I finished the “story” part of NFS Undercover over the weekend. Once you get access to Tier 2+ cars and full upgrades the game becomes a lot more fun (not to mention easier). 380km/hr down a highway with the ocean on one side and mountains on the other is a fantastic way to drive.
The final mission however, is officially the most frustrating, painful and stupid of the entire modern NFS series.
If you’re really into the “story” beware, spoilers follow.
The story goes that your handler (random asian-american actress I don’t know) double crosses you and frames you, leaving you in the shit. We find this out through a really poorly acted FMV sequence. She drives off in a BMW M6 which kicks off the mission…. Take Out asian lady (whose name I forget).
So you’re chasing a BMW M6, not in your car from career mode, but in a BMW M6.. with no nitrous.. that is less than half the speed of your career car. This in itself is immensely frustrating. I’d gotten used to nitrous boosting up to 280km/hr from standstill in my Lamorghini, now I have to drive a stock BMW with a top speed in the mid 200s?
Don’t get me started on the “Take Out” game mode either. The idea is to ram the other car into submission but in reality is incredibly boring, as ramming them from behind at speed appears to cause the same amount of damage as ramming them full speed into a police roadblock, causing them to flip 3 times. Your car is also invincible for these races which makes total sense.
Anyway, because you’re being framed, you’re also being chased by a metric shittonne of cops. They take great delight in ramming you, jamming you into corners and generally being a pain in the arse while you’re trying to smash into your target as hard as possible. I realise this is to make the final mission challenging, but in combination with the shit car you are driving it just adds to the frustration.
Once you ram asian lady’s car enough the cops get called off and you can finish her off, which queues more poorly acted FMV, then that’s it. End of story mode.
Thankfully, you can continue once story mode is finished (unlike Fallout 3) and I still have another 40 races to do, plus I have only dominated half of the total races. I have also got to buy a Bugatti Veyron and try out a couple of the other interesting cars. I’ll continue playing Undercover because with super cars it can be great fun but whoever wrote the story/mission side of this game should stick to day time TV.
On a side note, the physics in Undercover break spectacularly once you reach silly speeds. I have hit traffic coming head on at 380km/hr and had them fly through the air across lanes to land hundreds of metres away, while my speed drops to 120km/hr instantly. I have also had them get stuck on my bonnet for a good couple of minutes until they eventually roll off. My best bug so far I experienced when re-doing one of the first races in my Tier 1 car with Ultimate upgrades. With a top speed well over double that of the competition I had a huge lead, when I messed up a corner and went flying towards one of the crane pursuit breakers. Instead of hitting the side and releasing the pipes I hit it head on and instead of spinning out of control the entire crane went up the bonnet, onto the roof and caught me underneath. I spent a good 15 seconds maneuvering/ hammering nitrous and eventually found my way out. You will also find invisible walls in the air when hitting some of the jumps in earlier parts of the game in fast cars.
Hi my opinion is as yours regarding this game. I’m writing you to know how to end the story. I did it twice and i found that I can no race any more, ends the sroty and I have my fabolous bugatti but still dont know how to find someone to race
Can U explain
Thanks man
That’s strange. When I finished I was still able to race. Only thing to check is when you are on the map there you can change the race type. I think there is an option to filter completed races, make sure that isn’t on. Will check for you later on.