I don't think i've ever seen a channel go from solo creator to animation collaboration team in the way that you've all pulled it off and it's a very unique style that's a great addition to an already unique video format. Amazing work Noodle Team™

That intro alone bought my entire attention span. "Am I really going to watch an entire 27 minute video about Need for Speed? I played it a little when I was younger but--" *Car Crash* "Well there goes 27 minutes. I'm in for the long haul now."

I'm legitimately upset there isn't a part two. This ended just before Need for Speed Carbon, one of my favorite childhood games

Man i loved most wanted. I never played it myself I was too dumb and girly. But my older brother used to play and essentially my job was to play the passenger seat and relay to him what the next move from the cops were. It was a super fun way to bond and get involved without being given a dummy controller. We'd go on *forever* him on the wheel and me listening in on whatever radio garble was goin on just to announce when and where the next tack strip was gonna be. Deadass felt we were The most badass bonnie and clyde sibling team on the run lol. I miss those afternoons so much.

I'd like to add that in Most Wanted's game files, there's police dialogue that has cops gargling in their own blood after you crush their cars, which is unused to keep the age rating down.

“man I wonder what noodle’s up to, probably just taking a break” noodle: *makes entire animation team and makes an incredibly technically and artistically impressive review of need for speed*

I love how he's describing the differences for each of the potential events during a chase while the gameplay is demonstrating it IN ONE CUT

This is legit one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in the last few years…and so insanely well put together! Animation, writing, sound, etc. are all excellent!

Absolutely adored the Most Wanted section of this video, your detail and editing's fantastic!

THAT INTRO WAS SO HYPE THOOOOO

After two years and 11k comments you'll never see this, but I just have to tell you how rewatchable your videos are, man. It's like my comfort watch.

I absolutely ADORE your animation style

Fun fact: EA had an exclusivity contract with Porsche that lasted 16 YEARS. This forced the other racing franchises to use relatively unknown brands/tuning shops that were famous for modifying Porsches, like RUF and Gemballa, to fill the Porsche gap without getting in trouble.

11:43 wall: *exists* 11:47 wall: *ceases to exist*

I love how much effort you put into animating this. I'm blown away. History is actually fun to learn, sometimes!

It's an absolute gift to see this much passion in one video

Noodle seems like the kind of guy who has a lot of good memories playing Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Burnout 3 when he was younger.

Most Wanted was peak gaming in my youth, the racing, the city and the best OST of any racing game I've ever played ❤

Omg, I'm astonished by the quality of this video. Part #2 please 🙏🙏🙏

The absolute state of that disc at 10:23 made me scream in horror

now i just wanna know if you actually put the ad break on a VHS tape because the video and audio distortion was perfect

I loved that transition after the ad insert. Clapping back into a modern clear sound and slight change in the animation was really cool.

NF3 also had a soundtrack that adapted to the gameplay, as well as cops plotting road blocks on the radio, and they got angrier and angrier as time passed, and accents that changed depending on the track. When NFS4 introduced tracks in different countries, they also changed the cops' language depending on where the track is, as well as the speedometer (km/h or mph).

I love the way you animate speech. It's hypnotic. Simple shapes but such deliberate exaggerations. Wonderful.

8:09 The “Kubrick Stare" is one of Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques, a method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that the character in question is at the peak of their derangement.

22:19 If the chase goes on long enough, some of the cops will literally say "OK I've had enough, I'm running this guy off the road." It's great.

8:03 I didn't see this coming, like instantly dying from laughing 🤣 more of these if there's a 2nd part of the NFS history video I hope😌

I have a special affection for Need for Speed 6, 8 and 9. When Need for Speed 10 came out, I thought the series would go even further, but I was wrong.

I always love it when Noodle wrecks his house, and instead of it being fixed by the next scene thanks to "cartoon-magic", the house just stays demolished for the rest of the video.

this man could make a video about any topic and I'll watch

noodle please make a part 2. it's been a year and we all love it.

This is one of those videos that are just perfect, i do not think anyone can top the quality. Every now and then i return to watch this one more time.

I can’t believe that a video this well-written and researched and with animation this freaking good is given to us for free. I’m not a need for speed fan but damn i was completely invested. God bless you, Noodle.

it has been 8 months and this video has done really well. you are legally obligated to give us a part two

I don’t think I have ever seen an AD with this much fascination 😭

I was waiting for a cutaway in the intro that revealed you were only doing like 35 in a 60. But you went the other way with it, and I'm not upset.

This is genuinly one of the best youtube videos made in 2022 hands down. Everything is amazing, the animation, comedy, topic, explanations, and music. It's clear a ton of hard work was put into it and I hope every person that was involved in the making of it realises how great of a job they did. I normally don't rewatch youtube videos especially when they are this long but I've already rewatched this video 3 times.

