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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, multiplayer and open world 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 22,164 reviews of which 17,132 were positive and 5,032 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.


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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

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Dec. 2024
How to fix the input Lag NFS Most Wanted (2012) is a fun game as long you dont compare it to the original. However it is held down by severe input lag, which I have fortunately been able to fix by a little googling and finding a 4 year old thread with 20 upvotes.... I will share this info in case it is useful for anyone else who want to enjoy the game and to have some more visibility. Thanks to Cryio on Needforspeed subreddit for the fix. Step 1: Go to Documents > Criterion Games > Need For Speed(TM) Most Wanted > Open config.NFS13Save ini file with notepad Step 2: Disable Vsync by changing VsyncInterval to 0 (VsyncInterval=0) Step 3: Documents > Criterion Games > Need For Speed(TM) Most Wanted > Save > 1004299468619 (could be different for you) and Open controls.NFS13Save ini file with notepad (you might need to open the game first and change some settings for this to show up) Step 4: Lower the right most value of STEERLEFT, STEERRIGHT, ACCELERATE, BRAKE, HANDBRAKE, NITROUS from 1.00 to 0.10 For eg, in my case it ends up looking like this: STEERLEFT=0,KEY_A,0.00,0.10 STEERRIGHT=0,KEY_D,0.00,0.10 ACCELERATE=0,KEY_W,0.00,0.10 BRAKE=0,KEY_S,0.00,0.10 HANDBRAKE=0,KEY_SPACE,0.00,0.10 Optional Steps: To disable the horrible screen tearing the game has when disabling vsync, use Borderless gaming app to play in Borderless fullscreen which will eliminate the screen tearing. In NVIDIA control panel, set low latency mode for the game as ULTRA Original reddit thread link for further reading if needed: [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/hljwhm/nfs_most_wanted_2012_input_lag_fix_for_pc/] Link Thank you to Cryio for the fix and Thank you for reading. Have a nice day, and happy gaming.
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Dec. 2024
Would be great if it wasn't titled "Most Wanted", that said it is a B L A S T with mods. Multiplayer is pretty dead, btw Peace :) (as I write this South Korea has declared martial law)
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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! 👍
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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
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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.
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Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
7.6
17,132
5,032
Online players
359
Developer
Criterion Games
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Release 18 Jun 2020
Platforms