Need for Speed: Most Wanted

2005

85Overall (970 ratings)

84User (966 ratings)

85Critics (4)

Engine: EAGL

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.

Genres

Racing

Platforms

PCX360

Themes

Open world

Modes

Single playerMultiplayerSplit screen

Perspectives

First personThird person

Franchises

Need for Speed

Storyline

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.