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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome[=/=]WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Most Wanted'' 2012 has some seriously trippy cutscenes.
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** The pre-race cutscenes for the "Most Wanted" events border on ProductPlacement, using similar graphical effects to what you might find in a car commercial, giving you an indulgent look at your opponent's ride.
** The pre-race cutscenes for the "Most Wanted" events border on ProductPlacement, using similar graphical effects to what you might find in a car commercial, giving you an indulgent look at your opponent's ride.
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* ThatOneLevel: "Downgraded" in ''Most Wanted'' 2012. This requires some explanation...
** First of all, the event is a Speed Run event. These in and of themselves run counter to the design of the game, which usually encourages a "by any means necessary" style of driving. If you have to plow through some scenery or bang up against the walls or your opponents then it's usually more advantageous than playing it safe. However in a Speed Run event you're tasked with maintaining a certain average speed, thus demanding precision driving to keep your speed up.
** Now for the event itself: the event takes place on a very unruly course full of blind turns, narrow roads, and requiring some keen cornering skills. These make it very difficult to maintain your speed consistently if you're keeping in mind the above (that, being a Speed Run, precise driving is a must). You're going to have to hit certain sections just right lest you set yourself up to botch the section immediately after.
** Downgraded often shows up as a "Hard" difficulty event, meaning you're going to be hitting a high speed target (in the area of 120 MPH normally). Unless you get a really good run going, you're barely going to be above the threshold by the final curve. The high speed target also demands a very clean run in order to avoid losing speed (so even the occasional traffic bump can be the difference between winning and losing). Some Speed Runs are more tolerant of mistakes but not here.
** There's a modicum of LuckBasedMission at work here due to the traffic pattern. You might get a great traffic pattern that keeps the obstructing cars out of the way for most of the event or you may get saddled with an awful traffic pattern that throws cars at you at the worst times (coming around one of the blind turns or having both lanes occupied at the same time with no good exit strategy).
** These elements come together to create a perfect storm of annoying circumstances. You're basically doing a NoDamageRun in a game where that is virtually impossible. The precision and the hope that the traffic is on your side can result in many restarts as you keep getting tripped up on one thing or another.
** First of all, the event is a Speed Run event. These in and of themselves run counter to the design of the game, which usually encourages a "by any means necessary" style of driving. If you have to plow through some scenery or bang up against the walls or your opponents then it's usually more advantageous than playing it safe. However in a Speed Run event you're tasked with maintaining a certain average speed, thus demanding precision driving to keep your speed up.
** Now for the event itself: the event takes place on a very unruly course full of blind turns, narrow roads, and requiring some keen cornering skills. These make it very difficult to maintain your speed consistently if you're keeping in mind the above (that, being a Speed Run, precise driving is a must). You're going to have to hit certain sections just right lest you set yourself up to botch the section immediately after.
** Downgraded often shows up as a "Hard" difficulty event, meaning you're going to be hitting a high speed target (in the area of 120 MPH normally). Unless you get a really good run going, you're barely going to be above the threshold by the final curve. The high speed target also demands a very clean run in order to avoid losing speed (so even the occasional traffic bump can be the difference between winning and losing). Some Speed Runs are more tolerant of mistakes but not here.
** There's a modicum of LuckBasedMission at work here due to the traffic pattern. You might get a great traffic pattern that keeps the obstructing cars out of the way for most of the event or you may get saddled with an awful traffic pattern that throws cars at you at the worst times (coming around one of the blind turns or having both lanes occupied at the same time with no good exit strategy).
** These elements come together to create a perfect storm of annoying circumstances. You're basically doing a NoDamageRun in a game where that is virtually impossible. The precision and the hope that the traffic is on your side can result in many restarts as you keep getting tripped up on one thing or another.
