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Need for Speed: ProStreet (Wii) | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £29.49
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Rating:  10 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: RVL P RNPP
EAN: 5030930059385
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Boxed & Sealed - Shipped 1st class from UK Mainland.
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Product Description
Compete at the highest level of street racing with Need For Speed: ProStreet.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 To be honest - disappointing December 23, 2008
J. Jones (UK)
I eagerly anticipated this game and got it as soon as I could. I did much research in to about how 'good' and new it was supposed to be. The graphics were supposed to be excellent - gameplay equally as good, the impacts of crashes very realistic.
All these positive comments however were wrong for Need for Speed ProSteet. Although the gameplay is okay (making use of the Wii's motion sensors as the steering wheel), steering the car feels unresponsive and vague. I would much rather have the choice of using the nunchuck instead.
I was also looking forward to customising the cars as well, the new air tunnel, body stickers, tuning to the last little detail the car had to offer etc. However, none of these features are in the Wii version of the game which left me utterly disappointed. You can alter the way the car looks a bit and buy new exhausts and seats ect, but nothing compared to what game was going to offer me.
I was most anticipating the graphics. Although the Wii isn't renowned for it's graphic capabilities - I thought this game would be different after seeing EA's trailers. But no. The environment isn't at all detailed, looking blurry and faded out. The cars look soft and don't shine as I thought they would.
This brings me on to the way every scratch was meant to impact the feel of the car how it drives, how every body panel would react differently to a side on bump. EA were talking absolute rubbish. Even if you hit a wall head on at top speed, all you get to show for it are a couple of minor scratches on bumper. No flying body panels or anything. Very poor.
I played for this game for a couple of hours before putting it away, probably never to be played again. Overall I would say - don't waste your money or at least don't expect anything utterly mind blowing. The game offers nothing it said on the tin.
 Fun Wii Racing Game December 13, 2008
Jonathan Weeks (Cambridge)
I got this as a gift. I have played other Need for Speed games on the PS2. Pro-Street is so much fun. The controls are easy to handle. It didn't take me long to master the controls. Very Addictive game. Found it hard not to stop playing the game.
Poor July 20, 2008
S. Pearce (Kent)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having enjoyed previous Need for Speed titles on the Gamecube I was excited to see how this title would fare on the Wii. However after a few hours of gameplay I can report that this nothing more than a warmed-up reissue of a popular franchaise.
On the plus side the menu and career structure of the game is enough to keep players interested for a while, although the standard EA menu interface (which looks like it was lifted and rebranded from one of their NFL titles) operates a little clunkily. Using the career mode you can progress through the ranks, earning money to improve your cars.
On the downside is practically everything else about the game. The graphics are poor - the frame rate is patchy and the colour and rendering looks like early PS2 (yes, 2). Every track looks the same, being compromised of pieces of stock "scenery" interspersed repetitively. The facilities to upgrade your cars is comprehensive but not intuitive.
The sound is not much better. As expected there is a wide array of music playing and a jukebox that you can tweak and adjust. There is also the obligatory commentary "dude", a nice feature of which is that he commentates about the player. However, the software that mixes the music, FX and commentary is rudimentary and buggy - while driving the sound of your own car frequently drops out of the mix, and volume levels vary wildly.
On the gameplay front, driving the cars is not a satisfactory experience. Using the Wii remote to steer (tilting it up & down), the player feels no connection to the car. Excite Truck is a far better example of how to execute this. There is no sense of drift or braking or acceleration.
The controls are such that its too easy to drop into the pause menu or to change the camera angle when changing gear (using left & right on the d-button). Looking behind you is equally hit and miss, to such an extent that the designers used a "car is x seconds behind" message that pops up annoyingly.
In summary, this is just an exercise is milking profit from a strong franchaise. Please avoid this game.
 So so racing title March 29, 2008
Big Jim (London, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Having played this on someone elses's Xbox 360 and also the PSP version, I have to say the wii incarnation is the best. I can see where the free roamers wouldn't like this, because there ain't no free roamin', but as a straight up racer it pretty much hits the mark but with one huge problem. Whilst the controls are responsive and the gameplay is fine, it is way too easy. I don't think I am that good at video driving games, but apart from drift mode, getting through to meet and beat the bosses (often even easier than the levels below) was no trouble at all. It appears that the AI is defective in this regard. For example you might be up against some car with a 200mph top speed but it is cruising along at 140 on a long straight as you zoom by them.
So all in all a decent enough driving game, the best so far for the wii (until mario Kart comes out surely) but with some issues that need addressing.
Worst NFS ever! March 7, 2008
Bruce (Cheshire, UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've loved the NFS games for years, most recently enjoying 'Own The City' on the PSP and 'Black List' on the PS2 (both fantastic games). So, it was a fantastic surprise when my wife came home from shopping (feeling guilty about having spent so much on herself!!) with 'Pro Street' for me. Having only played NFS on PS machines, I was curious as to how it would work on the Wii. The controls seem to work ok but the gameplay in Pro Street is nowhere near as good as it's predecesors. I've always found one of the best aspects of the NFS games are the vast areas you can drive freely around. I really don't like being strictly limited to races with no 'free roam' option. I probably haven't given this game a fair chance (I played it for 20 minutes and have had enough) but 5 minutes on the others was enough to get me hooked. There seems to be very little variation (ok, there's variation in the type races but that's as far as it goes)and the features that have made previous NFS games so great just don't exist in this format. If you want to play NFS, stick to Own the City and Black List.
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