And the best Need for Speed is...

[Majora Fi]

A Hard Decision.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

None of the above.

Hot Pursuit III for life!

 

[NOTthatHARD]

Obviously the best is Need For Speed SHIFT 2: Unleashed what else.

Oh sorry, you meant between the 2 games in the picture, then the best one is Need For Speed Most Wanted.

 

[Majora Fi]

None of the above.

Hot Pursuit III for life!

 

[Tetraoxid]

It's Porshe Unleashed PC version.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Carbon 4 life

 

[Majora Fi]

It's Porshe Unleashed PC version.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Hot Pursuit 3. I remember liking the PS1 games the best, however I haven't played them in a long time and I don't know how well they've aged.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Hot Pursuit 3. I remember liking the PS1 games the best, however I haven't played them in a long time and I don't know how well they've aged.

The PC version still has a huge community around it.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

To me it's either Carbon or Underground 2

 

[Amphineura]

I'll just say that Most Wanted has the way better soundtrack. I have NFSMW to thank for introducing baby me to cool bands like Mastodon, Bullet for my Valentine, Disturbed, Celldweller....

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Need For Speed: High Stakes (PS1) & Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) are the last two NFS games that I invested any real time into..

 

[DjQuick2008]

NFS underground 1

 

[ThunderBoy]

Need for Speed III or High Stakes (Road Challenge)

 

[CSmith327]

Unpopular take: Need for Speed: High Stakes (PS1 edition) is the best NFS game. I love the vibe that game gives, it has some of the best graphics of any racing title on PS1 (GT 1 and 2 look like shit in direct comparison), the music is amazing, the physics and controls are perfect (not in the PC version tho), and the courses are sizable and have perfectly challenging layouts and a lot of personality.

I love the soundtrack so much I used the programs PSound and jpsx_dec to rip all 32 audio tracks from the game to make a custom soundtrack for my music library. I have a thread where I shared some soundtracks to a few games I had on my Mega cloud drive. I'll add that one to it sometime soon.

As for PS2 era NFS I have a nostalgic fondness for Underground 1, but ultimately Underground 2 might be the best of the bunch. Most Wanted is a pretty solid entry tho (not the newer remake of it however)

 

[shaggi shaggi]

To me it's either NFS: High Stakes or NFS: Underground 2.

 

[sandogma sandogma]

While I liked Underground, I think I had more fun with this one:

 

[Bakuma1997]

Nitro on the WII FOR LIFE!!!

 

[BrawlMan]

For me, it's Most Wanted (2005), Hot Pursuit (2010), and Nitro in that order.

 

[tht009]

The best Need for Speed is my craving for amphetamines.

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

While I liked Underground, I think I had more fun with this one:

The last great Need for Speed game.

I'm in agreement with many people here, the PS1 era for this franchise was superior. The whole "neon motion blur" stuff made most of the later NFS's unplayable for me (I was like 13 when they came out, and I hated them even back then).