Need for Speed: Most Wanted
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…
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an adventure developed by Criterion Games, released 30 October 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Need for Speed: Most Wanted is
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an adventure game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2012. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Chameleon. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a 2012 racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. 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. A Wii U version, under the title Need for Speed: Most Wanted U, was released in 2013. Like its predecessor, 2010's Hot Pursuit, the game is a revival of the original 2005 Most Wanted title.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the 67th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Most Wanted Ultimate Speed Pack in 2012. Its critic score of 85 is 11 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Most Wanted holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 32 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz), 2 GB RAM and DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Most Wanted launched on 30 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Most Wanted yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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