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 an alternate version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005 featuring Hayato as a main character. 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.

Changes from vanilla Most Wanted 2005

 * The Driving physics are similar to Need for Speed: Carbon while retaining the high speed physics from Most Wanted 2005.
 * The Starter cars are split into three categories (three cars each), tuner, Muscle and Exotic.
 * The player character Hayato Stacker instead of the player to minimize the NFS theories.
 * There's more story cutscenes, which includes the few Blacklist members and new cutscenes involves the RAF general Hardross.
 * Every Blacklist member cars are beta versions from the Demo of Most Wanted 2005.
 * Heat levels maximum 10 levels instead of 5, while the final pursuit Heat level is 11 instead of 6, making it a intense challenging pursuit mode rather than racing to progress.
 * The Car Customization mechanic uses the NFS Heat's Car Customization mechanic.
 * During the scripted race against Razor in the prologue when the sprint race reaches 85% mark, the screen fades to black and ends the race immediately accompanied with the M3 GTR's engine failure sound. Then plays the same cutscene as the vanilla version. This happen is similar to Carbon's prologue when Cross chases the player.

Plot
Spoilers, read this at own loss of excitement

4 years prior to Hot Import Nights, and after he gets banned the F1 career, Hayato was once a member of the legendary Stacked Deck crew, led by his mentor Darius. One night, Hayato participated in a race in Palmont City, where he was racing against the 4 main crew. Darius loaned him with the BMW M3 GTR for the race.

The event was ambushed by the police, who were able to arrest everyone with the exception of Hayato. An unnamed woman, who held the cash prize in a bag, managed to hand it to Hayato but Hayato could not save her. Hayato was forced to leave Palmont City and discovered on their way that the bag did not contain their cash prize.

Hayato arrived in Rockport with his M3, where participated in a friendly race with Mia Townsend. The race got interrupted by Sergeant Nathan Cross, who pulled Hayato over for street racing and driving a non-street legal car. Due to an emergency call, Cross was forced to release him, leaving a big scratch on the car caused by his car keys beforehand.

After being released by Cross, Hayato was involved in the street racing scene in Rockport and met with Rog, who heard about him from Palmont and challenged him to a friendly race. Afterward, he was challenged by the Blacklist, a gang of notorious street racers of Rockport, and raced against the leader of the group and number #15, Clarence "Razor" Callahan. However, Hayato lost against him due to an engine seizure, which causes him to lose the race and his car to Razor, followed by a burst of tears that he want his car back.

When the police arrived at the scene, members of the Blacklist fled the scene and Cross and his police officer partner arrested him and took him to custody. However, Hayato was released due to a lack of evidence. After leaving the police station, he was picked up by Mia, who decided to help him to defeat the Blacklist. She revealed to Hayato that Razor sabotaged his car and has become number one on the Blacklist.

Mia provided Hayato access to a safe house and a car lot in Rosewood through her contact Ed. At the safe house, Hayato chose the Volkswagen Golf GTI as his beginner car. Hayato then tried to get into the Blacklist again, with the help of Mia and Rog, and challenged members of the Blacklist. As he defeated each member of the Blacklist, Hayato gained new cars, from a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT to a Mazda RX7, and later gained final new two cars, from the Mazda RX7 to the Pagani Huayra and the Bugatti Chiron, but he drives only one randomly at a time and they're only used for racing, not for pursuits.

After defeating all the members of the Blacklist, Hayato challenged Razor to a race in order to retrieve his car. Hayato won the race and regained his car, but Razor attempted to prevent Hayato from taking back the car. Mia then revealed her position as an undercover cop and arrested every Blacklist member. She then handed the car keys to Hayato and let him escape.

Unwilling to let Rockport's most wanted racer escape, Cross called upon the entire Rockport Police Department to chase Hayato. However, due to being treated Hayato act as a terrorism, General Handross dispatches all military armed forces to attack Hayato. Handross replies Hayato through phone saying "You in that BMW M3 GTR, your fate is sealed! There's no opportunity to surrender! Even you're stubbornly to refuse, we will attack you without mercy!" With Mia's help, Hayato headed to an incomplete bridge, where he jumped over the bridge to evade the police. As a result, Hayato was added to the Global Most Wanted list by the police as well as the military armed forces. Now wanted by the police and military, Hayato decided to return to Palmont City to evade their pursuit.

As Hayato makes his way back to Palmont City across the Ocean to Ocean Bridge, however, his evade pursuit was neutralized as Hayato being ambushed by more Rockport armed military forces as well as other military forces from other countries, and still attacking Hayato and his M3 GTR. Soon as he caught on military crossfire and he got shot by the F15 Eagle fighter jet's missile as Hayato's M3 GTR using NOS boost is not fast enough to outrun the missile. Thus wrecking Hayato's M3, then sent it flying into the ocean and explodes, fatally wounded Hayato after being caught by the explosion.

At the near end of the game, Hayato was barely survived as he lying in the beach in a dying breath, and then rescued by Darius, and then he'll undergo medical treatment and surgery for two weeks, and he's got a new 14 year old body. Two months later, Hayato became as the third leader in chief of the Stacked Deck crew.

Spoilers ends

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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla version, but it added a win/loss records for all races as well as win Percentage

Free Roam
Just like the vanilla 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. Also RAF battle tanks are sometimes appeared in anywhere on the streets and if the player attempts to rams into any battle tanks, it will instant totaled their car. Police or military cars will attempt a vehicular arrest. Getting busted any cops or RAF vehicles, or crashing into the RAF battle tanks and instead of busting the player, the RAF personnel will kill the player in the black screen (only gunshot noises heard, signaling the player's death), 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.