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Need for Speed Undercover for PlayStation 3
Need for Speed Undercover for PlayStation 3 is a street-racing game in which you infiltrate a criminal organisation as an undercover officer. In the open Tri-City Bay Area, you win races and carry out jobs to earn criminals’ trust. Between races, filmed scenes featuring Maggie Q as your contact Chase Linh move the story forward. You drive along city streets and highways carrying ordinary traffic, while police try to cut off your route.
Highway Battles revolve around high-speed duels: you overtake a rival and build a sufficient gap through traffic. Other assignments ask you to deliver a stolen car or take down a target. Your earnings buy cars and improvements to their performance and appearance. Nitrous helps you accelerate; Speedbreaker temporarily slows the action so you can plan a difficult manoeuvre more carefully.
Escaping involves more than briefly driving out of sight. After a pursuit, the search must die down; hiding spots help you stay out of police hands. The map lets you jump straight to unlocked events, so driving around is not compulsory before every next race. On one PS3 you play alone, without local split-screen. Undercover’s PS3 online services ended on 31 August 2021; the offline career remains the foundation of this release.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Need for Speed Undercover for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Need for Speed Undercover
EA Black Box developed Need for Speed Undercover in Vancouver, and Electronic Arts released it for PlayStation 3 in 2008. The studio put police pursuits and a cinematic crime story at the centre. Maggie Q played Chase Linh in the filmed scenes connecting the racing assignments. The fictional Tri-City Bay Area became the setting for this double life: you work for the law, but must prove yourself on the streets as a criminal driver.
The highway network supported a distinctive kind of duel. Highway Battles emphasised gaining distance and dodging traffic, while jobs involving stolen cars gave substance to the undercover work. Black Box connected these assignments to a career in which reputation, new vehicles and car customisation develop together. The controls allowed spectacular spins and quick escapes. This explains why Undercover was designed as action-heavy street racing rather than a precise recreation of an official motorsport category.
Separate Challenge Series and Boss Car packs appeared for PS3 in 2009. These expansions are not automatically included with the original game release. Versions bearing the same name on other consoles also differ; this description follows the PS3 game, not the PS2 or Wii interpretation. Following the end of online support in 2021, former network features are not promised with a purchase. Offline, the campaign, traffic duels and police escapes show how Black Box wove the undercover story into street racing.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit from 2010 lets you alternate between racer and police officer on PS3. Undercover gives you a police role in its story, but its campaign has you infiltrate as a criminal driver. Hot Pursuit divides its challenges between both sides of pursuits, whereas Undercover brings together filmed scenes, jobs and the process of building trust.
Need for Speed Most Wanted from 2012 uses the open city of Fairhaven to search for cars and find races on PS3. Both games combine street racing with police escapes. Undercover builds an undercover story with employers around this, whereas Most Wanted focuses progression on Speed Points and defeating wanted rivals. This comparison does not refer to Most Wanted from 2005.
Need for Speed Shift opts for circuits, braking points and the cockpit experience on PS3. Car customisation appears in both games, but serves different kinds of competition. Undercover uses traffic and police to create constantly unexpected situations. Shift mainly asks you to find a repeatable line around a closed track and build your racing within a motorsport career.
Need for Speed The Run tells the story of a race across the United States on PS3. Like Undercover, it uses a crime story to connect dangerous drives. The Run directs you through successive stages towards a final destination. Undercover lets you return to the same open road network, where you undertake infiltration jobs and traffic duels for new employers alongside ordinary races.
Need for Speed Rivals gives police and racers separate careers in Redview County on PS3. Both games have an open world and pursuits, but Undercover revolves around a fixed infiltration campaign. Rivals makes banking earned points a recurring risk for racers and uses Pursuit Tech in battles on the road. Undercover puts greater emphasis on jobs and filmed story scenes.
