Need for Speed: Most Wanted Hayato Revenger

Need For Speed: Most Wanted Hayato Revenger is a racing video game co-developed by Execraft and Ghost Games, and published by Electronic Arts, and it is the anime style version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005. Released worldwide on November 17, 2029 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows, it is the 25th entry of the Need For Speed series, made to commemorate the franchise's 35th anniversary same time released as Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights. This game features the same story and setting from the 2005's Need for Speed: Most Wanted, but the game focuses on the former F1 child prodigy racer Hayato who became as street racer driving with the BMW M3 GTR, and set 4 years before the events of Hot Import Nights. Hayato is the original character as well as other characters such as Razor, Cross, and the Blacklist racers are made by Seven Arcs Pictures the creator behind Lyrical Nanoha series which are turned into a anime 2D art style instead of live-action, as well as the vehicles are Auto Modellista art style which marked itself apart from others of the same genre with cel-shaded graphics, which gave a hand-drawn and cartoon-like appearance.

Overview
Just like NFS HIN, the game is fairly similar to Need for Speed: Carbon, but it has some similarities to the newer NFS games (such as Unbound) too. It has vastly better graphics than the previous games in it's saga, but the vehicle designs are Auto Modellista art style, even using some of the Special Effects introduced in NFS: Unbound. The car system is fairly similar to the one present in Carbon, with Tuners, Exocits and Muscles, however, it uses the letter tiers from C, B, A and S indicates overpowered performance capability.

Gameplay
Unlike the 2005's Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Most Wanted Hayato Revenger plays similar to Need for Speed: Carbon, using the driving physics from Carbon with a touch of Underground 2 collision physics and a high speed driving physics from Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005 with less difficult opponents compared to the vanila Most Wanted 2005. Players take the role as Hayato similar to the player in Most Wanted 2005 as he faces against all odds of these events such as races and pursuits.

Nitrous and Speedbreaker are still used just like the vanila version.

Blacklist
The Blacklist shows the fifteen most notorious racers in the city of Rockport. The player must defeat each successive member in order to advance in the career mode.

Blacklist members can be challenged after achieving a set number of race wins, beating pursuit records (Milestones) and surpassing their bounty.

For defeating a Blacklist member, players get the choice of picking two markers which include pursuit-related rewards, pink slips and customisation items.

Rap Sheet
Same as the vanila version, but it added a win/loss records for all races as well as win Percentage

Free Roam
Just like the vanila version, Need for Speed: Most Wanted hayato Revenger is set in the fictional city of Rockport during daytime with some occurrences of rain that impacts a car's handling. The perimeter of Rockport consists of industrial, urban and rural areas, with some locations allowing players to drive in remote places.

In free roam mode, which is only accessible in career mode, the player may drive to a race event or shop location or become involved in a pursuit. Players may access the GPS system for navigation.

Events
Note: Traffics in all races are still exist unless using the Zero Traffic markers (except for the Blacklist challenges with no traffic exist).


 * Circuit - Lap-based circuit races
 * Sprint - Point-to-point races
 * Drag - Short point-to-point races
 * Drift - Drift based for slide around corners for points challenge (one of them in highways, no traffic)
 * Lap Knockout - Circuit races that eliminate the last racer of each lap
 * Speedtrap - Point-to-point races with checkpoints that record each accumulative speed
 * Tollbooth - Point-to-point races with checkpoints that add additional time

Pursuit
Players may trigger pursuits in free roam mode and events with high police activity (excluding Drift event).

Pursuits become more difficult depending on the current heat level which involve in more active police vehicles and more aggressive police tactics. Also they are 10 Heat Levels in Career Mode with the 11th Heat Level being the final pursuit at the end of the game.

Heat level 6 being similar to the final pursuit, but not the end of the game. While heat level 7 onwards, the Rockport military armed forces (RAF for short) will be sent to eliminate the player. They driving a numerous military APC's along with the Corvette Federal Undercover Cruisers, Sergeant Cross' Corvette C6s and Rhino SUV Units.

At the maximum of heat level 10 or 11, the entire Rockport city will now be filled with police personnel driving with the APCs and feature almost no, if any, civilian traffics; numerous police cars and RAF vehicles will hunt for the player and set up multiple roadblocks, spike stripes and kill switch traps at a time. Police or military cars will attempt a vehicular arrest, but instead of busting the player, the RAF personnel will kill the player in the short cutscene, resulting an instant game over, even all of their vehicles are not impounded. Also the player will forced have to start from the beginning of the game again (loading from current saved when you left off also forced to start from the beginning of the career playthrough all over from scratch).

Evade the heat level 10 pursuit takes 30 minute cooldown unless finding the hiding spot to shortening the cooldown time. To progress the career mode even further, try not to engage the heat level 10 pursuits at all cost by customize the player's car to lower the heat level, otherwise its instant game over if you get busted.

Cars
Same as NFS HIN, Most Wanted Hayato Revenger has a variety of vehicles. Much like in Need for Speed: Carbon. The game have notable inclusions in its car roster, such as Tuner cars, American muscle cars, Exotic Cars and SUV vehicles. The garage can be filled up with 20 cars independent of tier and design class. This number limit excludes pink slips rewards from bosses, which means the player can have up to 21 cars if the three bosses' cars were awarded. All cars are categorized in performance tiers and car categories:


 * Tier C - Low performance capabilities
 * Tier B - Moderate performance capabilities
 * Tier A - High performance capabilities
 * Tier S - Overpowered performance capabilities


 * Exotic - Highest top speeds
 * Muscle - Quickest acceleration
 * Tuners - Best handling

Performance
All vehicles are upgradeable through leveled performance part packages. Players can also obtain unique Junkman parts from beating Blacklist racers that permanently raise a vehicle's performance characteristic.

Unlike the Fine-tuning in Need for Speed: Most Wanted which can be adjusted the performance in free roam mode from the pause menu, In Hayato Revenger uses the same Fine-tuning mechanics from NFS Carbon and can only be adjusted in the tuning shop.

Visual
Visual customisation upgrades are categorised in Parts and Visual, the former offering bodywork-related modifications and the latter offering paint customisation and other options. Each applied customisation item reduces a vehicle's pursuit heat level. Players are also able to obtain unique customisation items from markers that cannot be unlocked otherwise.