Was Need For Speed Prostreet The Peak Of Festival Racers?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- Festival Racers have catapulted in popularity within the past decade, but where did all of this craze come from? Today, I journey back to 2007, and to a game that i've never played before, Need For Speed Prostreet, to find out where the festival fandom came from, and to see if we can look to the past for inspiration in bettering the future of the genre!
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:19 Setting The Stage For Prostreet
5:50 Prostreets Next Generation Cars
13:47 Campaign Runthrough And Critique
22:44 Conclusion - เกม
prostreet is the perfect example of how much a game can be carried by just vibes
Tell that to 2015
@@BruceDaMooseYT Im completing a 2015 right now. I wanna uinstall this game and never play it again. I did complete ProStreet for 8 times for now. I wanna complete it again but on PS2. 2015 is so boring and shitty. that are just facts
@@derxes5396yup. 2015 has a good vibe, but the actual game itself is basically unplayable
@@BruceDaMooseYT i am so tired of 2015 glazers man. everybody wanna talk about MUH GRITTY UNDERGROUND VIBES but then when you actually try and argue that no amount of gta v ultra realism mod rain puddles can fix the inconsistent physics suddenly they act all defensive. gotta love the endless echo chamber that is discussing the need for speed franchise in 2024
@@derxes5396yep. NFS 2015 despite had amazing graphics, it is not fun to play at all due to being constantly online only, AI Rubberband that is tuned to the extreme and the drift that is tough to execute.
the commentator never running out of lines is one of the biggest contributors to the atmosphere
The Boss Characters in NFS PROSTREET are also have great characteristics. Too bad that Nate Denver, Ray Krieger, and the final boss, Ryo Watanabe were quite easy to defeat.
@@purwantiallan5089 the others really were disappointing but ryo did give me a bit of trouble in the z06 vette
True but thinking about it after replaying it recently.
Ray nearly murdered a few people and got away with it. Like that could just disqualify him completely like yea no fuck you ray you endangered lives of people on your way to race ryan and nearly hit the flag waver. Get your ass out bmw you're done.
It would be interesting alternative where someone else takes ray place after he disqualified himself for attempting assault with deadly weapon.
But overall. All the kings are easy to beat. Ryo he is bit challenging but easy. Although ai in the game is bs at times so much brake checks and trying to ram you off the road.
@@purwantiallan5089 Nate Denver being easy is an interesting part of him in itself. You try driving his GTO, you'll need both perfect tuning setup and very sharp skills to make that car driveable, nevermind competent.
All of the Speed tracks do a good job of making themselves geared towards a certain kind of car, like full low drag on Autobahn or a light essentially Grip car on Tokyo Expressway, but his muscle is not optimal for any of the tracks, it's just an oldschool choice, which makes me think he's an old boomer who's been doing it for so long that nobody from Nitrocide challenges him simply out of respect, and for whom his GTO is a car he is comfortable with or/and derives the most thrills from. But Ryan crashed onto the scene and didn't get the memo.
To redeem Ryan, you gotta use Nate's green beast against Ryo. No blueprinting, just setup (through race practice).
@@TheLaXandro thats a great way to look at it if we overlook him crashing 9/10 times
"-You can't traumatize someone with just one wor
-Nevada
-OH GOD MAKE IT STOP"
Pagani Zonda F and Nevada Highway = Perfect fit
For chaos
@@izack0128 JP Laurent wiggling his Zonda when i slightly touch his car on nevada, never stopped being funny lmao
Nevada is really easy. I even did a few runs without getting any damage to the Ford GT on the quick play mode with the Ai difficulty turning to the highest difficulty. Using a Logitech racing wheel helps a lot when you want to be more precise with your steering and throttle.
@@haaxxx9 k
@@haaxxx9
> Logitech Steering Wheel
Bold of you to assume majority of gamers owns steering wheel
i said this in 2007 and i will say this in 2024.
Prostreet is one of the best NFS games of all time.
