Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted is a racing, open world and multiplayer game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Released on June 18th 2020 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 20,541 reviews of which 15,879 were positive and 4,662 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

The Steam community has classified Need for Speed™ Most Wanted into these genres:

Racing Open World Multiplayer Driving Competitive Action Automobile Sim Arcade Adventure Combat Racing First-Person Vehicular Combat Singleplayer Controller Third Person Co-op Split Screen Great Soundtrack Crime Local Co-Op

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 and all available windows updates) 32-bit
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)
Storage: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm (Fire Car Sounds) ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 Hope This Helped! 👍

Oct. 2024

living my childhood again only problem is the cars that you need to pay for imagine finding a bugatti or lamborghini and you need to pay for it I HATE YOU EA

July 2024

one of the greatest games of its time. far too underrated by the community. will forever love this game. highly recommend if you can deal with people telling you it sucks constantly for no reason.

March 2024

> Steam library, nfs mw, then setting icon below the game's banner > click properties > input " Fullscreenborderless=true " > If the game not fullscreen in launch, just click alt enter additional tips, enable controller supp for this game and ea client, (it works to me at least)

March 2024

I'm torn between recommend and not recommending it. The game is live service in it's infancy. Cars are scattered through out the open world that players can only drive by buying them through dlc that is sold on the games Steam page. Horrible openly nickel and diming of players. Those cars are in the game that the player bought. They should be driveable. That is first deal breaker there. The second deal breaker, though not as bad, is the game requires the EA launcher to be installed to launch. Product ownership is damn near non existent. Pirate gamers still laughing at us to this day. Now the pros. It's a really good arcade racing game that doesn't have anything other than playing to win. There's no currency you need to grind to purchase cars, just keep winning races. It was made by the developers of a classic racing series called Burnout and it holds that series dna in the gameplay and presentation. If you enjoy the gameplay of this then Burnout is a series that will resonate with you. I mostly play career mode so wont say much about it other than, yes it's still active even after 12 years. I don't listen much to the soundtrack, but I will give it points as well. There are good tracks to listen to if you don't have SoundCloud, Spotify or other music access. EA is a greedy game company, but they do have talented developers that craft incredibly cathartic gaming experiences. I just hope they reign in their executives hunger for profits. But, yes, I recommend NFS MW 2012 to arcade racing fans who can ignore the negatives that I stated.

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Steam reviews	21 December 2024 21:48

-85% 19.99€ 2.99€

7.6

15,879

4,662

Online players

435

Developer

Criterion Games

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Release 18 Jun 2020

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