Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
CPU: 1.4 GHz
RAM: 256 MB
Graphics Card: 32 MB
Memory requirements ( HDD): 3 GB

Need for Speed: Most Wanted ( NFSMW short ) is the ninth part of the published by Electronic Arts Need for Speed series. It was released on 24 November 2005 for the PlayStation 2 console, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube for the handheld PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, as well as for the Windows operating system. In addition, it appeared on February 22, 2012 at Playstation Store ( PSN) as PS2 Classics for the PlayStation 3

On June 2, 2012 in advance of the E3 Electronic Arts announced that it will probably remake of Need for Speed in November 2012: Most Wanted will appear. This was developed by Criterion Games and game was released on October 31.

5.1 Black Edition
5.2 Most Wanted 5-1-0

6.1 General
6.2 Awards

Gameplay

Generally

The game is based on a number of predecessors of the Need for Speed series, partly due to the direct predecessors, the underground parts, and on the first two Hot Pursuit parts. From the underground parts of the extensive tuning options, while the Hot Pursuit parts are taken from the chases with the police come.

The game is mainly an arcade game, the races are so designed more action-packed. The central element of the chase with the police. The damage model has been refined from the previous, it shows damage to the paint.

In contrast to the previous two games, the racing will take place again only during the day.

An innovation in this genre is the so-called Speedbreaker. This is a special feature available to the player while driving to and allows him the time for a few seconds to slow down. This can be, for example, Take turns narrower or perform difficult maneuvers precisely. The effect of speed Breakers lasts only a few seconds, then he has to regenerate only after a certain period of time.

The entire game action takes place in the fictional town of Rockport. The city is at all times to enable vehicles designed and varied. It is divided into three districts: the suburb of Rosewood, the residential and industrial area of Camden Beach and the town center Downtown.

Race types

The races are held in the city of Rockport. There are illegal street racing, so the player must anticipate normal traffic and the emergence of police patrols.

There are in the game a total of six types of races: Race round course, knockout races, sprint races, drag racing, speed trap race, tollbooths race.

Round course racing, sprint races and Drag races were unchanged from Need For Speed: Underground 2 removed. KO races are based on the round course race, with the difference that in each round eliminated the last placed rider. Tollbooths race based on the sprint events. However, the player enters alone, without an opponent and receives instead multiple timelines, though he needs to be better. The track is divided into several sections by toll booths at each toll station, the time is measured. If the player is left out of time before reaching the next toll booth, the event is lost. Radar case races are a special form of toll booths races where the speed traps instead of tollbooths expect. The goal is to be flashed in each speed trap with the highest possible speed. At the finish, the measurements of each plant are added and the rider with the largest final value is declared the winner. The player enters this mode against opposing drivers. The player in the field The position is in principle not considered in the result. However, the player every few seconds 10 km / h subtracted from its values achieved when an AI drivers fail to finish in front of the player. This effect only the player is concerned, AI drivers never received deductions.

Career Mode

The career starts with the arrival of the player in the city of Rockport. The vehicle of the player is an extensively tuned BMW M3 GTR. The player is in the city initially unknown, he only knows a driver named Mia He travels initially a few races until he meets Razor, a driver of the blacklist. This challenges him to a duel, in which the insert are the slips of the two drivers. But the player's vehicle has been tampered with, so he has to quit the race. Razor is declared the winner and takes the BMW. The player is a police officer, Seargeant Cross, arrested, however, must be freed for lack of evidence a little later. Mia brings the player from the police station and then helps him to find shelter and to buy a vehicle. Then she leads him into the blacklist, this is a list of the 15 most wanted racer in Rockport. No. 1 in the list is Razor.

The game goal is to defeat all the driver blacklist to recover the BMW.

Thus, the player may challenge a blacklist driver, he has to meet the challenges of this driver. These are divided into three categories: race wins, milestones and bounty. The driver sets a certain number of races to be achieved by the player. Furthermore, calls to the various milestones that can be fulfilled in chases. This is, for example, to the escape in a certain time or the damage / destruction of a certain number of police cars. Bounty is the sum that has suspended as a reward for the capture of the player's police. It is increased by chases essentially.

During the game, you meet again and again on the specialized police speeders Cross, whose goal is to arrest all the blacklist driver. He also gets in between some advice from fellow racers as well as warnings that an undercover agent has infiltrated into the racing scene.

The player first starts in the district of Rosewood. The other two areas are unlocked as the game progresses. Previously, all access roads are blocked in these areas.

After the player has defeated Razor in an existing five- race duel, the player shall recover his vehicle. Razor refuses and is set by Mia, who reveals to be the undercover agents, out of action. Because of their good relations in the past, she throws the player to the keys of the BMW, arrive as numerous police forces. The player flees to his car and tried to leave the city. The police tried to stop him. so that a large chase arises. Player will finally manages to escape with Mia's help from the town, by pointing it to a track leading out of the city highway section that was previously blocked by a construction site. This, however, is not yet completed, so this highway is interrupted at one point by an abyss. The player is able to jump over this abyss, while police vehicles crash. Thus the player can finally escape.