Lol NO
@@WickedlNlso what is it? Most Wanted yet again? Please spare me
I completely agree 💯👍🏽
I hate it at first cuz we weren’t used to it at the time but man it aged like fine wine
@@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious I couldnt care less about MW. Id rather have a remake of NFS 3 Hot Pursuit. Underground 2 is great, Hot Pursuit 2 is great etc. Pro Street was bland, boring, graphically ugly for the time compared to other racers. Theres nothign worth remembering from this game.
Prostreet and Dirt 2 have the best festival atmosphere in any racing game for me. Everything about how both those games look and feel to play is electric. Wish we got more racing games like that today
I was just about to mention Dirt 2, such a great game and great soundtrack
Maybe Dirt5 can be on the top 5 too
@@FurryestXnah. DiRT 3 and 4 already claimed the top 5 list. DiRT 5 wasnt even close...
@@pixels_buhand also Ken Block saying "Welcome back to DiRT 2" on PRESS START BUTTON screen. Its been one year too that Ken Block was dead. 😭
DiRT 2 is fucking amazing.
prostreet aged well actually, it now got a bigger fanbase because people appreciate it now
I was shocked that some of the tracks in later SHIFT games looked worse than in the original. And I'm talking at speed, not just screenshotting or cherry picking.
this game was definitely a product with quite a few growing pains, but as the progenitor of a racing subgenre, it sure did evoke so much personality that the roster of games you mention sort of fail to replicate
pro street was also a crystal clear example of a time when gaming developers were willing to put their creative vision to the test with new tools and toys at their disposal, and despite the numerous kinks this game might have to a lot of people, there's a reason it's being looked back upon as a game that a lot of people might've slept on, and gave too much unfair negative press, that is a testament to how a piece of media can age and attract cult followings
Prostreet should've got 86 on Metacritic.
I will always say this game aged great and was a pioneer for a lot of the festival racers we have today. Even Heat can’t compare to prostreet with the atmosphere imo. This is literally “ track day bro” the game
Heat made me think it was the crossover between Prostreet and MW/Carbon much like MW was the crossover between HP and UG/UG2 but nope, it felt half assed. I don't blame the developers tho they might not have had enough time to polish, but what could have been tbh.
yes it was it did it first and it did it best. whoever did the aesthetic work on this game; liveries, logos, menu screen graphics and whoever curated the soundtrack deserve actual medals
I still have most of the soundtrack on my playlist to this day
@@74810Erichell yeah brother
Probably this game was "poorly" received by fans because it was launched after the behemoth it was NFS Most Wanted. Maybe if this game was released in another time it will probably have more fans. But this is my favorite NFS game to this date and I still love it
I don't think the release date matters that much, the ''fans'' cry about any game that isn't MW or UG, be it older or newer
NFS ProStreet was ahead in terms of damages and some details for a 2007 game!
To be pedantic, the damage system was already implemented in High Stakes in 1999 and Porsche Unleashed PC version in 2000 damage was even better than ProStreet had (cars could be bent from any position and you could lose control and even a wheel in a serious crash). Also we had a FlatOut series where damage was even crazier.
@@nikitamedvedev4696 Because Flatout doesnt have licensed cars, and NFS Porsche has better mechanical damages but in terms of visual and scratches NFS ProStreet is superior!
NFS ProStreet and MotorStorm did the festival racing genre so damn well
Motorstorm Pacific Rift and ModNation Racers also.
@@purwantiallan5089 well the entire MS series did do the festival racing thing really well
The festival movies for Monument Valley and Pacific Rift are peak. I'm so sad they got rid of them for apocalypse
Nothing says “festival” like launching a Beetle off a deck of a stolen aircraft carrier using its steam catapult system
@@AshElectric past me watching these in the extras menu all like "man i wish i was there!"
not just the festival racers, it was also the peak nfs imho. They had one year to develop a next gen and curren gen game (ps2-ps3) and you can tell from music to tracks to car sounds, it was made with love and attention to detail.
The only downside on PS2 NFS Prostreet is that they have 9 less cars compared to PS3, No Circuit Class Race and only 4 cars on track.
@@purwantiallan5089 fr? no grip class?
@@pinishereYeah. The grid is usual 4 cars.
@@KikuraKun 4 cars?
