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The new speedster in EA's successful series combines the tuner customization of Need for Speed Underground with an expanded take on the police chases of the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit series. The game will feature a Rap Sheet option that works hand in hand with a player's street reputation as they move up from the "Black List" to the A-List. Users will also be able to go head-to-head with their opponents while simultaneously trying to avoid more than six different police cars at once through a dynamically changing open-ended world. Get your car peaked for outrunning the cops by customizing your muscle cars, supercars, tuners, and sports cars. It is a fun game. i would recommed renting before buying just to make sure it is your style.
Game play and storyline will keep you interested from the start to the end, but do not plan to finish the game in one breath. There is some race you need to keep trying to just find the way to win. The police AI is alot complex and smarted, they will box you in and use rolling road block (2 -3 police car driving in front of you)just like real world. You can also heard the poilce radio talk! if you can pay attention to what they are talking and know the street name pretty well? you actually know they are planing road block before hand! Build you own car looks really great! all kind of paint job you can put on you car!
I'm a Need for Speed Hot Pursuit II fan so NFS Most Wanted appeals to my cop chase sensibilities. The graphics are really good, the variety of vehicles available and the story mode and challenge series are very entertaining. While there are lots of new features there's some old school features I miss such as different environments (this entire game is played in a limited world around a city call Rockport)as well as no secret tracks, no nighttime and or inclement weather racing options. The music pretty much blows, but thankfully you can turn it off. Unfortunately, you can't turn off the annoying cell / text messages disguised as tips and hints from the needy Mia, your "Buddy" Rog and the notorious Blacklist racers who constantly nag you through career mode. In the end, this is a really cool race game and when you fully upgrade your vehicle in career mode - the game is on. I've been playing the game since 2005 and it is still as fun now as it was then... I hope they make a Most Wanted II.Read full review
I jumped into the Need For Speed series with Underground. The game simply blew me away, as it did for the other 7 million people who purchased the game. The graphics were simply amazing, and what couldn't you like about pimping out a car that you'll probably never be able to dump that much money into! Underground 2 was a valient attempt to match and/or beat the original, but everybody who's played that knows it was good, but not even close. The cutscenes were TERRIBLE! In Need For Speed: Most Wanted, the people from EA have a great idea going for them. From what I've heard, it's a mix of the two older games before Underground, which is a great idea. The idea of cop chases (and earning points based on how destructive/evasive you are) is very fun, as are the conversations you hear on your "police scanner". Police don't necessarily need to spot you breaking the law, as sometimes just running into other cars will cause a "call" to be put into the P.D. and they'll send a unit or two out. The cutscenes and storyline are good as well. Since there's no swearing or abusive language allowed, it's hard to replicate a "true" bad boy image and confrontations between "blacklist" characters. It's hard to imagine someone on a "blacklist" calling you a "jerk" :) Unlike the last titles comic-strip-like cutscenes that made me want to chuck the game out the window, this one has real movie-like scenes that seem to be caught in between real full motion video and animation, but are a perfect way of portraying it! The mouths move perfectly to the words, and not to mention the ladies of the game! The storyline will suck you in, as the opening few acts lay out the story and get you kind of mad! Mad enough to keep playing and get your ride back! Loading times are FAST, and restarts are instant. The controller can be configured for you to use either the control stick or pad for your preference...and if I remember correctly the previous N.F.S. game forced you to use the control stick which I despised (I believe....don't hold it against me if I'm wrong!). There are a lot of other little things that I will let you discover on your own as you play the game, but I do have to leave with one con of the game. The graphics during driving are TERRIBLE. I play the game on a 42" plasma HDTV and I must say I thought I was playing this game on Playstation 1. The edges of the cars, surroundings, roads are EXTREMEMLY choppy. So far, I cannot figure out a way to change camera angles, as you are stuck with ONE VIEW and ONE VIEW ONLY. No inside the car angle, or far-away shot, just ONE behind the car angle. The car also seems to be too close to you, and there is no way to change it. You can put it on widescreen to give you more viewing area, and it helps with the distance but in my opinion it makes the graphics even worse. I started with a Lexus IS300, but it looks more like a Mini-Cooper in widescreen mode. N.F.S Underground 1/2 was VERY smooth while driving and made you really feel like you were driving fast down the street in the nighttime, with the street lights just a blur as you zip past. Not this time...as the surroundings are VERY choppy and aren't smooth at all. Maybe other areas of the game are better, as I'm only on the first area? I hope... The driving graphics are my only gripe, but it's a big one. It takes away from a LOT of the game in my opinion as EA might have spent too much disc space on the cutscenes and profiles (which are awesome). Rent it first!Read full review
I would rec. this game for adult buyers only. The idea behind this game is to make your car as fast as possible and run from the police. You get bonuses for wrecking police cars and damaging other cars. This would be a bad game choice for a teenager learning to drive or just getting their license. I like racing games more so than direct violence games so that was the reasoning behind purchasing this game. The graphics are very good and have experienced very little trouble with the game. The only improvement I could possibly rec. is that the corners need to be smoothed out a little more, occasionally when you hit a guardrail or something of that nature and you should just rub it or bounce off, it will let you hit the rail as though you hit a brick wall. This is especially bad if you are in a race or in a pusuit where the police are on your bumper. Oh, that reminds me, police barracades should be easier to get through. A lot of the time the player's car will go airborne and get stuck on top of one of the barracade cars which will lead to you getting busted. If you try to reset the car you are instantly busted. Other than that the game plays exactly as advertised, and I am having a lot of fun with it.Read full review
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