PC Gamer - You can’t claim Criterion didn’t give you fair warning. After all, Burnout Paradise’s Legendary Cars DLC contained the Jansen 88 Special, a none-too-subtle nod to the time-travelling DeLorean from the Back to the Future films. Since then, they’ve busied themselves travelling back through the history of the Need For Speed series and rewriting the past. Two years ago it was Hot Pursuit that got the Criterion Timecop treatment, taking the basic concept of car chases and turning them into an escalating car-arms race between daring racers and rabidly persistent police.
After nearly three decades of NFS games, here's a list of the best Need For Speed titles that have ever been released in the past years, ranked by The Nerd Stash.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted debuted in 2005, with the Xbox 360 version being the first then next-generation title in the franchise.
This game was awesome! I remember reloading my save if I didn’t get the pink slip from my blacklist rival
Paul writes - "EA know a good thing when they see it, and for multiple years November was Need for Speed month. In a break from the usual routine, I'm going to be looking back at two games here, released in 2005 and 2010 respectively. The earlier game is Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has the distinction of being one of the very best in the franchise. The second game comes from 2010, and is Need for Speed Hot Pursuit; which I'll talk about just as the Remastered version of the game has hit the stores."
I completely adore this game! In fact its probably my favorite racing game. I recently dusted off my xbox 360 to play Most Wanted 2005. Still a great game, though I do not remember there being such horrible performance. Like massive frame-pacing issues. screen tearing, latency. If any game ever truly needed to be remastered, it this one for sure!
