Skip to main content
Join The Community
- Join our community
11
Premium Benefits
24/7
Access Available
21K+
Active Members
Commenting
Join the discussion
Exclusive Articles Coming Soon
Member-only articles
Weekly Newsletters
Weekly gaming & entertainment news
Member Badges
Earn badges as you go
Exclusive Competitions
Members-only prize draws
Curated Deals Coming Soon
Tech and gaming deals worth grabbing
GET COMMUNITY ACCESS QUICK
For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.
FIND OUT ABOUT OUR MAGAZINE
Want to subscribe to the magazine? Click the button below to find out more information.
Find out more
GET Community ACCESS QUICK

Join the GamesRadar community for quick access. Enter your email below and we'll send confirmation, and sign you up to our newsletter.

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

Background
Welcome to GamesRADAR+ Community !
Hi ,

Your membership journey starts here.

Keep exploring and earning more as a member.

MY ACCOUNT

Badge picture
Earn your first badge
Read 1 article to unlock your first badge.
Keep earning badges
Explore ways to get more involved as a member.
Latest Games News

Latest Games News

Breaking gaming news and updates

Read Now
Latest Games Reviews

Latest Games Reviews

Expert verdicts on the newest releases

Read Now

See what you’ve unlocked.

Explore your membership benefits.

Explore
Member Exclusives

Stay Ahead with GamesRadar+

Get the biggest gaming news, reviews, and releases straight to your inbox.

Explore

Sign Out
GamesRadar+ GamesRadar+
US EditionUS CA EditionCanada UK EditionUK AU EditionAustralia
Sign in
  • View Profile
  • Sign out
  • Games
    • Game Insights
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • The Big Preview
      • On The Radar
      • Indie Spotlight
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
    • Genres
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
    • Franchises
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • Insights
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
    • Computing
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
    • Accessories & Tech
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
  • home
  • Games
    • View Games
      • Games News
      • Games Features
      • Games Reviews
      • Games Guides
      • Big in 2026
      • The Big Preview
      • On The Radar
      • Indie Spotlight
      • Future Games Show
      • Golden Joystick Awards
      • Action Games
      • RPGs
      • Action RPGs
      • Adventure Games
      • Third Person Shooters
      • FPS Games
    • Platforms
      • View Platforms
      • PS5
      • Xbox Series X
      • PC
      • Nintendo Switch
      • Nintendo Switch 2
      • Tabletop Gaming
      • Grand Theft Auto
      • Pokemon
      • Assassin's Creed
      • Monster Hunter
      • Fortnite
      • Cyberpunk
      • Red Dead
      • The Elder Scrolls
      • The Sims
  • Entertainment
    • View Entertainment
    • TV Shows
      • View TV Shows
      • TV News
      • TV Reviews
      • Anime Shows
      • Sci-Fi Shows
      • Superhero Shows
      • Animated Shows
      • Marvel TV Shows
      • Star Wars TV Shows
      • DC TV Shows
    • Movies
      • View Movies
      • Movie News
      • Movie Reviews
      • Big Screen Spotlight
      • Superhero Movies
      • Action Movies
      • Anime Movies
      • Sci-Fi Movies
      • Horror Movies
      • Marvel Movies
      • DC Movies
    • Streaming
      • View Streaming
      • Apple TV Plus
      • Disney Plus
      • Netflix
      • HBO
      • Amazon Prime Video
      • Hulu
    • Comics
      • View Comics
      • Marvel Comics
      • DC Comics
    • Toys & Collectibles
    • Lego
    • Dungeons and Dragons
    • Merch
  • Hardware
    • View Hardware
      • Hardware News
      • Hardware Reviews
      • Hardware Features
      • Desktop PCs
      • Laptops
      • Handhelds
    • Peripherals
      • View Peripherals
      • Headsets & Headphones
      • TVs & Monitors
      • Gaming Mice
      • Gaming Keyboards
      • Gaming Chairs
      • Speakers & Audio
      • Gaming Controllers
      • Tech
      • SSDs & Hard Drives
      • VR
      • Accessories
      • Retro
  • Deals
    • View Deals
    • Game Deals
    • Tech Deals
    • TV Deals
    • Buying Guides
  • Video
  • Newsletters
    • Quizzes
    • About Us
    • How to pitch to us
    • How we score
    • Newsarama
    • Retro Gamer
    • Total Film
Trending
  • Pokemon Winds and Waves
  • New Games for 2026
  • Submit your game clips
  • GDC
Don't miss these
Need For Speed Unbound car list
Racing Games Need for Speed Unbound car list features over 140 vehicles
Forza Horizon 5 herding cats series 3 photography challenge
Racing Games Best racing games to put you in pole position in 2026
Four warriors fighting in a grassy field in Ghost of Yotei
Open World Games 13 Ghost of Yotei tips and tricks to defeat the Yotei Six
Monster Hunter Rise tips
Monster Hunter 11 Monster Hunter Rise tips to know before you hunt
Avowed screenshot depicting combat with a corrupted plague bear, the protagonist wielding a sword and a magical spellbook
Action RPGs 11 Avowed tips and tricks for beginners in the Living Lands
  Forza Horizon 5 keonigsegg jesko hypercar
Forza Horizon Best cars in Forza Horizon 5 cars for road racing, dirt racing, and free roam
Forza Horizon 6 key and May 19 release date
Forza Horizon Forza Horizon 6 looks like the pinnacle of open-world racing games: "It really is just about driving wherever you want and exploring"
Star Wars Galactic Racer big preview
Racing Games Star Wars: Galactic Racer looks every bit the Burnout: Takedown revival I've been waiting 20 years to play
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 screenshot of Henry washing his face at a trough
Action RPGs 11 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 tips and tricks to help you serf on
GTA 6
Games Open world games are some of the most popular in 2025, but as GTA 6 looms, it's about to get competitive
Arc Raiders character holding golden sledgehammer on dark blue starry background
Third Person Shooters 10 Arc Raiders tips for securing safe victory and epic loot
Best Forza games - Forza Motorsport 7
Racing Games The 10 Best Forza games of all-time, from Horizon to Motorsport
A player shooting at a robot enemy with no health bar in Arc Raiders
Third Person Shooters I love exploring in Arc Raiders, but there's so much I wish I'd known before I set out
GTA San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto GTA San Andreas cheats for unlimited money, health, armor, weapons, and more
Star Wars Galactic Racer big preview
Racing Games Star Wars: Galactic Racer makes more sense for the Star Wars universe than Palpatine somehow returning ever did
  1. Games
  2. Racing
  3. Need For Speed

