Need for Speed: Undercover
The Need for Speed series got another dose of Hollywood magic with the release of Undercover. Take on jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an international crime…
Need for Speed: Undercover is an arcade developed by EA Black Box, released 18 November 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 11 hrs to finish.
What Need for Speed: Undercover is
Need for Speed: Undercover is an arcade game developed by EA Black Box and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on EAGL.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Need for Speed: Undercover is a 2008 racing video game, and is the twelfth installment in the Need for Speed series following Need for Speed: ProStreet (2007). Developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts, it was released on November 18, 2008, for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and then on a number of mobile phone platforms in 2009.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. 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: Undercover is the 45th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Carbon in 2008. Its critic score of 57 is 17 points below 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: Undercover holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 59, across 309 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium® 4 or equivalent, 3.0 GHz or faster, 5XP: 512 MB RAM / Vista: 1 GB RAM and 128 MB or more, NVIDIA GeForce (6600 or better); ATI Radeon (9500 or better); Intel G45 Express Chipset. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Undercover launched on 18 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Undercover yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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