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Criterion's stuffed the city with things to discover: secret gates can be smashed through, billboards invite you to leap through them, while the game's garage sits waiting to be discovered at various points across the map. Those first moments spent investigating Fairhaven's roads are intoxicating. Most Wanted's never less than entertaining, though. Most Wanted straddles two of Criterion's greatest racers, but while Hot Pursuit felt like a delicious collision of two disparate brands, there's a lot more compromise going on here. Whereas 2010's game had its eyes fixed intently on the horizon, Fairhaven's web of highways, side streets and alleys sees the focus shift away from pure speed, resulting in a game that's broader but never quite as thrilling. Pitch it up against Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and it feels different again. Criterion's second run at the Need for Speed brand may evoke the much-loved Burnout Paradise with its open-world setting, but this is a game that's kept grounded by its licences, and one that feels almost po-faced by comparison. Most Wanted's host city of Fairhaven is a gritty, aggressively urban location industrial parks stretch out into docklands and construction sites, while the city centre is a chaos of scaffolding and concrete.