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Need For Speed - Most Wanted - Review [Ongoing]

Thought I'd start this review early. As of today I'm upto number 6 on the blacklist.

So how does this differ from the previous NFS games.

If your crap with directions then you'll be glad to know you don't have to drive to every single race /shop/garage like you did in NFS Underground 2. Thank god! a quick press of 'Esc' and you can jump to safe house and save your game. I spent half my time in NFS Underground 2 driving around to get to places, well annoying, you can still do that in this one though if you wanted. So there's still a whole city like the last (a different one though')

This location isn't as glitzy as the last, the town area isn't as big city like, which is good because at times all the blinkety blink lights messed up your eyes when racing through city.

This map still has towns. motorways, back lanes etc and it looks more real in the way it's designed. Now to the Gfx!

They are the best they have been yet for a NFS game, which is as expected, and when reaching high speeds and using your turbo it uses that blurred look as seen on Xbox's Burnout series, which looked great on that and looks just as good on this, that with the added graphics compared to previous NFS games and the game looks spot on, pretty much real, especially the wooded back roads with the autumn trees blurring past you.

Sequances - this time real actors filmed with a green screen back drop for game GFX to go behind, and they themselves have CGI composited on top of them. So a new overall look I've not seen before that works very well. Which is good as the lead girl is well nice. (Bonus DVD shows how its done).

So anyway the game starts with you showing up in town in a done up BMW, you do a few simple races and you get rival racers attention. During a race your BMW breaks down (due to a rivals hacking your set up). So your car gets taken away off the police and some hot rich chick bails you out and gives you cash to buy a car. (she has plans to make side bets on you so she thinks your a good investment).

So you have cash to buy a regular car. Out of the lame choice the best is a Golf GTI. Just like the last 2 NFS games you do up your car as you go along. So anyway I ploughed on through the game not bothering to go to the 'shop' to see cars I've been unlocking (as that would mean starting a fresh with a new car that needs doing up, annndd going into town mode to drive there as you cant jump to the shop).

Anyway after getting a third through the game and having the Golf pretty much all done up and noticing I have quite a bit of cash, I ventured to the shop!

Of the cars I had unlocked the most that appealed to me was the Lotus Elise

http://gallery.donniebarnes.com/albums/elise/aag.jpg

So with money left over I did it up and then raced a bunch more races in my Golf before letting this beast out to compete.

At first the Lotus had crap steering and control, but a bunch of upgrades later it was fast on the straights, pissing all over Golf's speeds but still didn't have the handling. After some more upgrades, well it's shit hot Very Happy

So I've got 5 left on the blacklist to beat, I've got pretty much no cash left so I can't check out anymore cars and if I could I wouldnt be able to upgrade them, for them to be competitive.

So whats the blacklist? It's the 15 top racers 'most wanted' by the police, but before you can race them you gotta earn their respects for them to want to race you.

So for each you have to win about 8 races (that consist of knockout, drag races (fortunately not many of them), first to win of 3 laps, first to win distance route, time zones (adding up camera speed traps average speed to win, so you dont need to come first to win, but on average your total must be the highest to win, can be a pain hitting an object just before a camera point) checkpoint races (get to each check point before time runs out) And I think thats about it.

The other part of the game is the Milestones/Bounty section, you have to gain enough interest from police and causing damage cost to them for the next person on the blacklist to be interested in racing against you.

Tasks include: ramming a certain amount of cop cars, trashing cars, smashing through speed blocks etc. Once you have done these tasks you have to then hide your car 'cooldown'and keep it out of sight for a certain amount of time for police to give up looking for you. The you can Esc 'jump to safe house' and save.

The way you lose is by being busted, i.e. a group of cop cars blocking u against a wall or each other. Then you lose all your milestones in that attempt and pay to be bailed out (or restart game heh).

So you keep on doing all this while working your way up the blacklist. Will keep you posted till I get to the end of the game.
carloss

Re: Need For Speed - Most Wanted - Review [Ongoing]

admin wrote:
Thought I'd start this review early. As of today I'm upto number 6 on the blacklist.

So how does this differ from the previous NFS games.

If your crap with directions then you'll be glad to know you don't have to drive to every single race /shop/garage like you did in NFS Underground 2. Thank god! a quick press of 'Esc' and you can jump to safe house and save your game. I spent half my time in NFS Underground 2 driving around to get to places, well annoying, you can still do that in this one though if you wanted. So there's still a whole city like the last (a different one though')

This location isn't as glitzy as the last, the town area isn't as big city like, which is good because at times all the blinkety blink lights messed up your eyes when racing through city.

This map still has towns. motorways, back lanes etc and it looks more real in the way it's designed. Now to the Gfx!

They are the best they have been yet for a NFS game, which is as expected, and when reaching high speeds and using your turbo it uses that blurred look as seen on Xbox's Burnout series, which looked great on that and looks just as good on this, that with the added graphics compared to previous NFS games and the game looks spot on, pretty much real, especially the wooded back roads with the autumn trees blurring past you.

Sequances - this time real actors filmed with a green screen back drop for game GFX to go behind, and they themselves have CGI composited on top of them. So a new overall look I've not seen before that works very well. Which is good as the lead girl is well nice. (Bonus DVD shows how its done).

So anyway the game starts with you showing up in town in a done up BMW, you do a few simple races and you get rival racers attention. During a race your BMW breaks down (due to a rivals hacking your set up). So your car gets taken away off the police and some hot rich chick bails you out and gives you cash to buy a car. (she has plans to make side bets on you so she thinks your a good investment).

