Slightly Mad Studios

Need for Speed: Shift

Need for Speed SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars. Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver’s perspective through the combination of perception based G-forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the brutal experience of a first person crash dynamic. Need for Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every impact, every change of track surface and every last bit of grip as you push yourself to the edge.

Released: 15 September 2009
Developer: Slightly Mad Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Perspective: First person · Third person
Age rating: PEGI 3 · ESRB E
Metacritic: 83/100
Steam recommendations: 2,576
Platforms: PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360
Genres: Racing · Simulator
Also known as: NFS Shift · NFSS
Estimated owners: 200,000–500,000 (est.)