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I mean, they got that Rio song by Netsky 6 months before it was even released! The score for the game was done by none other than Photek and the licensed soundtrack has a very eclectic, modern and deep mix. I'm a big drum and bass fan, and the soundtrack is rife with some fantastic D&B tunes. Right off the line I found that the sound is the best part of Need For Speed. The game is simultaneously brilliant and stupid and frustrating and gorgeous. The result is a game that tries to strike a balance between that bombastic, over-the-top spectacle of Burnout Paradise and the gritty, tuner-centric realism of EA's Shift games. But Criterion doesn't really exist anymore and now chasing the ghost of Burnout Paradise is EA's new studio Ghost. Criterion, the developers who made Burnout Paradise were bought up by EA some years back and made Need For Speed: Most Wanted in 2012 which came closer to recapturing that old magic than this new game does. But hey, there’s no chance it was better than Most Wanted.Let's be real, Burnout Paradise came out in 2008 and it is still the undisputed greatest open-world racing game of all time. And yes, I’ve left out Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 from 2002 as I never played it, so if I offend by my ignorance, I apologise in advance. As always with these kind of pieces, the idea is to spark debate, so please tell me in the comments if you disagree with my choices. So there we go, the Need for Speed games that can be played on the Xbox ecosystem ranked from the bad, to the great. Need for Speed Most Wanted was redone in 2012, with Criterion behind the wheel, and this is also a worthy entry into the series, but the original will always be my favourite. Taking down the Blacklist was an achievement in itself, and beating Razor and getting the BMW M3 back was sweet vindication. In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that by the time I lost the cops, I had a proper sweat on!

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I played this back in my PS2 days, and even on the creaking hardware was blown away by the speed and intensity of the game.

Need for Speed Most Wanted – my favourite all time game from the NFS franchise.Ī combination of a villain who I couldn’t wait to take down, a great story (for a racing game) and barnstorming races and police chases combine to make the quintessential Need for Speed game.Īnd obviously it isn’t just me who feels that way, as this is by far the best selling game in the series, with over 16 million units sold across all platforms. Need for Speed Underground and Underground 2 This edition of NFS was a real throwback to the old style, and was all the better for it, and it helped that it also contained the genesis of the Autolog system, so we always knew what our friends were doing.Īn absolute classic game, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit is one of the very best entries in the series. Obviously the next step was to have a massive ruck online, with roadblocks and EMPs going everywhere, and Hot Pursuit allowed that to happen with ease.

This proved so exciting that my colleagues and I were soon swapping times at work, with photographic evidence being needed to prove the claim and bragging rights. I remember my very first time in loading Need for Speed Hot Pursuit up, instantly being blown away by the sheer speed of the game as I blazed through the countryside as a police car in the Interceptor mode, which tasked you with getting to a certain place in a tight time scale. The gameplay was fast and massively furious, with racers and cops trying to outdo each other unlocking new cars and more gadgets as progress was made. Need for Speed: Shift and Shift 2: UnleashedĬriterion Games and Need for Speed, could there be a better marriage than this? My overriding memories of the drift races were that the handling model was a mess, however, and that impression still lives with me now, as the counter steering seemed to be counter intuitive (see what I did there?).ĭrag racing was fun though, what with the need to warm the tires and so on, but ultimately whilst ProStreet wasn’t necessarily a bad game, it just wasn’t a good NFS game.

A drift car needed to be set up very differently to a drag car, for instance, and this level of realism actually attracted me at first. With different disciplines to compete in, including Drift, Drag and Grip racing and Speed Challenges, the hook was that one car couldn’t be good at everything.

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With all the events taking place on closed circuits, the free roam element was removed, and made for a much tighter experience.

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In an attempt to make the series feel a little more legitimate, and possibly to remove the stigma attached to the series’ connotations of Midnight Club racing, ProStreet saw us take on the world of professional motorsport.