![]() ![]() It’s functional, but I would have preferred some beefier new modes, like a group effort to ditch the cops where nobody wins unless you all get away, or perhaps a mode where several people play as the police, trying to pit some joker from Idaho who thinks his Mustang is so cool. You can try any of the race types against some real opponents, and best of all, there’s an online version of the blacklist to climb. The online portion of the game works well through Xbox Live, but clearly the programmers were concentrating on the game’s lengthy Career mode. It’s really done well and provides tons of easy excitement. Then it’s time to lie low for a while until they give up the search. Get caught and it’s off to jail for you and the impound yard for your car, so look for the ‘pursuit breakers’ on your map, jumps the cops won’t follow or objects you can knock over to block the path behind you. Standard patrol cars are easy enough to ditch, but as your car generates more heat, the cops will continue to turn up the volume, setting up roadblocks, spike traps and even bringing out elite pursuit vehicles and the uber helicopter. NFS: Most Wanted is a throwback to the great Hot Pursuit in this sense, and it works well. Tollbooth races are basically classic solo time trials, and Speedtrap races don’t care who crosses the finish line first, instead declaring as winner the driver with the highest accumulated speed as recorded by several radar guns at points along the route.Įven more fun is evading the police, who will sometimes discover one of your illegal races. The Drag races give you some help with the steering, so you can concentrate on shifting gears perfectly. Classic Sprint races pit you against three other cars, as does Elimination, in which you don’t want to end any lap in last place. ![]() This is arcade racing, after all.Īnd underground street racing is definitely the meat of the game, and it comes in several varieties. The street environments are littered with objects that go flying when you hit them, from garbage cans and debris to of course other cars, which affect your car far less than they should. The highly customizable rides are simply gorgeous: thirty-two real life vehicles, from VWs to Lamborghinis, all with uncountable visual and performance upgrades. You might not be able to get out of your car, but the street racing is twice as visceral. The giant, open city sprawls before you, GTA style, only with ten times the detail. On a proper widescreen, it’s an awesome experience. I will nit-pick this in a minute, but it still leaves any current generation system in the dust. Hooked up to a proper HDTV, Most Wanted looks amazing. I’m going to give most off the credit to Microsoft’s new machine and less to EA, because clearly this version is the best of the lot. Since this is a 360 launch title, it’s hard to know exactly where the props should go. Yuri), it pales beside the actual racing. It all works oddly well the good parts are good, and the more frequent bad parts are strangely entertaining.Īs refreshing as it to see live actors in a video game again (R.I.P. The plot is told through FMV cutscenes – as in, live actors who accidentally ham it up Ben Stiller style – shot in a strange soft-focus cartoon effect reminiscent of Sin City. In this case, however, it works out much better than the movies. ![]() It’s a plot that would fit perfectly into the grammatically challenged Fast and Furious films. Starting with the lowliest of vehicles (all of them more valuable than my fond rustbucket) and the help of a mysterious hottie named Mia, you must work your way up the local racing hierarchy known as the "blacklist." Win races to win money and pink slips so you can afford better cars and beat the best. The local illegal racing syndicate, led by (and not named by his mom) Razor, challenges you to a sucker’s bet, secretly sabotages your car, takes your pink slip, and leaves you a poor grommet by the side of the road. A recent immigrant to the city of Rockport, you have arrived with little more than your tricked out BMW, the shirt on your back, and a desire to drive way too fast. ![]()
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