There are standard race types here, yes, but there are some other challenges that are pretty bizarre. You have the option to start a Speedlist, which is essentially a list of races and challenges you’ll be competing in with whoever else is in your game with you. There’s also full-on multiplayer, which allows you to invite your friends to hang out with you on the streets of Fairhaven City.

Of course, Autolog isn’t the only way you can interact with your friends. You’ll be constantly reminded that your friends are better than you, and if you value your self esteem at all, you’ll find the motivation you need to embarrass them in turn by knocking them down a peg on Autolog’s leaderboards. This adds a competitive element that paints itself over pretty much every aspect of the game. Pretty much everything you do in the game world-whether it’s placing in a race, “jacking” a new car, passing a speed camera, smashing through security fences, or destroying a billboard-is tracked via Autolog, and you’ll be given a list of randomly selected objectives based around what your friends are doing. This posts to a leaderboard so all your friends can see who among you is the fastest little rapscallion on the road.Īll of this happens through the game’s Autolog feature. For example, there are speed cameras set up all around town, and passing by one will record whatever speed you were moving at when you passed it. You see, there are challenges scattered across the world that you can take on at your leisure. Needless to say, if you spend all your time focusing only on this particular aspect of the game, you’re in for a repetitive experience.īut here’s the thing: There’s so much other stuff to do that to play the game in such a way would be selling it short. Rinse, repeat, until all ten Most Wanted cars are yours.

If you manage to beat that car in a race, you’ll have to take it down by ramming it off the road, and then you’ll be granted access to it any time you wish to drive it. You’ll earn a set amount of Speed Points, which allows you to race against a Most Wanted car. There is a barely-there story that will attempt to motivate you to collect the ten Most Wanted vehicles scattered across the beautiful Fairhaven City, and you could argue that this is the central focus of the game. This time, Criterion Games was clear that they wanted this to be an experience players will have almost complete control over, rather than one that will guide players through a predetermined series of objectives. With Need for Speed Most Wanted (not to be confused with the game of the same title that came out back in 2005), the series continues to tweak the formula ever so slightly in an attempt to deliver that perfect street racing flavor. Open world street racing is certainly nothing new in the world of video games, and Need for Speed has long been one the genre’s most beloved franchises.

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