Need For Speed: The Run

As I am pretty poor at the moment I'm not able to purchase new video games, bit one of my friends has been waiting for the new NFS game to come out forever so he obviously pre-ordered it.  Well today the game came out and I'm over at his house watching him try it out for the first time. My first impressions? It's... Gorgeous!! The game is using the new Frostbite 2 engine (the same one used for Battlefield 3) and it makes the game look so real. He was just racing through Yosemite National Park and at one time I actually turned my head to try to look at on of the waterfalls he passed, only to find myself a little embarrassed because its just a game. I assume, and hope, that the developers actually took the time to go to these locations and create the area to be the same in real life. Because after watching this I really want to go to Yosemite and experience the beauty first hand.

As for the actual game-play of the game, I'm not playing so I can't say much on it. My friend says it has a sort of realistic feel to the handling, but then as I can see its an arcade racer because when you crash into traffic the cars just kinda fly away. At one point I actually say one of the cars he t-boned start literally float away.  I'll let you know more detail if I ever get my hands on the game, but so far the game looks much better than the "professional reviews" I've read have made it out to be.

-- CK