I’ve been rekindling my love for racing games recently, a bit of Wipeout here, Burnout there, but mainly a whole heap of Shift 2. The reason I have been getting back into Shift 2 is the Legends Pack, a piece of DLC which has really kicked the game up a gear in my eyes.
Need for Speed Shift is the first game in the reborn Need for Speed franchise, gone are the days of playing cops ‘n robbers and street racing, this time with developers Slightly Mad Studios (of GTR2 and GT Legends fame) the series is entering the same territory as Codemasters’ highly impressive GRID. While Shift is a very strong entry into the racing game genre, it falls short of what it could have achieved. The main failing of the game lies…