Need for Speed: Prostreet | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 2541
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15351
Model: 15351
UPC: 014633153514
EAN: 0014633153514
ASIN: B000U90L32
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: Game works perfect. Includes original manual, case, and artwork. Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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| Features:
| • | Experience the raw power of street racing with a brand new physics engine, and intuitively refined AI. | | • | Prove yourself in four distinct styles of racing: Drag, Drift, Grip, and the all-new Speed Challenge. | | • | One wrong move, and witness the consequences of your | | • | Choose from hundreds of real-world, aftermarket parts and see the impact of visual Autosculpt technology on performance all in real time. |
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Product Description
Need for Speed : Pro Street is a racing experience like no other. For the first time, you're designing and building a car, competing in iconic locations from around the globe and battling in four distinct racing styles- grip, drag, drift and the all-new speed challenge. The atmosphere is electric - complete with energetic crowds, photo-realistic vehicles and billowing smoke - all designed to embody the pressure and intensity of the gladiatorial challenge known as Show Down. Need for Speed ProStreet is the realization of the power, aggression and rivalry that embodies street racing culture.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Great NFS Title November 17, 2007
Samer A (Texas,USA)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I've played the NFS series since the very first title and have watched as they changed the core of their game from title to title. In this installment, you play the usual racing guy who's out to prove his name against some racing gurus who hate him.
You start out with a few low level cars and work your way through a very long career map. The race types are similar to the ones in the past. Drift, Grip (i.e. a normal race), speed challenges and drag strips.
The feel of the game has definitely moved away from the very arcade like style of racing in Underground, but not so far to where it drives like a professional racing game would (like in Forza 2). It's a good balance, I find. There is no big world like there have been in the several past titles, so races are entered by visiting "race days" and selecting the ones to compete in. I miss the police chases from Most Wanted, but obviously that was a whole other style.
Overall, I'd say if you enjoyed Most Wanted and other NFS titles, this is a good buy. You won't be let down. Here are pros/cons broken down:
Pros:
-Driving is more realistic than the past several titles
-Car damage is a great addition. No longer can you just enter a turn at 200mph, hit the wall and then continue driving.
-LOTS of car customization available. You can spend hours tweaking your car to the desired specification.
-Graphics are great.
Cons:
-Announcer on race days and at race events is *really* irritating. I muted him minutes into the game.
-No city to free-roam around in (I enjoyed that aspect a lot)
-All races are closed and "legal", so there isn't any traffic to dodge or cops to run away from.
*Edit Note: I'd like to also add that I run this on Vista Ultimate and haven't had any problems with it...so if you're running Vista and are worried because you don't see it as a supported OS, you will probably be fine. (Who can ever tell with Vista)
 Good game, but not really Need For Speed December 31, 2007
Peter D. Anderson (Miami, Fl)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have always enjoyed playing the Need for Speed games, my favorite by far being "Most Wanted" so really, really wanted to enjoy this one.
The addition of crash damage is a huge step up, I think the only time they did this before was in III and it wasnt done really well then (the paint scratches in other titles dont count).
However the downsides of this game are to numerous to mention, and really detract from the overall enjoyment. The main ones are
1 - handling adjustments are really hard to get right, particularly as you cannot make adjustments while in a "Race Day" and set up your car to handle for each track.
2 - The addition of tracks like Mondelo make the game really frustrating rater than fun
3 - The cash prizes for upgrades are too low, particularly later on in the game if you want to remain competitive - and it is really annoying to have to go back to the beginning again to build up some cash reserves
4 - The "Storyline" is pointless and just distracts from the game. And as one other poster has pointed out the DJ announcements are an absolute waste of memory space
5 - Some of the tracks are just annoying
I got about 3/4 of the way through this game and realized that I just wasnt enjoying myself while playing. It had become a grind to continue on. If it had been any other title than Need For Speed I would have taken it on its own merits and may have been able to get all the way through
As it was I popped in Most Wanted again for another go, and put the fun back onto my desktop
 DOA - Need For Speed Pro Street November 19, 2007
N Da Game
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
I own all of the NFS titles and this has to be the most disappointing release right up there with Juiced. Just setting the buggy software aside, game play is terrible. Free roam where you can cruise the streets is gone. You must navigate several menu items just to race? EA should have released this as something else rather than tarnish the NFS brand. I mourn the death of a great arcade racing franchise.
Too much power but not performance November 20, 2007
Sandeep P. Kapadia
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
First of all I'm a NFS huge fan, and watched many videos and screenshots of Prostreet. It is a complicated game, and are no tutorials. How do I do a wheelie? How do I play just a single race? (unfortunately you CANNOT, you have to play 4 different types of races, CAN'T play one race by itself.) There seems to be some confusion with the online game and career racing. But I think its a decent game. 7/10 rating.
Basically the same old stuff, just nicer graphics December 14, 2007
Jason P. Sudano (Long Island, NY)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nice graphics, new cars, same game as Carbon. I finally got completely sick of drift races and repairing my car over and over....and slightly bored. Nice looking, etc., but nothing new.
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