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States & Great Britain. So if you're an American or British gamer, you could say that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States & Great Britain.and United Kingdom. So if you're an American or British gamer, you could say that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. So if you're an American gamer, you could say that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. States & Great Britain. So if you're an American or British gamer, you could say that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* PolishedPort: ''Most Wanted U'', the UsefulNotes/WiiU version of ''Most Wanted'' 2012, was ''[[InvokedTrope meant]]'' to be this, considering it looks much nicer than the earlier console versions. However, without any DLC releases to that version beyond the on-disc standard inclusion of the ''Ultimate Speed Pack'' [[MoneyDearBoy due to a lack of sales for the platform]], [[http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ward-slams-nintendo-and-ea-over-wii-u-s-need-for-speed-most-wanted/0129308 former Criterion Games vice president Alex Ward blasted both EA and Nintendo saying that]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork they screwed over the Wii U version.]]
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* PolishedPort: Criterion did put a lot of care into hardware support for their ''Most Wanted''.
** ''Most WantedU'', the U'' for UsefulNotes/WiiU version of ''Most Wanted'' 2012, was ''[[InvokedTrope meant]]'' to be this, considering it looks much nicer than the earlier console versions. However, without any DLC releases to that version beyond the on-disc standard inclusion of the ''Ultimate Speed Pack'' [[MoneyDearBoy due to a lack of sales for the platform]], [[http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ward-slams-nintendo-and-ea-over-wii-u-s-need-for-speed-most-wanted/0129308 former Criterion Games vice president Alex Ward blasted both EA and Nintendo saying that]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork they screwed over the Wii U version.]]
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** Comparing the first main releases, Xbox 360 over [=PS3=] thanks to Kinect's tight voice control integration with [=EasyDrive=] (though it's single-player only and you'll want to be careful saying anything that sounds like the word "map"), while the PC version has twelve-player online multiplayer and sixty frames-per-second support.
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. So if you're an American gamer, you could say that that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. So if you're an American gamer, you could say that that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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** "First I'm gonna take your ride, then I'm gonna take your girl" from the 2005 game is almost always reference when someone talks about the game just for its sheer Narm factor.
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** "First I'm gonna take your ride, then I'm gonna take your girl" girl," from the 2005 game is almost always reference referenced when someone talks about the game just for its sheer Narm factor.
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**'''EVERYONE!''''''[[Film/TheProfessional EVERY]][[WeirdAlEffect ONE!]]'''
* {{Narm}}/NarmCharm: The 2005 game's story was, er... [[ExcusePlot not that good in all honesty]]. However, thanks to [[HamAndCheese the somewhat memorable characters]] and [[MemeticMutation their sayings]] in the cutscenes and audio clips, some fans would rather have the 2005's game's ExcusePlot over the lack of a plot in the 2012 game.
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* {{Narm}}/NarmCharm: The 2005 game's story was, er... [[ExcusePlot not that good in all honesty]]. However, thanks to [[HamAndCheese the somewhat memorable characters]] and [[MemeticMutation their sayings]] in the cutscenes and audio clips, some fans would rather have the 2005's game's ExcusePlot over the lack of a plot in the 2012 game.
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* MemeticMutation: One of Razor's lines about betting "five grand -- FIVE GRAND!" against the player character in one of the opening cutscenes of the 2005 game is an inside joke at Website/GiantBomb that comes up whenever a ''NFS'' game is in the news.
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** Before the Wii U version's release, the same game also had a version for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita that was really the full console version with only a few graphical drawbacks, as well as an additional ten exclusive events added in. It goes to show how good Criterion is at working with various hardware.
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** Before the Wii U version's release, the same game also had a version for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Vita}} that was really the full console version with only a few graphical drawbacks, as well as an additional ten exclusive events added in. It goes to show how good Criterion is at working with various hardware.
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* TaintedByThePreview: When Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' was shown to be like ''VideoGame/BurnoutParadise'' instead of the original ''Most Wanted'' at E3 2012, a good amount of ''Need for Speed'' fans got really upset about it. Also inverted by some fans who got excited for the game ''because'' of the similarities to ''Paradise''.
