The 2008 release in Electronic Arts' high-mileage road-racing series,
Need for Speed: Undercover is built on a revamped game engine with a
dual focus: realistic sports car physics and accessible, empowering
controls. Hundreds of components and systems are individually modeled on
each automobile, for realistic acceleration, suspension, weight
displacement, and handling, in any car and under any circumstance. The
game features dozens of automobiles from the world's leading
manufacturers, as well as real-life aftermarket parts, paint, vinyl, and
other customizations. The "Heroic Driving Engine" introduced in Need
for Speed: Undercover aims to harness the game's realistic physics by
condensing difficult, dangerous driving maneuvers into simple,
button-press controls. Players perform 180s, 360s, burnouts, and instant
reversals with the tap of a few buttons, and a fixed camera angle makes
it easier to follow the action through spins and quick turns. It does
not take stunt driver skills to drive like a stunt driver in Need for
Speed. It still requires a stunt driver's spirit, however, with
imaginative routes and daring maneuvers well rewarded, and a complete
wipeout always
One wrong turn away.