Interested in "Need for Speed: Shift" for Xbox 360? Check out recent price updates, reviews, videos and recommended alternatives.

Need for Speed: Shift (360)

Watch YouTube Gameplay
Watch YouTube Trailer
Release Date: 09/15/09
Genre: Street Racing
Developer: Slightly Mad Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ESRB Content: Mild Violence

Need for Speed: Shift is one of the next installments in the long-running racing video game franchise Need for Speed published by Electronic Arts. It was announced in January 2009 as part of a three-game announcement that includes Need for Speed: Nitro and Need for Speed: World Online. In the new franchising model for the series adopted by EA, Shift takes its place aiming at hardcore gamers and focusing on simulation racing and realistic drifting rather than the arcade racing of previous titles in the series. It focuses less on street racing and more on simulating the driver experience and is being described as a racing game built by racers for racers.

Get It!


Price last verified: 5 hours ago (09:12AM PDT).
$19.77
Savings
none
Deal Factor
5.2
Lowest Price Seen: $9.99 on Nov 26

Reviews

7.9
based on 5 top critics

7.7
We take the new Need for Speed out for our review.

7.0
In trying to offer something for everyone, this jack-of-all-trades racing game is unlikely to completely satisfy anybody.

6.0
Need for Speed: Shift does a lot of the things you'd expect a sim-style racing game to do, but it does so in a passionless way that's really off-putting.

10.0
The best Need for Speed yet.

9.0
EA starts from scratch and comes up winning big.

Recommendations

If you are interested in street racing games for Xbox 360 (like Need for Speed: Shift), you might want to take a look at the recommended games below.
#1:    Forza Motorsport 3 (360)    SALE
Deal Factor: 6.6
Deal Factor Components
Review Average: 9.3
Top Critic Reviews: 5 Release Date: 10/27/09
Savings: 33%

Watch YouTube Trailer
Release Date: 10/27/09
Genre: Street Racing
Developer: Turn 10 Studios
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ESRB Content:
Compare Need for Speed: Shift to Forza Motorsport 3

Deal Factor: 6.3
Deal Factor Components
Review Average: 7.2
Top Critic Reviews: 2 Release Date: 03/27/12
Savings: 17%

Watch YouTube Trailer
Release Date: 03/27/12
Genre: Street Racing
Developer: Namco Bandai Games America
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games America
ESRB Rating: Teen
ESRB Content: Mild Language, Mild Violence
Compare Need for Speed: Shift to Ridge Racer Unbounded

Deal Factor: 5.6
Deal Factor Components
Review Average: 6.9
Top Critic Reviews: 3 Release Date: 02/01/11
Savings: 55%

Watch YouTube Trailer
Release Date: 02/01/11
Genre: Street Racing
Developer: Eden
Publisher: Atari
ESRB Rating: Teen
ESRB Content: Lyrics, Mild Suggestive Themes, Simulated Gambling
Compare Need for Speed: Shift to Test Drive Unlimited 2

Deal Factor: 5.6
Deal Factor Components
Review Average: 8.7
Top Critic Reviews: 6 Release Date: 11/16/10
Savings: 0%

Watch YouTube Trailer
Release Date: 11/16/10
Genre: Street Racing
Developer: Criterion Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
ESRB Content: Violence
Compare Need for Speed: Shift to Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit