![]() ![]() It's one of the better ideas for a racing game to come along in a little while, and the developers have even been brave enough to wrap it up in cut-scenes and quick-time events that add some context in between more typical racing contests. This time you're racing from San Francisco to New York - a troubled petrol-head on a last-ditch cannonball run to wipe out his debts and start over. Then again, with this latest instalment, EA Black Box has done a reasonable job of suggesting an alternative to the fast, lean, sunshine sprints of Criterion's glorious Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and to Slightly Mad Studios' more serious SHIFT 2: Unleashed. At this stage it seems like very much more of a want than a need, and it's not clear upon whose behalf that desire is being expressed in any case. ![]() Given that it arrives at the end of a 12-month period during which we have already been invited to buy two excellent games in the same series, those marketing Need for Speed: The Run would surely be wise not to place too much emphasis on the first bit of its title. ![]()
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