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."
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!
for once this journalist is correct. this game NOTHING more than BURNOUT PARADISE. as hotpursuit was. returning both games to retailer was a breeze. in hotpursuit you could not!!! use same car more than once unless ur playing the same track. the car handling was horrible the controller set-up was unbelievable staying on the road was like trying to drive straight on ice road. Mostwanted all i will say "oh' my God" EA please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this game is like driving around in your town looking for local races or feel like your driving to the Mall. EA take back the key developement kit. are you guys SERIOUSLY trying to kill off NFS delibrately?? with this shee-it criterion issuing out. do we gamers want to pretend it is BURNOUT for wreck-crashing heeee-haw of a fun game?? i should say not we want NEED FOR SPEED. i'll give this game score F!!!!!for cloning, F for FAILURE!!!!!! F for sucking!!!! F for craptasticoljunk
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