20 things to do in the first hour of Need For Speed: Most Wanted

Features
By Justin Towell published 31 October 2012

It's a big game--what's the easiest fun to have straight away?

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Flipboard
  • Email
Share this article
Join the conversation
Follow us
Add us as a preferred source on Google
Get the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more


By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

You are now subscribed

Your newsletter sign-up was successful


Want to add more newsletters?

GamesRadar+

Every Friday

GamesRadar+

Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.

GTA 6 O'clock

Every Thursday

GTA 6 O'clock

Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.

Knowledge

Every Friday

Knowledge

From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.

The Setup

Every Thursday

The Setup

Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.

Switch 2 Spotlight

Every Wednesday

Switch 2 Spotlight

Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.

The Watchlist

Every Saturday

The Watchlist

Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.

SFX

Once a month

SFX

Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!


Join the club

Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards.


An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Subscribe to our newsletter

10. Get busted

We wouldnt normally recommend failing, but getting caught not only yields another achievement, but it also has a cute little top-down moment, GTA-style, where the cops continue to ram your broken car. Surely that's unnecessary?

11. Have some fun 'under construction'

Interstate 192 has some flyovers part-way through being built. There are pipes to jump through and suspended platforms to leap at and precariously park on, just to test your brakes, of course.

12. Burnout!

Expel an entire boost bar in one go (without hitting anything) to earn another achievement and feel the need. The need for spee... Oh, we've done that one already. Sorry.

You may like
  • Need For Speed Unbound car list Need for Speed Unbound car list features over 140 vehicles
  • Forza Horizon 5 herding cats series 3 photography challenge Best racing games to put you in pole position in 2026
  • Four warriors fighting in a grassy field in Ghost of Yotei 13 Ghost of Yotei tips and tricks to defeat the Yotei Six

13. Crash, dummy

Its worth crashing head-on into something, if only to see that your driver is rendered inside the car, enjoying a face meets steering wheel moment. Hey, at least hes wearing a helmet.

14. Pretend it's Sega Rally

Get to the lighthouse at Fairhaven and youll find this Lancia Delta Integrale, co-star of the classic 1995 arcade racer, Sega Rally Championship.

15. "Game over, yeah!"

Then crash it into the sea by driving through the flimsy barriers. Ahahahaha!

16. Perform a Takedown on a cop

We did it by making them fall short on a jump. Losers! You can also get easy takedown bonuses by T-boning police cars trying to turn in the road ahead.

Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

17. Try to fill your heat meter all the way

We almost made it to maximum heat (that's the top of the 'you've been this much naughty' gauge), before this little situation finally brought our rampage to an end. It was most definitely fun while it lasted. How long can you last?