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* TaintedByThePreview: When Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' was shown to be like ''VideoGame/BurnoutParadise'' ''Burnout Paradise'' instead of the original ''Most Wanted'' at E3 2012, a good amount of ''Need for Speed'' fans got really upset about it. Also inverted by some fans who got excited for the game ''because'' of the similarities to ''Paradise''.
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* BaseBreaker: Both games actually, not just 2012. There were ''NFS'' fans before Black Box came in, and some of them still don't really like the 2005 game. The classic fans see ''Most Wanted'' 2005 as when the series reached the point of no return to its exotic supercar racing roots (if ''Underground 2'' hadn't done so already).
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* BaseBreaker: Both BrokenBase: Over both games actually, not just 2012. There were ''NFS'' fans before Black Box came in, and some of them still don't really like the 2005 game. The classic fans see ''Most Wanted'' 2005 as when the series reached the point of no return to its exotic supercar racing roots (if ''Underground 2'' hadn't done so already).
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Icona Pop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. So if you're an American gamer, you could say that that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* SongAssociation: Sort of, though not entirely; ''Most Wanted'' 2012 helped Icona Pop's Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" garner attention in the United States. So if you're an American gamer, you could say that that [[JustForPun you've loved it]] [[{{Hipster}} before it was cool.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: So the fifteen best drivers are called the Blacklist, huh? Wonder if [[Series/TheBlacklist Red Reddington]] has even been to Rockport.
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* HilariousInHindsight: So the fifteen best drivers are called the Blacklist, huh? Wonder if [[Series/TheBlacklist Red Reddington]] has even ever been to Rockport.
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* HilariousInHindsight: So the fifteen best drivers are called the Blacklist, huh? Wonder if [[Series/TheBlacklist Red Reddington]] has even been to Rockport.
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** Of course, as this page has detailed, there's also a rivalry between both ''Most Wanted'' games.
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** Of course, as this page has detailed, there's also a rivalry between both ''Most Wanted'' games.
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** One very useful bug in 2012 is to change mods after hitting the apex of a billboard jump to extend your distance and prevent your car from leaning too much forward doing so.
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* GoodBadBugs: At the highest heat level in 2005, the helicopter will sometimes swoop down in front of you, just barely over the road, to try to get you to stop. If it hits any cars (or ''semis'') like this, they'll go flying into the air, while the helicopter won't budge.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''[[TaintedByThePreview announced]]''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 [[Creator/SpikeTV Spike]] Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''[[TaintedByThePreview announced]]''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 [[Creator/SpikeTV Spike]] Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is show was essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* TaintedByThePreview: When Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' was shown to be like ''Burnout Paradise'' ''VideoGame/BurnoutParadise'' instead of the original ''Most Wanted'' at E3 2012, a good amount of ''Need for Speed'' fans got really upset about it. Also inverted by some fans who got excited for the game ''because'' of the similarities to ''Paradise''.
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* PolishedPort: ''Most Wanted U'', the UsefulNotes/WiiU version of ''Most Wanted'' 2012, was ''[[InvokedTrope meant]]'' to be this, considering it looks much nicer than the earlier console versions. However, without any DLC releases to that version beyond the on-disc standard inclusion of the ''Ultimate Speed Pack'' [[MoneyDearBoy due to a lack of sales for the platform]], [[http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ward-slams-nintendo-and-ea-over-wii-u-s-need-for-speed-most-wanted/0129308 former Criterion Games vice president Alex Ward blasted both EA and Nintendo saying that]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork they screwed over the Wii U version.]]
** Before the Wii U version's release, the same game also had a version for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita that was really the full console version with only a few graphical drawbacks, as well as an additional ten exclusive events added in. It goes to show how good Criterion is at working with various hardware.
