The bulk of the 41 cars in Most Wanted are available from the outset all you have to do is find where they're parked around the city and hop into them.įor an open-world racer, there are surprisingly few types of events in the single-player portion of Most Wanted.
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As with developer Criterion's Burnout: Paradise, you're free to explore the entire city as soon as you begin play, and there's plenty to find if you do so, including speed cameras, smashable billboards, and, of course, vehicles. Taking place in the city of Fairhaven, Most Wanted tasks you with becoming the most notorious street racer in the land by challenging the ten racers on the city's Most Wanted list. If you can manage not to destroy your controller before you reach this meeting point of skill and experience, you'll be able to take in Most Wanted for what it is: a very engaging, if not ground-breaking, open-world racer. But then, you find a car you like, you nab a few hard-earned upgrades, and you finally manage to get the hang of the game's sensitive drifting mechanism. Before this happens, you'll be constantly slamming into walls and oncoming traffic, wondering how you'll ever manage to escape cops that drive tricked-out Corvettes, and unsure if the cars you're racing against consist of anything other than tail lights, objective evidence to the contrary not being easy to come across.
There's a moment an hour or two after you start Need For Speed: Most Wanted when everything seems to click into place.