Need for Speed Most Wanted

Release Date:

• United States: October 30, 2012
• Australia: November 1, 2012
• Japan: Unreleased
• UK: October 2012

Genre: Racing

Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Criterion Games
Also Available On: Vita, iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, Android

Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wantedtitle in the Need for Speed franchise. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers to reach a destination. Cops 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. The single-player section will feature a Blacklist of 10 racers, similar to the single-player section of the original Most Wanted, which featured 15 Blacklist racers.

Most Wanted has been likened to Criterion's Burnout series, and has a large open world. Like Burnout Paradise, races have a start and end point but players can choose their own route to the finish line.

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


The driving model of the game has been described as "deep, physical and fun", not as arcade-styled as the Burnout series and Hot Pursuit, but far from a simulator.Most Wanted has a range of real-world vehicles, a mix of muscle cars, street racers and exotics, described as "the wildest selection of cars yet".The cars can be altered with performance upgrades and visual upgrades, such as paint colors, wheels, suspensions, engine, nitrous, and bodywork (body kits).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) 32-bit
• Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
• Memory: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 20 GB
• Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance)
• Graphics card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
• Sound card: DirectX Compatible
• Keyboard and Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-core CPU
• Memory: 4 GB
• Hard Drive: 20 GB
• Graphics Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Keyboard and Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive