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Pressing right brings up a menu for selecting which car you want, car customization options, your current car’s events (each car has five individual races), access to multiplayer, and the Most Wanted list (more on that in a moment.) Picking which race you want highlights the fastest route to the start on the map below, but after you’re tried it once, you can start the event automatically from Easydrive. Mapped to the directional pad on your controller, EasyDrive is a pull up menu that addresses your every need. No more getting lost on your way back to the start of an event you want to retry and no more hunting for the car you need for a specific race right when you need it. Criterion has sloughed off the baby fat that made Burnout Paradise’s beautiful bay and surrounding hills difficult to navigate. Take It Easyīefore talking about the game’s vehicles, it’s important to talk about Most Wanted’s most distinguishing feature: EasyDrive. It does indeed take itself too seriously, but it is a beautiful and deeply fun machine all the same - the opposite side of Paradise’s coin. As first impressions go, though, the one made by Most Wanted is misleading. The sprawling highways and city streets, the industrial parks and massive jumps, all those delightfully crushable billboards and security gates to the side of the road: This is Burnout Paradise 2 in everything but name. The comparison to Paradise is unavoidable.
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If that game was full of youthful guileless and boundless enthusiasm, Need For Speed: Most Wanted comes off like a petulant teen that’s too cool for school. It’s not the invitation back into Criterion’s open world driving that people have been waiting for these four years since Burnout Paradise. A Muse song simmers in the background as dramatic, hazy shots of the city of Fairhaven and its automobile citizens parade by and a breathy female voice welcomes you to the game. It’s got that same wet-eyed sense of self-importance and put-on sexiness as those horrible “ Go Forth” spots. Need For Speed Most Wanted starts with all the humor and self-awareness of a Levi’s ad in the back of Maxim.