I'm dead serious. I've never seen such a bad game when it comes to frame-rate issues. They should have called it Need for Speed Shift Slow Motion Mode". It's like driving at 30 mph during the whole race.There was even one time that my game started lagging, like 2 frames per second. It was like watching a slide show. But wait, there's more. When you start a race, there's a chance that the engine sound doesn't load or the car itself won't move. The sound itself is nothing compared to the videos I've seen on the net. I'm positive that it's not my speakers 'cause Dirt 2 sounds wonderful. It also seems to gave a problem with anti-aliasing (remove jaggies).

So why am I ranting? It's 2009. Need for Speed is notorious for milking their franchise to the core. My last NFS game was Most Wanted (2005) which was a great racing game (doesn't matter which console). I saw the gameplay vids and thought to myself: "You know what? This might actually be a great game." But I was wrong. They will never fix these issues. Gamespot was too generous with the score. I bet NFS: Nitro will get more than this one.

Don't buy this game.