Every OG Most Wanted fan should remember being on max heat level and going to the bus station to lose the cops. Lol

The police chases. Everything from the engine roars, the police radio chatter, and the intensity of it made it a spectacle. I’m convinced they hired actual police officers to either write the dialogue or voice it, it’s so genuine sounding.

This is the first game I ever played and completed. It has a special place in my heart ❤

"Everyone loved this game" "Everyone?" "EVERYONNNE!!!"

"Doesn't get enough love". i don't know how it is over there, wherever you're at. But in my country, Most wanted is everyone's favorite car racing game.

I remember feeling like being physically hurt when Cross keys the car.

Cool vid, I worked on this game. We had just finished underground 1 & 2 before working on it. The layout of the world needed a lot of work when I came on to it. It was a mess but we got it sorted. The env was huge and probably double the size of underground2. We used the xbox360 as the dev platform, and we loved the ability to do a time of day change and wide open areas like the shipyard which I worked on. Many of us had worked on hot pursuit 2 , so it was great to bring back cops. Looking back the first four games were great. Hot pursuit 2, ug 1 & 2 plus most wanted. Then it sort fell apart after that, EA were churning out the games every year, it was stressful to make a game in a year. We lost the motivation and desire, when you’re churning out racing games every year. Anyways it is great to see the love, after all those late nights working on the game back in the day.

Loved this game as a kid. Played the hell out of it!! Little did I know it was the greatest racing game ever…. And it was all downhill from there

The career, the customisation,the police chases, the songs were all just top tier in this game. Man do I miss this game

Dude that was my favorite Need for Speed, this just made my day lol

Don't forget the "perfect launch" system. I restarted the races again and again just to be able to get that perfect launch consistently

This game is the reason I love cars. The M3 GTR and the Ford GT were my absolute favorite cars. I remember doing a three hour chase with the Ford GT (I found a glitch that I could just stay still and the cops would never get to me, so I left the PS2 on while my mom made me go to the grocery store with her) and my Ford GT ended up with a $50+million dollar bounty lmao

Carbon is the "underloved" one, Most Wanted is everyones favorite

- How many people should love and appreciate this game? Cross - "EVERYONE!"

I played NFSMW in 2008 when I was six. It's the first racing game I played. I instantly fall in love with this masterpiece. Underground ofcourse is amazing, but nothing can replace NFSMW.

I just loved how they handeled the story. You get a few races as a test trial in your car that's just the best in the game. The amount of grip, downforce and oversteer it had was simply perfect and made taking corners significantly easier than any other car in the game. The sound of the engine of the BMW was also very iconic (thus far they tried to recreate the car, but if it isn't the same engine sound, than it's simply not the same car). AND it was the ONLY BMW in the game, there was no other BMW you could get or buy, which made it even more iconic.

"I want every single unit after the guy." "Everyone?" "EVERYONE!!!"

When the a.i. police cars actually boxed you in. There’s no escape from that.

I dont know how many times I've played thru this game, doing everything in the game just to play it again. Shits so fun and I love this game.

This game was one huge contributor to my music library. I started listening to Disturbed and Bullet for My Valentine, and loved it because of it (back when I was like 8 or so). I’m still a metalhead to this day and while I had already gotten introduced to the genre through Linkin Park and I was starting to get into Slipknot, this game showed me cool new bands. I remember just getting hyped every time Hand of Blood or Decadence started playing. Or Celldweller’ Shapeshifter or One Good Reason (song which unfortunately is just an instrumental due to the lyric theme). Favorite NFS of the series and one of my all time favorite games!

The police chases in this game stressed me out so much, if they were about to catch me I just turned my PS2 off 😂

When we talk about Need for Speed everyone remember Most Wanted.

We just need a remastered version of this masterpiece!

It should be noted the greatest thing about this game was playing online, you would see everyone playing on the track “omega”, because you glitch out of the map and play essentially an open world online which was mind blowing at the time. I remember playing tag in online when we hit open world, so much fun :3 Pure nostalgia

If EA can remaster this gem with todays graphics, it will sell like hotcakes!

