The REAL Reason why there were only 5 heat levels in free roam... | NFS Most Wanted 2005 

it don't matter if you're at heat level 100, the stadium can always save you

It's wild how the small detail of cop chatter was in NFSMW for its time, at around 11:50 when you go back to the golf course, the cops say "He is in the golf course again" because you've went there earlier in the pursuit. Amazing game, still one of the if not the best NFS to date.

7:08 Player "I am turning left" A cop: "nah, you are going straight"

You know what sucks the most? When you hit a pursuit breaker or a jump and it shows you crashing through it, then the AI drives you across spikes.

Cross: "I want every single unit after the guy." Cross' Female partner: "Everyone?" Cross: "EVERYONE!"

This isn't a pursuit anymore... This is WAR!

7:15 that part was RAW. Cross laying into someone for trying to think about public safety when they're chasing one of the most wanted just sounds surreal.

9:18 that’s gotta be one of the cleanest Speedbreaker moves I’ve ever seen. This is why I love it so much, it’s not necessary that you use it if you wanna succeed in MW, but if you know what you’re doing with it you can just absolutely style on everyone in the game.

Even after 15 years I can still remember the entire map.

the stress control needed to record this video is insane

I think it's much more likely these higher heat levels were scrapped due to performance issues. The game was meant to release on something like 10 different platforms and having 167 cars in pursuit of the player at once would've made the framerate unplayable on the PS2.

For me it would be like this: Level 1-6: Same Level 7: All heavy SUV Level 8: All Cross and heavy SUV Level 9: Same but all roadblocks are spikestrip only Level 10: The helicopter is replaced with an Apache and they use homing missiles

Ah, the classic stadium finish. With how ridiculously violent and persistent the cops were, its good that ol reliable worked to get you out of it. This chase had my blood pumping. NFS MW is so much fun.

The fact they had voiceovers from Heat 6 to 10 and unique Cross lines we never heard from the vanilla game really shows how much effort went into MW1. Even after close to 20 years later, it still amazes on the content and game play.

8:25 "What kind of road block is that? Come on people!" That was spot on!

11:36 "This is Cross, when i said all available units i meant ALL AVAILABLE UNITS. Get out here NOW"

Actually in the final pursuit in career story u get heat level 6 & chased by a bunch of federal undercover vehicles & some heavy SUVs & in the final challenge series u get heat level 7 & chased by a bunch of heavy SUVs

At 8:26 the cops actual reacted when you passed the roadblock really good detail

Dude this is a War between cops and the player. Best cops ever in a game. I love these cops since my childhood. See how realistic is the chat between the cops here 10:07 "what kind of road block is that, come on people" The fact is no other games can defeat our NFSMW till now.

In Russia, this NFS is also legendary, it had everything. Tuning, music (the best of all time), police (Rivers fell a little short, 30 fps and breaking your car kills the possibility of long chases), car controls and drift. I'm still playing, the classics will live forever in my heart.

Its like the whole police department of the entire country tries to chase a single GTR.

considering that there's a cut voice lines that indicating a possible heat escalation from 6 ~ 10. The pursuers will becoming even more distressed & determined to shut down the player. Like there's even a cut "Zulu" callsign for a certain units, from what i could think of these are relegated to the absolute elite of the entire Rockport PD police units. But we already had those Federal/FBI Vettes but they're using "X-Ray" callsigns instead

11:51 i played this game a lot when i was a kid but i never noticed that the police on the radio says " he is going into the golf court again " if you are takin this route twice in a single pursuit man this game is aging like a wine

14:22 So the chopper is considered as a federal pursuit vehicle and can be destroyed by the stadium pursuit breaker.

I never thought a game as old as this could make pursuits so intense that it rushes my heart.

Didn't expect so much unused radio chatter, great work!

I love the contrast between all the different cop voices, too. General cops, kind of mumbly. Cross is desperate to catch you. And the chopper pilot.... well.... cool, calm, collected. All the little things in this game made it just the very best NFS I've ever played in my life. Love it to bits and it'll always have a special place in my heart.

Love these dialogues man "What kind of road block is that cmon people!" "He went through the golf field again"

11:11 I LOVE that when you reached condition 10, the pursuit soundtrack changed to my all time favorite, as well as the most intense one imo.

10:45 This sequence that leads to heat 10 is just perfect

Interesting to hear that there were lines made for levels higher than heat 5 that were just never used

Please never delete this video, I come back to it from time to time and makes me happy.

