> I just played a lot of NFSMW this holidays (it was Carnaval here, and me and my
> girl travelled to see some friends of ours) and they had NFSMW on all their 3
> machines, so we got some nice lan action going on.
>
> But apart from that, the game seems pretty meh.
> Thereīs nothing on it, that justifies being twice the size of NFSU2. The
> graphics are just heavy on the hardware, without that much of a improvement over
> nfsu2. And we played on a couple of 6800 (one was a GT the other was the
> regular). They took out drifting, which was one of my favorites modes of the
> series. The whole "free-roam/explore" mode now is even MORE useless. And the
> whole pursuit thing, was well, disappointing, to say the least. You pretty much
> canīt be pursued (sp?) while in a real race, just when on free-roam, which is
> pretty annoying, "oh, let me get to a shop, now i canīt because the stupid cops
> saw me, boo hoo hoo".
> The blacklist thing was kinda of cool, but it isnīt nothing groundbreaking. And
> they really restricted car customization, which was a real letdown.
>
> Anyway,
>
> This is NOT the game to match Hot Pursuit, High-Stakes and Underground I.
>
> Maybe they will get it right, next time.
>