Here at games.on.net, we know that one review isn’t always enough — and that’s why, when RSOblivion came to us with his thoughts on Need for Speed: Most Wanted, we couldn’t help but put them up as well. With both this and our official review to read through, there’s more NFS:MW than you could ever need. Take a look.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “Need for Speed: Most Wanted is Burnout Paradise 2.”

While a quick glance even at this very website infers this, it bears repeating with the appropriate emphasis. There is no doubt about it: Need for Speed: Most Wanted is Burnout Paradise 2. By taking the police-chase and Blacklist elements from 2005′s seminal NFS-title and mixing in their own racing wizardry, Criterion definitely haven’t made a sequel to someone else’s game. But once the similarities sink in, could the loss of DJ Atomica and a number of staple Burnout game modes stall two franchises at once?

A launch trailer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted? Isn’t EA jumping the gun a bit here? Surely it’s not out until November 1, and oh god it is nearly November. Alright! Okay! That’s fine then! Here is a launch trailer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Criterion’s re-imagining of one of the franchise’s best loved entries, which arrives next week and will be added directly to an enormous pile of end-of-year releases I’m considering swimming in like Scrooge McDuck since I absolutely do not have time to play them all.

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In what critics are calling a “welcome break with tradition”, this new trailer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted contains precisely zero dubstep. Instead, it features classic standoff music from the spaghetti-westerns of old, which is scientifically proven to be 1400% better than dubstep in a controlled laboratory environment. It also doesn’t feature cars staring dramatically into the sunset from the top of buildings they could never possibly have driven onto, which is another bonus. Take a look for yourself.

Want to know why the PC version of Most Wanted will be the best around? Read our detailed interview with Criterion.

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After our recent hands-on session with Need for Speed: Most Wanted, we managed to corner the game’s producer, Criterion’s Leanne Loombe, for a chat about why the PC version will make its console counterparts look positively ugly. Read on for all the specifics, including how they’ve leveraged DX11 for a 300% performance increase on PC, and exactly what sort of rig will be required to push it as hard as you can.

Let’s be honest here – Need for Speed Most Wanted might as well be called Need for Speed Takedown Paradise. Developer Criterion tuned its racing credentials on the open roads of Paradise City in the Burnout series, and cruising through the streets of Need for Speed Most Wanted feels like a scenic homage to that beloved urban racing arena. It’s a surprising move considering Criterion’s debut Need for Speed title, Hot Pursuit, shifted from the sandbox to a series of lengthy linear tracks, and the pay-off was a tighter focus on more controlled, action-packed racing. Has Most Wanted’s return to open word racing sacrificed the intensity and detail afforded by Hot Pursuit’s linear tracks, or has Criterion managed to bring the best of both worlds?

Not getting enough dubstep and cars in your life? EA and Criterion are out to change that with this latest Need for Speed: Most Wanted trailer, the first in a presumably multi-part gameplay series. Revealed in this trailer is the fact that all cars are available to use right from the beginning of the game with no need to unlock them, with the focus shifting to what you can do with those cars in the open world. Take a look.

Welp, that rainbow of cars from Need For Speed: Most Wanted‘s teaser trailer are back. This time they’re driving off the tops of buildings and boats and what-have-you. This trailer outlines the many types of multiplayer challenges that will be in the game, including drift challenges and takedown challenges. And the “drive off a building and not be crumpled” challenge – my favourite.

And in other car-related news, there is a new teaser trailer for Need For Speed: Most Wanted. It’s pretty short – the full trailer is to be unveiled at Gamescom – but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to see. Not least the veritable rainbow of beautiful cars. Check it out below, to keep drooling for the full release.

I’m going to be honest with you – I don’t know a lot about cars. I know they get me from ‘A’ to ‘B’ with a minimum of fuss, in most cases. I didn’t know, for example, that they could stare dramatically out into the distance at great urban vistas, as the bro-step swells. I thought that was something only handsome action heroes could do. But this trailer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted has proved me wrong. It’s a gorgeous trailer, with many, um, cars involved. Some of them on rooftops. Just watch it, okay?

Jacob Saylor managed to sneek into the drivers seat of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, for some hands-on time with the game’s multiplayer side. Here’s what he learned.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is beloved by many as the cream of the crop when it comes to the NFS franchise, and the announcement that EA would be bringing it back was met with surprisingly non-cynical joy from most quarters. Now, gameplay footage has appeared on the web, for you to check out and judge accordingly. Here it is.