Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #464 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Manufacturer's Description

Need for Speed ProStreet boasts impeccable precision and impressively detailed photo-realistic graphics, effectively transporting you to the center of the action. It pushes the “Autosculp” technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car’s performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance.

Need for Speed ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle.

With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown.

Customer Reviews

Poor
Having enjoyed previous Need for Speed titles on the Gamecube I was excited to see how this title would fare on the Wii. However after a few hours of gameplay I can report that this nothing more than a warmed-up reissue of a popular franchaise.
On the plus side the menu and career structure of the game is enough to keep players interested for a while, although the standard EA menu interface (which looks like it was lifted and rebranded from one of their NFL titles) operates a little clunkily. Using the career mode you can progress through the ranks, earning money to improve your cars.
On the downside is practically everything else about the game. The graphics are poor - the frame rate is patchy and the colour and rendering looks like early PS2 (yes, 2). Every track looks the same, being compromised of pieces of stock "scenery" interspersed repetitively. The facilities to upgrade your cars is comprehensive but not intuitive.
The sound is not much better. As expected there is a wide array of music playing and a jukebox that you can tweak and adjust. There is also the obligatory commentary "dude", a nice feature of which is that he commentates about the player. However, the software that mixes the music, FX and commentary is rudimentary and buggy - while driving the sound of your own car frequently drops out of the mix, and volume levels vary wildly.
On the gameplay front, driving the cars is not a satisfactory experience. Using the Wii remote to steer (tilting it up & down), the player feels no connection to the car. Excite Truck is a far better example of how to execute this. There is no sense of drift or braking or acceleration.
The controls are such that its too easy to drop into the pause menu or to change the camera angle when changing gear (using left & right on the d-button). Looking behind you is equally hit and miss, to such an extent that the designers used a "car is x seconds behind" message that pops up annoyingly.
In summary, this is just an exercise is milking profit from a strong franchaise. Please avoid this game.

So so racing title
Having played this on someone elses's Xbox 360 and also the PSP version, I have to say the wii incarnation is the best. I can see where the free roamers wouldn't like this, because there ain't no free roamin', but as a straight up racer it pretty much hits the mark but with one huge problem. Whilst the controls are responsive and the gameplay is fine, it is way too easy. I don't think I am that good at video driving games, but apart from drift mode, getting through to meet and beat the bosses (often even easier than the levels below) was no trouble at all. It appears that the AI is defective in this regard. For example you might be up against some car with a 200mph top speed but it is cruising along at 140 on a long straight as you zoom by them.

So all in all a decent enough driving game, the best so far for the wii (until mario Kart comes out surely) but with some issues that need addressing.

Worst NFS ever!
I've loved the NFS games for years, most recently enjoying 'Own The City' on the PSP and 'Black List' on the PS2 (both fantastic games). So, it was a fantastic surprise when my wife came home from shopping (feeling guilty about having spent so much on herself!!) with 'Pro Street' for me. Having only played NFS on PS machines, I was curious as to how it would work on the Wii. The controls seem to work ok but the gameplay in Pro Street is nowhere near as good as it's predecesors. I've always found one of the best aspects of the NFS games are the vast areas you can drive freely around. I really don't like being strictly limited to races with no 'free roam' option. I probably haven't given this game a fair chance (I played it for 20 minutes and have had enough) but 5 minutes on the others was enough to get me hooked. There seems to be very little variation (ok, there's variation in the type races but that's as far as it goes)and the features that have made previous NFS games so great just don't exist in this format. If you want to play NFS, stick to Own the City and Black List.