Timing your boost to every chorus of Disturbed's "Decadence" is basically zen in this game.

Unlike the previous arcade-style Hot Pursuit games, Most Wanted really made you feel like a badass outlaw street racer. Combine that with the open world and customization options, and you have the perfect blend of Hot Pursuit and Underground. An absolute masterpiece that will stand the test of time.

I used to play this on my Pentium 4 PC 😢 in 2006, nostalgia at its peak. I have now moved to the Forza series but still miss the OG NFS days. Underground 2 and Most Wanted were one of my favs in the nfs Franchising.

THIS is the best NFS. Sadly, this series has lost its touch now.

I remember those days when getting busted by cops, Alt + F4 straight and closing the game right away XD

Here in India, very few know underground series. But EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE loves Most Wanted. It's been my favorite NFS Game ever.

I remember my friend and I had actually broken the game because we found a route where we could endlessly to a pursuit and end it exactly when we wanted every time and get away every time.

This NFS most wanted isn't just a game, it's an emotion ❤️

"What made NFS Most Wanted a big deal ?" Ans : It was the Most Wanted game of the time

Still my absolute favourite in the NFS series. But I feel the Shift editions were truly under appreciated. Those felt like EA genuinely trying to create a more simulation type variant, but gave up due as they didn't really sell that well.

customization can be endless in that game, I remember designing my own vinyl wraps and baking them into the game files, really fun times

why it was the best? Bcs games had a soul back then

about the cop chases, you forgot the two Rhino SUV's trying front-impact with player

This was one of my favorite racing games even to this day. My favorite car was the Ford Gt which I frequently used to beat Razor with with ease and could easily outrun any pursuit without using chase breakers. Would hands down by a remastered version as soon as it comes out.

I played need for speed back when hot pursuit was a thing. To me, this was the best need for speed. It was always day, so it was a different take than underground had. Plus when you have corvette cops after you plus a chopper and heavy SUVs, your adrenaline was pumping nicely.

Finally the truth is spoken Most wanted was the best NFS

Nfs mw was probably one of the greatest games of my life.... There's very few games that had me playing for like 4 years straight

thanks to this game, back in 2005, I learnt how to put the gearbox into Manual settings, it changed my racing games experience forever. I never used automatic ever since.. and before buying a Nfs I do a lot of research, never bought one still.. Hope they get a great one like this was back then.

This will FOREVER be my favorite Need for Speed.

Need this remastered ASAP.

Back when Devs pour all their heart to make a memorable game.

Police chases and the soundtrack was very old school police chase movies.. and cops were fun. First stage, Squad cars chase you, then interceptors, then comes the Rhynos, SUVs that do ram you. Cops AI had the boxing technique like real cops, The SUV AI did what they do in real life and your car would get damaged. Then you would find road blocks and stripes to puncture your tires. This system meant ONE HIT, YOU ARE OUT. Also the Helicopter chases, but no silly electrical guns and things we saw in the next Most wanted by Criterion, which felt gamy and fake. I think, people want some realism, not just arcade style fun all the time.

One of my favourite childhood games, even to this day its still my favourite racing game. Sometimes older games have that charm of being simpler yet still amazingly fun. Finished the game a year or so ago but might replay it again.

I really wish they would remaster Most Wanted and Carbon and package them together. I would buy it instantly. I hope someone who can make that happen is listening lol

Love it when you guys talk about the old classics! Gaming is in a boring state nowadays.

I used to play snk or nintendo games like street fighter, kof those days, when my parents bought me my first pc in 2006 and i played these game I'm truly astonished to see the graphics, that was groundbreaking for me, i have no idea a game could be that much realistic. For me its like showing a smartphone to a cave man. I miss those old days😭

I loved this game so much that I finished it twice, played it online, unlocked all cars to their best possible upgrades but I remember one particular moment that almost gave me a heart attack. This was the best nfs game hands down.

