Addicting

Reviewed by kylehenning on September 22, 2006  |  report this review

I am not usually hooked on games very long but this game is extremely addictive right out of the box. I played it about 8 hours straight when I got it. The campaign mode is perfect in length. You will get hooked on this game. It takes approx. 18 hours of straight playing to complete the campaign, which is great considering your blazing past others at 200 MPH! This will be one of the best $ spent on a video game.

super addicting!!

Reviewed by dodgelady97 on January 09, 2007  |  report this review

got mine b4 xmas, disk had factory groove that kept freezing, got new game on xmas eve....talk about withdrawls!!!!
i usually dont play driving games, but this one rocks!!win your opponents cars, race n crash through everything without slamin your own car....spend sometimes hours in a police chase and smoken them too.....

this game is highly recommended!!!!

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!! the hardest part is NOT playing when u r in a real car!! the cops just arent that understanding out on the real street!!!!lol

super super addictive

Reviewed by dodgelady97 on January 09, 2007  |  report this review

you gotta get this game

This game is the start of the new future for NFS.

Reviewed by Stunts080 on May 28, 2007  |  report this review

Most Wanted, like other Need for Speed games, is essentially a driving and racing game, where the player selects one car to reach a destination or race. Police chases have once again been integrated into certain racing sessions, in which the police employ vehicles and tactics to either slow down or halt the player's car. As players take control of faster cars and increasingly rely on nitrous oxide speed boosts (the oxide meter now reloads automatically, for the first time since its introduction in Underground), driving sequences become fast-pace and intense, similar to the Burnout series.

Three distinct regions are offered in the city of Rockport, along with cycling weather. There is no racing in the night, all the action is done between sunrise and sunset. A Grand Theft Auto-like free roam mode is still provided like Need for Speed: Underground 2, but is still limited to Career mode, as well as pursuit-based events in other modes. Most Wanted continues to avoid the use of major vehicle damages on all racing models, as it has been with the Underground series, with only scratched paint and heavily cracked (but not shattered) windscreens comprising the whole of the racers' damage modeling. Police cars, however, are subjectable to extreme physical body damages, and immobilization if they flip over or have been heavily damaged by "pursuit breakers" (see pursuit system) or the player's car.

This game is the start of the new future for NFS.

Reviewed by Stunts080 on May 28, 2007  |  report this review

Most Wanted, like other Need for Speed games, is essentially a driving and racing game, where the player selects one car to reach a destination or race. Police chases have once again been integrated into certain racing sessions, in which the police employ vehicles and tactics to either slow down or halt the player's car. As players take control of faster cars and increasingly rely on nitrous oxide speed boosts (the oxide meter now reloads automatically, for the first time since its introduction in Underground), driving sequences become fast-pace and intense, similar to the Burnout series.

Three distinct regions are offered in the city of Rockport, along with cycling weather. There is no racing in the night, all the action is done between sunrise and sunset. A Grand Theft Auto-like free roam mode is still provided like Need for Speed: Underground 2, but is still limited to Career mode, as well as pursuit-based events in other modes. Most Wanted continues to avoid the use of major vehicle damages on all racing models, as it has been with the Underground series, with only scratched paint and heavily cracked (but not shattered) windscreens comprising the whole of the racers' damage modeling. Police cars, however, are subjectable to extreme physical body damages, and immobilization if they flip over or have been heavily damaged by "pursuit breakers" (see pursuit system) or the player's car.

great game

Reviewed by dcc sniper on July 07, 2007  |  report this review

this game was way better than the last one way betterit has better cop pursuits. way better cars . way better stuff that was great.

Most Wanted Review

Reviewed by tubbybfish on July 10, 2007  |  report this review

This is one of the best games i own. This game has good cars, so many ways to customize and improve your cars, and some of the best police chases. If you like racing games this is the one for you. If you are a person who gets angry at video games you may want to choose another game though.

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Reviewed by quality carpet on July 17, 2007  |  report this review

i think that it is somewhat better than need for speed carbon cause u can customize more and has a longer game to beat. i think it is more fun but NFS carbon has better graphics and better cars to chose from

I usually don't even like racing games.

Reviewed by a92201 on August 07, 2007  |  report this review

Now for the most part I will be comparing this based on Need for speed: Underground 2, which is an AMAZING game which I recommend everyone to play, or at least try.

