• 31Dec 12

  Happy 2013!

  Happy New Years everybody! Here's to another great year of gaming! What games are you all looking forward to for 2013?

  • Posted Dec 31, 2012 9:49 pm GMT
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• 25Dec 12

  MErry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  hope everyone had a merry christmas and hope everyone has a happy new year!

  • Posted Dec 25, 2012 7:52 pm GMT
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• 21Dec 12

  Most Wanted 2012 or 2005? My Thoughts

  Personally, I respect both the 2005 and the 2012 Most Wanted titles. From racking up bounties to meeting certain criteria to challenge a blacklist member, i found Most Wanted to be a monumental entry to the Need For Speed Franchise.

  When it comes to storylines in racing games, they are more or less of an afterthought to me (i don't know how one could base a story around circuit races or point-to-point races), but with the 2005 most wanted i was blown away. The storyline, which had you working up the blacklist 15 to reclaim your BMW M3 that Razor sabotaged and stole from you early in the game, had an incredible hook that made you keep playing. I also saw how the story and the racing meshed together as you had to win a certain number of races and engage in police chases to raise your bounty to challenge easch blacklist member. The gameplay is what really counts when it comes to evaluating games, but when a story is incorporated and flows well with the gameplay, it is worth mentioning.

  Most Wanted 2012 incorporated elements from the Burnout series (as Criterion is now the main developer of the Need for Speed franchise) while staying true to the Need for Speed format and I found it to be a good update to the original. There is no storyline or any incentive to get one motivated to challenge the 10 (5 less than last time) blacklist members; you just arrive in Fairhaven and meet a certain criteria to challenge each member. I loosely consider this a spin-off of Burnout Paradise from 2008 as the 2012 most wanted incorporated BP's gameplay elements (i.e:sandbox style gameplay and when taking down police cars as well as your own rivals.)

  All in all, both the 2005 and 2012 most wanted titles are still great titles in my opinion. Sure, the 2012 most wanted is missing much of what made the original fun, but i find it to be a great entry by Criterion.

  • Posted Dec 21, 2012 11:02 pm GMT
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