Graphics card and 128 MB RAM. Still remember the time I used to play this game over and over just because I did not have any other new ones!
Anyways, some years later, came out of college, joined the job I was offered in campus, struggled for a bit and traveled onsite, to complete a long time dream of having a "laptop" of my own! Bought a Sony Vaio VGN-CR29XN/B just because I liked the black matte finish so much! Got it delivered on my birthday too.. but I digress as usual. So what do you think was the first game I played on the new laptop? It HAD to be NFS Underground, which was in buzz... followed by NFS Underground 2, NFS Most Wanted and NFS Carbon. Loved the evolution, but hated that I again could not play NFS Undercover on my Laptop, which again does not have an additional graphics card! (Grrrr... damn you Sony for not giving me an option!)
Now, after much consideration of cost vs usability, and thinking of buying it for a lifetime, I decided out of the blue one day to buy the PS3 Slim. Not sure why I like the PS3 over XBox 360, but am sure glad that I bought the one which allows free online network access ;) So what do you think I got this time? NFS Shift was my first game :) Though I played about 60% of the game only, and I started getting other games for the console. Of course, I got the NFS Undercover, NFS Pro Street and the latest NFS Hot Pursuit games, along with Blur, GT5 Prologue and some other games, 19 in total. Not sure if I will complete all the racing games in time before NFS Shift 2 gets released!
I am still wondering why I have not bought the NFS Hot Pursuit 2 game, need to get it some time just for the heck of it ;)
Until next time I get a topic to write about... me signing out!
Gaggy
The craze about racing games started when my friend from school had got a sparkling new PC to his home. PCs in those days were a rarity in India... You had to be from a very affluent family to afford one.
Anyways, this PC had a 5.4 inch floppy drive, a 3.5 inch floppy drive, and guess what: a state-of-the-art 12x CD drive! Anyways, what I was personally interested was in this particular racing game called the "Need For Speed II SE". This game in itself was a revolution in 16-bit Graphics, with the cheat "FZR2000" which enabled the fastest car available in the game, with top speeds of over 400 kmph (I think...). Played the game a number of times over and topped all the tracks.
A couple of years (or was it months?) later, I was introduced to this browsing center near my house who offered "NFS 5 - Porsche Unleashed" and a Force Feedback enabled Steering Wheel to top it! I used to pay a lot of my pocket money for hours of this first effort of NFS series to make driving realistic.
Then I got my first PC shortly after, and there was a flurry of games I had always wanted to play... exchanging floppy disks and CDs with friends, having night-outs for completing some levels... Then, I started with the NFS series again. Got my hands on the original "Need for Speed", the first game in the series.. found it very blunt when compared to NFS 5, but went on for a while with it. Then the NFS 2 (still my sister's favourite), the NFS 3 Hot Pursuit (first in the Hot Pursuit series), NFS 4 High Stakes, and the NFS 5 which was the last of the game series I could play on my PC with only an on-board Graphics card and 128 MB RAM. Still remember the time I used to play this game over and over just because I did not have any other new ones!
Anyways, some years later, came out of college, joined the job I was offered in campus, struggled for a bit and traveled onsite, to complete a long time dream of having a "laptop" of my own! Bought a Sony Vaio VGN-CR29XN/B just because I liked the black matte finish so much! Got it delivered on my birthday too.. but I digress as usual. So what do you think was the first game I played on the new laptop? It HAD to be NFS Underground, which was in buzz... followed by NFS Underground 2, NFS Most Wanted and NFS Carbon. Loved the evolution, but hated that I again could not play NFS Undercover on my Laptop, which again does not have an additional graphics card! (Grrrr... damn you Sony for not giving me an option!)
Now, after much consideration of cost vs usability, and thinking of buying it for a lifetime, I decided out of the blue one day to buy the PS3 Slim. Not sure why I like the PS3 over XBox 360, but am sure glad that I bought the one which allows free online network access ;) So what do you think I got this time? NFS Shift was my first game :) Though I played about 60% of the game only, and I started getting other games for the console. Of course, I got the NFS Undercover, NFS Pro Street and the latest NFS Hot Pursuit games, along with Blur, GT5 Prologue and some other games, 19 in total. Not sure if I will complete all the racing games in time before NFS Shift 2 gets released!
I am still wondering why I have not bought the NFS Hot Pursuit 2 game, need to get it some time just for the heck of it ;)
Until next time I get a topic to write about... me signing out!
Gaggy
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