Need for Speed Most Wanted

"Need for speed underground mixed with hot pursuit!"

First off I have played all of the need for speed games and all of the current racing games out right now. So I can rate this game easily.

Game play: 9/10
Ok so the game play is really good but I knocked off a whole point because they did not get rid of the rubber-band effect. EA needs to fix this in order for me to give them a ten for game play. The game takes a while to get into. The controls and options in the game can be sort of confusing at first. It took me three days to understand everything in this game. But on the good side it is nice that you can modify over thirty two cars including exotics. There are different modes one is career which you start from the bottom and make it to the top of the list and turn into the best street racer. Also they still have customize mode where you can take cars you have unlocked and modify them and race them at no charge but you can not race them in career. Now how cool is that?

Graphics: 7/10 Ok the background and streets in this game are actually pretty bad looking. But on the bright side the cars and the modifications on the cars look amazing. I only gave this a seven because i know that they could of touched up the graphics a little bit more.

Soundtrack: 5/10 Wow. This soundtrack is the worst soundtrack I have ever seen in a EA game. And there is no custom soundtracks option so I only gave the soundtrack only a five.

Replay value: 9/10 The replay value in this game is really good. You will probably want to play it again but start off with a different car and buy different cars so I gave this a nine. It did not get a ten because the game play is very repetitive so you will not have as much fun playing it the second time as you did playing it the first time.

Rent or Buy: I would said rent at first because you may not like it because there are better racing games out there. But definitely buy once this game reaches the twenty dollar bin buy it because that is what this game is worth.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/21/05