Monday, September 7, 2009
System requirements
Windows
Windows 2000/XP
1.4 GHz CPU
256 MB RAM
3 GB hard disk space,
DirectX 9.0c compatible 32 MB graphics card with one of these chipsets Radeon 7500; Radeon Xpress 200; GeForce 2 MX; Intel 950; S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Windows
Windows 2000/XP
1.4 GHz CPU
256 MB RAM
3 GB hard disk space,
DirectX 9.0c compatible 32 MB graphics card with one of these chipsets Radeon 7500; Radeon Xpress 200; GeForce 2 MX; Intel 950; S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a perfectly enjoyable arcade racer on the PC. Sadly, it does come lumbered with some uninteresting plot that seems to necessitate the need for some badly-acted, thankfully-skippable cut-scenes. It's all some guff about how you got set up, lost your car and now need to earn your way up the blacklist to get it all back
In career mode, which is the best way to play the game as a single player, there's therefore plenty to get your teeth into. Rising up the blacklist to become the number one underground driver - winning umpteen cars and unlocking lots of things along the way, naturally - involves challenging those above you. You have to win races, achieve milestones and generally get noticed to be able to get into the position where they'll accept the challenge, though.There are different race types to tackle, but the best bits of Need For Speed: Most Wanted are where the police come in. As you're effectively racing round city streets, your high speed antics inevitably attract the attention of the local boys in blue, who initially try to track you down via simple pursuits and roadblocks.
Over the course of the game though, their tactics improve, to the point where you'll have extreme high speed pursuits where you're trying to win a race while shaking off a convoy of patrol cars. Exhilarating stuff.
The game doesn't have the same level of fluidity as a Burnout title, and while it's straightforward to control, it does sometimes feel a little rough around the edges. If you make too bad a mistake, it's pretty much race over. Over the course of the game though, their tactics improve, to the point where you'll have extreme high speed pursuits where you're trying to win a race while shaking off a convoy of patrol cars. Exhilarating stuff.
Furthermore, you find races by roaming the city, and this can be fun up to a point, but there are times when perhaps a more solidly structured approach would have been preferred. Finally, you can make a convincing argument that the game was this good last year, and in terms of entertainment, it's roughly on a par with what was available a year ago.
Labels: PC GAMES
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