Chases

In chases, the player is chased by police units and tries to escape from this. In career mode chases can be triggered during a race or free driving through the city. In addition, the player has the opportunity to begin chases voluntarily in its hiding place. Chases are also a part of the challenge mode, some challenges are in fact chases. During a chase, the police maintains the player traffic violations. These are: speeding, reckless driving, lawn, hit and run, property damage, ramming police vehicles, resist arrest and go off the road. If the player is caught, he must pay a fine for all crimes committed since the last arrest violations.

The difficulty of the chase is determined by the wanted level. Each player's vehicle has its own wanted level, which can be reduced by more visual changes and longer service life. The higher the wanted level, the harder runs the chase, this is characterized mainly by faster vehicles and a greater number of police officers. There are a total of six wanted level, of which five are accessible by default. At the beginning of the career of the player can achieve maximum wanted level two, the other three levels will be unlocked during the career. The sixth level is reached only in the final chase in career, in which the player from the town to escape.

Chases are divided into two parts: At the beginning, the player is in the tracking phase. Police units have visual contact with the players can call for backup and roadblocks. Tear the visual contact with the player for several seconds, the player reaches the escape phase. In this phase, patrolling police cars, but do not know where it is located. If the player manages to avoid detection over a certain period of time, he escapes from the police and thus ends the chase. The flight phase ends prematurely if the player can go to one of his hideouts.

During the chase, the player can trigger so-called persecution stopper. In most cases these are buildings that can be destroyed partially or completely. Examples include gas stations, water towers or billboards. With the collapse of the object are police units that are located close to the players off.

Online mode

In online mode, there is the possibility with his car from the career mode, the Standard Edition vehicles and vehicles in several types of races to compete against other online players. It can communicate with the help of EA Messengers.

In August 2011, EA announced that 18 off multiplayer servers, including was also the NFS Most Wanted.

Rolling stock

Need for Speed: Most Wanted includes a wide range of car selection, the number of vehicles on offer has increased slightly compared to its predecessor. Mainly normal road vehicles such as the Audi A4, Cadillac CTS or VW Golf 5 GTI offered and classic import tuning cars such as the Mazda RX -8 or Toyota Supra. The SUVs from the predecessor were removed, and only a non- playable police SUV remains. What is new is the wide range of sports cars like the Lotus Elise, Lamborghini Gallardo and Mercedes -Benz SLR McLaren.

Vehicles purchased in the career at the car dealer in production configuration. For individual races outside of the career the player has a garage in which the player can choose and tune vehicles free of charge. This garage is divided into two parts: There is an area for their own vehicles and an area for bonus vehicles. The eigegen cars are the cars which has manually added and upgraded the garage of the players. Among the bonus vehicles include vehicles already defeated blacklist opponents as well as vehicles that have been won in the challenge series, are available.

In total, the following 32 cars included in the game:

Soundtrack

Technology

The cutscenes in the game shot with real actors in studios. These images were then enhanced with CGI effects, especially of the vehicles and the landscape. This technique is new to the series and is also in the subsequent parts, eg Carbon used.

Special versions

Black Edition

The game has been released in two versions. In addition to the normal version and a Black Edition -called limited edition that includes a bonus DVD with material for the making-of material, as well as some additional game content appeared. The Black Edition was released in Germany only for PlayStation 2, only in North America and Australia, she appeared for all platforms. Although all the accessories of the Black Edition are also available in the PC version included, but these are locked and can be unlocked only by means of modifications.

Was added to the game a new vehicle, a '67 Chevrolet Camaro. Furthermore, some tuning options have been installed in the basic version contained vehicles that are available to the player for individual races and online races. These vehicles are equipped with special tuning parts that are not available to the player in the normal course of play available. In addition, a 69 challenge was installed, which is a chase on wanted level seven. Here the player of turbo SUVs followed. Furthermore, the addition of some new tracks, tuning parts and vinyls. In addition, a bonus DVD is included, the different videos, cut material and the like includes.

Most Wanted 5-1-0

Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 is the PSP version of the game and also appeared on November 23, 2005 The addition of " 5-1-0 " is the American police code for speeders. . The developers left a game mode in which the players drive as cop and racer can arrest. However, the free ride, the cutscenes, numerous routes and some other items have been removed, so the game is just a scaled down version of the main game.

Reception

Generally

The game was evaluated more or less than good in the trade press. So it reaches on the side metacritic.com average of 82-83 % depending on the version. Praised be here among others the good sense of speed, the exciting chases and the coherent noise of the engines. Be criticized, for example, the lack of new features, the lack of damage modeling and the lifeless city.

Awards

Gamestar 2005: Best Sports Game

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