Need for Speed: Most Wanted

[Addicted]

Anyone playing it?

Got it earlier, been playing on the PC across 3 screens in max gfx - pretty damn good I must admit.

I like the fact you can just free roam and there is a very good selection of real cars!

Ariel Atom Supercharged V8 is a boss!

 

[geordieracer]

So is this a sequel to the first NFSMW? or a rehash?

 

[couzens]

May have to purchase this! looks good.

 

[McGherkin]

It really fcuks me off that they have to reuse the names. They did it with Hot Pursuit too.

I think I'll have to have a play of it before I pass comment though.

 

[Addicted]

I'll get a few screenshots and put them up if I can .

 

[Addicted]

Will try & get some more shots!

 

[Matt Cup]

Graphics look good in that pic, but how does it play?

 

[Addicted]

Plays well tbh - though its pretty fking hard!

 

[Silent_Scone]

I've just been trying this out on PC as well.

I actually think it's better than Horizon lol.

 

[couzens]

Think i'll pop to Tesco's after work.

 

[seb]

Got this today but out so won't be able to play until Sunday

 

[Addicted]

Oh and is it just me or are the hard/medium races impossible? I can't seem to win any races but easy (and I'm not bad at racing games).

 

[couzens]

lol yes, I keep coming last and crashing in the medium and hard races.

 

[Addicted]

Managed to do all the races in the GTR, got 2 of the main bosses so far and just found a s**t load more awesome cars to free-roam in

 

[couzens]

I've done the Cobra and the Alfa 8C (which is a quite a good car) I've managed to find about 20 cars at the moment.

will be cracking on with this on Tuesday.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Few more screens

 

[Darren S]

Will try & get some more shots!

Panoramic 3 screens - FTMFW!

D.

 

[Silent_Scone]

As long as you've got a s**t ton of video RAMZ ;o

 

[Addicted]

As long as you've got a s**t ton of video RAMZ ;o

Rolling 3gb on a 7970 Lightning watercooled (clock speeds at 1250/1600), does the job

 

[Silent_Scone]

Aye, anything less than 2gb and you'll run into problems

 

[Pulsator]

How big is the free roam area ???

(ie. 20,000 km/2)

 

[couzens]

Just done all the Audi A1 races. Beast of a car!

 

[Addicted]

Just done all the Audi A1 races. Beast of a car!

Nice!

I've only done the GTR so far, plan to do that next!

Anyone run AMD card? I'm having issues on the 12.11 beta's - I can't open Catalyst Control Centre with them - so it means I have to be on 12.10 and I miss out on that extra 15% performance .

 

[Pulsator]

How big is the free roam area ???

(ie. 20,000 km/2)

Anybody ??

 

[Addicted]

Big enough to shake a stick at.

To put it this way - there's 150 odd Billboards throughout the whole map, and I'm finding it hard to find them all as it takes a while to drive around.

 

[couzens]

Taken down all 10 Most Wanted Cars, now just golding all the vehicles I've found so far. Not sure how many cars there are in the game though!

 

[GarethM]

Is this worth getting then?

 

[Addicted]

I like it, I've only done one main takedown, but have unlocked up to the 5th I believe - I prefer just driving around and causing havoc, drifting and golding the cars

Annoyed with the performance though - a second 7970 adds pretty much nothing, guess it isn't too optimized for crossfire!

 

[Silent_Scone]

The game doesn't support SLi or Crossfire, so yeah your second card is basically a big paper weight.

 

[olihodgson]

Played on Xbox and wasn't keen, I'm a Forza man, Motorsport too, not horizon.
Nfs always plays too arcadey, the crash resets are so annoying and time consuming. Loved original most wanted but just can't get into any new need for speed titles. Graphics are nice though and car list pretty cool.

 

[Darren S]

The game doesn't support SLi or Crossfire, so yeah your second card is basically a big paper weight.

Uber-fail.

Devs - have a word. FFS - an SLi game profile is like 100k in size.

D.

 

[Reev]

Played this for a bit recently, didn't really think it was anything special. The crash screen logos are a pain in the ass and the fact that there are only two camera views is just bizarre. I only did a few of the races though, spent most of the time being a hooligan and smashing through signs/drifting/zooming past speed cameras.

Nothing will come close to NFS Underground 2 though. Blacked out 106 with loads of gypo glitter FTW

 

[Addicted]

The game doesn't support SLi or Crossfire, so yeah your second card is basically a big paper weight.

That would be why I saw no performance increase

Apparently in the latest ATI drivers you can force it to try and use CrossFire, but annoyingly the setting isn't viewable for me!

Oh well, plenty of other games to make use of the power!

 

[McGherkin]

Nothing will come close to NFS Underground 2 though. Blacked out 106 with loads of gypo glitter FTW

You are 1000% correct, best NFS game by far. I loved driving round that city, which was a fantastic piece of game design, and going to the trouble of making a car look good (just leave it standard, pretty much).

Even had the Clio S1600

 

[kerry-w]

Nothing will come close to NFS Underground 2 though. Blacked out 106 with loads of gypo glitter FTW

Agreed there, managed to get it for £3 on ps2 the other day down at cash generator! Hours of fun, shame they haven't gone back to that concept.

Got the new one too and its been ok so far, only done 3 races and just spent my time driving round finding cars, getting into chases and going through billboards!

 

[.LiamC.]

Tried the demo and hated it, worse game I've ever played IMO. Was expecting it to be better than Horizon, but really wasn't lol.

 

[KFRRS94]

Played the demo for this last night. Really unimpressed, the handling is awful.

 

[Darren S]

Giving it away free on Origin at the minute. Not sure if that's exclusive to the PC platform or not?

 

[st3ve]

I was just reading all the comments and thinking this sounds a lot like Burnout. Didn't realise it's developed by Criterion games!
Downloading now off origin. It's mad that they're giving it away for free.

 

[McGherkin]

They did it yonks ago with Burnout Paradise too.