Excellent Graphics, Good Fun, Tried and True Brand Name Game!!

User Rating: 8.3 | Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) PC
By dexfurax | Review Date:
What to say, well to be quite honest, this game was a stunner... AT FIRST... I mean the opening video's are the bomb, high action and with the Black Edition and DVD, you really start to get immersed in the NFS world. Excellent graphics on the higher setting (at one point I was wondering WTF was up with the shadows on my car, they were only refreshing every 3 seconds or so and looked crappy. I did find a setting in the advanced graphic's menu that allowed me to turn this up to real-time refreshing which improved it dramatically).

Quick action, good AI on the cops part, particularly in the addition of the Rhino SUV Armored Jeep Grand Cherokee's flying down the other side of the interstate at you... Hit them, DEAD STOP... Then the 15 - 30 cars following you can catch up and arrest you. Excellent sound quality, there are a few issues with this title though.

Firstly, and it has been said many times before, you need to create a game with a higher level of realism and the lack of damage modeling on your car is a downside. I'll admit the tight corners of most city streets in NFSMW make it nearly impossible to drive WITHOUT damaging your ride and I can see a point to not creating a damage modeling/system so that you can drive your car without having to always restore it and whatnot. The ability to tweak your current car and or compare the benefits of dropping 750K + on a new one needs to be drastically improved. I can remember one time when I had one a wicked Lamborghini then two days later went to buy a newer and better one to find out after picking it up and adding ALOT in additional parts and $$$ that it was slower than my current one.

Over all excellent racing/action game, highly recommend if your into the street scene even if it's in your living room!!

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