Most Wanted helped me when I was suffering from these daily anxiety attacks. I eventually figured out what was causing them but at the time, it was the only game I could play that let me escape my mind completely and focus on the race. Every day I'd play the game for as long as the soundtrack goes front to back.

The game is a legend. I think I haven’t replayed any of the games like this one. 20+ replays. And to this day I still replay it at least once a year. Story mode was awesome. Soundtrack was amazing. LAN with my friends after school. Dayum, I am on a nostalgia trip and will probably go replay it now since I still have it on my old PC.

And we had the Black Edition of it (Deluxe Edition nowadays) which contained some more cars, a few number of extra music, stock m3 gtr and a secondary cd with some werks and behind the scenes.

Favorite momments: When I realized that instrumental musics was playing the first police chase. I didnt want to believe it could be in a rocky and rappes environmental game. That was awesome. Plus these instrumental police chase musics are adrenalin bombs. When the music is playing, 30 police cars behind you, and they are screaming on the radio with you. To this days, the cold shakes me. Ahhh good memories. My brother and I always competed on how many bounty points we could collect. My record is: 27 million. My brother: 32 million. :D

Nothing has surpassed Need For Speed Most Wanted from 2005 in the entire series. 2012 was an abomination.

My top 3 NFS games: 1. Nfs most wanted 2. Nfs underground 2 3. Nfs hot pursuit (2009/10)

This game has been a go-to for me for years now. I'm currently 18 and have been playing this game since I was 9 years old on PS2. It's a legit masterpiece. From the sense of speed while the handling mechanics have you planted to the ground going 180mph on a sharp corner, to the storyline and memorable characters and cutscenes and massive pursuits. In my opinion, the best racing game of all time. Only thing that can top this for me is a remaster that stays true to the original.

Anyone who actually had the glorious opportunity to play NSFW MW online (I had it on Xbox 360) will know the joy of finding out you can get out of the map on a certain circuit and being able to roam the entire map with your friends. It was like a precursor to the Horizon series. I wonder how many people actually got truly experience the online gameplay. I will forever miss it and cherish the memories forever

This was the sickest of all racing games. I remember being miles ahead in the first race and then when the BMW started sputtering actually screaming at the screen.

I would really like a remake of NFS MW, its one of my favorite ones.

I'm surprised I managed to get a 450mhz Pentium 3 to run this game as well as I did years ago. The setup I was running then was two computers connected to a switch. One computer I would use just for storage and would have mapped network drives. So I would install the games on a mapped network drive. Nowadays you can do this on a TrueNAS box using an iscsi setup. For me games would run a lot smoother and faster that way than on just one computer. It was a workaround for sure but it worked rather well. I might have maxed my ram on my dell optiplex (SDRAM was quite expensive those days as it was obsolete then) and had a $60 or $70 ati graphics card I bought from walmart installed. I put a lot of time into this game and Morrowind both being enjoyable experiences. I had played the Underground games those were great. However, the Hot Pursuit games left a lot to be desired. Most Wanted for me was a good merger of the Hot Pursuit and Underground series. I used to think of it as Underground 3 at the time but its something else entirely.

NFS has never been able to rediscover its form from the golden era that was Underground 1 & 2, MW 05 and Carbon. A couple of titles since have been decent but nothing has touched those 4 imo.

Bruh Most Wanted is easily the best NFS game, hell it’s probably the best racing game of all time, it definitely gets the love it deserves.

0:30 “Maybe not the best nfs” This game is touted by most of the fans as the best nfs game

4:28 I want them to bring this effect back, It probably won't work nowadays because literally every single game revolves around online now

The Cars, The Career, The OST, The Gameplay, The Cops, The Difficulty. Everything is perfect in this game!

"Does Need for Speed Most Wanted loved by everyone?" Sergeant Cross: *EVERYONE!!*

The soundtrack of this game was so sick!

Although I was born in 2007, my favorite nfs game is most wanted (2005) and even while playing nfs: no limits, I found a bmw m3 gtr event and there was even a razor in this event.

The pink slip system added an extra element of intrigue!

