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Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game

Criterion Games · Oct 30, 2012

PC · PS3 · Xbox 360 · Vita

Everyone10+

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers in three types of events: Sprint races, which involves traveling from one point of the city to another, Circuit races, each having two or three laps total and Speed runs, which involve traversing through a course in the highest average speed possible. There is also the Ambush races, which start with the player surrounded by cops and tasked to evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.

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Scores by platform

PC

Critic 8.3 (9 critics) · Gamer 6.5

7.4

PlayStation 3

Critic 8.3 (13 critics) · Gamer 8.5

8.3

Xbox 360

Critic 8.3 (18 critics) · Gamer 8.5

8.3

PS Vita

Critic 8.4 (6 critics) · Gamer 9.0

8.3

Critic reviews

  • Nintendo Insider

    Alex Seedhouse · Jun 12, 2013

    9.0
    Yet if there’s one thing sung loud and clear by Criterion, it’s that this isn’t a half-hearted port simply delivered to expand upon the Wii U software library for the sake of it. It’s an engaging experience that successfully builds upon the foundations laid for its console counterparts. And for that, a most worthwhile purchase indeed.
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  • GameSpot

    Carolyn Petit · Apr 03, 2013

    7.5
    Despite its inconsistencies and disappointments, there's a lot to like about Need for Speed: Most Wanted U. Fairhaven is a lovely and varied city that looks gorgeous no matter how fast or slow you're going. Police chases provide plenty of reckless, high-speed thrills, and seeing friends dominate the billboards in your city fans the flames of friendly competition in an innovative and very effective way.
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