GRAPHICS: 9/10
The first thing you see, the graphics. In this game they are near perfection, not cartoony, really smooth, clear, and detailed. Although the people in this game are really strange looking, the cars look amazing, and you can customize them pretty well, but I'll talk about that later. I never really saw the frame rate drop at all. A nice, although pointless feature in this game are the photos after a race, you can't save them or anything, but after you win a race, there's a photo taken of your car in the game, and if there was a cop behind you just as you finished the race, then you will see a cop there. Kinda weird to explain but I like it. And one last thing is when you challenge a boss (or whatever), you get a cool cutscene where you or they do some crazy stunt of some sort, or at least come in with style right before you race.

STORY: 6/10
Okay, so the story is.... lacking to say the least, but no one plays a racing game for a good story, do they? Basically you get owned and the guy takes your car and is apparently the best driver around now. Anyway, your whole existence in the game is evidentley to get your car back, not earn money, a reputation, or anything else. Just to get your car. Then you get stupid calls to advance the story. Although the rest of the story fails, I really thought the idea of racing a bunch of races and adding up your bounty to progress through each level of the blacklist, which is a list of all the best racers around. Also it is literally black, with white chalk writing. What's the deal with that?

AUDIO: 9/10
I'd give this a 10, but the soundtrack doesn't have a very good soundtrack, so I just turn it off, plug in my MP3 and play what I want. Now the car sounds in this game are AMAZING, and as far as I know fairly realistic (though I've never actually heard a Lamborghini doing two hundred in an echoey tunnel). The engine doing overtime sounds very nice when the TV is cranked up pretty loud, and the brakes sound nice. There's not really an audio aspect that doesn't sound good/realistic in the whole game to the exception of the music.

GAMEPLAY: 9/10
Ah, gameplay, the cholesterol of a video game McDonald's burger. As stated before, I really like the idea of the blacklist bosses, and progressing through the whole thing. The races in the game are fresh and new. Thankfully, for the people like me, who don't like circuits, you don't have to do all of the races, although you have to take into consideration cop probability, length, and the type of race itself. The police chases are genius, the point is basically to set sort of "High scores" and beat other racers scores in things such as: roadblocks ran, pursuit length, and the like.There is a gameplay moment camera, which really shows off your car and adds more excitement when doing thin

Best Arcade Racer for Xbox 360

Reviewed by Keep-It-Moving on February 07, 2008  |  report this review

If you look at most of the Arcade racers on Xbox 360, youll see that they are slim.Im not talkin Racing Simulators like PGR3 or Forza 2. Im talking good old fashioned Race like a maniac take turns at 80 MPH and hit cars and keep on moving. Out of all three Need for Speed games that are on the Xbox 360, this is by far the best one. You will try to become best on the streets by facing all 15 members of the Blacklist. Each member gets harder as you get closer to the #1 Spot. They added extreme police chases that are fun and exciting on their own. Thats one of the reasons why I didnt like carbon all that much, They Pretty much erased the Police chases, they are still their, just not so many. Most wanted Focus' on the Police Chases. The more your wanted level goes up, the more firepower the pigs bring. Online Multiplayer is fun as well.

Sick Racing game

Reviewed by backjets on March 08, 2008  |  report this review

If you look at most of the Arcade racers on Xbox 360, youll see that they are slim.Im not talkin Racing Simulators like PGR3 or Forza 2. Im talking good old fashioned Race like a maniac take turns at 80 MPH and hit cars and keep on moving. Out of all three Need for Speed games that are on the Xbox 360, this is by far the best one. You will try to become best on the streets by facing all 15 members of the Blacklist. Each member gets harder as you get closer to the #1 Spot. They added extreme police chases that are fun and exciting on their own. Thats one of the reasons why I didnt like carbon all that much, They Pretty much erased the Police chases, they are still their, just not so many. Most wanted Focus' on the Police Chases. The more your wanted level goes up, the more firepower the pigs bring. Online Multiplayer is fun as well.

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.

Better than underground

Reviewed by briansmith007 on January 05, 2009  |  report this review

Having been a fan of need for speed from the beginning, I can't give this game a bad review. I it definitely a great looking game for the first gen of the 360. It was one of the first games I bought. That being said, it just couldn't hold my attention. I still plan on going back and trying to get hooked on it again, but I just find the burnout and midnight club series more fun. No wonder ea is doing away with nfs.