When did Need for Speed: Nitro come out?

Need for Speed: Nitro was released on 3 November 2009 for Wii.

Need for Speed: Nitro (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Need for Speed: Nitro

Need for Speed: Nitro is the fourteenth installment in the long-running racing video game franchise Need for Speed. It was published by Electronic Arts for the Wii and Nintendo DS platforms, It is also the…

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What Need for Speed: Nitro is

Need for Speed: Nitro is an arcade game developed by EA Montreal and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Wii only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Need for Speed: Nitro is a 2009 racing video game and the fourteenth title in the Need for Speed series. It was published by Electronic Arts for the Nintendo Wii and DS platforms. The Wii version was developed by EA Montreal, who have previous experience with Nintendo consoles, while the DS version was developed separately by Firebrand Games' Florida studio.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Need for Speed series

Need for Speed: Nitro is the 51st of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: World in 2010. Its critic score of 69 is 5 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.

See all 84 Need for Speed games in release order →

How it was received

Need for Speed: Nitro holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Need for Speed: Nitro launched on 3 November 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Nitro yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer