The controls and gameplay are pretty standard this time around, if you've played Underground and Underground II then there's going to be no problem leaping behind the wheel of some high performance sports cars as you try and climb the Blacklist and become the Most Wanted racer out there. There's racing galore, an open city and various challenges to go through in this version of the NFS series. If you like this kind of thing then you'll probably love the story to the game, things go wrong and the bad-guy uses your car to get to number one on the Blacklist himself - its up to you, with the help of generic Hot-Girl 356 to race like a maniac and do what it takes to take down Razor.
Enter the obligatory race against the cheesy in-your face bad-guy and you know where this is going. Enter you, the player that has a fast car and dreams of being number one on the Blacklist. Told through a mix of live action over-acting and a pretty smooth integration with in-game engine footage, this incarnation for the Xbox 360 pulls out some impressive graphical stops but the story is as typical as you might find. So what happened to the series, it evolved, but the evolution hasn't really done much to recapture the glory days. The replays were exciting and the racing was good fun, it was a challenge without being overly hard or nearly impossible.
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I am a big fan of the Need for Speed series of games, from the humble 3DO console incarnation to the first ever Hot Pursuit and the later sequel, but for me NFS was always about the fast sports cars, racing through traffic and looking good while you did it.