18. Drive around the modern art

This fancy-looking modern art installation at Gunderson Avenue North (low/centre of the map) is as fun to drive around as it looks like its going to be. Especially when the police get on it with you. Sadly, you don't get an achievement for being so creative.

19. Try to nail this jump

Vincennes Road literally has you jumping through a hoop to reach this billboard. You need a lot of speed--more than our paltry 94 MPH on this attempt. Of course we got it in the end.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Current page: Page 2

Prev Page Page 1 Next Page Page 3
CATEGORIES
Xbox Platforms
PRODUCTS
Need For Speed: Most Wanted Need For Speed
Justin Towell
Justin Towell
Social Links Navigation
Freelance Writer

Justin was a GamesRadar+ staffer for 10 years but is now a freelance writer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

Read more
Need For Speed Unbound car list
Racing Games Need for Speed Unbound car list features over 140 vehicles
 
 
Forza Horizon 5 herding cats series 3 photography challenge
Racing Games Best racing games to put you in pole position in 2026
 
 
Four warriors fighting in a grassy field in Ghost of Yotei
Open World Games 13 Ghost of Yotei tips and tricks to defeat the Yotei Six
 
 
Monster Hunter Rise tips
Monster Hunter 11 Monster Hunter Rise tips to know before you hunt
 
 
Avowed screenshot depicting combat with a corrupted plague bear, the protagonist wielding a sword and a magical spellbook
Action RPGs 11 Avowed tips and tricks for beginners in the Living Lands
 
 
  Forza Horizon 5 keonigsegg jesko hypercar
Forza Horizon Best cars in Forza Horizon 5 cars for road racing, dirt racing, and free roam
 
 
Latest in Need For Speed
Need For Speed Underground 2
Need For Speed I've been playing Need for Speed Underground 2 and Midnight Club 3 – 20 years later, they're still awesome
 
 
Need For Speed Unbound
Need For Speed The Need For Speed series is pumping the brakes as "Criterion are joining their colleagues working on Battlefield" instead of tuning more cars
 
 
Need for Speed Unbound release time
Need For Speed Need for Speed Unbound release time explained
 
 
Need For Speed Unbound crossplay
Need For Speed Need for Speed Unbound crossplay and Lakeshore Online mode explained
 
 
Need for Speed Unbound
Need For Speed This Need For Speed Unbound car horn is just A$AP Rocky saying "beep beep"
 
 
Need for Speed: Unbound
Need For Speed Need for Speed Unbound leaks online ahead of next week's release
 
 
Latest in Features
Star Wars Galactic Racer big preview
Racing Games "Our tracks are not procedurally-generated": Why replayability is at the heart of Star Wars: Galactic Racer
 
 
Star Wars Galactic Racer big preview
Racing Games Star Wars: Galactic Racer looks every bit the Burnout: Takedown revival I've been waiting 20 years to play
 
 
Mina the Hollower key art cropped to just show Mina
Action RPGs I already know Mina the Hollower is going to ruin my life
 
 
Peter Parker as Man-Spider in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
Marvel Movies Is the Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer hiding Peter Parker's transformation into Man-Spider? The comics explained
 
 
The Future of Starfield
RPGs Bethesda's Tim Lamb on the biggest changes coming to Starfield, the PS5 release, and why all those load screens are necessary
 
 
Shadow of the Road screenshot showing a humanoid bird-like figure hovering over a molten battlefield with wings outstretched
RPGs A "small team with a lot of big ideas" is making a Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired RPG set in steampunk Japan
 
 
LATEST ARTICLES
  1. Macduff on his horse looking at the landscape of Pywel in Crimson Desert.
    1
    Crimson Desert's Day 1 patch rolls out with promises of stability optimization, an update to the RPG's divisive fast-forward feature, and more
  2. 2
    3 new to Netflix movies I recommend you watch this weekend (March 20–March 22)
  3. 3
    Diablo 4 game director admits it's "really hard for players to keep up" with the ever-changing ARPG, especially if you aren't "at the cutting edge of everything all the time"
  4. 4
    Resident Evil Requiem Leon actor recognizes fan thirst spans age, gender, and time itself as he vows to keep hitting the gym to "live up to this": "I bet you got a body pillow"
  5. 5
    How to farm money in Crimson Desert

GamesRadar+ is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google
  • Terms and conditions
  • Contact Future's experts
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies policy
  • Accessibility statement
  • Careers
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Review guidelines
  • Write for us
  • Accessibility Statement

© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.

Please login or signup to comment

Please wait...