{"id":11763,"date":"2009-05-08T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2009-05-08T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:30:40","slug":"video-game-iphone-need-for-speed-undercover-races-with-the-big-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11763","title":{"rendered":"Video Game &#8211; iPhone Need for Speed Undercover races with the big boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The last game EA released on the iPhone was the great Tiger Woods PGA Tour, a title that showed just how polished and smooth an iPhone game could get. Now Need for Speed Undercover has been quietly released on the app store. Again, it&#8217;s time to cough up the $10 and see if the game is worth the &#8220;premium&#8221; price.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many people are going to complain about that price point, but this is a game that wouldn&#8217;t look bad on the PSP. This is a game that looks better than damn near everything on the Nintendo DS. This, again, feels like a title that could compete with the dedicated portable gaming devices. I don&#8217;t want to turn this into a review of the hardware, but the pricing of these games needs to be given a little context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What&#8217;s great about the title is how well the game uses the iPhone as a control mechanism&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/reviews\/2009\/05\/need-for-speed.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last game EA released on the iPhone was the great Tiger Woods PGA Tour, a title that showed just how polished and smooth an iPhone game could get. Now Need for Speed Undercover has been quietly released on the app store. Again, it&#8217;s time to cough up the $10 and see if the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11765,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}