Fairhaven: a city built to race, chase and explore

Fairhaven: a city built to race, chase and explore

June 10, 2012

(109) Comments

In Need for Speed Most Wanted, freedom is everything. Drive anywhere, explore the world, hang out with your friends, compete in challenges or toy with the cops.

We’ve worked hard to design and build a large, open city environment around 3 fun ideas: Race, Chase and Explore.

Race

Our races are about blasting across town and shooting through checkpoints, not keeping to prescribed, walled-in routes.

Knowledge of the world will help you anticipate turns or shortcuts and give you the edge over your friends, whether you’re racing head-to-head or taking on their Autolog records.

For Most Wanted, we've evolved our handling to give you crisper control in the dense city grid and to deliver a deeper, more physical feel that shows off the different characteristics of the cars.

Chase

Fairhaven’s policed by fast, tough, aggressive cops.

These guys aren’t playing games. But you’re well equipped to handle them.  It’s great fun to bait these guys, escalate the pursuit and then ditch them – your way.

Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, hide out or do what your car does best: whether that’s handling off-road, clearing jumps, hitting 200+ MPH down straight lines or whipping through back alleys.  The choice is yours.

And our live online play is not just about racing.  Burnout fans will testify to the awesomeness of the Freeburn Challenge gameplay that forms the foundation of our multiplayer.  It's all about open world.  To find out more, check out our multiplayer post.

Explore

If you want to hang out with your friends, chat and compare cars, Fairhaven’s just the place to do it.

There's plenty to keep you occupied as the entire city is open from the start.  Drive anywhere from freeways to quarries to dense urban areas and see what each car can do.

We’re big on “collectible gameplay”.  The world’s loaded with hundreds of billboards, garages, drive-thrus and Jack Spots.  Each one offers different challenges.  Can you find them all?

Autolog records everything you do and broadcasts your acheivements to your friends.  If your friends have been busy, your Fairhaven will be filled with their best times, jump distances and speeds.

Thanks to Autolog, you're never alone in Fairhaven, even when you're friends are offline.

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this game is awesome i play it all the time and it never gets boring. XD

Submitted by aventador-zl1 on Thu, 2013-05-30 08:27.

Absolutely amazing game, great work with the cars and graphics. But, I think the world is abit to small, because i constantly come to the same place over, and over again. Which i find abit sad about, because it is a great game!

PS, Abit more interactions and choises with customing the cars wouldnt be bad at all.

Submitted by Rcleave (PC) on Sat, 2013-04-06 05:45.

you guys should add other maps after terminal velocity maybe even a whole new world i would like to help because i love cars and i wat to be an engineer and an architect.

Submitted by devan2422 (PC) on Tue, 2013-03-12 15:37.

i love nfs most wanted

Submitted by chikkus360 (PC) on Mon, 2013-03-11 00:32.

nfs must have one way where you can get max speed

Submitted by UNLIMITED_BLAZE (PC) on Sun, 2013-03-03 10:26.

Played it amazing game just missing the moutain up hills n down hill roads wich are awsome to drift on

Submitted by BasilEldhose12 on Tue, 2013-02-12 03:15.

up to now i have not cared for most games , im not a gamer, never have been.. but my kids started playing the demo before Christmas and all 4 seemed to really enjoy it, so i bought the game as a family gift.. about a week and a half ago,i decided to pick up the controller ,just for a laugh, as i have never played any of the games.. nope not kidding! this is such a great interactive racing game, gets the heart pumping and blood flowing ...OMG im hooked...

Submitted by speedymama (PC) on Wed, 2013-02-06 21:09.

this game is addicting!! i have it for xbox 360 and ps vita it's a musthave on any console.

Submitted by nfsmw34567 (PC) on Tue, 2013-01-29 11:44.

why u guys cannot include stories?it is a sequel of most wanted so u should have some elements of the old most wanted.by the way the city is really nice and the graphics are awesome.

Submitted by praaustralia (PC) on Wed, 2013-01-09 22:08.

This game is so faking fantastic i give it soo many stars its retarted lol GT-R FTW lol

Submitted by Thundershock4s ... on Mon, 2013-01-07 20:09.