NZGamer writes: "First acquainted with this game in Singapore at GCA 2009, I called NFS Nitro the "weird adopted red-headed child" of the franchise. It seems to have nothing going for it. Nature has abandoned it. It's on the Wii, the graphics are touch-and-go, there's no realism - it just can't stand up to recent racing titans like Forza 3 or even its sister title, Shift. And yet there's... something. It's almost like the developers understand your own very personal need for speed."
SPC writes, "Sunday is this week's kickoff of SuperPhillip Central content, and with it we see a retro review. The announcement of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch saw the site developing a vested interest in arcade racing games. Last week, we took a look at Pac-Man World Rally, a kart racer. Now, we look at a different kind of racer with this retro review of the Wii version of Need for Speed: Nitro."
Is Need For Speed: NItro-X as good as the Wii version of the game? Not quite, but it's still cheap racing fun.
Had Nitro been given online capabilities the score would have been higher just on merit. But the lack of it, coupled with the "meh" presentation and production values makes this Need for Speed a hot rod with nothing impressive under the hood.
