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Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PS2)

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PS2)
From Electronic Arts

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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1022 in Computer & Video Games
  • Brand: Electronic Arts
  • Released on: 2005-11-25
  • Rating: Universal, particularly children
  • Platform: PlayStation2
  • Number of items: 1

Editorial Reviews

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If there’s one thing to be said of the Need for Speed series, it’s that it never stays the same for long. After only one sequel EA have decided to give the underground night racing theme a rest and let you drive in the sunlight for a change. You’re still a super-illegal street racer though and indeed much of the game revolves around you being pursued by the police in some very Blues Brothers-esque chases.

Appearing to take a leaf out of Burnout’s book, the game encourages you to make the most of traffic and roadside objects, in order to put off the long arm of the law or simply one of your fellow racers. The demo race so far seen features a lot of weaving in and out of traffic and some very cinematic touches such as zipping underneath a giant lorry carrying tree logs, which then spill out on the road behind you further aiding your escape.

The graphics in the game have definitely received a boost from the last one and appear far more detailed and ambitious in scope than Underground. Unsurprisingly the ability to customise your car is still a large part of the appeal, although again there’s a big distinction between extras that are just for show and performance tuning that actually has an effect on the way your car performs.

It probably still won’t please hardened petrolheads but if you just want a simple, accessible racing game it looks like Need for Speed is set to deliver once more. --Harrison Dent

This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game; features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the finished game.

Manufacturer's Description
Wake up to the smell of burnt asphalt as the thrill of illicit street racing permeates the air. From the makers of the hit Need for Speed Underground series, Need for Speed Most Wanted challenges players to become the most notorious and elusive street racer.

Combining illicit street racing and tuner customization with the intensity of strategic police pursuit that surpasses any Hollywood-style chase scene, Need for Speed Most Wanted will be on every gamer's 'must-have' list this holiday season. Out-race rivals, evade cops and exploit hundreds of miles of open road as gamers make their way up the Blacklist.

To become the most wanted racer, players must build up their street cred and Rap Sheet with gripping, white knuckle, head-to-head races with the top drivers on the streets, as well as pull daring, evasive moves to out-run and out-fox the cops that patrol the open road. Players can manage their heat or utilize a number of strategic tactics to keep the cops off their tails as they leave their rivals behind to suck their exhaust fumes.

Need for Speed Most Wanted also features a variety of the hottest cars that range from tuners to super cars. You can customize your ride to race against any class of vehicles. The streets will be your playground this Fall.

Key features

  • Open Road, Open World: Rule the streets as the most notorious street racer in various regions that include edgy industrial and urban environments. In the game, the environment can be a friend for a foe. Players will master short-cuts as well as use the traffic and destructible environments to their advantage.
  • All-New Gameplay: Need for Speed Most Wanted features new and exciting gameplay that incorporates strategic cop pursuit and skill-based evasion techniques with illicit street racing.
  • Visual Customisation: Whether gamers are trying to lose the cops or they just want to pimp their ride, Need for Speed Most Wanted offers extensive visual customizations.
  • Blacklist: As players enter the world of illicit street racing, they must go up against the best street racers on the scene to earn respect and rise to the top of the Blacklist.
  • Rap Sheet: Players will build up their Rap Sheet with record breaking times, street challenges and out-foxing an escalation of police vehicles, tactics and technology.
  • Performance Tuning: Can't compete against a sports car? Head to the safehouse and tune up your ride to race against any class of vehicles.
  • Next-Gen Graphical Features: Need for Speed Most Wanted for the next generation console delivers the next level of graphical excellence in video games. Utilising graphical techniques including normal mapping and real-time lighting, the graphical experience is incomparable to any racing game on the market

    • Customer Reviews

    Test Drive 23
    In a nutshell this is a clone of Test Drive Unlimited. A free roaming racing game in search of races to take part in. The purpose is to challenge racers on a black list until you are no.1.

    Whats new is racing in the daylight and cops. Whats bad are the dodgy graphics, irritating soundtrax and the cops. Its bad enough driving about aimlessly in search of races to take part in but when the cops spot you, you have to outrun them. This becomes frustrating when after ten minutes you then have to search for the 'events' again. You spend more time searching and shaking off the cops than actual racing. This makes the game tedious.

    The attempt at a sort of storyline is actually quite good. It's a pity that the game hinders your progress deliberately. Hence the frustration.

    Most Wanted could have been so much better. If you like TDU, then you'll like this. If you like your racing with some immediacy then best look elsewhere.

    BEST NFS GAME EVER5
    This game is brillant okay you play a guy who lost hes BMW M3 in a pinkslip race agaist a guy called razor so you have to climb the blacklist and defeat them this game is top 10/10 for graphics and it feels real remeber undergroud 2 well this is better beacause YOU HAVE POLICE PURSUITS and this is my guide to the heat sysem

    level 1 okay so this is easy theres normally like one police cruser folling you easy

    level 2 this is harder then one by a long shot theres now mutiple crussers and road blocks to stop you

    level 3 this is where it gets hard police intercepters which is hard to lose and spikestrips ahhhhhhhhh!

    level 4 this is like 3 but theres a helicopter very hard

    level 5 ahhhhh! covettes chasing you and helicpter, prepare to be busted!

    Best of the series on PS24
    Plenty of playing time in this one with loads of options to customise the cars and the career mode is addictive! Definitely worth it in the end when you unlock the M3.