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Eclypse's Need for Speed: Most Wanted (360)
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Summary
Need for Speed: Most Wanted was released May 20, 2005. It is a simulation of racing cars, evading police, and skillfully driving through a city at a fast pace. This involves a user to pick a car, learn that car, and improve that car. Not only does the player have to race the car, but if a cop case ensues during a race, the player must evade the police after the race is finished. It is considered a simulation game. There are many ways in which a player can customize their car.
Luck vs Strategy
This game involves having a strategy on how one wants to efficiently set up their car. A player has the options of buying performance parts, editing the handling of their car from a list of options in the Start Menu.
Story vs Non-Story
The great thing about this game is that it involves heavily upon story. You are the protagonist in this game. At the start of the game you enter a city and are challenged by the top racer Razor. You race him, and because he rigs the race, you lose. You lose your car and you lose respect. After that you have to defeat 15 racers before you can get your car back. There are a series of cut scenes and text messages via the game that you receive from racers that give the game more story.
Realism vs Abstraction
In Need for Speed: Most Wanted, the goal is to defeat the 15 racers and get back your original car back. For the most part, this racing game is based on realism. For the first time in racing game, aerodynamics and physics played a role in how the car drove. In the settings you can change the height of the car, you can change whether you want more horse power or whether you wanted more torque. The player has to actually drive to a parts store to get parts. These parts include: performance, body, and paint. Some of the paint jobs make the game unrealistic due to the graphical affect. Also, the wrecks are unrealistic in the game. A car can take a significant amount of damage, yet show no sign of it.
Player's Role
From the very beginning of the game, the player is put into the
Game Limitations
There is a limited amount of space on which a player can drive. They are limited to the one city that is in the game. The driver is limited by the laws of nature. A person cannot drive into a tree or a building. Also, a player may not fly off into the air.
Gameplay
In this game you start off with many options. You can start a Career, play online multiplayer, quick race single or split screen, or complete Challenges. Career mode starts you off in the story, mulitplayer allows you to play against other players online with cars that you have won, bought, or made. Quick race allows you to race instantly. You can choose what type of race you want, choose your car, and choose to play alone or play with someone via split screen. Challenges is where you have a list of challenges that you can complete. You are placed in a random car to perform a random task.
Once in the Career, the story unveils. The driving of the cars is all different. Each car has a unique sound to its engine, and handles differently. While driving, you must dodge traffic. Cars will be driving down the streets during races. If you hit a car, it will slow you down. Usually, this will be the difference between winning or losing a race. While racing you have the option to use NOS. This will give you a boost of speed, once drained the NOS will rebuild upon acceleration. This is an unrealistic part of the game. Learning your car is key to winning each race. Learning when to use your brakes and NOS effectively. One thing that I noticed while racing was that the police cars get heavier, harder to push around, the nicer looking the police car. The game has an EA soundtrack that plays while your racing. One bad thing I thought, was that you can't play your own music while racing.
End Game
The player can end game with defeating the 15 racers and evading every cop in the city by exiting the city via jumping a broken bridge out of the city. A player can end game by getting 3 strikes from the police. A strike is obtained when the car is busted. Once there are 3 strikes, a car is impounded by the police. If the player has no other cars, then he cannot play = GAME OVER.
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Eclypse's Need for Speed: Most Wanted (360)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Friday 29 April, 2011
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