Need For Speed: Most Wanted

Put it in the bumper-cam view and it was much, much better than it was when I tried it last week. Framerate still rubbish, but the racing was actually quite fun. Bouyed up I tried the drift mode. Three times. Just in case I was missing something. I don’t think I was. Terrible, it was.

Okay. It really does have a terrible framerate which actually makes it harder to play than it should be. But despite that it really is a very good game indeed. When you get into a proper police chase it’s bloody marvellous. Like a slightly more refined but less funny GTA, or something.

So I’d finally decided that I did like it despite it’s horrible, horrible graphical horribleness… and then it went and froze up on me at the exact moment a police chase ended. Obviously a software rather than a hardware problem, but it did lock up the whole Xbox. Oh EA, how do you manage to

Hmm. Hmm indeed. See, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 was a fantastic game and people on forums and reviews have suggested that this was a return to form for the series. So I downloaded the demo and it seemed like great fun, except for having a horrific framerate. But on forums people said the