Need for Speed: Most Wanted

October 30, 2012 Criterion Games Electronic Arts
Racing Adventure
PS3 PC X360
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise. 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. There is also the Ambush races, which start with the player surrounded by cops and tasked to evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.
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84.7
Critic Score
78.9
Total Score
450
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Release Date October 30, 2012
Developer Criterion Games
Publisher Electronic Arts
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective First person, Third person
Themes Action, Open world
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