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Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is an open world racing game and it is the nineteenth entry in the famous racing series. This is a reboot of the game with the same title released in 2005. In the game players have to select a car and compete against other racers in various events like Sprint races, Circuit, races and Speed runs. There is also an Ambush races mode, where players have to escape from the police as fast as possible. Like in the original Need for Speed: Most Wanted game, cops can start to pursue the player during the race and as well as in the original players have to compete against other racers and if succeeded they instantly get their cars. The game takes place in a regular city called Fairhaven, which has a beach and an industrial district as well as the main highway. The game was praised for those who are fans of Burnout series, especially because of its way of races where there is a start and finish of the race but players have an option to choose which way they want to go.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 and all available windows updates) 32-bit | Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and all available windows updates) 64-bit |
| CPU | 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz) | Quad-Core CPU |
| RAM | 2 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| GPU | DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance) | DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 or ATI RADEON 6950) |
| Storage | 20 GB available space | 20 GB available space |
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is available on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo.
Yes — Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is available on PlayStation.
Yes — Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is available on Xbox.
Yes — Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game is available on Nintendo Switch.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game was released on 2012-10-30.
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game takes approximately 2 hours to complete the main story.