Well in a good old tradition of NFS series this game is extremely resource hogging. The game does have very awesome looking graphics. It does come at a high cost to resources.

Setting the game to lower graphics does help and the game still looks pretty good. I di notice that while on low graphic setting it makes driving a lot harder with the view set to hood camera. Since the reflection update is very low sometimes seeing the hood makes one feel that the car going in one direction while it actually goes in the opposite direction. Slow motion helps with that.

The game still is, as with the last three, trying to be more of a movie rather than game.

I do like that the game is going back to being what it started out to be. A street racing game. It very much reminds me of the Underground installments. I am once more disappointed that they haven’t brought back the horn and the headlights control. I know that they are unnecessary, but I like blaring the horn like crazy going down the highway.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 3500+
RAM: 1GB MB RAM or higher (Windows Vista requires 2 GB RAM)
HDD: 10 GB free disk space or more
Graphics: 256 MB or higher (Pixel Shader 3.0, PCIe only) *
DirectX: Version 9.0c

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS
OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD 64 X2 5200+ or AMD Phenom
RAM: 2GB MB RAM or higher (Windows Vista requires 3 GB RAM)
HDD: 10 GB free disk space or more
Graphics: 512 MB or higher (Pixel Shader 3.0, PCIe only) *
DirectX: Version 9.0c

ATI
Radeon X1600 series
Radeon X1800 series
Radeon X1900 series
Radeon HD 2400 series
Radeon HD 2600 series
Radeon HD 2900 series
Radeon HD 3000 series
Radeon HD 4000 series

NVIDIA
GeForce 7300 series
GeForce 7600 series
GeForce 7800 series
GeForce 7900 series
GeForce 8500 series
GeForce 8600 series
GeForce 8800 series
GeForce 9500 series
GeForce 9600 series
GeForce 9800 series
GeForce 200 series

***NOTE: Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not officially supported.
NVIDIA GeForce 6000 series not supported.

These settings are misleading however.

My PC has Core2Duo @2.83Ghz, 3Gig Ram and an GeForce 8400GS with 1.5Gig VRAM and I am still forced to set the game to low settings.

In any case It is still a fun game of mayhen, destruction and cop bashing. I like it and would give it a 7/10.

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