The secret ingredient of Most Wanted’s open world is its EasyDrive feature. The name on the box may say Need for Speed, but this is clearly Criterion trying to sneak out an upgraded version of their last Burnout game. I’m not implying that Most Wanted feels derivative, because the game’s similarities to Paradise are actually it’s strongest aspect. If all of this freedom sounds similar to Burnout Paradise, that’s because it very much is. It all benefits from a very loose structure that feels more like hanging out with friends (who happen to be driving expensive cars) than the usual more menu-based online offerings. These shuffle though generic races, team races, and a few location-specific goals that let you see if you can fly further off a jump or maintain a single drift longer than your opponents. Once a multiplayer game begins, you drop back into the city, and the game points you to a meet-up location where you and the other players can initiate a competition. The openness extends to the game’s multiplayer as well, although its mod and car unlocks are separate from the single-player mode. Before you can challenge them, you need to accumulate a predetermined amount of Speed Points by completing races, crashing through hidden billboards, and finding secret paths with one of the other cars you’ve collected. The way you do this is by challenging each driver (in descending order) to a race, beating them, and then shutting their car down by forcing them into a crash. Your main goal is to climb to the top of the Most Wanted list, a group of the 10 best drivers in the city. All you need to do is explore the city and find them. In one of the game’s simplest innovations, almost all of the cars (except for a specific handful) are available from the beginning. They don’t want anything holding you back from racing the way you want to, whether it’s menus, limits on selectable vehicles, or locked areas. Much like Burnout Paradise, Criterion’s last game before taking over Need for Speed, Most Wanted drops you into an open world and strives to give you as much control over your driving as possible. It’s also that studio’s second crack at EA’s long-running racing Need for Speed franchise (the first being 2010’s Hot Pursuit).īut is Most Wanted a rightful heir to Burnout’s legacy or a cheap knockoff? WHAT YOU’LL LIKE Either way, if this scenario sounds familiar, you’ve probably played one of the games in Criterion’s beloved Burnout series … or Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which is another Criterion production. Maybe you close your eyes to spare yourself the carnage.
Maybe you shout your favorite four-letter word.
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