By completing objectives, races, and driving around the county to destroy cars and public goods, our gauge will get fat visibly. The ones provided in the game are actually an abstract currency called "Speed points". To buy the upgrades and of course the cars we will need money. We are not talking about patrols or checkpoints where we can stop and have an alcohol test, on the contrary, we are talking about the most resolute and organized police force ever seen in a video game. But we are not talking about escapes from eaters of fried donuts, perhaps obese and in constant sexual abstinence due to grueling work shifts. Being fugitives obviously the police will be our "rival".
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The adventure is therefore a constant advance between objectives and updates for our cars, plus something really well thought out and ready to make us grind our teeth. The career as a fugitive is concentrated in Speedlist, that is lists of objectives to complete in order to advance, and in order to unlock gadgets for our car, new cars (return of Ferrari) and technical updates compressed in packages to buy and mount under ours racing cars. Scattered around the map there will be speed cameras ready to record our dizzying speeds and also the fearsome cops always ready to give us no respite.īut what will our purpose be? Do we necessarily have to run indefinitely like hamsters on a wheel of scripted and always the same events? For the latter we talk about: timed races, classic races, escapes from the police. Everything revolves around challenging opponents on the street in long "head to head", or participating in the events shown on the map. The story opens in total anonymity there will be no shred of plot to glue the drift: we will be totally alone, and forced to choose our destiny.Īfter a short and well thought-out tutorial that will show us how the different game elements of the past episodes have been amalgamated in the fictional “Redview County” location, we will be faced with the choice of two possible careers: that of fugitive or cop.įor a career as a fugitive, the constant feeling of anxiety will dominate. From the first moment it will be clear to us that the gameplay will be substantially linear, guided, but adrenal, satisfying and also long-lived.
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Three different pasts that in this longed-for appointment intertwine in a journey that is more psychological than a guide.Īs soon as you put your hands on the controller and install the game that on Xbox One includes 15.4 GB of files to be installed on disc, we will experience the feeling of a return to the past with colors and shades that remind of Carbon. more profitable development in the future.Īnd it is with a philosophical attitude of balance that has been mixed in a high-performance Frostbite 3 graphics engine, a game that has all the prominent elements of three episodes of the saga: Most Wanted, Hot Porsuit and Carbon. The developers therefore found themselves having to decide whether to abandon the past, also by virtue of the transition to the new generation of consoles, or to maintain a certain balance and a consolidated setting without upsetting anything and providing a substantially good quality game, waiting for one. The saga has essentially remained a reference point in the racing world for the name built over the years and for the simplicity of the game all in arcade sauce. Most Wanted 2012 did not provide much new to the historic brand that now seemed to have exhausted all its driving force.
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