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The Need for Speed series, a couple of years ago, took a trip to the underground world of the illegal street car races making a game full of excitement but lacking the first thing to worry about with this kind of races: cops. This new installment from developers EA games offers you the ability to race in the daylight and sometimes chased by police officers that make this game a whole lot more interesting.
The game, basically, behaves the same way, talking about the career mode and controls, as the other ones in the series, but now you can get more than 30 licensed cars that you'll be able to purchase or win from other racers. You'll buy your first car, but as you move through the Blacklist, you'll get a shot at the slip of the other racer, allowing you to ease right into the driver's seat of a new, tuned vehicle. Buying them from scratch means you'll have to apply enhancements yourself.
The visuals of the games are awesome, but when you crash your car, some parts of it looks better than others. The environmental city art is quite well too. The car models look sharp, especially when you start painting them with crazy triple-colored paint. The game delivers a pretty good sense of speed and seems to scale reasonably well to fit different PCs.
There's a level of detail setting that gets the image quality up to around the Xbox 360 version's graphics, but when that and the resolution turned all the way up, you're going to need a very good machine with a very nice video card to get a playable frame rate out of it. The game doesn't have much car damage at all. You'll see your rear window crack up after a few good wrecks, but there's never any real damage to your vehicle.
The sound of this PC game has an outstanding engine noises that change depending on which car you're in and which upgrades you have. The rest of the sounds are great all mix up with voice acting (specially the ones of the police officers), that really refresh and set up this game to be part of a new researchable for sounds type of game that get you really inside a simulated illegal race.
While the actual racing in Need for Speed Most Wanted is probably the weak part in the game, it's still good enough to keep you interested as you move from racer to racer, working your way up the Blacklist as you go. Definitely the real stars of this game are the cops. If breaking the law sounds like your idea of a good time, then this game is made just for you.
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