
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Criterion Games
Taste attributes: actionadventuredetectivefasttried & testedlightimaginarysimplelinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingfighting evilrescue/escape/jeopardyself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeVery fast and sweeping: a conventional racing game, low-key rather than stirring. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.
Pace: very fast · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score
IGDB rating
79 / 100
465 ratings
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About This Game
Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers in three types of events: Sprint races, which involves traveling from one point of the city to another, Circuit races, each having two or three laps total and Speed runs, which involve traversing through a course in the highest average speed possible. There is also the Ambush races, which start with the player surrounded by cops and tasked to evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.
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- Developer
- Criterion Games
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- 30 October 2012
- Series
- Need for Speed
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Time to beat
- 20h rushed, 20h normally, 32h complete
- Age rating
- PEGI 7
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- IGDB
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