Need for Speed: Most Wanted/Game modes

The premise of Most Wanted is essentially races and police chases. Two major modes, Career mode and Challenge modes, as the modes of the game that integrates the two features and is where you will be able to unlock new cars, parts and tracks.

Standard racing modes

 * Multiple point races
 * Toll booth races
 * You race alone to designated checkpoints (toll booths) along a point-to-point route before time runs out (similar to Time Attack modes in arcade-style racing games). The more time you have as you reach a toll booth, the more time you have to arrive at the next one.
 * Speed trap photos
 * Players compete with each other to get the highest accumulated speed record at multiple traffic cameras. At a speed trap/traffic camera, players accelerate their car to aim for a high speed record. Points will be reduced over a period of time after an opponent crosses the finish line first.
 * Photo Ticket
 * You attempt to reach a required speed while passing a traffic camera (in order to get a photo taken by the traffic camera for speeding).
 * Circuit
 * Players race each other in a circuit for a set amount of laps.
 * Sprint
 * Players race each other in a point-to-point route.
 * Knockout
 * Players race around a circuit, where a player in the last position is eliminated after each lap.
 * Drag
 * Using a car with manual transmission, players drag race against each other on a stretch of straight road.

Career mode
You start out in several introduction races using a souped-up BMW GTR M3, a sufficiently fast and excellent racing vehicle for this moment, only to lose it to a racer and start again with a slow vehicle, from which you will have to face 15 other racers before confronting the fellow who has your car. Here's the basic low-down of Career mode:


 * 1) Complete races in first place/Complete tollbooth races
 * 2) Complete milestones in police pursuits
 * 3) Collect bounty
 * 4) Complete the require amount of the abovementioned task to allow racing with a Blacklist driver
 * 5) Win several races against the Blacklist racer and collect two out of six choices of rewards
 * 6) Repeat steps 1 to 5 another 14 times

One you managed to defeat the last Blacklist racer, you will get back your BMW and will be required to experience the full force of the police. Hold up for 5 minutes and a phone call will notify you of an escape route at one end of the map. Reach there and pick up speed to watch the final cutscene of your car jumping over a broken bridge, while the police fail to do so. If you have already completed all the races and milestones in this mode, you have completed the Career mode.

Note that Career Mode is very useful in unlocking much of the game's contents, including stock cars, race tracks and car parts.

Challenge mode
Challenge mode is basically a set of race challenges that requires that you meet several requirements to complete a challenge, but will be difficult to complete without previous experience of the game. There are no racing opponents; just you, the road, and the police. There are two challenge mode races:


 * Tollbooth racing, which requires you to complete an entire track within an allocated.
 * Milestone racing, which requires you to complete a milestone and evade the police.

Note that each completed event will unlock the next challenges, so you have to begin with the most simple of races, before moving up to more challenging objectives. Completing this mode will unlock more cars.