#Need for speed 2 most wanted series#

Autolog recommendations have now been integrated into the game world, rather than sit externally on the menu system. Activities in-game allow players to earn Speed Points which can boost players up on the Most Wanted list. Autolog in Most Wanted plays a larger role and gives more information to players.

The game uses Autolog, the competition-between-friends system developed by Criterion for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and since used in other titles in the Need for Speed series. Destructible billboards and fences and drive-through repair garages, all of which originated from Paradise, are also featured. Unlike the game's spiritual predecessor Burnout Paradise, the races have checkpoints that you must pass through instead of just having a start and end. Gameplay of Most Wanted has been likened to that of the Burnout series. It has a main highway dubbed I-92 that stretches across the city. It has a beach and an industrial district. In this reiteration, the focus shifts from Rockport, the city in the original, to a new city called Fairhaven.įairhaven resembles a regular city. As the Most Wanted racers are defeated, their cars are added to the player's roster the moment the player wrecks them. The game features a Most Wanted List of 10 racers, similar to the Blacklist in the single-player section of the original Most Wanted, which featured 15 racers. There are also Ambush races, where the player starts surrounded by cops and must evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.Ĭops are integrated into certain racing sessions, in which the police deploy vehicles and tactics to stop the player's car and arrest the player, like the original Most Wanted. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers in three types of events: Sprint races, which involves traveling from one point of the city to another, Circuit races, each having two or three laps total and Speed runs, which involve traversing through a course in the highest average speed possible. The game takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise the contrast difference is the 2012 Most Wanted does not contain a story. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is set in an open world environment. This pre-release screenshot also depicts the use of simulated HDRR on the sunny sky and surface lighting. Gameplay The player's car being pursued by several police cars during a racing session. Following its release, the game won several awards including the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards for Best Driving Game and was nominated for Best British Game and Best Online Multiplayer at the 2013 BAFTA Awards, and was repeatedly recognized as the best driving/racing game of 2012 by several outlets. Need for Speed: Most Wanted received positive reviews, which focused on the world map that blended the styles of previous Burnout and Need for Speed games, and the social features, while criticism fell on the single-player mode. The game picked up on the Most Wanted intellectual property, as opposed to the Hot Pursuit reboot that Criterion Games developed previously.

#Need for speed 2 most wanted series#

Most Wanted is the nineteenth title in the Need for Speed series and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, iOS and Android, beginning in North America in 2012, with a Wii U version following in 2013 under the title Need for Speed: Most Wanted U. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an open world racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.