Game:

Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)

Duration: 1:01:17

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Today i will be revisiting another my childhood game that i would say is a unusual version of this game, the ps2 version. I did play it back in the day but only for a short amount of time.

I play it again and coming from the person who loves undercover when it was modded on PC because it was so much better, so going to this version and do it for long time and i had to say that i hated it for reason.

First impression on the menu, it already looks like a carbon in terms of UI and the navigation mostly the fact that a lot of assets were used from previous game(Carbon) modified differently and call it a day. The way the speedbreaker works is worse in this version because it doesn't show that you actually used it or not due to the HUD not disappearing and not show only the speedbreaker gauge(PSP Version did it better, but i don't want to talk about that). Good things on this version is the better ai than PS3/X360/PC which is too easy, Better Pursuit events which not limit you with time and better police than next gen version at the time though it can be over-exaggerated because getting busted is hard as it is getting it to evade. Graphics is done right on this version than other ones which suffers overexposed with the filter and the nausea effect when going fast.

Rubberband is one of the worst that i've ever seen even more than underground 1. I don't know why it do that because i playing it on emulator. If you don't have that problem when playing it on real console, then i would say it was a emulator problem.

Overall, i would only like it if i had ps2 console only and no any other system. Just like in this case for me with Forza horizon 2 Xbox 360 version, since i only had that console and don't have the next gen one which is better on a lot of things. But even then, i would still prefer to play MW05 or HP2 which is a lot better games than this.

Also, keep in mind my driving because i didn't change the key bindings for this game that fitted for my flow.

Playing this on: PCSX2-Nightly v1.7.3131
Mode: Hardware(Because software mode performance sucks on my rig)
Resolution Scale: 2x
Graphics API: Vulkan
Blend Accuracy: Basic
Audio Sync Mode: Async

Specs:

OS: Windows 11 x64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Stock
GPU: MSI Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB Armor OCV1
RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 GeIL Evo Potenza 3200mhz at CL18-20-20-20-38 1.35v
MB: MSI B450M-PRO M2 V2

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