

Need for Speed: Most Wanted received positive reviews and was a commercial success it sold 16 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling title in the series. In May 2012, the PlayStation 2 version was released on the online virtual market, PlayStation Store, for the PlayStation 3, but was removed from the storefront later that year - due to an announcement on June 1, 2012, a reboot of the game, also called Need for Speed: Most Wanted, was under development by the British developing team Criterion Games and was released on October 30, 2012. Another version of Most Wanted, titled Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 has been released for the PlayStation Portable. Most Wanted has been released for Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and was a launch title for Xbox 360. The game is succeeded by Need for Speed: Carbon, which serves as a sequel to Most Wanted.


The game features street racing-oriented game play, with certain customization options from the Need for Speed: Underground series. It is the ninth installment in the Need for Speed series. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a 2005 open worldracing video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts.
