UK, July 20, 2007 - Great news Santa! There’s a new Need for Speed game coming this year. That’s right beardy: you can sack some more elves, pop down to your local games emporium and pick up a few million copies of Need for Speed ProStreet, ready for the predictable glut of requests from clamouring fans. That’s if the last three years are anything to go by, when entrants in the Need for Speed series have consistently troubled the top spot in the UK Christmas charts.

For this newest iteration, EA is attempting to redress the balance between customisation, ’street culture’ and making a realistic driving game. Producer John Doyle admitted to IGN that the past few years have seen the Need for Speed series concentrate less on driving and more on the customisaton of cars. However, that’s set to change, with Doyle assuring us that ProStreet offers the most realistic driving experience yet in a Need for Speed game.

 
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It can’t be easy to be a game developer in charge of releasing a new game in a series every year. People don’t want the same game over and over, yet they’re unhappy if the game strays too far from the established formula. EA deserves credit for trying something different with Need for Speed ProStreet, but the new direction of the series fails to live up to the level of the previous games. There’s still a solid racing experience here, and the online component of the PC version is quite good. But the game’s premise is uninteresting, the in-game advertising is over the top, and it doesn’t run particularly well. In the end, ProStreet is just another decent but uninspired racing game.

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