![]() ![]() It's a great mix that combines the realistic weight and feeling of movement of the vehicles, with a more arcade-style tightness to the controls that makes the cars a pleasure to pilot. They have a great feeling of weight and solidity that isn't present in a whole lot of other racing titles out there. Once you get used to this though, which is rather quickly, the vehicles feel great to drive. The cars feel a little top-heavy at first, seemingly having enough inertial movement and body sway that a tap of the controller will cause your vehicle to have to level out and dampen its body movement before the car straightens out, so it's a little odd at first. It's neither the deepest nor most stimulating racer out there, but it's a solid one.įor one thing, the game drives very well and features some reasonably interesting tracks with which to compete on. If you can get past this aspect of the game's design, then Need for Speed Most Wanted 5-1-0 can be an enjoyable racing title. Should you be racing perfectly, but the cops happen to get a good nudge in on you and spin you around, you'll simply have to hit Start and retry. You're trying to shave half-a-second off your time in order to pass the time trial, but the cops speed after you and constantly nudge your vehicle around the road while you're attempting to do so. ![]() Some boss battles don't have cops, for example, while some time trials do. The somewhat confusing part is that the cops chase you during some events, but not others. Honestly, it's rather frustrating to do what needs to be done to win (drive fast and take risks), only to have the game attempt to punish you for doing so. Once they're on your tail, you'll have to fight them off for the rest of the event as they attempt to stop you by trapping you somewhere to arrest you. By driving quickly in order to win a race, the cops will be more likely to take off after you. Every time you hit abnormally fast speeds, drive too close to another car or do anything else of the sort, the same sort that basically every other driving game in existence rewards you for, you end up being punished for it. Rather than being rewarded for driving well and winning races, you're punished for doing as the cops will sick after you as soon as you take the lead. The problem is that the execution winds up being exactly opposite of normal game design paradigms. The theory is that street racing is an illegal activity, so adding in cops to set up roadblocks, ram you off the road and generally try to get you to slow the hell down sounds like a good one on paper. On Your Tail Aside from taking down the 15 most wanted street racers and claiming your rightful spot at the top of the list, the other major design element to Most Wanted is your heat level, which dictates how many cops will be on your tail and how aggressive they'll be towards you. You're working up a ladder of 15 of the most wanted street racers, earning enough respect to be able to race each one in the ladder, but it's a very text and menu-heavy progression scheme, and not one where you're seeing characters taunt you or provoke you in any way to race them. One thing that's missing that is sort of unfortunate is that there isn't an overarching, fleshed-out storyline with a number of different characters and such. In fact, its stripped-down and streamlined design plays to the systems strengths and intentions, allowing you to hop into a race, finish it off in a few minutes and then put the system in your backpack. Note that this doesn't really detriment the PSP version of Most Wanted in any way it's just a different game. The PSP title is set up on an event-to-event basis, so there isn't a free-roaming city to tour around, and there aren't as many varied event types, like drag races and such, that you can just hop into. While the console versions of the game are set to be released alongside the PSP version, and they share certain fundamental design goals, like being chased by the po-po while working up a blacklist of the most wanted street racers, there are vast differences between the two versions that we should point out, just in case you've been mostly following the console versions. The Need for Speed franchise has yet again taken a step in a different direction with Need for Speed Most Wanted 5-1-0 for the PSP. ![]()
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