Name: Need For Speed Undercover

Publishers: Electronic Arts

Developers: Electronic Arts, Electronic Arts Black Box

Genres: Racing, Arcade

Platforms: PSP, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, PC

Released: 2008-11-17

Need For Speed Undercover

Supported OS: Microsoft Windows® Windows XP (SP2), Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium® 4 or equivalent, 3.0 GHz or faster
Memory: 5XP: 512 MB RAM / Vista: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB or more, NVIDIA GeForce (6600 or better); ATI Radeon (9500 or better); Intel G45 Express Chipset
Drivers: DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
Hard Drive: 6.0 GB free space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Need For Speed Undercover is a racing game and the twelfth installment in the twenty-four-title long series of the same name.

Gameplay

Almost every Need For Speed game features the same gameplay features, and Undercover is no different. There is an open world which is permitted to discover at any time in contrary with, for instance, Most Wanted, where the environment was zoned, and the locations opened as the story progressed.
The car collisions system has become more realistic compared to the previous parts of the game, but damage remained cosmetic only with no impact on performance. However, the car may be destroyed in Highway Battle — one of the game mods.
The title features some RPG elements — wheelman points, which grants the player access to bonus levels and car parts.
The police in the game are traced by the bar at the top of the screen varying between Busted and Evade modes. The capturing of the player results in the checkpoint restart.

Plot

The game's title suggests the protagonist role in the story — he is an undercover police agent given a task to infiltrate the group of street-racers to expose them to arrest. The background behind the races is taking down the criminal gangs and cliques. During the narrative player is faced with some dilemmas demanding a hard choice of him on which side to take.