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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)

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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, released as Need for Speed: Porsche 2000 in Europe and Need for Speed: Porsche in Latin America and Germany, is a 2000 racing video game. It is the fifth installment in the Need for Speed series. Unlike other NFS titles, Porsche Unleashed centers on racing Porsche sports cars, with models ranging from years 1950 to 2000. The game is generally considered the final "classic" Need for Speed title before EA Black Box took over development for mainline entries in the series for many years (beginning with the PS2 version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2). The game also marked the beginning of a 16-year exclusive licensing agreement between Porsche and EA that began in 2000 and ended in 2016 that prohibited most other developers from featuring Porsche cars in other video games without receiving a sub-license from EA. As a result of the licensing deal many games used Ruf and Gemballa models in place of Porsche to circumvent Porsche's licensing as Ruf is considered by the German government to be a full-fledged manufacturer, and as such Ruf models have unique VINs.

Gameplay

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed gives the player the opportunity to race Porsche cars (including 3 race cars) throughout a range of tracks located in Europe. There are two career modes, an evolution mode, where the player starts with Porsche cars made in 1950 with the first 356 and ends with Porsche cars made in 2000 with the 996 and factory driver mode, where the player goes through a series of events like slalom, stunts, and races, using Porsche cars preselected for each event. The player can customize their cars drawing from an in-depth catalog of different Porsche as well as aftermarket parts. Unlike previous games in the series, there are no pursuit modes in the Windows version. Some factory driver events include police cars, but the police cars only attempt to impede the players car during certain sprint events. In the PlayStation version, there is an exclusive chase mode where the player has to outrun a pursuing police car until a timer runs out.[4] In splitscreen multiplayer, a second player can take control of the police car and attempt to catch the other player.[5]

The factory driver mode introduces the first storyline in the Need For Speed series. The player's goal is to become a Porsche factory driver by completing a series of events. The game uses pop-up windows, each with an image of an existing Porsche factory team member, and text describing the next event, and also commenting on the player's progress. In some cases, a timed course such as a slalom notes the required time to pass, but also mentions the current team record, where beating the record is optional and the post event pop-up will note if the player set a new record or not. The events involve stunts, like doing two 180 degree spins (the first one leaves the players car driving backwards for a bit), slalom courses, delivery (time limited sprints with police that interfere with the player's car), normal sprint and circuit races.

The highlight of this game is the main game mode, Evolution Mode, which is the Grand Prix mode, the evolution of Porsche in each era, all 3 eras: Class, Golden and Modern. Players can collect money to buy and sell cars and repair cars. And there is a Factory Drive mode as a challenge mode, an additional mode of the game for players to have fun doing time missions. Players can choose the difficulty level of the Tournament. There are two cars similar to the Gran Turismo game. But this game has a disadvantage: if the car is damaged a lot, the car's engine power may decrease. This game cannot upgrade the car to be more powerful. You can't customize the car. You can only change the color of the car. The driving physics are not very good. The control is not very good. The graphics are not very beautiful because the game is very old. Tournament Class 1 may be a bit difficult. The Tournament score system is not very good. It is not balanced.

Note : I play the PS1 version because it's easier than playing on a PS1 Android Emulator tablet. If it's the PC version, there will be a problem that you can't play after downloading it. And the PC version will be complicated.