Drag & Drift Preview at IGN

[Skyline_man]

IGN tested the Drag mode as well as the Drifting mode in NFSPS, and backed it up with a little preview about them, no new videos or screenshots were added though.

Drifting has also returned, though its differences are found underneath the hood. The development team started from scratch with the game's physics engine so drifting feels a fair bit different than what we saw in Carbon. Cars feel much heavier and more powerful, giving you better feedback while also not feeling like they're sliding around on ice. Scoring is still on a speed vs. angle basis rather than the types of drift maneuvers you perform, though you do get bonuses if you begin a drift with nitrous or can manage to put a long string together.

To help newcomers with drifting, there will be multiple levels of assists for these race types. On the most basic level, all you need to do is steer and play with the gas while drifting. Correctional assists will keep your car from spinning out too much, though also limit how far sideways you can push your car. When you start taking these assists away, you'll be able to play with the clutch for more maneuverability and be able to get your car sliding at insane angles, though this'll obviously take much more skill behind the wheel.

Read the rest here.

[Danyutz]

at last some drift info .. i like that they add some different skill for drift mode.

[Strafer]

We havent seen any driftvideos. Cmon.

[alcohollica12]

We see all these game play previews but there is still nothing about how the vinyl system will work, will it be more detailed than carbon and will there be more vinyls to play with???? and will we be able to do artistic vinyls like a number of us have on Carbon???

[Shocker]

If you haven't read the article yet -> it's not all about drift and drag - it also contains new information about the onlinemode:

Another cool element that we learned about today relates to the online play. You can set up a series of events for your friends to compete in, though they needn't play at the same time. Up to seven events can be queued, like two drift events and a couple standard races or what have you, and then after you save and upload the entire event others can go in and play them at will. The leaderboard for your event will be updated in realtime, so if you're in the game you'll get notified if someone bests your score as it happens. EA is planning on hosting their own events, with the hopes that prizes and such will be given out for the best racers.

Source: http://www.nfsplanet.com/en/news/4091

[Skyline_man]

Read that too.

[Zero260]

Finally, some info on online mode! That sounds awesome. Thanks for pointing that out, Shocker.

[|Xx.EVO.xX|]

so are we gonna have a leaderboard for prostreet too? . . we have shadows