Need for Speed: Shift

Need for Speed: Shift (2009)

by Slightly Mad Studios, Electronic Arts
Genres:Simulator, Racing
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Need for Speed SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars. Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver’s perspective through the combination of perception based G-forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the brutal experience of a first person crash dynamic. Need for Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every impact, every change of track surface and every last bit of grip as you push yourself to the edge.Show more
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January 30, 2025
GOG needs to get all the dropped Need for Speed titles. The only place to buy them now is privately for used disks. To say nothing that GOG could use as many racing games as it can get. The current catalog is a joke.
I have many fond memories of playing Need for Speed: Shift on the PS3 with a Thrustmaster Ferrari racing wheel. I loved playing a custom race on the smallest track, with the maximum drivers, a ridiculous number of laps, and crash into everybody to rack up aggression points. Ah, good times. Sadly, my PS3 is dead, so I can't play my copy of this game. The instant this classic gets on GOG I will buy it. Please make this happen!
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