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191st, 70 percent win rate, and we still argue about it every season like it's news. It deserves better honestly.
Game entry
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
2005 · Racing · PC, Xbox 360 · Electronic Arts
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is ranked no. 199 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,797 and 70% of duels won.
World rank
no. 199
ELO score
1,797
Wins
70%
Duels played
429
About Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a single-player racing video game and the ninth installment in the Need for Speed series, following Underground 2. The game centers on street-racing gameplay, featuring a variety of events and racing circuits set within the fictional city of Rockport.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,797 ELO points over the last 123 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against Grand Theft Auto V 54% 26 duels played · 31 points behind
- against Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 35% 17 duels played · 115 points behind
- against Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 65% 17 duels played · 45 points ahead
- against Grand Theft Auto IV 31% 13 duels played · 9 points ahead
- against Grand Theft Auto III 67% 9 duels played · 6 points ahead
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41 comments
SaveByte40
191st, 70 percent win rate, and we still argue about it every season like it's news. It deserves better honestly.
Eloisa_40
70 percent win rate doesn't mean much when it's mostly beating up jeux that aren't even in its own genre.
NovaSniper3
I never got into the story much myself, but I remember losing entire evenings just to the pursuits alone, which says something.
TurboSniper80
Replying to NovaSniper3
Perdre des heures dans les poursuites, c'est sympa, mais ça ne fait pas un jeu complet à mes yeux.
Audrey_55
Fair, though I still think GTA IV outclasses it in maybe 3 different ways.
VinylOwl
deserves better than GTA IV honestly
TurboSamurai2007
Deserves better, agreed fully.
GhostSamurai
Oh no, 191st, what a tragedy, truly the game is suffering in the dungeon of respectable mid-table rankings while we all weep for it
Ibáñez5
Yo lo jugué prestado, un verano, nunca lo terminé del todo.
frida_sawayn
My kid found this on an old drive and now begs for pursuit mode every weekend, you'd think it was brand new the way he reacts.
Gamboa25
jaja pursuit mode, claro, muy bonito, pero eso no arregla que el ranking siga inflado por nostalgia pura y dura
ArcadeAce4
People act like this ranking is some injustice but 423 duels and 70 percent says the votes are pretty consistent over time. It's not top ten material and it doesn't need to be, it just needs to keep winning the duels it's actually built for.
NeonKnight12
J'ai eu la même impression en suivant les duels, les votes ont l'air stables depuis un moment.
sporer_elva
You guys realize GTA IV and this don't even compete for the same itch, right? One's a sandbox, this is pure pursuit adrenaline.
BossNinja1986
Fair point about the itch being different, but does that mean the ranking comparison itself is pointless?
QuestRunner25
Okay so I keep coming back to this one every couple years, not sure why, maybe it's the soundtrack, maybe it's just muscle memory at this point... anyway it deserves more respect than 191st.