[Review] Speedy: Need for ‘Speedy’ - I think NOT!

Posted by miuki as LAN Reviews

Typo perhaps? Hardly.

The game Need for Speed attracted gazillion gamers (exaggeration) around to world, correct me if I’m right. However, sometimes speed isn’t always what’s worth.

If I’ve not mistaken the LAN center, Speedy, has been around for quite a while. It’s located in Prinsep Street, beside what was once E-Games (which according to GameSync - mysteriously closed down).

Something that puzzles me.

With the publicity Gaming Giants (aka GG) is getting from the media, Speedy with such horrid ‘gaming environment’ and located within the same district as one of GG outlets, seems to be not just surviving, but going strong! (Close to a full house in fact, but it was a Saturday night though.)

The experience left me a scar that I doubt I’ll ever recover from. (Another exaggeration yet again.)

Speedy is truly one of the worst enclose-dust-invested area I’ve ever laid eyes on. It’s as though I was suddenly transported to a desert zone within instances. (This, I’m not exaggerating.)

On the outside, the LAN shop looks like every other, just slightly run-down so to speak. However, the moment you sit yourself at one of the terminals. Tada!

All is lost.

Remember the method I used to evaluate GG?

(In case you’re wondering, it is based on Location, Presentation, Performance and Experience.)

Trust me. If I did the same for Speedy, it isn’t going to be pretty. Nonetheless…

My evaluation:

Location: 8
Presentation: 4
Performance: 4
Experience: 2

It’s a brilliant combo of fairly laggy PCs, close to un-sit-able chairs, icky keyboard and mouse, layers of dust throughout, and…

Need I say more?

Though all this may seem as though there’s nothing good about the place, which isn’t entirely wrong, but I have to say, for such a horrid place, the staff aren’t too bad.

Speedy

Tel: +65 6
Overall Rating: 4.5
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