she supports you with safehouses, and a ride to the car shops for a brand new car. You are picked up by Mia, who is willing to help you get your car back, in exchange to make side bets on your races to get rich. However, you are sprung out of the joint, because there's no proof you were involved with the street racing. after seeing him leave, the police arrive and haul you off to jail. He secretly screws up your car, and wins the race, taking your car as a prize. in the days that follow, you win races to enter a blacklist race against Razor, one of the meanest street racers around. He keys your car, leaving to deal with a dangerous pursuit. Unfortunately, your first day in the City, you meet with RPD's toughest cop, Sergeant Cross. Following the line of games from NFS: Underground, NFS: Underground 2, NFS most wanted and NFS: carbon, You've just left Bayview City to come to Rockport City to challenge the blacklist, the toughest racers around. The graphics are amazing, the story is enjoyable, and the gameplay is fun and addicting. Still, I suppose once a console game, always a console game.īefore I go and write down what the 3 versions I mentioned before are like, Let me just say that NFS: most wanted should definitely be the face for racing games everywhere. No true career progression here, just a scripted version of it that requires you to do certain things and beat certain people and do it all in acertain order. Add in the inability to skip races and you have a recipe for frustration and repetitive tedium. You only end up making a rod for your own back. In other words, this game is a great way to amuse a dextrously-challenged five year old, but however good you become it doesn't actually pay to play well.
It makes absolutely no difference as the opposition adjusts its ability level to suit yours. Tune them up, get the latest body-kit etc. The cars are pretty boring in that whatever you do to them is pretty irrelevant. Sure, there are a few other things, such as the cops and well.that's about it really. But when I loaded this up and got through the tiresomely dull opening scenes I found almost a carbon copy of NFSU2. You'd think that, with this being the fourth or more installment of the franchise, they'd actually have made some improvements in gameplay. The Good: Great soundtrack Looks great Police evasion is a lot of fun The Bad: Still just a Need For Speed game at its core I feel chavvy just playing it But we'll always have this wonderful little gem. Truth be told there hasn't been another Need For Speed game I've enjoyed since, not even the reboot of this very title from 2012. So racing around this impressive city, with those tracks blasting and the adrenaline of evading the army of police cars behind me while at the same time dodging sets of spikes tossed across my path?! Great stuff. These types of games usually have nothing but moronic dance "Music" sided with rap but here there was lots of rock/metal including Bullet For My Valentine and Static X. Generic racing is a plenty sure, but it looked good for its time and had a killer soundtrack. Fine, put aside the street racing "Isn't it cool to be a criminal" childishness and all the customization (Which actually I enjoyed to an extent) and you've got the police evasion addition and I really quite liked it. I ended up getting Most Wanted and I don't even remember quite why and being frankly blown away. For this reason I've never liked the Need for Speed games, to me they're just chavvy generic games where wannabe racer boys can customize their car to look as trashy as possible complete with ridiculous spoiler. Racing games aren't really my thing, unless they fall under the gimmicky umbrella such as Mario Kart or other battle style car games.