** Before the Wii U version's release, the same game also had a version for UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita that was really the full console version with only a few graphical drawbacks, as well as an additional ten exclusive events added in. It goes to show how good Criterion is at working with various hardware.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''announced''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 [[Creator/SpikeTV Spike]] Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''announced''.''[[TaintedByThePreview announced]]''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 [[Creator/SpikeTV Spike]] Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: The 2005 game by late EA Black Box[[note]]who were not even ''Need for Speed''[='=]s original developer[[/note]] is highly-preferred over Criterion's game by several fans.
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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: The 2005 game by late EA Black Box[[note]]who Box[[note]]Who were not even ''Need for Speed''[='=]s original developer[[/note]] developer, thus also making MyRealDaddy apply here.[[/note]] is highly-preferred over Criterion's game by several fans.
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* NostalgiaFilter: One of the reasons why Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' isn't liked as much.
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** Apparently in 2014, [[http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/08/13/arizona-law-abiding-illegal-downloads/14015391/ Arizona torrented]] ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''[[note]]Year not clarified, but it's more likely that it was Criterion's 2012 game.[[/note]] more than any other state relative to the national average.
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** Apparently in 2014, [[http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/08/13/arizona-law-abiding-illegal-downloads/14015391/ Arizona torrented]] ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''[[note]]Year not clarified, but based on the torrents listed on [[http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/torrenting-us-state/ the original researchers' interactive map,]] it's more most likely that it was Criterion's 2012 game.[[/note]] more than any other state relative to the national average.
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* FandomRivalry: In 2012, between the fans of ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted'' 2012 and of ''VideoGame/ForzaHorizon''. These two games are completely different, but they have exited around the same time (during Halloween and All Saints Day), share a lot of the same cars (even in later DLC for both games), are [[WideOpenSandbox open world racers]][[labelnote:*]]Both games' locations (''Most Wanted'' 2012's Fairhaven and ''Horizon''[='=]s rendition of Colorado) are [[SceneryPorn gorgeous]], by the way.[[/labelnote]] and, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the straw that broke the camel's back, they both have a song in common:]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "The Power" by DJ Fresh and Dizzee Rascal.]]
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* DemonicSpiders: Rhinos in 2005. They're nothing more than [=SUVs=] that attempt to hit you head-on at higher heat levels, but if they do, you're pretty much guaranteed to be swarmed by other police cars. Once that happens, you need to be very lucky to break out of the ensuing dogpile.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''announced''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 Creator/{{Spike}} Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''announced''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 Creator/{{Spike}} [[Creator/SpikeTV Spike]] Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: [[http://www.needforspeed.com/news/italys-most-wanted According to a recent research done by the staff of NFS]], the Italian players of ''Most Wanted'' (2012) play for the most of the time with the Lamborghini Aventador, Pagani Huayra and Alfa Romeo 4C Concept. They also drive the Aston Martin V12 Vantage more than any other player in the world.
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* CriticalDissonance: Criterion's game was highly-rated by critics and won several driving/racing game of the year awards, but a portion of the ''Need for Speed'' fanbase as well as some of the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' fanbase '''''hated''''' it with a passion all the way back to when it was first ''announced''. It's subverted somewhat by the fact that the game was the seventh-best selling game of November 2012 in the U.S. (and that's not accounting for PC and digital sales), the fifth-best selling game in the UK on the week of its release (the fourth-highest new title for the week), outperformed 2011's ''The Run'' in sales, and won the 2012 Creator/{{Spike}} Video Game Award for Best Driving Game.[[note]]The Spike win is notable because the award show, now called the VGX, is essentially a popularity contest.[[/note]] That means that there could have been just a VocalMinority complaining about the reboot, with of course a SilentMajority supporting the game.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: [[http://www.needforspeed.com/news/italys-most-wanted According toa recent research done done]] by the staff of NFS]], ''NFS'', the Italian players of ''Most Wanted'' (2012) 2012 play for the most of the time with the Lamborghini Aventador, Pagani Huayra and Alfa Romeo 4C Concept. They also drive the Aston Martin V12 Vantage more than any other player in the world.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: [[http://www.needforspeed.com/news/italys-most-wanted According to a recent research done by the staff of NFS]], the Italian players of ''Most Wanted'' (2012) play for the most of the time with the Lamborghini Aventador, Pagani Huayra and Alfa Romeo 4C Concept. They also drive the Aston Martin V12 Vantage more than any other player in the world.
