Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Open-world arcade racing with police chases, crashes, and shortcuts
Criterion Games · Published by Electronic Arts · Released Jun 18, 2020
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 77% of 28K
- Recent reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 75% of 410 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 195
- peak 24h 222
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
Metacritic: 78/100 (critic reviews)
What is Need for Speed™ Most Wanted?
An open-world arcade racing game set on urban roads. You switch among licensed cars, explore for jumps and shortcuts, race rivals, evade police, and use nitrous and car technology. It supports solo play and competitive online event playlists.
For you if...
- +you enjoy free-roaming cities between arcade races
- +you prefer drifts, crashes, and police chases to simulation
- +you want solo driving and competitive online events
Not for you if...
- −you expect a story-driven remake of the original Most Wanted
- −you want realistic handling and structured car progression
What players say
77% of 28,113 reviews are positive · 75% of 410 in the last 30 days
Players praise the free roaming, police chases, car sounds, and weighty arcade handling. Common complaints focus on EA app login and launch problems, controller and key-binding issues, and many cars requiring additional purchases.
Screenshots and trailer
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- 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)
- Graphics
- DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and all available windows updates) 64-bit
- Processor
- Quad-Core CPU
- Graphics
- DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 or ATI RADEON 6950)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required
- Third-party account
- EA Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- The launcher or setup tool may need the touchscreen or virtual keyboard
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- First time setup requires active internet connection
- Singleplayer gameplay requires active internet connection
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian. Text only: Czech, Dutch, Polish, Traditional Chinese.
Tags
- Racing
- Multiplayer
- Open World
- Driving
- Action
- Competitive
- Automobile Sim
- Arcade
- Adventure
- Controller
- Combat Racing
- Singleplayer
- First-Person
- Vehicular Combat
- Third Person
- Co-op
5 DLC available.
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