@@pinishere Yeah. Just 4 cars. It's why there's no grip class races.
You do have to be that kind of player, but what gives me the perfect downtime between racing in this game is customizing cars and creating liveries. It's not mentioned in this video, but ProStreet has one of the very best vinyl editors in any racing game, ever IMO. It's only limited to 20 vinyls and 20 sponsor decals per car, but the amount of cool designs, the window stickers and the one-button mirroring make it such a solid package. And as you mentioned in the video, this game has such a great amount of soul in it, which makes the cars you make in the game so much more enjoyable to drive and look at.
Great video!
This is so true. I think more than half of the over 500 hours I have on ProStreet were likely spent in the livery editor and body shop. Lol.
@@ToyotaSPRINTERTRUENO1986kouki Haha, probably same here! I used to have a save file on my PS3 with about 70 cars, all customized and painted passionately by my teenage self. Unfortunately, the save file got corrupted, so there's no way to see those cars ever again now.
The fond memories of them linger on strongly enough for me to seek out and watch videos like this one though!
ProStreet physics somehow manage to over-steer and under-steer at the SAME FREAKING TIME.
How do you call it oversteering if you never have to correct a slide. The cars in this game have virtually infinite grip, they're just understeery unless you tune them a certain way to make them corner faster
And it feels like power steering doesn't exist in a single car
It's weird because the AWD cars oversteer _way_ more than the RWD cars in grip and speed events. I actually made an R34 GTR setup just for drifting in grip events because it's so slippery compared to anything RWD.
ProStreet will always be special to me because it's the first racing game I ever played, and I have returned to it more than any other game over the years. I recognize its flaws, but I think it might still be my favorite game.
This will always be my favorite nfs
Along with NFS MW 2005.
I feel the same way 💪🏽
Most Wanted was a great Most Wanted game. ProSreet was a great NFS game.
Great video! The only thing I disagree with is your complaint of the lack of mini-bosses. In my view, you're almost constantly facing "mini-bosses" throughout the career - but they come in the shape of drivers that represent the teams of all 5 kings. For example, Gavin May, Henrik Dehn and Rudy Chen are all members of the Grip Runners and are, respectively, some of the tougher opponents to beat during grip races. The same can be said for the rest of the disciplines: Boxcut (Nate Denver) has JP Laurent who drives a fairly fast Zonda, After Mix (Karol Monroe) has Frank Book which usually dominates the 1/4 mile and Apex Glide (Ryo Watanabe) has both Paul Trask and Ivan Tarkovsky who are fast in both Speed and Grip.
I find the AI racers in ProStreet actually have very varied personalities and ways of driving and feel very characterful, even outside of the drivers I mentioned. You'll notice you race a separate set of rivals if you're in North America, Europe or Japan, as well as having them mix together whenever you're at a Showdown event.
RYYYYAAAN COOOOOPEEEEEEERRRRR
Sorry, I just had to. Anyway, this is THE festival racing game in my opinion. It just does everything correctly to feel like a festival. I've recently been kind of shocked at the damage model of this game, because when is the last time you've seen licensed cars being able to just lose parts like side mirrors or the hood? I gotta agree with the monotony in the mid game. I only recently beat this game fully and that was only thanks to the fact that I didn't have anything else to play. Still, I love the feeling this game gives and would recommend it to racing fans.
the last time cars bent and lost body parts was in undercover
I played ProStreet pretty much blind and with no expectancy
Today it is my favorite Black Box era NFS
When Pro Street First dropped, I was really unhappy as it a massive departure from Street Racing.
Going onto 2024, now I believe how good this game was. Specially considering the current poor scenario of mainstream racing game genre as a whole .
I went back to play some old NFS titles using a Logitech steering wheel and Prostreet has aged like a fine wine. One of the best Simcade racers with a great atmosphere.
Ey! Another Logitech Racing wheel user here! Playing Prostreets on the speed challenges with a G29 gave me the feeling of thrill that most modern racing game have severely lacked in the department, Punishment for fucking up and paying the price for it. It pushes me to get better and race more clearly so I don't end up totalling my ride, way more thrilling than playing Motorfest with shitheads online with supercars that 90% of the time players will crash out and barely get any punishment for it in GR. I really don't like motorfest after playing 100+ hours into it...
