Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #652 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• 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

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.

Enjoyable and easy to get into.
I bought this game with some trepidation as I was unsure how a driving game would work on the Wii, but my fears were mostly ungrounded.

First let me get the negatives out of the way.
The menu was initially confusing until I realised that the remote had to be held in the 'driving'orientation.
Steering has no neutral zone so can be a bit twitchy, the ability to define the sensitivity or a neutral/dead zone would have been ideal.
The definition of an alias seems mildy pointless as I always seemed to be called by the default game name on scoring tables.
The career path is a tad confusing, could be laid out with better clarity.
Like many Wii games I feel the instruction book is lacking in detail working out some aspects of the game comes down to paying attention to the in game hints/tips.
The above points are all minor, and continued game play could improve some of these issues.

Now for the good points.
The game is very easy to get into, and starting out on casual skil level makes the game easy to get to grips with.
The two player mode is fun, and my wife has enjoyed it too. Unfortunately this means she occassionaly beats me!!
The different race types are fun. Grip is my favourite and probably the most traditional race type. Drag is good fun and probably makes the best use of the Wii Remote, I found it initially hard to get to grips with but after a few goes found myself able to win drag races. The last type is drift racing and I've yet to get to grips with this really, basically controlled slides/drifts round corners and bends.
Graphically its pretty good, certainly better than some Wii games.

Overall its good fun and the positives outweigh any negatives.
If you want a fun easy to enjoy driving game you could do a lot worse.