Free Download Need For Speed Most Wanted Android

[Anais Wachowski]

EAhas a tried-and-true formula for the Need For Speed (NFS) series: fast cars, good graphics, a cheesy story, and some good old arcade-style racing. Thus it's no surprise that the latest NFS title, Most Wanted (a follow up to the 2008 original) features just that - and as always, it looks like a properly good time:

The game will be coming to all the major platforms - Xbox 360, PS3, Vita, PC, iOS, and Android - so it's unclear how much the press release and trailer pertain to Android. It's likely that the game will push some impressive graphics (though nothing too cutting edge). It's unclear if the Android version will pack the same open world design as its console counterparts, though I'm not holding my breath.

Players will have the freedom to drive anywhere, discover hidden gameplay, takedown rivals, challenge friends or just hang out and toy with the cops. Everything they do counts towards the end goal of becoming #1 on their personal Most Wanted List. Need for Speed Most Wanted will give players the freedom to race their own way when the game ships October 30, 2012. A special limited edition pack featuring double speed points, custom liveries, pre-customized rollouts and two vehicles: the Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale and Porsche 911 Carrera S will also ship on October 30, 2012.

"Criterion is shaking up the franchise with Need for Speed Most Wanted," said Matt Webster, Executive Producer at Criterion Games. "This is Most Wanted for a new generation of players. We've brought everything we know about racing, chasing and exploration and smashed them together in a highly connected open world automotive experience. Whether driving solo or racing with friends in our amazing new multiplayer experience, Autolog fires up competition out of everything as players compete to be most wanted amongst their friends."

Need for Speed Most Wanted-developer Criterion Games are masters of speed (a word I desperately don't want to use, but it fits). It understands that said speed should persist beyond the driver's seat. The game shouldn't step on the brakes.

In previous games, Criterion turned cities into race tracks, and friends into persistent competitors. In Need for Speed Most Wanted, the developer has further streamlined the structure of a racing game to maintain momentum, though it occasionally takes a wrong turn.

Criterion is determined to keep Need for Speed Most Wanted on the road. Races, cars, upgrades, objectives and multiplayer options can be accessed from the Easy Drive menu. A drop-down, Easy Drive sits in the right-hand corner and can be navigated via the D-pad.

Negotiating Easy Drive is like texting while driving. I understand the practical appeal of accomplishing an inconsequential task while going somewhere faster than any land mammal ever has before, but it usually ends in a humiliating car wreck. In practice, I'd race against time to select a new vehicle mod from the Easy Drive menu before my Lamborghini careened into a parked car.

The progression of car collecting is fast, at least at first. While searching out the last twenty-some vehicles, I caught myself slowly patrolling dark alleys and abandoned factories like a two-bit drug dealer. I admit that had its own charm.

Need for Speed Most Wanted's single-player campaign asks you to achieve the status of Most Wanted Driver in Fairhaven by earning experience points or, as the game calls them, speed points. Every 100,000 speed points unlocks the next chance to race against one of the ten Most Wanted drivers and ultimately, to take them down and win their cars. Need for Speed Most Wanted's open-ended structure is empowering. Competing in any event with any car, performing tricks or evading cops all earn speed points, so the manner in which you ascend the Most Wanted chart is up to you.

Every car and truck collected is accessible from the Easy Drive menu. Criterion has emphasized the ability to switch seamlessly from one car to the next, which is possible in multiplayer. That promise is stretched in single-player. Choosing a new car from Easy Drive warps you to one of its few parking places in Fairhaven. You might be in front of the perfect jump, but the Audi you'd need to make it is 4 miles away, which saps all of the momentum Need for Speed Most Wanted built up to that point.

Each car in the single-player mode is limited to a handful of specific races, which start when you arrive at a predetermined point somewhere in Fairhaven. You'll need to do this at least once before you can select the quick start option for that race from Easy Drive. Too much of the first half of my game was spent cruising from one end of Fairhaven to the next. I hesitated to switch cars, knowing I'd warp to where I came from and would be forced to choose a different race altogether. I understand that Criterion would like players to see its beautiful fictional city, to learn its streets, but these restrictions conflict with the game's ethos of Do what you want, where you want.

Kinect owners have the option to command Easy Drive with verbal cues, but shouting "next" a number of times to change my tires never felt less than crazy. Also, and I believe this is a Kinect-related problem, random words spoken in my apartment seemed to send the game to its pause menu - words like "tempeh," "pie," "what" and "Matt." When one such error interrupted a late-game race, I unplugged the device.

It's dumbfounding that all of Need for Speed Most Wanted's ailments are remedied in its excellent multiplayer mode. Cars can be switched on the spot, no warping required. Vehicles start with the nitrous boost unlocked and, barring very minimal restrictions, nearly every car can compete in every event. Multiplayer party hosts can even create event playlists, which allow them to choose from dozens of events, activities and races from an overworld map.

That multiplayer is superior to single-player isn't really a surprise. It's a trite saying for first-person shooters that I'll extend to Criterion racing games: single-player is just training for the multiplayer experience.

In fact, the single-player campaign's best traits involve multiplayer. The top 10 Most Wanted in single-player reflected my friends' single-player rankings. Nearly everything my car did was constantly measured against the accomplishments of my online friends - how far I jumped, how many billboards I destroyed, how fast I completed a race. All of these rankings appeared inside the world of Fairhaven like augmented reality bubbles, tempting me to set new high scores. It was like the perfect combination of an arcade leaderboard and high-grade street drugs. Even if I'd never played head-to-head multiplayer, the asynchronous multiplayer would have provided an engaging competitive experience.

With friends, Need for Speed Most Wanted's weaknesses become its strengths. Sprinting to the starting line on the far end of Fairhaven is suddenly its own little race. Events roll from one to the next with short intermissions between sets, keeping players out of the texting-while-driving menu. There are considerably more things to do, like team races, events that require the collaboration of the entire party and objectives that are in no way related to racing. After all, not everyone's the best street racer. And if you're bad at everything, there are plenty of fun and infuriating ways to grief friends (e.g., parking in front of the ramp during the "make the furthest jump" event).

The city is striking, and the multiplayer's care-as-much-as-you'd-like pace is perfect for taking in the sights. There's an avenue or landmark in Fairhaven that should feel familiar to any American. Here are the ports of San Francisco; there are the museums of Chicago; and in the distance, the mountain tops of Appalachia. Fairhaven is like The Simpsons' Springfield. It's anywhere and everywhere to everyone.

The visuals also serve a practical purpose. The crests of recognizable skyscrapers, bridges and landmarks stand tall above the other buildings, acting as persistent waypoints, helping me regularly find my bearings.

Need for Speed Most Wanted is as much a follow-up to Burnout Paradise as it is a new Need for Speed. The open-world racing of Criterion's Paradise invented Easy Drive mode, and was one of the first in its genre to blend single-player and multiplayer. Clearly Burnout Paradise's heart beats within Most Wanted: the beautiful vistas, manic multiplayer and obsession with high-speed collisions are all here. But as a franchise, Burnout games are wacky and light-hearted. In that capacity, Most Wanted is still very much a Need for Speed game, steeped in a sense of cool that's been brewing since Steve McQueen starred in Bullitt.

Need for Speed Most Wanted is marred somewhat by a fussy, restrictive and self-defeating interface. But it's one of the best racing games of 2012 regardless. And if Criterion's track record of post-release support with Burnout Paradise is any indication, it will only improve over time. Criterion has proven itself as a steward of one of gaming's oldest and most beloved brands, and also as creative game makers in their own right.

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