Just Imagine a modern Racing Game with the progression of Gran turismo 4 and the vibe of prostreet
The drag mode is perfect and the sound design is honestly the best. Many many drunk nights challenging others to see who can get the fastest time with the g29 steering wheel and shifter set. Turn the sound up and you are in the zone
While racing festivals are the new big thing in racers, this game really makes you feel like you are in the festival. From the menus to the closed circuits and all the advertising litering the barriers it reminds you that this is a racing festival compared to forza which while yes the vibe is there (at least for the first 3 games) but it's just thrown into the backround wheras with this games festival it really makes you feel like prostreet.
This game was my entence to NFS, the stakes can be extremely high on certain events, so when you finish its extremely satisfying, it's one of my favourite games of the whole franchise.
Rudy Chen was the real boss of ProStreet.
Awesome video as usual! Pro Street would be one of my favourite need for speed games in the series. Was a fan of the drag racing and wheel stands. I loved building purpose specific beasts and customising them. My Dodge charger had flames down one side and a hello kitty paint job on the other 😂
By the way, I’ve watched this with my baby girl. She was thoroughly entertained!
Ultraviolet, your analysis of Need For Speed Prostreet is spot-on! 🏁 It's fascinating to revisit this title and contemplate its impact on the festival racing genre. Prostreet brought a unique blend of realism and arcade-style gameplay that set it apart. Your deep dive into its features, mechanics, and overall vibe showcases why it's considered a peak in festival racers. Keep revving up the nostalgia and delivering these insightful retrospectives! 🚗💨
Surprisingly, even Mia Taylor and Yuu Takasaki (Mia call her as "Baby-chan") also a big fan of NFS PROSTREET.
Very much a bot comment
@@dmmpg no I'm real
@@BloxWicheither a nice script response, or you are an ai using disgrace
@@dmmpg I'm an English major class of '22, why u mad?
Prostreet has such a vibe! yeah it’s legit events but you can also tell that the drivers still take part in illegal races and even hear the announcers sometimes telling stories about drivers getting caught out by the law, they will even comment on new cars you buy or what type of events you enter them in,which is a nice touch!
There was never a game that actually made it scary to go fast like how prostreet did it, a criminally underrated game for sure.
I loved using classic muscle for the speed events knowing it was probably going to end in disaster 🫠
i remember reading a comment about someone saying that prostreet would be perfect if it had an open world setting....and thats where the original forza horizon came in
That never made sense to me. The whole point of ProStreet was taking street racers to actual tracks. If ProStreet were open world, it simply wouldn't be ProStreet. And not nearly as great either.
Nevada highway speed challenges will be the bane of my existence
also one of the best soundtracks ever put together. i've asked a lot of people what they think the best song in the game is and it's always been something different, never the same song.
Prostreet is my all time favorite game, it is partly due to it being apart of my childhood and just enjoying playing it
i was raised by Prostreet, the first NFS i ever fully completed, the atmosphere and vibes of the game was immaculate, nothing in those days could quite match up to what Prostreet was offering but yet nothing, nothing could've prepared me for the sheer absolute chaos that is the Nevada Highway. i love this game from the bottom of my soul but Nevada speed challenges are the bane of my existence.
Thanks for going in depth on one of my personal favorite nfs games pro street is underrated and needs more love this is probably the best video I've ever seen on pro street you cooked something truly special...
To this day, I don't think any racing game has ever had me gripping my controller tighter than this one. One of the only times a game made me fear high speeds.
This will always be my favorite NFS title for so many reasons. Very nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This game was and still is such a soulfull game, it is one of my favorite NFS games. I highly suggest you reviewing Dirt 2 because it isn't going to disappoint :D
I still remember my first track festival. It was the first time I ever saw and heard actually high hp cars going around a track in real life, not forgetting drifting. Just a bit after entering the venue and finding a place to camp, I approached the nearest corner of the track and I think it was some seriously tuned Audi that took the last corner before the main straight and at that point, hearing the sweet sounds of the dump valve and the car speeding away, I was like "Damn, ProStreet actually sounded like the real deal". I had played it for about a year at that point.
