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About This Game

Release Date: Jun 18, 2020 99 Players*

The open-world action in Need for Speed™ Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low, or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech, and tons of nitrous. It’s all about you, your friends, and a wild selection of cars. Let’s see what you can do.

Key features

  • Experience nonstop action — No menus, no lobbies, and no restrictions — just intense competition. Race, battle, crash, and explore at your own pace with a massive variety of things to do (and rewards to collect) throughout the open world.
  • Prove you’re the best — Pick a car & jump into a nonstop playlist of competitive events in online mode. Influence the playlist by voting with your car. Jostle for position on the starting line. Cross the finish line and turn around to take out oncoming rivals.
  • Beat your friends — Autolog records everything you do, broadcasting a feed of your most newsworthy scores, speeds, and times to your friends — and you’ll see there’s too. Whatever you do, there’s someone to beat.
  • Test your urban handling skills — Need for Speed Most Wanted delivers a deep, physical experience that showcases the personalities of awesome licensed cars. Experience insane speeds, spectacular crashes, aggressive driving, and huge drifts.
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How To Play Need for Speed™ Most Wanted on macOS

Playable

Great news, Need for Speed™ Most Wanted can be played on macOS using any of the methods below:

  1. Parallels is virtual machine software that lets you run Windows on macOS. You can play Need for Speed™ Most Wanted using Parallels with a Windows guest operating system.

See game reports below for details.

Game Reports

See how well this game plays on macOS.

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted is not natively supported on macOS. See below for ways you can play it that have been tested.

Playable
2 Game Reports
Perfect
0%
Excellent
50%
Good
0%
Poor
50%
Broken
0%

MacGamer

Poor 1440p < 1 Hour Played

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Sequoia, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    v25.1.0

  • Launcher EA App
  • Graphics Preset Custom

Additional Information

FPS seems good but there's some serious audio problems, including narration audio.

MacGamer

Excellent 4K < 1 Hour Played

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Sequoia, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    Parallels (Windows)

    v20.4.1

  • Launcher EA App
  • Graphics Preset Custom

Additional Information

I had all graphic settings set to low or off at 4K. 1440p made a small Window in my VM and I didn't see a way to make it full full screen or borderless. FPS felt around 30.