Need for Speed: Shift 2 hands-on preview - Beautiful, brutal, and ‘scary as f*ck’

Its developers you see, make no bones about going after Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3 this time. And having gone hands-onrecently, we are very much listening. Shift 2 is being designed around a philosophy its developers call ‘Drivers’ Battle’. It’s essentially a slightly ostentatious way of saying ‘this game is frigging brutal’, and it encompasses several elements. First up, driver AI has been improved