Ultra you don't know how proud of myself I am to catch your video the same day it dropped 😂
Thanks for the video, I love Prostreet, especially when it first announced, because I love the idea of grassroots racing. My game modes in this game are Drag and Speed race, for me they the most challenging game modes in NFS games. Prostreet is the reason, why I keep telling people, that going fast in a straight line or driving at high speed on a highway is not easy, it's a bigger challenge to maintain in control of a car in that extreme conditions at extreme speeds, because losing control has a dire consequences and damages.
The biggest compliment i could say about this game's atmosphere is...
I WANNA BE IN ONE OF THESE RACE DAYS SO BAD, EVEN AS A SPECTATOR. The announcers really add to the over all vibe too. To the point that i make sure that during my playthrough, i have to sit through what the announcers says in the race day menu before entering a race. And the hubs for these events look so cool too with their different themes. There's a lot of neat details that made these race days authentic imo.
FF7 Rebirth's soundtrack is so good, it even fits well under racing game essays 😂 Great vid as always 👍
You opened with a shot of Outrun and that made my day
Your voice makes me feel a need... A Need for Speed.
Yay another Need for speed Review
Prostreet was such a vibe, the soundtrack was topnotch and the festival theme of it was great.
I loved the intro to this game and the Ryan Cooper intro scene.it was cool adding decals to windows and mismatched wheels was fun for some odd reason.
The sound track is a banger. Pro street and shift 2 a lot of good memories... Times flies.
I have replayed & finished (2,00,000 career money) this game as an adult and the experience was mind-blowing. I didn't understand the game as a child but as an adult and an aspiring interaction designer, I'm seeing how the gameplay is well-crafted for its period. Also as an adult, I started with common cars and built into race cars through progress. I didn't buy cars but used the won cars during race days which offers sample cars by event organisers. My childhood mind was obsessed with selling the first Nissan and wanting a Lamborghini immediately when I got a lot of career money.
I didn't play Prostreet, but I definitely respect all the time, effort and detail put into it. Back in the day, that certainly was something!
One of those games that aged like fine wine
Timeless game that received mixed reviews but still has its charm even today
"Festival Racers" needs to be an actual thing! The only thing we have right now is Forza Horizon! Oh, but I can't forget The Crew Motorfest, too.
I think so. I fucking love the vibe. I It feels like an event I would want to go to IRL, even just as a spectator.
Always glad to see a good Prostreet video. I have to shill two things related to this game: first is Austin Ogonoski's video - man has some takes sbout the setting and behind the courtains stuff I have never seen before.
The second is Prostreet Pepega mod. Despite looking like a joke mod at the first glance, it is a massive expansion to all of the ingame content, rebalance and tweak galore to handling and AI and features a new story.
The problem with prostreet was that it was a little ahead of its time which is a shame because it’s somehow gotten better with age. Prostreet has one of if not the best festival vibes for a racing game and perhaps the best vibes/atmosphere for an NFS game, only rivaled by NFS 2015.
I love these videos for the important question being asked
The lackluster story can be remedied by the Pepega Mod which not adds new recorded cutscenes which give it more of the campy atmosphere of Most Wanted and Carbon that we loved, but also new custom announcer voice lines and tons of new features.
FYI there are many real life, community-based motorsport festival events inspired from this game and Forza Horizon series today. Let's see GRIDLIFE, Gatebil, Ultrace, and many more. Even (in this case) NFSPS actually taking references from the early D1GP and Formula Drift events.
I love the personality, art style & soundtrack
All that effort for the audio is amazing. Nowadays they do the bare minimum and let the computer do the rest.
Just the rx-7 intro feels so deep atmosphere-wise, it leaves a permanent aftereffect. I think Pro Street is the most deep racing game ever, so much work behind the scenes.
We didn't deserve a Need for Speed this good.
Even today it left me a void I cannot fill.
