From the featured PX360 review:
"Let's just call Need For Speed Most Wanted what it really is – a spiritual successor to the 2008 release Burnout Paradise. After all, it has a lot in common with that classic driving experience. It's made by the same team at Criterion Games; it takes place in a fictitious city, this time dubbed Fairhaven, where you can literally pull up around any corner and find some sort of racing challenge; and, in a nice fix that ailed The Run, you can actually ram cars off the road again, leaving them in a twisting wreckage while you speed on using a newly acquired boost."
9/10
this is a personal experience report.