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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. Is it your kind of game?

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About 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.

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76%

230 ratings

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78%

2,864 reviews

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Platforms
PlayStation · PC · Xbox
Release date
September 15, 2009
Length
About 17 hours
Difficulty
3/5 (estimated)
Genres
Racing · Simulator
Themes
Action
Perspective
First person · Third person
Modes
Solo only
Languages
3 languages
Text in your language
Yes
Steam Deck
Playable
Microtransactions
None

Frequently asked questions

How long is Need for Speed: Shift?
About 17 hours to finish the main story.
Which platforms is Need for Speed: Shift on?
Need for Speed: Shift is available on PlayStation · PC · Xbox.
Does Need for Speed: Shift have co-op?
No, Need for Speed: Shift is single-player only.
Does Need for Speed: Shift run on Steam Deck?
Playable

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