One my favorite things about this game is all the cars the ai and bosses drive. The designs/liveries on them are really good. My favorite cars is Ryan Cooper’s 240SX, the Speed King’s GTO, the Drift King’s RX7, and the cover car. My favorite class is also drag. Drag racing is done really well in this game. I used to be terrible at it but I got better later on and used an old Dodge Challenger as my main drag car. Had some huge meaty tires in the back. Man that was scary to drive cause sometimes the car would just do wheelies off launch it was so unstable but also very fun to drive. I also loved speed class just cause of how insane the races get with both the speeds and the cameras going crazy the faster you go
You make a lot of great points in this video. From the development time to the definition of “vibes”. And how trying new things doesn’t always come out perfect to how most games always lose their “soul” mainly due to lack of creativity/inspiration. Some people might say these are just common things but I’d argue that most people just end up forgetting about them anyways. And you can just tell by looking at the current racing genre. Prostreet isn’t perfect. But you can’t deny the dedication and time they put into this game. Giving it a soul and help making it stand out compared to the older NFS titles. And if they ever make a sequel I’d be all for it.
Honestly this was a great review. Really enjoyed this one. I also liked the mic quality here. Very crispy and clear audio. Great work as always man
This game was way ahead of its time. The game is great but the only gripe I have in this game is the vinyl editor. Rather than showing all the graphics and decals ala NFS 2015 to NFS Unbound for you to pick, it was instead, shows you one-by-one and then pick one. So it's a chore to choose one vinyl for the design you want to do. But thankfully there's a mod for it now.
insert zonda f going so fast it breaks the speed barrier here i really love this game so much its music style and i have been to a race day loved it
Played this game on PS2, not too long ago either, I love this game.
I remember the tuned rx8 sound! It sounds amazing
I couldn't get into Forza Horizon because of how good this game is in delivering the racing festival vibes and the raw sound of the cars.
I remember trying this game with a force feedback wheel after having beat it with a controller. It went from a ok game to a really fun one
let's not forget that the announcer will react to your choice of car for drift/drag events, for example if you take a Porsche on a drift event or a Lamborghini on a drag event
There he goes again !! Anotha stunning video, and a chance to hear that voice of iron. See you again soon ❤❤
Thanks again!
i remember playing prostreet a lot when i was like 3 - 6yrs on ps2, was the first nfs game i ever owned myself. Tho i dint get to finish it as a kid, i have fond memories of the game. Genuinely my favourite nfs, i wish i could play it now as a adult, I'm still trying to find the game since i know now my laptop can actually run b4 xbox 1/ps4 games
"Was Need For Speed Prostreet The Peak Of Festival Racers?"
Yes
A hundred times yes
No game outside of the first Forza Horizon has come close to touching ProStreet's understanding of car festivals
imo Porsche 2000 was a peak, but ProStreet was an another local maximum, and it was really close to the peak. I'd say that either HP2 or Most Wanted were local minimum - both were good games, but there was more cops than racing tbh. Undergrounds were better, but still they weren't as good as Porsche and ProStreet.
Pro Sstreet is abseliutly peak in the racing games. The special summit sense and vibes i experiense in my own, when i playng this amazing game. The best racing game ever!!!
Thanks for sharing!
On my top 3 NFS
Its crazy to think that when a theme or genre got stale. The franchise would often spin it in a different direction entirely and innovate in a major way. Instead of what we have now where they just double down on a formula for a decade and if it stops selling they just deem the entire genre obsolete and shut everythign down.
If anything, The Crew Motorfest should have taken this formula instead of copying Forza Horizon.
they did so much right i wish i se that in more new games, the thing i think i miss most its the atmosfare
the vibe of this game is unreal.
The best part about Pro Street's story is the implication that Ryan Cooper may or may not be the driver from Most Wanted and Carbon. Nobody really knows till this day, it's kind of ambiguous, and people can interpret it differently. I choose to believe Ryan Cooper is the driver from the previous games, and that kind of adds a new level of background to this game that is awesome.
There are no implications tho, they're totally different people and even one of EA writers confirmed it at some point (I think it was during a livestream), it's all just fan theories
reminded me to play ProStreet man damn
Out of all the Need for Speed Titles, Prostreet is my favorite.
