2005

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005).

To do: Reorganize.

Screenshots from Magazines (February-April 2005)#

• An earlier license plate than the ones in mid-2005 promotions can be found on the BMW screenshots. It reads "City of Rosewood" instead of "City of Rockport", implying that the entire city was once named Rosewood instead of just one district.
• The M3 GTR's headlights had yellow covers similar to the ALMS BMW team's M3 GTRs, as opposed to the final game M3 GTR's Nurburgring-spec clear headlights.

E3 2005 Demo#

To do: List more differences if anything missed in this demo.

Watch on YouTubeWatch on YouTubeWatch on YouTubeThis gameplay demo was shown at E3 2005.

• The beginning shows the M3 GTR exiting a garage. This specific garage, located at the first S-road connecting Camden to Rosewood, is only accessible in the Alpha 124 build of Most Wanted. It was likely cut early on in development.
  • The garage was also used for splash screens.
• The Drag HUD, Nitrous & Speedbreaker icon (also in the OPM PS2 Demo) are all very different.
• The M3 GTR uses an engine sound taken from (ironically) a Porsche 928. Its straight-cut gearbox whine is also massively subdued, only becoming clearly audible around the 5th gear..
• The traffic vehicles are all colored white.
• There is a tanker truck in the video from 0:52 to 0:54, at the left of the screen.
• The "Blown engine" popup is different.
• The "You lost!" screen would supposedly be in photoscreen FNG.
• The in-game font uses normal Eurostile instead of the bold used in the final.
• The beginning of Justin's walkthrough shows a splash screen taking place somewhere in the warehouse (probably on the Docks) instead of E3 garage.

Screenshots#

I. C. E. Ingame Camera Editor Footage (June 2005)#

Watch on YouTubeIt can be seen on 9:45.

Differences, compared to OPM Demo (July 2005 Builds)#

• Event icon was different than one that was in game files of OPM Demo build. It's similar to the final game.
• It still has camera from E3 2005 Demo build.
• It has North Indicator on Mini Map.
• It has semi-transparent minimap as well as its texture which only shows the roads of the map.

Bugs#

• Speedometer appears to have bugs

Blacklist Tournament (June 2005?)#

It should be noted that this demo (including OPM Demo) may be based on older build (possibly before the "I. C. E." footage), but with some assets and technical changes from later builds. Watch on YouTube

New Changes#

• Camera got changed

Differences, compared to OPM Demo (July 2005 Builds)#

• Barriers are different

EA Imagine 05 EPK (USA)#

Xbox.com#

IGN's Original Xbox Gameplays (July 2005?)#

These videos show an even earlier version of the OPM PS2 demo.

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• The visuals look different than in the final PS2 version.
• The videos still have the M3 GTR using the Porsche 928 engine sound.
• The player's face is pixelated instead of being blurred on camera.
• The physics are still greatly similar to Underground 2's physics.
• There was supposedly another tollbooth which was cut during very late development of the game, on the Boardwalk Park gate near the Camden water tower. It is only visible in the demo video explaining the Blacklist.

Unknown#

Late 2005 (Pre-Retail Release)#

This is when the game gets very closer to the final build, but it was still different

Microsoft X05 Event Gameplays#

Watch on YouTube

• The minimap had yellow pursuit breakers instead of red.

Watch on YouTube

• The race intro has different sound.
  • The sound was also used in the Xbox/PS2 OPM demo.

Tokyo Game Show 2005#

Watch on YouTube

• Split time only shows numbers without the SPLIT TIME message.

Screenshots#

Giga Presentation#

Watch on YouTube

• Tutorial interface is different, being closer to the one from Tollbooth tutorial from demo build.
• Tips loading screen is different.
• The headlight flares had blue light streaks, not white.
• The challenge automatically ends when your pursuit meter is in EVADE instead in cooldown mode.
• No stats are visible in the main menu.
• HUD doesn't hide when the camera zooms in to police vehicle.
• In-game graphics are identical to the Xbox 360 port of the game.

Igromania#

Watch on YouTube

• Only game graphics like bloom were changed in this preview build.

Development Images#

Map Test#

Portfolios#

Garson Kwan#

Others#

Bull's SLR#

Bull's SLR had a livery before it was removed.

Early EA Trax Interface. Menu was later relocated to career safehouse instead of parts shop in the Xbox/PS2 OPM demo.

Booth#

Watch on YouTubeThe booth features a 360° resolution of the intro and claimed it uses extra sound effects.

The full version can be found on here at 3:57.