Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a single-player racing video game and the ninth installment in the Need for Speed series, following Underground 2. The game centers on street-racing gameplay, featuring a variety of events and racing circuits set within the fictional city of Rockport. The player arrives in Rockport City, driving a racing version of the BMW M3 GTR (E46). Following Mia Townsend (played by Josie Maran), the player proves his driving prowess as he is pursued by a veteran police officer named Sergeant Cross (played by Dean McKenzie), who vows to take down the player and end street racing in Rockport. Races seem to be in the player's favor until a particular group of racers, led by the game's antagonist, Clarence "Razor" Callahan (played by Derek Hamilton), sabotages and win the player's car in a race.
RacingOpen worldhelicopterburnoutstreet racingachievementsbullet timeartificial intelligencecrimedriftingslow-motionsilent protagonistday/night cycleboss fightPC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
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Character
Plot-driven, earnest, unpretentious and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- EA Black Box, EA Redwood Shores
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- November 15, 2005
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- EAGL
- Time to beat
- 20 h rushed · 24 h main story · 32 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.5/10 from 1020 ratings.
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