"what kind of road block is this, come on people" 😂😂😂😂

I like the pursuit music changing once they hit condition 10. Also hearing all this unused dialogue in an already crazy in depth radio chatter is really cool. I like how it feels like Cross starts to talk alot more into the radio as he grows desperate to take you down

13:50 you know the shit is real when a civilian car is in the roadblock

OMG PLEASE GUYS, U HAVE TO SEE THIS MOMENT. 10:47

10:07 "what kind road block is that?" hahaha

I just realized that in NFS games with locked minimap we all subconsciously constantly go north (up), because it is much more convenient to see the direction of our movement on the minimap. It's the same in this video. Almost constantly the player went up. Human psychology is amazing!

8:25 Cross: "What kind of roadblock is that?! Cmon people!" Yeah, Id also frustrated it *most wanted* racer bypassed double spike roadblock this effortlessly

Finally, the most important thing that I saw this video is the *police radio is truly fixed and it includes the conditions from 6 to 10* - what a time to be alive!

You are waaay too comfortable driving at 260mph with heat 10 AND OP AI. What a skill. Thank you for this intense, nostalgic and very insightful pursuit. MW was a masterpiece.

I like your Speed Breaker discipline. Most people seem to use it every time they turn their car.

I love most wanted 2005 but have no idea on what mods to install and in ehat order. I had it installed recently and despite the high fps it still felt laggy. What are some essential mods that I should install?

I love that this is not a ridiculous mod, but just unlock of something that was supposed to be in the game. The chatter is great, especially the level 10 "this is not a drill" line. The one thing that disappointed me is that on the higher levels, I don't really see a difference other than more cars. I remember how challenge #69 added level 7 and supercharged rhinos. I expected this kind of progression.

The driving was amazing! That slip thru the roadblock at 200+ mph 😮‍💨 imagine how much more fun it would’ve been going against condition 6 - 10 cops as a kid in the story

11:03 God damn that radio call give me chill and goosebumps 🥶

I like the hud and placement of every feature on screen in NFS MW 2005. For example You can know where the cops are by simply glaring at the top and not needing to press a key to look behind you. You can tell a police is nearby just by watching the radar at the top , the heat level just as close of the map giving You more insight of what's happening and taking better decisions.

2:32 "well shit"

12:25 They fixed this gas station faster than light, just for you to ram it AGAIN. You monster.

The real challenge is not the pursuit itself, but evade it. I used to use the same localization to evade myself but timing with the arrival of the backup. You just went nuts and evaded over 150 cars, amazing. Also, let's appreciate how slow the cooldown is WITH the hidding spot, because before entering the hidding spot it goes 5 times slower. Good old days.

It’s SO cool to see how the extra heat levels would’ve been in this game had they been not cut. I would love to have police in the new games be even half as good this. Hearing Cross order the police around like this honestly makes me wonder why most of his voice lines were cut. Phenomenal gameplay

I'm left speechless by the way you went through this pursuit. Truly amazing display of skill

Sucks that in the base game they limit us to heat level 5. At least they should’ve let us go to heat level 6 in the career, make pursuits even harder and more intense with the SUV’s actually keeping up with the player and the heavy undercover corvettes

6:07 - the chopper thou 🤣😑

6:09Pilot: It's okay, don't panic.

This was soooooo awesome! I love when he uses the slow mo to adjust the cars angle just right ! I always wanted to beat the level 5 cops but never could. This video has satisfied something which developed in my childhood

8:47 Omg that cop literally was about to push you into the spikes

What I really appreciated about the mods you used is how they utilised the unused voice clips mentioning condition (or heat level) 6 to 10. I really like this

They even do formations to block the player like the one at 9:39

This is one of the old games that make my blood pumped up every time I had to escape from the police, I love how aggressive and persistently they are chasing us unlike game nowadays

1:53 Music during chases in MW and during canyon races in Carbon are of insane quality.

Still in awe of this game to this date. What a thrill. What a suspense. What a fear of getting caught. Most Wanted was really something else.

13:02 - "um, looks like he has no intention of stopping". Yeah, city-wide police department will need their cars replaced, not sure if stopping now would be the best move

I really appreciate the attention to detail that went into those police voice lines. They actually call you out for going through certain areas repeatedly!

I thought I'll just skip to condition 10, but watched the whole thing. Cool chase! Damn, I hope Unbound is gonna be good NFS. At least they shifted style a bit a way from Realism™, which I really get tired of in AAA games

If you actually go into the game files there is actually the quotes that say the heat levels plus cross losses it when you reach conditions 10

11:47 that poor guy just finished rebuilding the fence you broke earlier, you monster

9:15 the music is so nostalgic i remember this cop chase music when i was almost on the verge of escaping.

This is more entertaining than the newer NFS games. With or without the mods!

