

When you spin your tires to take your first race you’ll get a cool in-engine intro for it.

To that end, after a short introduction, you’ll be dropped into the driver’s seat of your first car without a single loading screen.Īfter finding your first car you’ll be treated to a quick cut of the logo across the screen as you switch cars. No cop subplot, no betrayal and escape at the end, just simple racing. The storyline from the first title is gone (we miss you Josie!) and a far simpler one is put in its place – you are a new racer in Fairhaven and you’ll have to earn your way up to challenge the top 10 racers for their vehicles.
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That isn’t to say the PC version isn’t gorgeous, it’s more saying how fantastic the 360 version looks. I saw a side-by-side comparison between the Xbox 360 and PC version of the game, and I have to say that there isn’t as much difference as you might expect. Every paintjob is shiny and beautiful (for about 30 seconds until I put it into a guardrail anyway, and frequent gas stations will change your paint and make you pretty again), sunsets burn the sky with orange, yellow, and red, while rain clouds darken the sky with the threat of rain.

The vehicles have been carefully reproduced with every line and curve meticulously recreated. The day and night cycle with high dynamic range lighting, the beautiful vistas of the open world (which is 3x as large as Paradise), the dingy industrial area, and the high-rise buildings are all rendered with stunning detail. What EA Blackbox pulled off was impressive, but Criterion’s freshly-rebuilt Chameleon engine brings the world of Fairhaven to life. The first thing you’ll notice is an incredible difference in graphical quality. Taking advantage of 7 years worth of technology and knowledge in between releases, Criteron has done the impossible – they’ve made one of my favorite games better. Since that time, Criterion Games has since taken up the mantle of building the series, and they’ve seen fit to head back to where it began for players of this console generation – they are rebuilding Need for Speed Most Wanted. The game released in 2005 and was universally well received. Nitrous-fueled break-neck racing was delivered courtesy of EA Black Box, wrapped neatly around a storyline casting you as undercover cop sent to bust 16 street racers. That title standing singular above the others is the original Need for Speed Most Wanted.
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If you look at my Gamerscore on Xbox 360 you’ll see something interesting – several years of games, but only one with a full 1000/1000 points earned.