** Apparently in 2014, [[http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/08/13/arizona-law-abiding-illegal-downloads/14015391/ Arizona torrented]] ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''[[note]]Year not clarified, but it's more likely that it was Criterion's 2012 game.[[/note]] more than any other state relative to the national average.
** Apparently in 2014, [[http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/08/13/arizona-law-abiding-illegal-downloads/14015391/ Arizona torrented]] ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''[[note]]Year not clarified, but it's more likely that it was Criterion's 2012 game.[[/note]] more than any other state relative to the national average.
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* SacredCow: Black Box's 2005 original was so sacred that it caused a massive HateDumb over Criterion's 2012 remake practically the moment it was announced simply because it didn't play anything like the 2005 game. By comparison, the older ''Hot Pursuit''-era fans were more open to Criterion's 2010 remake when it was announced since was a long time since the words "Hot Pursuit" were last used in a title and Criterion were still a highly-praised developer to consumers at the time.
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* SacredCow: Black Box's 2005 original was so sacred that it caused a massive HateDumb over Criterion's 2012 remake practically the moment it was announced simply because it didn't play anything like the 2005 game. By comparison, the older ''Hot Pursuit''-era fans were more open to Criterion's 2010 remake of that game when it was first announced since was a long time since the words "Hot Pursuit" were last used in a ''NFS'' title and Criterion were still a highly-praised developer to consumers at the time.
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* BaseBreaker: Both games actually, not just 2012. There were ''NFS'' fans before Black Box came in, and some of them still don't really like the 2005 game.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The surreal Ambush event intros in ''Most Wanted'' 2012.
* NostalgiaFilter: One of the reasons why Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' isn't liked as much.
* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: The late EA Black Box was highly-preferred over Criterion by fans.
* PlayerPunch: In ''Most Wanted'' 2005 you were trying to get your BMW M3 GTR back. [[spoiler:At the beginning of ''Carbon'', it gets trashed]].
* SacredCow: Black Box's 2005 original was so sacred that it caused a massive HateDumb over Criterion's 2012 remake practically the moment it was announced simply because it didn't play anything like the 2005 game. By comparison, the older ''Hot Pursuit''-era fans were more open to Criterion's 2010 remake when it was announced since was a long time since the words "Hot Pursuit" were last used in a title and Criterion were still a highly-praised developer to consumers at the time.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Poor ''Most Wanted'' 2012. One must wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen the fan reception for that game if it didn't have the 2005 game's title.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome[=/=]WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Most Wanted'' 2012 has some seriously trippy cutscenes.
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* BaseBreaker: Both games actually, not just 2012. There were ''NFS'' fans before Black Box came in, and some of them still don't really like the 2005 game.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The surreal Ambush event intros in ''Most Wanted'' 2012.
* NostalgiaFilter: One of the reasons why Criterion's ''Most Wanted'' isn't liked as much.
* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: The late EA Black Box was highly-preferred over Criterion by fans.
* PlayerPunch: In ''Most Wanted'' 2005 you were trying to get your BMW M3 GTR back. [[spoiler:At the beginning of ''Carbon'', it gets trashed]].
* SacredCow: Black Box's 2005 original was so sacred that it caused a massive HateDumb over Criterion's 2012 remake practically the moment it was announced simply because it didn't play anything like the 2005 game. By comparison, the older ''Hot Pursuit''-era fans were more open to Criterion's 2010 remake when it was announced since was a long time since the words "Hot Pursuit" were last used in a title and Criterion were still a highly-praised developer to consumers at the time.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Poor ''Most Wanted'' 2012. One must wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen the fan reception for that game if it didn't have the 2005 game's title.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome[=/=]WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Most Wanted'' 2012 has some seriously trippy cutscenes.