Just... WOW, I cannot believe that you survived such an intense pursuit, your skills are immaculate as a driver in MW, you're THE best player, by far that I've seen, without a doubt! Also, the Hero Skyline is just absolute fire, I think that it's just as good, if not better than the M3 E46, oh, and the light trail along with the ludicrously fast speeds, I was just AMAZED, even mindblown, and the Carbon sound really fits the Skyline GTR R34, too. Simply put, incredible job with everything, including the editing, you deserve a lot more views than this!! I also cannot believe that EA scrapped all that amazing cop dialogue above Condition/Heat 5, typical EA, screw them, it wouldn't surprise me if they screwed NFS Unbound in some way, too. **sigh** Also, thank you modders so much for improving the cop AI, it really amazes me how much appreciation this game gets from modders like you, which reminds me, I've just installed a beta heat level mod, and BOY does it offer a challenge like the cops in your game.

I like how cross calls out the heat level change after heat lvl 6+

It's so cool how there's actually police chatter lines for when you reach condition levels 6-10

8:26 "What kind of Roadblock is that, come on people!"

This pursuit is so fucking metal, not even gta has cops that violent, and the unused lines for the new heat levels are amazing

3:01 _sensational_ Honestly that was the most cinematic thing I’ve seen in this game

The speed, the aggressiveness, the nostalgia, everything in this video hits just the right spot.

At This Point, I Expected Tank To Shows Up Like In GTA Where If Reach 6 Stars The Army Shows Up.

Damn, that is some impressive driving right there. Nicely done!

I lost it at both the first police car hitting the pillar and the helicopter noclipping through that building, also flawless driving, makes me want to get that game again

The last time I cleared this game was after my last biochemistry paper in 4th year. I went back to my hostel and played every blacklist level to the escape through the broken bridge. All within one night. That did a lot of stress release after 22 years of school. This was a goat game.

15 minutes of amazing driving skills, incredible to watch! Cheers

great pursuit. loved hearing an actual video having the cut quotes for conditions used in pursuits. i'm a big fan of cut content for this game. i want to give my input to why this wasnt used in the final game. time constraints for developers and players. they probably ran out of time to add to the pursuit mechanic as the first 5 conditions maybe took already too much time to add in the first place. this would probably take too much time for a player to reach the extra conditions as well. they seem to not have ideas for additional vehicle unit names and vehicles. if they had extra conditions to work with, they would need to implement extra tactics and formations. there are unused formations called "box/box formations" and "Spearhead/Spearhead Formation". there were also plans to have pursuers drop spike strips in front of you (instead of roadblocks deploying them) and projectiles as heard by cut quotes mentioning dropping spikes and using projectiles (i.e explosives). helicopters originally had weaponry for use as they mention "Ordnance" and "Payloads" (Our weapons payload is dry. we will be back on station once we reload") they say along the lines of "suspect hit. vehicle looks damaged". these were removed very likely to maintain a fair difficulty for pursuits. having additional systems to the extra conditions may have been too RAM intensive for the game to handle. what do you guys think? i may have missed some stuff but maybe we can discuss some more some stuff i noticed in this video. cops catching on fire. pretty funny considering that blowing up gas pumps originally have cops mentioning fires and requesting the fire department. the helicopter going down? they did consider disabling helicopters but may have been disturbing to put as cops report the helicopter going down and crashing. again. great video, hope to see more of this

08:26 A certified NFS World moment.

This was such a blast to watch. I wish they would make racing games like nfsmw 2005 again.

FYI, there's a newer version of the Xbox 360 graphics mod (released in January 2022), this version fixes the world shadows not rendering on the car bug but kills the framerate for some reason.

That was amazing the way you still escaped at condition 10 I praise that

That had me on the edge of my seat. Thank you for the throwback

Damn that escalated a ton when the Heat 10 backup arrived. 80 cop backup in Heat 8 to 170 cops in Heat 10. Even the vanilla pursuits are unmatched in this game and they haven't been able to top it since.

Amazing that they had specific cop speech audio for heat 6 and above; which tells that they planned to have heat levels go higher than 5. Must have been scrapped in the final release.

Great memories of days that were much easier and worry free. This took me back there again. Good times playing this game. Easily one of the best in the NFS series. I hope they remaster it some day.

GGWP bro, thats pretty sick !

This is so satisfying 😊 Much love from SA🇿🇦

This was very stressful, yet very exciting, great driving you have.

Ah never gets old. Also, idk if this true or it's just me... But whenever I need to break into roadblock for that sweet sweet infraction point, I always use the speedbreaker thingy. Also, I always turn off the cinematic camera. The game often "glitched" and made the pursuit bar favor the cops... And I played on PS2 back in the day... What a memory...

10:50 this is SO cinematic!

Très belle démonstration de pilotage! Tout mon respect à la joueuse ou au joueur! Très impressionnant!

14:38 my heart

That was really impressive pursuit! You're a really good MW driver!

God damn wish I had this difficulty when I was playing through on the ps2. That was intense and extremely well driven. Major kudos to you mate. 👏 ^^

It is incredible that the voices of the police are recorded with the levels of the conditions