It might not have cops, or illegal racing. but it's a nice break from the traditional formula.
The soundtrack is amazing, cars sound great, especially the Charger and Viper.
They also feel great to drive, all feel completely different from each other.
and so much detail was put into all of the maps in this game.
It's such a shame that it got panned at release.
imo NFS's "traditional formula" wasn't (only) about cops and illegal racing. Old NFSes were just focused on fast cars, they served as kind of encyclopediae of fast cars, where you get all info about their entries and you can try them out. And I admired that car-focused approach, which can be felt in ProStreet even more than in MW or Carbon.
Hands down the best NFS game in the series. Hand so many event types, great crews/rivals, speed challenge, great car list, top tier music. One of the best festival racing games
imo only Porsche 2000 and Underground were better, but only a bit better
I haven't watched the vídeo yet, but holy molly how did you make the game look so good in that thumbnail? oO
Those damage effects are pretty damm cool!
Pro street would've been one of the best NFS games, if only they had gotten the handling right. To this day, the only thing I've driven that has felt as heavy and sluggish as pro street is that one time I drove a 3 ton truck with broken power steering. Seriously atrocious unresponsive handling
I would absolutely love love love to see a Pro Street 2
If you want a game that perfectly captures the feeling of race day / of a racing championship, you should definitely play GRID (2008)!
No other games comes even close in that aspect (not a car festival per say though)
The recent attention Pro Street has gotten is good to see. People really just expected more of the same after MW and Carbon, so this game was labeled a "disappointing failure" for that reason and hardly got much appreciation early on.
I grew up with this game, it came out right after I got heavily into NFS and racing games. To me nothing has come close in regards to soundtrack and visuals.
Prostreet is THE BEST need for speed ever made and I can’t be convinced otherwise 👌🏾
I still can't believe they haven't remastered this game yet
I’ve been waiting for years. If it happens I don’t think EA could get my money any faster
@@groholske never gonna happen
I used to feel the same, but after what Rockstar/TakeTwo did to GTA3 with their Defecative Edition, I'm terrified of remasters
Racing games don't often get remasters because the licensing rights for cars and music has to be renegotiated.
Great vid
Pro street illegally underrated
Love this game. You nailed it. Ine thing about the damage you didn't mention is it was like a real race/track day. You have a garage full of cars but you can only race what u could bring to the track. Ome car for each discipline and an extra I believe. And the comment you msde about drifting not being as entertaining is why the modern games aren't as entertaining. You said the reason without noticing it. That is they gave you one if the best drift cars to start. When i switched to other cars it was more challenging because each car drifted differently.
I will keep a copy of ProStreet till the day I die. MotorStorm had a pretty cool Festival Atmosphere, could e been more immersive with some voices added but hey still a great franchise.
Welp, Gotta pull over again 👍
This game inspired so many other current gen games such as GRID, FORZA HORIZON, etc. Oh, and most ppl dont know this but, CarX Drift Racing Online literally has so many Pro Street inspired aspects in their game. From the stickers to the maps such as Ebisu and Mondello Park. Hell, even the vinyl system screams NFS Prostreet, from reflecting vinyls to the ability to shrink and enlarge stickers.
What's my point? Regardless if you liked NFS Pro Street or not, thank the developers! They set the blueprint for so many other festival racing games that many people would not love so much if weren't for this "old" game...
The closest game that gives me a good festival vibe was Forza Horizon 1. I loved how the beginning of the game started and how you progressed.
Pro Street still takes the cake from the scenery, to the announcer screaming while you're weaving through your opponents to take home 1st place, or even running down NEVADA and making one wrong move only to see your car get TOTALED!
Even tuning was gratifying for making your car a MONSTER for knocking seconds off a lap.
I wish newer NFS games gave us back the whole team battles. I think its sick seeing a whole crew of cars representing their team with crazy vinyls and making cars we don't usually see seem "cool". Unlike new NFS games, the team's you have to battle in Pro Street symbolize something you are chasing: Being the CHAMPION and having the STATUS those teams once had.
Also, obtaining their cars they once had was the coolest way of saying : I BEAT YOU!