Soundtrack Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012
Beat Przybylski
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Pt. II focused on the details that made games such as Need for Speed: Most Wanted was appreciated for in the community, as a way to save the franchise. It continues the plot from Need for Speed: Carbon which had continued the plot from the original Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It takes place 8 years after Need for Speed: Carbon in multiple cities: Fortune Valley, Ventura Bay, Bayview, Palmont, and Rockport.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Pt. II introduced several new features, most notably the Undercover race mode, the Infiltration Run, the Renegade Supply Run, the Syndicate Shakedown, and much, much more new race modes. It is also one of the first Need for Speed games to have 4 editions in total: the Standard Edition, the Cross Edition, the Deluxe Edition, and the Black Edition.
It's the year 2014, 8 years after your epic victory in Palmont City against Darius. You've returned from your 8-year vacation, with a burning desire to conquer the streets once again and earn the Most Wanted title (as someone had already taken that from you since '06), but you decide to test your luck and decide to visit Fortune Valley, as a race with a large prize of $500,000 steals your attention. You pack your bags and leave Palmont, probably for the final normal time. You'll see what I mean as you keep reading. Trust me, it isn't lovely.
The next morning, you arrive to the desert known as Fortune Valley, with it looking pretty lively for some 'random' desert in Nevada, but at the same time, gives an uneasy feeling. It looks lively, but at the same time, it looks lifeless, as if all the juice was squeezed out of it. You brush it off, thinking it's just how the city is made, especially since most cities in Nevada are like that EXCEPT Las Vegas, not giving too much attention to it. However, without you knowing, that will be proved wrong VERY quick.
You drive off to the location where the unknown driver had called you to, being an asphalt circuit stretching of 1.2 kilometers. There are 5 opponents driving pretty speedy cars. However, you and your beautiful silver-and-blue M3 GTR (which, trust me, has seen it all) can take on the job easily, it being able to outnumber the cars presented to them. You put your cars on the starting line, then take off as soon as the green flag was raised.
Everything seems normal on the first lap, but after the first lap, the cars slowly began... disappearing. From six, to five, to four, then, eventually, to one. The only one being you. You think it's pretty strange, but because of how absolutely FOOLISH you are, you decide to keep racing until the final lap. However, as you exited the turn leading to the finish line, all of a sudden, the police began tailing you! Not in small numbers, but LARGE numbers. And oh, boy, they were ready.
You panick, trying to find a way to escape, but all of a sudden something terrible happens: your car gets shot by an EMP blast! It gets disabled for a very small time, due to how fast you react, the car starts back up, drifting into the trees and driving to a safehouse, with you thinking that you escaped them as soon as you come to the safehouse, but no, no, no, buddy, you haven't escaped, because as I said, they were READY. As soon as you came into that safehouse, more police units surrounded outside. You are forced to surrender, giving your M3 GTR up, which is then returned to you before all 4 bosses.
You shortly get released after due to a lack of evidence, giving you a deja vu feeling, but what breaks that nobody even comes to help you. You try calling Mia, and what do you get? Nothing. Another call, nothing. A bit hopeless, you decide to try find the dealership. On the way, a funny looking shop called "Gus' Import Parts" (I ran out of ideas) catches your attention, and you decide to visit it.
From there, you meet one of the 100 gangs known as the Renegades. There and then, they tell you everything about what's going on - in short, an unknown figure known as "The Director" has control of the 5 cities: Fortune Valley, Ventura Bay, Bayview, Palmont, and Rockport - and is in control of two organizations: The Syndicate, an agency similar to the CIA, and the Castle, taking control of 5 Leaderboards (Blacklists) which are heavily Class-restricted. Wanting some people to help you, you strike a deal with the Renegades promising your focus on trying to break the Director's control on all 5 cities while doing your regular races and taking part in the Renegades' missions, as they are against the Syndicate. From there, your rise in all 5 cities begins.
The Campaign Mode, otherwise known as Career Mode, is the main game with the main story. The story is centered around the main antagonist, The Director, and your goal is to make him lose control over all 5 cities (Fortune Valley, Ventura Bay, Bayview, Palmont, Rockport) by attending Undercover events and Syndicate Shakedown events more often, along with beating the cities leaderboards, to weaken his control.
In Need for Speed: Most Wanted Pt. II, there are 6 Classes and about 166 base cars in the game that are able to be visually modified (except Ferrari to comply with their licensing agreement) or performance modified. Their price increases as you move cities, to make the game increasingly harder. For every 3 Leaderboard positions you move up, you need to get a new car required for that Class.
The gameplay was very linear, you picked the next race in line. Your reward money was based on the difficulty of the race you picked. With this money you could either upgrade the performance of your vehicle or add cool visual flares to gain reputation points.
A year later came Underground 2 which introduced an open world element to the series where players would drive around the city to each the next race rather than navigating a menu system. Unfortunately for the sequel, they dropped around 4 million sales compared to the first game.
The soundtrack for this game was not too bad, some good songs on there but none that really gave you the get up and go or oomph to hype you up for a race, sometimes a relatively chilled indie song felt misplaced in this game.
Shift 2: Unleashed was met by a great average metacritic score of 82 however a very lukewarm reception from players. The controls for the game were so hard to master and despite updates they were never fixed. The game is playable if you put enough time and effort into learning the handling and behaviour of the cars. A lot more patience is required than I was capable of.
One of the biggest faults of this game is the artificial lengthening of the game with grinding. Normally in Need For Speed games you progress by completing races or missions. Each one similar but different from the rest. In MW2012 you will get to a point where you have driven all the races, beaten around 3 of the most wanted drivers and to progress you need around 50,000 points. To get these points you can either smash through billboards for 250 points, beat your previous time in a race for 500 or take a massive gamble and square go the police for fast points but you risk losing it all if you get busted. You must not forget though, this is EA and the game is littered with prompts to buy expansions and spend more money to gain points and unlock more features.
It seems like unlike other popular racing video games like Gran Turismo or Forza, Need For Speed has struggled to maintain the quality and consistency of their games over the years. This could in part have to do with the 1-2 year cycle of games which is a focus on quantity over quality. EA and their NFS games are forever changing without staying consistent, trying to adapt to young audiences and trends rather than picking a style and creating a solid identity for themselves (e.g. street racing and car modification) and sticking with it. EA has also cycled developers constantly over the years which only adds to the inconsistency of their games.
The black edition of most wanted was released in 2005 and I know they used C++ for programming the game. Say someone has a master knowledge of C++. He wants to create a game like NFS 2005. What tools he will need to start programming. What I know about NFS is that the game wasn't created using any pre-existing engine. May be I m wrong. But if not, then what they used for those graphics. Ignore the tracks. I just want to know what technologies were implemented for making the overall game perfect.
99% sure they used an engine. The engine is the main source to create a game such as NFS, a huge API with a variety of features. Use the Unreal engine if anything, as it is free currently. Graphics as well as code will be used there (Blueprint will mostly be used instead of code honestly).
Everything used to make NFS MW was either inhouse, or EA-provided.To be a little more specific, the graphics were powered by an inhouse library called EAGL (EA Graphics Library, which the studio developed and used), and the audio was mostly handled by an inhouse engine and partly by EA-provided libraries (namely, the music, copspeech, and NIS audio), with every version except the PC version using EAGL 3, with the PC version using a possibly modified version of EAGL 2, which is why so many particle effects present in other versions of the game are missing (the library literally doesn't even know what they are).
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