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Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Original title: Need for Speed: Most Wanted - October 30, 2012
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
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Director:Craig Sullivan
Studio:Electronic Arts
Stars:Gethin Anthony, Jules de Jongh, Chris McKinney - Full View
Soundtrack:Original score by Chris Green (menu music by Vanesa Lorena Tate), plus a licensed soundtrack spanning Skrillex, Deadmau5, Zedd and Dizzee Rascal
Full Crew:View Full List
Award
Game
Game Critics Award for Best Racing Game
Winner
2012
Award
Game
British Academy Games Award for British Game
Nominee
2013

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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
Criterion Games
PublisherIGDB
Electronic Arts
Studio
Electronic Arts
GenresIGDB
Racing, Adventure
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Release DateIGDB
October 30, 2012
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
84
Game Engine
Chameleon

Need for Speed: Most Wanted takes on the gameplay style of the first Most Wanted title in the Need for Speed franchise. Most Wanted allows players to select one car and compete against other racers in three types of events: Sprint races, which involves traveling from one point of the city to another, Circuit races, each having two or three laps total and Speed runs, which involve traversing through a course in the highest average speed possible. There is also the Ambush races, which start with the player surrounded by cops and tasked to evade their pursuit as quickly as possible.

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Awards3
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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 15.07.2026
Business
Budget
Not disclosed
RevenueEstimated
509,000 US copies in November 2012 (NPD, 7th best-seller)
EA reported it outsold 2011's The Run; lifetime totals never disclosed
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Partial chart/NPD figures only; EA never published lifetime totals.

Time to Beat
Main Story20h
Main + Extras20h
Completionist32h

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Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
Russian
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German
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Spanish (Spain)
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Japanese
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Italian
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English
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French
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Chinese (Traditional)
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Czech
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Polish
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Dutch
—✔✔
Content Rating
Alcohol Reference
Violence
Comic Mischief
Crime
In-Game Purchases
ESRB E10+
CERO B
ACB PG
GRAC 12+
USK 12
PEGI 7
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 and all available windows updates) 32-bit
CPU:2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
RAM:2 GB RAM
GPU:DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)
Storage:20 GB available space
Sound:DirectX compatible
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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 15.07.2026