8:07 Might be the greatest moment in animation history

Where part 2

NFS MW legit had me hooked for hours and hours. The cop chases were a thrill for sure

"Pushing 200 can genuinely, be frightning." And that's where speedrunners and 90's kids come in with the will to go 250

I've never laughed so much during a game retrospective, this channel is one of a kind

I always have to come back to this video. He explained everything about this masterpiece so well. This will be saved, thank you @Noodle.

The stress to not lose your damn car to those cops were real😭 the love I have for this game is unparalled. And yes, they do get angrier, to the point where they become more unhinged then I am

I love how the cops dialogue in Most Wanted, it's so well made. The getting more and more intense vocally over time, the one other game I know actually does that, is Pay Day, the longer the heist has been going and the more they are in active combat, the angrier and more pannicked the player characters voiceline become, like, reloading, if it's stealth and all the player's going to quitely say something like "changing map" in a calm, focused tone, if the civilians are starting to disobey and roam around they'll sound a bit more frustrated, if the cops start ariving, when detected they'll start talking normally, saying things like "I'm dry, gotta reload" in a clear tone, as the fight keeps going the player will shout more, like if they're losing their manners, until they start screaming and swearing "SHIT'S FUCKING EMPTY GOTTA RELOAD!" until they just go nut and start complaining about shit, it's a pretty neat feature.

I love how much you spent on Most Wanted. That game was incredible.

“The city is gamers, and you are a MENACE” is something I often quote

Used to play A LOT of most wanted as a kid, loved that game. Also, the production quality for this video is just 👌 10/10

Animation is still improving? Impossible the quality couldn’t possibly go any higher!!! Love your video’s man keep it up

The need for noodle. The noodle for speed. Noodle needs speed. Speed noodle needs.

Now I realize why Noodle hasn't released a video like this for a while. He's busy rebuilding his house

I'd love to see a part 2 to this. NFS and Burnout were some of my favorites growing up.

Sometimes you just need to forget about responsibilities and watch a history on Need for Speed.

I keep coming back to this video and it continues to amaze me how much need for speed influenced later car games

About the cops in Most Wanted and Heat. The only problem with Heat’s when compared to Most Wanted’s is that the chatter is worse, but at least Heat’s cops aren’t slowed down by the thick urine.

I've literally just watched the intro on repeat for probably 2 hours. It's just so good

Noodle, you're really good at grabbing a viewers attention. Even when it starts to die down a bit you hit us with another goddamn car crash that reels us back in and I love it. 10/10 creator

A hallmark of a good video is knowing when to end. Yours ended on the best NFS ever. Kudos!!

Oh man, I loved Most Wanted on the 360. The perfect (for the time) combination of Burnout's car combat and Driver 1's psychotic police (with cheats). So much fun.

Can we just appreciate the continuity in noodle's videos when it comes to his house? Like, first we were all so impressed with the fact he kept the carpet damaged and then a whole fucking wall is destroyed, and now pretty much the entire thing is completely DECIMATED because of all the crazy shit that goes on in the videos, and I was watching and thinking "wow haha he should make reconstructing the house part of the videos too" and later that's *exacly* the excuse he gives to end it?

I love the Y2k era of gaming. Every game tried to do something new, and had their own unique style to make them stand out from the crowd. No one knew the word "cringe" and no would would care if they did, it was a time where giving a hedgehog a gun was the height of coolness and it was _glorious._

I don't know why i keep coming back to this video. I don't care much cars or racing games, but over the two years this video has existed i have watched it like 10 times. That fact that i always watch it on brink of some form of literal insanity and it's somehow grounds me every time says something about either me or this video. So uh, make of that what you will i guess, cause i sure as fuck don't know how to feel about it.

Would have loved to see Carbon included in this but man, beautiful vid man, describing every nfs here to the T, maybe hoping to see more of these kind of vids from ya

6:28 this is actually something called "Pink Slip Racing", where the bets are the cars being driven. The loser hands the keys over to the winner. It's not stealing; It's gambling. This was more common around the early 2000s.

Holy fuck, that animation of the car coming down through the roof was beyond beautiful! Animation in general and coherency of the script was amazing! KZfaq homepage recommendations strike gold sometimes, huh?

This is my favorite YT video ever. Period.

I love that you can see little differences in the animation that indicates different people worked on it

Dude, hats off to the animators this time around. The lipsyncing throughout the video was spot on. Any chance there's a list of who animated which parts?

My favorite part of this whole thing is the fact that the wall magically repairs and breaks itself throughout it. A true inspiration to pissing off everyone who watches his content. Much respc 12/10 would vroom again.

"No meaningful in-game progression" is actually the standard again now since you're just supposed to buy all customization

NFS3 was so much of my childhood, and the 2 Undergrounds were such a product of the time. The music is singed into my brain

Seem less blend of 2D and 3D, the classic Noodle thing of adding his little drawn man into existing scenes and clips, all tied together with an absolutely astounding opening that just screams his understanding of "Sick nasty racing games of the late-90s to early 2000s" and what they shot for during Underground and beyond. Glorious

Man please please PLEASE do a part 2 I grew up on NFS and would love to hear about the turf wars in carbon and the whole "overarching story" of that Ryan Cooper dood. Love the video!

