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It also adds two new racing modes, Tollbooth (a checkpoint-to-checkpoint race), and Speed Trap (blow past radar guns at maximum speed to win). Let the butt-kissing commence.ДЄ Complete Lack of Respect for the Law Most Wanted retains most of the tried-and-true aspects of the Underground games, including Circuit, Drag and Sprint races. It's all just window dressing for a truly spectacular racing game. With a burning desire for revenge and the help of sexy mysterious street racer Mia (Josie Maran), you start down the long road to the top of the Blacklist and a rematch with Razor, who's taken the #1 spot thanks to your M3. Razor sabotages your M3, beats you in a race, takes the pink slip to your ride and leaves you for the cops. Almost.ДЄs a newcomer to the mean streets of Rockport, you run afoul of local jerk Razor Callahan, who's ranked at number 15 on Rockport's 'Blacklist' of street racers. All of the sepia tones and shiny chrome in the world can't erase that mid-90's 'CD-ROMs are the future!' feel, but fortunately the storyline itself is at least as cheesy as its presentation, so it's almost so bad it's good. While the FMV isn't Night Trap bad (god rest your soul, Dana Plato), the decision to tell the story through a blend of live actors and CG environments is - well, let's just call it a bold choice and leave it at that. Let's just get this FMV thing out of the way first, because the rest of this review is going to read like a transcription of our lips being applied to EA's buttocks, repeatedly.

#NFS MOST WANTED REVIEWS UPDATE#

So when it came for the annual update of the series, EA Canada streamlined some of its sim-heavy aspects, poached some of the previous NFS's best features, and added full motion video? Well, two out of three ain't bad. Underground 2, although solid, didn't quite get the job done, coming off as more of the same rather than the bold step forward that its predecessor was. The only downside of coming up with a hit that big is finding a way to top it. In 2003, EA's Need For Speed Underground reinvented the venerable NFS franchise to universal acclaim, going on to sell in excess of 7 million copies, a true blockbuster by any standard.

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