Need for Speed Most Wanted

Awesome Surprise

Reviewed by spiralingzerO on May 05, 2008  |  report this review

Anyone seeking a Racer, with enjoyable physics and a delightful disregard for damage should RUN to get Most Wanted.
They do not have the Drift races I so enjoyed in Carbon, but that is THE ONLY thing in Carbon that was a good add on.
In Most wanted you race to the top of the infamous Blacklist, you again start by racing the Antagonist and losing your ride. The drive to redemption is joyous.
To Take on each of the member of the current blacklist you have to build your Rep and your skill. To do this you deliberately must engage the cops in pursuits and achieve various goals while fleeing.
Some such goals are ramming other cop cars, making it through roadblocks and or spike strips, later a helo gets involved, later still said helo will dive bomb trying to block or smoosh you into submission. As your Wanted level in the case rises so does the ire of the cops and so does the skill of their drivers and rides as well. The roving Rhino rolling road blocks... VICIOUS. When used (IE dodged) against their own those things are devastating.
Outside of being chased you have race requirements to meet as well.
There are Drag races, where you run the streets cars and all (Fhargin crazy runs) and you HAVE to shit in manual, the real knack being the perfect shift, which like the perfect launch will boost you out a bit.
Tollbooths, which are like the check point runs in Carbon. Just you versus the clock.
Sprints, where you run the course once in a dead heat for the finish with 3 other nut bags .
Lap Knockouts, (which I hated at first) which run like circuit races only the person (out of 4) in last place at the end of each lap gets knocked out.
Circuits, you run 3 others in increasingly long laps around the city.
Then you have the milestone events, the Photo Tickets, where you have to run a certain speed past an automated ticket camera to get bounty points and a Milestone Victory, which are required to meet a Boss Head to Head.
The Milestones were a TON of fun and some of them proved EXCEEDINGLY hard. (The level 3 boss took the longest to get the milestones for me.)
Milestones are just goals of infamy you need to achieve, once done they give you a bonus chunk of Bounty points and bring you a step closer to racing that next Boss.
All in all the Bounty, the Reps, the races setup's and the fact that if I want a new car I can go an race and buy it in a reasonable amount of time make NFS Most Wanted a clear winner over its newer dumbed down brethren NFS Carbon. Carbon gives you enough money in a full play through to buy maybe two cars and trick em out. If you win a boss car that helps tremendously, because once you burn the races all you have are the 1k rival runs.. that is slooow and painful.

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