Need for Speed Most Wanted (Xbox, 2005)

Ok, so hears the deal: Underground 2 is all about driving to the location of secret or know races, while narrowly avoiding traffic along the way to get your NOS up. Pimpin your ride out with hydraulics and an awesome stereo is a great way to kill time. Then you can kick it in to overdrive with one of the most extensive garage performance tuning system. If you absolutely can't get enough of this game, you may not like Most Wanted as much. Comparing Underground 2 and Most Wanted at the same time would be almost like comparing comparing Cruisin USA with PGR; They are both just racing games with completely different premises. Here's the schpeel on Most Wanted. In this game, they replaced a few of old race types (drift, street X, URL) with new ones (speed trap and tollbooth) which are actually quite fun. Your NOS refills slowly just with driving over about 80 MPH. When new performance upgrades are available, you put them on your car and that's it, no tuning it up. The performance tuning is extremely simple: instead of 50 different little bars to slide left and right, there are only 7. Don't get me wrong, you still have to tune your car so you don't lose, you just spend more time driving and less time in a garage. Here, in my opinion, is the major deciding factor in whether you like Underground 2 or Most Wanted: the police. In Most Wanted, the police have a very extensive system to catch you or to give a hint on where not to go. You actually listen to the police chatter and because of that, know where to run to, to either run away from or attract the attention of the police. Now it's your choice to decide whether you like running away from the police, or whether you like spending 3 hours getting your turbo fixed just right and making your car look as cool as you please.

The BEST you can get! If you like police chases, fast racing and great graphics this is your game. You can deck out your car with an overload variety of parts and with tons or cars to choose from and loads of challenges to move yourself up the blacklist to be - The Most Wanteed. This game is a combination of N.F.S. Hot Pursuit and N.F.S. Underground. This game has everything you can ask for in it. Never be bored with this game.

This game was the best racing game that I have ever played! There is such a wide variety of cars and it has the best police pursuit interaction of any street racing game to date. The graphics on plain Xbox are fantasic and even after playing this on a 360, the graphics were still impressive. Most Wanted is just an overall magnificent game...

The storyline to this Need For Speed game is simple. You start at the top, and race one of the "top dogs" in racing. Something happens to your car, and you lose the race no matter what. From there, you get caught by the cops and get your car impounded. After that, you have to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top by beating all of the members on the "Black List." With every Black List racer, you have the opportunity to either take their car (Race for pinks), receive a "prototype" vehicle modification, or some other miscellaneous things such as cash, an impound strike, and so on. With every Black List member defeated, you can unlock other vehicle modifications including vinyl, performance, and detail modifications.

This game's graphics are stunning. The cut-scene graphics are, from what I believe, acted out, and generated into the game play. When the car speeds up to roughly 100MPH, the screen gets a blur to generate high-speed driving. The police pursuits are amazingly fun. There are five levels of wanted, and each level higher makes you receive a more difficult chase including spike strips, road blocks, and other challenges. It gets frustrating when you get caught, though! The vehicles have multiple modifications that you can place on it to suit your personality.

On the negative side, the game does get a bit repetitive along with most of the other "Need For Speed" games. From the other Need For Speed games that I have played, this is (by far)the best and most challenging in my opinion. Other than that, this is a great game. Nice job, EA.

This is a great Xbox title. I have had the game for a while. Even beat it. But I still love to play it. I recently lent it to my nephew, who promply kepted if for 12 months. Then when I finally forced him to return it, I noticed it was all scratched up. So I ordered myself a new one. Can't have anything stopping me from playing my Need for SpeeD.
The game is great, the car chases exciting, and the thrilling Police pursuits can be darn crazy. The graphics are tops notch and the realistic car control features are very lifelike. I highly recommend for any gamer collection.