“The city is gamers, and a f****** menace.” That is the best way to describe this game

I hate that I rewinded to your ad because it’s hilarious and hit me with warm fuzzy feels of nostalgia.

"Boost. That thing every arcade racer had in the mid-2000s. Need for Speed popularized it." Way to make me feel old remembering the rush of hitting the Nitro button on Super Off-Road arcade in the early 90s. :)

I was a bit sad to see Carbon missing from the chapter list, but after hearing you talk about Most Wanted I realized Carbon is basically a nighttime Most Wanted.

2:31 I didn't know words "need" and "speed" could bring so much joy to a man 😂

I have never played this game, nor did I grow up with even the console(s) that it was on. But hearing someone who is obviously passionate about something that they like was what made this video very enjoyable to watch!

I've gotta say, as someone who's been studying and doing animation for a good portion of my art journey, the first 2 minutes of this video alone get me so hyped. The smoothness of the starting car animations that pulls you into the scene despite its monochrome simplicity, the cell shaded 3D model that blends in almost perfectly for the gag, the expressiveness from such a simple character that oozes so much appeal. Even a quick peer into this video showcases how much work and passion is put into these frames and I truly love it with all of my artist-animator heart. I really hope that this is the future of this channel from here on out and if it is, I really really hope all of you are enjoying and taking care of yourselves while you make this beautiful content. Keep it up - Noodle, Owen, Coal, Nouh, Aron, Fig , Astr01d , Villa , Tortie, Mayd - and stay awesome

8:03 the animation and the editing is getting so good on this channel, definitely worth the long wait for a new video

I'm hopelessly in love with the intro animation

NFS Most wanted clearly shows why it is still loved by everyone. It had everything from thrill to amazing car collection. We all had the tension to not lose our cars to the cops. The current NFS Games do not have that kind of tense situation nor it has that much of thrill.

8:01 this part fucking slays me, i grew up with porsche unleashed so seeing this animation go with activator made me lose my shit laughing hysterically i love this video

This is easily the best video youve ever done from a production standpoint, WOW. The amount of times I was genuinely taken aback by the editing choices, comedic timing of your jokes, and ESPECIALLY the animation is insane and I doubt I can ever appreciate the amount of effort and dedication this video must’ve taken enough. Insanely good work dude.

It's funny how most wanted 05, a game with almost no story, still feels rewarding when you complete it than most modern need for speed games.

Coming back to that intro scene after getting my first car, felt like something more than euphoric

Never knew that chase music on NFS MW was adaptive to the situation in the chase. But I always had the feeling that it fits too perfectly every time. I was too dumb or too involved in the chase.

This guy seriously has to make a part 2, if he still has any of his house left

I don't know how this video manages to make me hyped for Most Wanted every time I watch it but god damn

there was no game quite like Need for Speed Most Wanted. made up my childhood. i would walk over to my friend's house JUST to play it. it was the three of us struggling over and over, not because of races but because of cops. no progress would be saved until we escaped them, because as Noodle described perfectly: "YOU CAN'T LEAVE. SIT DOWN". and man, they could really leave us sweating and our hearts racing. and as Noodle also perfectly described, when you take the intensity of the heat levels, the aggressive, authentic performances of the police intercom, and combine those with the dynamic soundtrack, the adrenaline always kicked in for us. and i remember it just as it was back then in that dark garage with the PS2 as this clip 2:31 played, cause i could FEEL heart rate elevating just now!

Little funny story here, My dad worked on Underground 2 and I told him about this video cause he was pretty proud of what that game turned out to be. When he learned that there was a part in this related to underground 2 he asked if i could show it to him and I gladly went to the segment to show him. He then verbally said "I wonder what this guy is gonna say about it" and when I hit play I just so happened to scroll riiiiight at 13:58 It was a good reaction.

The fucking gesture animations are amazing, holy shit. They're so expressive with every little movement and crazy face. And I love you can see the tiny difference in styles with each animator doing different shots

I just want to say this is my favorite video you've made so fair. I think I've watched it alleast once every couple of months since it came out

Dude, your videos have easily some of the best production quality on KZfaq. I fantasize about having mine as well put together as yours. Absolutely epic.

18:37 The Cops in Most Wanted are the best thing in the game! The increasing difficulty, the strategic patterns, and the chase music really makes MW best in the NFS series.

The production value has sky rocketed. Amazing animation presentation.

The music in Most Wanted actually gave me chills, it was that good

Love that theres a full blown animated history video of this series

Holy shit the “my favorite KZfaqr” moment floored me. I wonder who it was but also that’s just so heartbreaking and infuriating and just god awful. Incredible video. Incredibly real moment.