As if the Need for Speed naming conventions wasn't fucked enough already, EA come along and release another Most Wanted. Surely they could of come up with a better title, or at least put a fucking II on the end of it.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Oct 30, 2012
- PlayStation 3
- Xbox 360
- PC
- PlayStation Vita
- + 7 more
- PlayStation Network (PS3)
- PlayStation Network (Vita)
- Xbox 360 Games Store
- Wii U
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android
Players cruise the streets of the city Fairhaven, evading the cops while working their way to the top of the most wanted street racers list in this open-street racing game from Criterion Games.
Why is this not called Most Wanted II?
Probably because calling it Most Wanted II would be even more confusing to those who played the original, wondering why literally everything about the first Most Wanted isn't in this game.
@Captain_Felafel said:
Probably because calling it Most Wanted II would be even more confusing to those who played the original, wondering why literally everything about the first Most Wanted isn't in this game.
That's a pretty awful excuse.
@Baillie said:
@Captain_Felafel said:
Probably because calling it Most Wanted II would be even more confusing to those who played the original, wondering why literally everything about the first Most Wanted isn't in this game.
That's a pretty awful excuse.
Absolutely; but it's also probably exactly why they decided not to call it that. Also, it's an "old" game, so just now putting out a sequel to it would look kind of weird.
Criterion's always operated under the "we love the Need for Speed franchise but wanted to reboot it our own way" guise. Hot Pursuit was the same way. They just lift the name from the past Need for Speed it is most parallel to.
@EVO said:
@AzteckMost Wan2ed.Or why not "Need For Speed: Too Wanted".
Dear God, that was probably their second choice.
I remember during E3 this year in one of the interviews with someone at Criterion, the guy said that the reason why they went with the name is basically because Criterion doesn't make sequels for other people's games. They want it to be their own thing.
@SMTDante89 said:
I remember during E3 this year in one of the interviews with someone at Criterion, the guy said that the reason why they went with the name is basically because Criterion doesn't make sequels for other people's games. They want it to be their own thing.
But they couldn't come up with another subtitle?
@Zaccheus: Guess not, can't remember if they said anything else about it during that interview. Can't recall which site did the interview either since a friend of mine and I were watching a couple of different streams at once.
@EVO: The hot pursuit Titles have always been strange. The first one was "Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit" Next was "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit II" and then (if we skip most wanted for a second) "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit"
It's like the titles are regressing in some weird way, so when you tell me they're releasing Most Wanted, a name that already existed in the same generation, I just laugh that they ran out of Numbers before zero.
Hot Pursuit games were even more fucked up:
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit 2 was my favorite, though.
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