Reviewers have it tough these days. With a dozen or more games coming out each week, they’re probably under horrible pressures to deliver their goods faster than ever before, with the result that we get crazy scores for games like Need For Speed: ProStreet and Assassin’s Creed. And the latter is pretty disturbing, considering the sheer scope of the game and how it promised to deliver truly next-generation gameplay.

But it looks like dear Gabe from Penny Arcade has stumbled on to the obvious fact as to why such a promising game is getting 7-something scores.

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When it comes to racing games, as far as the average Indian gamer is concerned, it’s Need For Speed that rules the roost. Even to the point of giving Counter Strike a run for it’s money, albeit in a different genre. Thanks to the numerous iterations that we have seen for this game, it has managed to get into a position where any racing game that would hit the market would have to be compared with Need For Speed.

Lately though, the situation has changed quite a lot. With the advent of other racing games like the superb Burnout series and the new contender, FlatOut, and I am only talking about the arcadish racing games here, EA had to do a serious re-think as to in which direction was the series heading. There was a flicker of hope in it’s outing as Need for Speed: Most Wanted but that gave way to a disappointing Carbon. So when we got to see the new, slick trailers for ProStreet, we were excited that maybe, just maybe EA is taking heed of what the fans have been clamoring for so long. When the demo finally showed up for Xbox 360, we eagerly downloaded it to check it for ourselves.

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