Most Wanted’s sprawlingly open world, Fairhaven, is a free-for-all. Every location, every nook and cranny – and all 123 vehicles – are accessible from the off, you just have to explore and discover. If that sounds too easy, the real challenge, as in Hot Pursuit, Criterion’s previous entry in the Need for Speed canon, is beating your friends’ records to creep up that leaderboard and gloat like the obnoxious owner of a German sportscar that costs more than most peoples’ houses.

Almost everything you do in Fairhaven is cross-compared with your friends and other players, from highest jumps to how fast you fly past speed cameras. It’s all updated in the blink-of-an-eye via Autolog 2.0, the second iteration of Criterion’s social network designed to bring out your dark, competitive side.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (commonly abbreviated to as NFS: MW or simply Most Wanted) is a 2012 open-world racing video game, developed by British games developer Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on 4 June 2012, during EA's E3 press conference, Most Wanted is the nineteenth title in the long-running Need for Speed series and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, iOS and Android, beginning in North America on 30 October 2012, with a Wii U version following in 2013. The game picked up on the Most Wanted IP, as opposed to the Hot Pursuit reboot that Criterion developed previously.

Windows Vista (SP1) 32-bit

2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)

2 GB RAM

20 GB free HDD:

DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance) / DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance) 

DirectX Compatible Sound Card

DVD Rom Drive