Need for Speed: Shift

Also known as Need for Speed Shift, NFS: Shift, NFS Shift, NFSS, Shift

2009 racing video game

Game data

Metacritic 83

Released: 2009-09-15
User rating: 3.57 / 5
Genres: Racing
Platforms: PC, Android, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PSP
ESRB: Everyone

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Game details · IGDB

80Critic score · 5 ratings

73User score · 221 ratings

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 vi…

Released: 2009
Genres: Racing, Simulator
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Franchise: Need for Speed
Developer: Slightly Mad Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts

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Key facts

Developers: Slightly Mad Studios , EA Bright Light (PSP) , IronMonkey Studios (mobile)
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Director: Andy Garton
Producer: Suzy Wallace
Designer: Andy Tudor
Programmer: Ged Keaveney
Composers: Stephen Baysted , Mick Gordon , Mark Morgan
Series: Need for Speed
Platforms: PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable PlayStation 2 Windows Xbox 360 J2ME iOS BlackBerry OS Bada Android Symbian MeeGo
Genre: Racing
Modes: Single-player , multiplayer

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-shift

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publication date: 2009-10-06
review score: 83/100
Commons category: Need for Speed: Shift

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Need for Speed: Shift is a 2009 racing video game developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360. A separate version of the game was developed by EA Bright Light and simultaneously released for PlayStation Portable. Two mobile adaptations were developed by IronMonkey Studios for Java-compatible devices and iOS and released in 2009, with the latter version subsequently being made available for several other mobile devices. Need for Speed: Shift is the thirteenth installment in the Need for Speed franchise.

Shift's gameplay focuses on simulation, rather than the arcade racing of previous titles. It was followed by a sequel, Shift 2: Unleashed, in 2011.