Need for Speed Most Wanted

I have had this game for about 16 months and I still enjoy playing it. The story, once finished, gets old like most games but the driving (and outrunning the cops and competition) is still a blast. There are numerous challenges besides the story line that will challenge your skills at any level of play.

The one down side is the online game play. If your connection is even a little slow you will be slaughtered online but otherwise this is a great game to play and is worth owning in my humble opinion.

I was playing NFS Carbon on my friends WII and I realised that I had been missing out on racing games, so I went ahead and bought this and carbon along with my logitech momo racing wheel. Great game, good video, pretty decent graphics.Its a lot of fun, with different types of races and scenarios available. The only thing, I didnt like is that it does not support widescreen monitors so I had to find a user-developed patch to accomodate my widescreen monitor. There is a bug where the mouse pointer disappears; however, everything can be accomplished using a keyboard. I am going to beat this game before I start Carbon.

If you want a good racing game, get GTR2 or WTCC 2007. If you want a fun arcadeish game, get Test Drive: Unlimited. Most Wanted is just horrendous.

I am not a hard game player so I usually catch up with only the second latest version of most EA games and they are often sold at ~ $10 when I bought them. Not a violent type of person but this game offers quite a change from the conventional racing game--you are trying to hit and total a police car...None to speak of when an army of 10 more cars or SUVs with sirens on and all that chasing after you all the time...Quite a pressure relief after work challenging those 70 "challenge modes". This game runs well on my Athlon x2 3800+ plus an overclocked 7600GS to 500 MHz GPU and 1000 Mhz memory speed. You need to get yourself a widescreen to enjoy car driving games. If you happen to have a computer like this (only cost you <500) don't hesitate to get this game and bring out the live racing out of your screen.

When you are going 140 in this game, you know it! The graphics are so intense that my palms sweat. The gameplay is fun but more like an arcade play, not realism. The races are OK but the computer always seems to win unfairly. I had hoped they would have made that smarter.

I also miss the days of being chased by the cops. The original series had this and it was so fun to have cops coming after you. They seemed to do away with that in favor of blinging out your ride. Gimme a break! Not all fans of the game series are 14 year old wanna bees that wish they could drive a Subaru! LOL

Overall, the game was fun and I will continue to be a fan of these games!