I can’t speak for anyone else. But I’d love to go back in time and relive the years of 2004 to 2008 just for the video game experience

THE NOSTALGIA I FELT SEEING THAT THUMBNAIL HIT HARDER THAN I THOUGHT

If EA wants to capitalize off of most wanted (2005) all they need to do is release a HD remake. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

Still remember those days when I used to copy my profile file before every rival race so that if I don't get the pink slip marker would again use the old profile file and challenge the rival once again. This way I collected all rival cars

0:34 "One that doesn't get enough love even still to this day" Are you serious? MW is the most beloved NFS game of all time. Even more than underground 2, but slightly.

Underground 2 was awesome, but most wanted was out of this world. Everything was awesome, story, cars, soundtrack just to name a few. I don't know how many times my big brother played the story mode of this game, surely more than 5 times. My favorite car was Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.

Honestly, i have no idea. I just loved it and enjoyed the music and various areas you could drive to. Plus the idea of a list of drivers to drive against, kept it fresh since they each had their own style and wha tnot

Yes I remember this game it was a demo when I played pc and I think it was full game😆 but those memories with this game was heart touching ❤ (golden days)....my first nfs game was this masterpiece 👌

“Didn’t get enough love” dude come on everyone knew it was the best game ever

And can we talk about that soundtrack for a second. Absolute bangers.

My favorite NFS and I’ve been playing them since NFS3 on PS1. Best part about NFSMW was the pink slip marker you could get at the end of every boss race. If I didn’t get it I would restart the game and try again until I had them all. The unique vinyls and upgrades made it worth the time.

I loved the gane, played it so much i learned to tell the cars apart just by engine sound and i loved the cop chases so much that i always had the bounty stat so far ahead i could skip some missions or just keep adding it for fun, my favorite chase was one that i intentionally made last almost an hour with the bmw m3 gtr and made like 20 million bounty from all the corvettes that i destroyed and cross was easy af to lesve by the side of the road

I feel like nfs carbon was much more "under loved" than most wanted. carbon's drift missions was the most fun i had in any ps2 game

This was the most compulsively playable Need for Speed since Hot Pursuit.

This was my favorite game it was like a escape from everything going around me

I still remember my favourite car was Lamborghini Murciélago. No matter how many times I finished the game, I always ended up with my golden and black Murciélago. And I was my favourite colour combination too

Simple, the bosses and how they made them feel a big deal. Was cool back then, street racing was big with movies etc.

I replayed this game a lot, for me it's the best need for speed game

Would love to see this game rereleased on modern consoles. Doesnt even need extra content. Just up the framerate to a stable 60 and youve got my money

No internet back then, it was just career mode and I have no idea how many times I've played that game on repeat. It was the go to game. My favourite car would be Ming's Lamborghini Gallardo and the Black Lamborghini Murciélago

"I want every single unit after the guy"

This was and is still absolutely the best NFS game ever made. They need to remake it.

I think what makes NFS truly different from other car racing game is because they focused on the street/illegal racing side, MW 2005 was the first NFS game that perfectly captured that experience with solid storyline and it still is after all these years. With the new NFS games going back to the root of illegal race and car customizations, much better physics although shitty handling, EA just need more complete and long storyline and I could easily see myself play the game for hours like I used to back then with Underground 2 and MW 2005.

Hands Down this is the best Racing game by far. I remembered playing 48 hours without any Sleep this game was from another Planet especially when you hear Disturbed decadence

This game just had a great formula. EA nailed the story mode, the police pursuit and milestone integration for progression was amazing. I remember just grinding out level 4 and 5 heat levels just because the pursuits were fun, and having enough bounty for the next blacklist racer after the one I was on.

Most Wanted was a masterpiece. Another solid review. Let’s not forget about Hot Pursuit.

The blur and massive bloom ruined it for me, it gave me headaches trying to play it :/. I had to wait 15 years to replay it on PC with mods to remove the ugly effects. The game is awesome.

I used to think the bmw M3 GTR was the fastest car in the world for a long time when most wanted got released. But yeah, back then I was in 4th grade haha.