So you have cash to buy a regular car. Out of the lame choice the best is a Golf GTI. Just like the last 2 NFS games you do up your car as you go along. So anyway I ploughed on through the game not bothering to go to the 'shop' to see cars I've been unlocking (as that would mean starting a fresh with a new car that needs doing up, annndd going into town mode to drive there as you cant jump to the shop).

Anyway after getting a third through the game and having the Golf pretty much all done up and noticing I have quite a bit of cash, I ventured to the shop!

Of the cars I had unlocked the most that appealed to me was the Lotus Elise

http://gallery.donniebarnes.com/albums/elise/aag.jpg

So with money left over I did it up and then raced a bunch more races in my Golf before letting this beast out to compete.

At first the Lotus had crap steering and control, but a bunch of upgrades later it was fast on the straights, pissing all over Golf's speeds but still didn't have the handling. After some more upgrades, well it's shit hot Very Happy

So I've got 5 left on the blacklist to beat, I've got pretty much no cash left so I can't check out anymore cars and if I could I wouldnt be able to upgrade them, for them to be competitive.

So whats the blacklist? It's the 15 top racers 'most wanted' by the police, but before you can race them you gotta earn their respects for them to want to race you.

So for each you have to win about 8 races (that consist of knockout, drag races (fortunately not many of them), first to win of 3 laps, first to win distance route, time zones (adding up camera speed traps average speed to win, so you dont need to come first to win, but on average your total must be the highest to win, can be a pain hitting an object just before a camera point) checkpoint races (get to each check point before time runs out) And I think thats about it.

The other part of the game is the Milestones/Bounty section, you have to gain enough interest from police and causing damage cost to them for the next person on the blacklist to be interested in racing against you.

Tasks include: ramming a certain amount of cop cars, trashing cars, smashing through speed blocks etc. Once you have done these tasks you have to then hide your car 'cooldown'and keep it out of sight for a certain amount of time for police to give up looking for you. The you can Esc 'jump to safe house' and save.

The way you lose is by being busted, i.e. a group of cop cars blocking u against a wall or each other. Then you lose all your milestones in that attempt and pay to be bailed out (or restart game heh).

So you keep on doing all this while working your way up the blacklist. Will keep you posted till I get to the end of the game.


tiss not as good as the 360 one basically
admin

ehh how did you come to that conclusion? not that that has any relevance!

Of what I've seen game wise on the 360 going by tv video game shows its over hyped! The games reviewed on TV visually could of been released on xbox 1. I reckon they just shoved em out quickly on 360 to get some titles out there. 2 of the games i'm referring to are 'gotham racing' which looked terrible, very poor GFX and a snowboarding game that could of easily been released when xbox first started, very shoddy.

I saw COD2 in a shop being played and it did look nice n crisp (unfortunately I saw a none action or nice scenary part which was inside a stone building that had no objects, or anything going on, so it's hard to comment really, and the guy playing in the shop didnt have a clue what he was doing so didnt get to see much).

So if the xbox 360 is so good on paper stats wise then its certainly not showing game wise!

Most wanted on PC high settings looks amazing, going by what I saw of Gotham Racing on 360 that is lacking big time! If Most Wanted is out on 360 I can't imagine it being that much different (plus it'd prob just be a conversion).

Carl ya cant just come out with 'its not as good' when you havent:

a) seen or played the PC one
b) probably not even seen the 360 one!
carloss

admin wrote:


Carl ya cant just come out with 'its not as good' when you havent:

a) seen or played the PC one
b) probably not even seen the 360 one!


always the defensive! i suppose u gotta justify shelling out 400 odd quid a year to update ya pc! Ive played gotham 3 and nfs the new one and the graphics look almost real, going down the motorway section looks so freakily like being on the motorway bypass in boro (but on a bus) scary. King kongs a whopper too.

opening titles never do the consoles much justice as its transition isnt it like the 80s seeping through to the early nineties.

360s more powerful than your pc likely at the moment, so dont see why it shouldnt perform better!
admin

oh i know 360 is way more powerful than my pc. A test was shown comparing the 360 against 2 Geforce 6800GTX cards in SLI mode and 360 won (Tucker was on about it). Must be some sorta render test frames per second i assume. Mind you be interesting to see it against 2 Geforce 7 GTX cards as the difference from that card to the 6800GTX is huge, though they do cost 400 quid each! so alone for the gfx cards yer looking 800 quid then hundreds more on other componements, and when you compare that to 230 quid console...

The gotham one I saw when it showed clips on TV the buildings n scenery just looked a bit bland to me, the cars were fine, though nothing NFS on PC (and other mdoern racers) can't do.

But yeah can only really test the 360 when a game has been dedicated to it's specs, then we'll really see what it can do. I'd like to see COD2 more than I got to see before, i'm gonna be installing that game around xmas so then i'll be able to do a mental compare.
Midnight Tboy

it stinks!
admin

Garr this game gets hard, more so the pursuit and bounty challenges than the races which get tough as well like. chasing number5 black list, done all the races needed just doing the pursuits n stuff for it now grrr.
admin

edit! i was number 5 on list before, now i'm number 4, and its fecking hard!!

Also bought myself a nice Dodge Viper, done it all up, though ran out of money for some performance parts so it's still not raceble.

Anyone else playing it?
#8

Sounds poo!!

Your all GAY!!
admin

Yer as bad as tucker tut tut.
#8

After 2 or 3 races I find these games very dull and extremely boring. Great fun for 10 minutes or so and then...



Sheeeeeeeiite!!
admin

Thing with NFS games (well last 3 anyway) you have to build your car up. So if you just race for 10 mins yer gonna be racing in crappy standard cars. Plus it's nice to do them up the way you want them to look.

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