Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed
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Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is a racing developed by Slightly Mad Studios, released 29 March 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is a racing game developed by Slightly Mad Studios and released in 2011. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on The Madness Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shift 2: Unleashed is a 2011 racing video game, the seventeenth installment of the Need for Speed series. It was developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic Arts. The game serves as a direct sequel to Need for Speed: Shift and expands on many aspects that were introduced in the original. Shift 2: Unleashed was released worldwide during March and April 2011.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is the 59th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed in 2011. Its critic score of 81 is 7 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 104 votes.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed launched on 29 March 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat and Dragon Age 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal 2, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat, Dragon Age 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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