Criterion Games

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers in three types of events: Sprint races, which involves traveling from one point of the city to another, Circuit races, each having two or three laps total and Speed runs, which involve traversing through a course in the highest average speed possible. There is also the Ambush races, which start with the player surrounded by cops and tasked to evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.

• Racing
• Adventure
• 2012

Released

30 October 2012

Developer

Criterion Games

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Engine

Chameleon

Perspective

First person · Third person

Age rating

PEGI 7 · ESRB E10+

Metacritic

78/100

Steam recommendations

24,446

Platforms

PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360

Genres

Racing · Adventure

Also known as

NFS: Most Wanted · NFSMW · NFSMW2 · Need For Speed 2012 · Need For Speed Most Wanted 2 · Need For Speed Most Wanted U

Estimated owners

1,000,000–2,000,000 (est.)